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74 HISTORY OF DEXTAL SIT]?(JERY

sixty years—the reinterment amid solemn silence was to us far more touch-
ing than the most eloquent appeal. All present knew tlie worth of John
Hunter, or they would not luive taken part in thus honoring his memory.
The coffin appeared in excellent preservation and bore the following in-
scription :
John Hunter Esq., died the 16th of October, 1793, aged 64 years.
Beneath this the authorities of tlie Colleges attacheil another plate:
These remains were removed from the Church of St. Martin iu the Fiehls by the
Eoyal College of Surgeons of England, JIarch 2Sth, 1S59.
Aitken and Simpson labored to create extracting instruments which should
enal)le tlie operator to extract teeth by perpendicuhir force, like the drawing
of a cork from a bottle, instead of the oblique force necessitated by tlie in-
struments formerly employed, which was in reality a return to or modifica-
tion of the earlier extracting instruments which the pelican and the turnkey
had displaced.
The early part of the nineteenth century produced in England and France,
Blalce, Fo.x, Bell, Snell, Duval, Le Forgue, De La Barre, Beaume, Maury
and many otliers, who l)y their writings added greatly to the dissemination
of knowledge regarding the teetli, and furnished text books for the guidance
of the early pioneers of tlie dental profession, who were deprived of the sys-
tematic instruction and training of the dentists of the present day.
Tlie following fac simile of an advertisement publish.ed in 1749 may reflect
the state of dentistrv in Fii'j^land at that period :

ADVERTISEMENt.

ARcificial Teeth fet in To firm, u to eat witb them, and
fo exa£), u Dot to be diaiiiguilh'd from Natural:
They are not to be taken out by Night, as it b^ fome Uflr-
fuggefted, but may be worn Years together
i yet are they io
fitted, that they inay be taken out and put in by ihc Perfoa
that wears them at Plca(ure, and are an Oraament tu the
Mouth, «ad greatly help the Speech. .Alfo Teeth are clean d
and draw'd, by Samuil Ruilir, and tf'Uliam CtttM, Ope-
.
rator'., who apply themfelvcs wholly to the (aid Bu&ncfi^
nd live m A'.i. jair diirt, Flitt-Sirni, Lcndan.
Snell, one of the early writers, observes that the cultivators of the
dental art at all times were keen observers of the discoveries and expansion
in other brandies of learning, and were quick to apply them in either the