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HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGERY 375

Laforgue, in 1S02, published "The Art of the Dentist." Duval, from 1805
to 1820, wrote many useful and interesting works on a variety of dental topics.
Gariot, in 1805, published his treatise on tlie "Diseases of the Mouth and
Operations Appertaining to the Dental Art." Baunies, in 1806, published
Ills treati.se on ''First Dentition," an essay which won a prize bestowed by the
Paris Royal Society of Medicine. Serres in 1817, published an essay includ-
ing a theory of dentition, treating of the development of the teeth at an earlier
foetal stage than former anatomists. Regnart, in 1818, claims amalgam as
his in\enti(in in a monograjjh describing a new method of filling. Delabarre
published in 1819, a treatise on "Second Dentition," and, in 1830, a treatise
in the "Mechanical Art of the Surgeon-Dentist." Bichat, the physiologist,
(1771-1803), gives some valuable observations on the sympathies and func-
tions of the teeth, in his "General Anatomy."
Audibran, in 1821, published a treatise on "Artificial Teeth." Joseph
Leniaire, who introduced the French methods of dentistry in the American
colonies during the revolutionary period, after his return to France contributed
several important additions to our literature, notably a treatise on the "Physi-
ology, Pathology and Treatment of the Teeth," a work of three volumes i)ub-
lished in 1822-1824.
Baron Cuvier (1769-1830) was the founder of comparative anatomy. He
considered the organs of mastication the surest indication to use in establish-
ing the order, and even genus, to which an animal belongs. And thus our
literature was enriched by researches in this new field of investigation, and
works treating of comparative dental anatomy were soon added to the litera-
ture of our profession.
F. C'u\ier, brother and scholar of the great Cuvier, published at Paris, in
1825, his work on the teeth of mammalia considered as zoological characters.
Two years later, Rosseau followed with his "Comparative Anatomy of the
Dental System in Man and the Principal Animals."
Each of the foregoing contains treatises on the development and structure
of the teeth. Among the writers of this time was Oudet who gave much atten-
tion to the persistent growth of the incisor teeth of the rabbit. In 1823 he
published "Proofs of the Continued Increase of the Jaws and Teeth of Rab-
bits," considered in their connection with their application to the study of
the organization of the human teeth.
Germany, during the meanwhile, produced quite a number of works,
among the most noteworthy of which are Hirch's "Practical Observations on
the Teeth and Their Diseases," published at Jena, 1801, and Serre's "Prac-