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30 HISTOKY OF DEXTAL SUKGERY

Ur. William H. Tniciiiiui in writing of Pare says: ''He lived to see his
work appreciated, his methods generally adopted and the science he loved
placed fairly upon a scientiiic basis, and died in 1590, honored and respected
by all. The work so well begun went steadily on, and toward the close of the
seventeenth century the surgeon and the dentist had so far separated from and
advanced beyond their former eomjjanion, the tonsorial artist, that they began
to claim an equal standing with the profession of medicine, and after a vigor-
ous struggle they gained their point. During this contest the dentist and the
surgeon fought for their rights side by side, and at its conclusion, in France, the
physician, surgeon and dentist became professional brothers. There and
then, possibly for the first time since the dark ages, dentistry assumed the
place she has since held, ever recognized and unchallenged, a science among
sciences."
Pare was an earlier Fauchard or Hunter, or they were later Pares. These
three men builded the foundation upon which the present great superstructure
of the science and art taught and practiced by the dental profession of the
world has been reared. Their labors from 1525 to 1?93 made possible the prog-
ress of modern days, which took its new impetus in this country with Harris.
Hayden, Taylor and others, in 1839.
Guerini tells us that in 1593 the miraculous case of a golden tooth in the
mouth of a seven year old child in Silesia greatly attracted the attention of the
learned men of that period, Intt this tooth was proven later to have been only a
Katural tooth skillfully covered with a gold band. He says: "In consequence
we can affirm that this gold crown was made in 1593; not with a therapeutic
end, but for the purpose of deceiving tlie people, for the child's father de-
manded a contribution from every one who desired to see the child."

In a book entitled ''Helkiah Crooke Doctor in Physicke." publislied in
London, in 1618. occurred the following:
"That they (the teeth), are bones some men do deny. First, because bones
are insensible, the teeth sensible. Secondly, because the bones have certain
limits of action or increase, neyther do they ever grow againe if thev })erish,
but in teeth it is quite contrary. Thirdly, because they are harder than other
bones. Fourthly, because bones exposed to the ayre do grow blacke, whereas
the teeth do keepe their whiteness * * * Fnally say they there is
a stone that will consume fleshe, called therefore "Sarcophagus," which within
forty days will devour the whole body except the teeth. If, therefore, the teeth
were of the nature of bones, they also would be consumed.