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Burke, (iil)l)()ii, Golfbinitli aiul Ciiirrick, could liardly fail to insijire a man of
his calibre. Among the la>t work;; of Sir .loslnia lioynolds was a portrait of
JIunter.
Following the work of Hunter, we witness the same effusion of dental lit-
erature as followed Fauchard. Euspini's "Treatise On the Teeth/' first pub-
lished in 1768, had reached its eighth edition in 1T97. Bennet's "Dissertation
on Teeth,'"'" appeared in 1779. .luUion wrote in 1781, and E. Wooffendale's
"Practical Observations on the Human Teeth" appeared in 1783. It is an
average work of the period, of interest to American dentists as the author was
perhajis the first dentist in the Fnited States, practicing in New York and
Philadelphia from 1766 to 1768, when he returned to England, remaining
there until 1785, when he came back to America, where he died in 18"i8, lieing
succeeded by his son John.
Pobert Blake's essay on the "Structure and Formation of the Tcpth." which
v,-as delivered as a thesis at the T'niversity of Edinlnirgh, in 1795, was pub-
lished in Latin in 1798, and translated into English in 1801. It is cousidercil
the best pbysiologieal li'catisc on the teeth which had apjieared up tn that
time.
Germany conlvibutcil a large nuiiiher of works between 1771 and the close
of the eightenth century, and many of the leading French and English trea-
tises had been translated into German. Plenk, in 1778-9, pul)lished at Wien,
a treatise on "Diseases of tlie Teeth and (iums.'"
In France, during this period, Jourdain ])ublishe(l at Paris, in 1788, his
"Treatise on the Diseases and Surgical Operations of the Mouth and Asso-
ciate Parts," in two volumes, with a set of well executed ])lates; while Betot
]iublished "'Jfethods of Preserving the Teeth," in 17S6, and "The Surgeon-
Dentist," in 1789. About this time tlie efforts of French scientists, who were
making extensive experiments in ceramics for the purpose of discovering a
duralile, life-like .substance for the manufacture of artificial teeth, were
crowned with success; and, in 1797, De Cheniant published a monograph, both
in French and English, describing the merits of a mineral paste which would
take the place of the clumsy bone and ivory articles formerly nsed. His work,
at the end, has reports and approbations of committees appointed by the
Faculty of Medicine of Paris, the Eoyal Academy of Science, and of many
]>hysicians and surgeons of England, among them Dr. E. .Tenner.
The first important work of the nineteenth century was Joseph Fox's
"Natural History of the Human Teeth," published in 180.3. A volume on the
"Diseases of the 'Teeth," was published in 1S06, and in ]8]1, a second edition