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316 THIRD PERIOD—MODERN TIMES
purpose of showing at a glance the period of eruption of each of the
deciduous and permanent teeth, and as well for noting down the time
at which the various teeth are changed, so as to avoid every possible
error in this respect. This calendar consists of a figure or diagram
representing the two dental arches, with transversal lines that separate
the different teeth one from the other, the relative indications being also
given.
The observations of this most sensible and conscientious dentist with
regard to the extraction of teeth are worthy of note: "The haphazard
pulling out of a tooth is an easy enough thing; the only requisites for doing
this are impudence and the audacity natural to the half-starved charlatan.
But to carry out the extraction of a tooth in such a manner that, whatever
be the circumstances of the case, no disgrace may accrue to the operator
or damage to the patient, requires serious knowledge, ability, and pru-
dence."
RuEFF relates the case of a man, aged forty years, who, having made
use of fumigations of henbane seeds to relieve himself of violent tooth-
ache, obtained the desired end, but at the same time lost his virile power.
He, however, reacquired his force by the care of the author.^
Thomas Berdmore was the dentist of George III of England, and one
of the first and most eminent representatives of the dental art in that
country. Before him, no one had had the appointment of dentist to the
royal family. In the year 1768 he published an excellent work on den-
tistry,^ that was translated into various languages and went through many

editions; the last of these appeared in Baltimore in the year 1844, that is,
seventy-six years after the first English edition—a splendid proof of the
worth and fame of this work.
Berdmore contributed to the progress of dentistry in England not only
by his writings, but also by imparting theoretical and practical instruction
to many medical students desirous of practising dental art as a specialty.^
One of these was Robert Wooffendale, who went to America in the
year 1766, and was the first dentist whose name is there recorded.
Berdmore considers as the principal advantage of the application of
single artificial teeth the support they afford to the neighboring ones.
Although in no way an impassioned partisan of dental grafting, like his
contemporary, the celebrated surgeon Hunter, he, nevertheless, sometimes
had recourse to replantation, recognizing the advantages to be derived
from this operation, provided it be ably and opportunely carried out;
but he was decidedly averse to transplantation. Before definitely
inserting a gold filling, Berdmore considers it a good practice to try the
' Carabelli,
p. 91.
^ A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and j>;ums, London, 1/68.
^ See 'llie Rise, I'^all, and Revival of Dental I'rosthesis, by 13. Cit!;rand, p. 148.
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