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THE SEFENTEENTH CENTURr
Marco Aurelio Skvkrino (1580 to 1656), of Tarsia, a cclchratid
professor of surgery in the Neapolitan University, had a great predilection
Fig. 77
A plate from Schultes' " Armamenrariiim chirurgicum," showing several dental instruments.
for the use of the cauterizing iron, which he also used very frequently
in curing caries and other dental diseases. At times, to effect a cessation
of violent toothache, he would have recourse to the cauterization of the
