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HISTOKY OF DP:NTAL SUKGEEY 53
expenditure of great time. The pelican is an instrument after the order
of the turnkey and constructed on the liook and lever principle. After teeth
had been placed in the desired position by means of this rapid process he
used a lotion composed of "a(iua rosaruni and aqua plantaginas, of each two
ounces ; white wine, four ounces, or alcohol one ounce ; honey, one ounce. This
is mixed together and used five or six times daily for two weeks."
Pie devotes several pages to the tying in of loose teeth and describes the
tochnic of placing gold wire for this jiurpdse. Sometimes he used strips of
gold bands which were supplied with holes through which gold wire was
jiassed, and these were tied and anchored upon firm teeth. In the description
of the instruments employed for the extraction of teeth and the operation
itself, he mentions the lancet, a push arm, tongs or forceps, an elevator and
t)ie pelican.
REPL.\XTJN(: .4.XD TRANSPLANTINU.
The autlior devotes cousi(k'val)le space to rciilauting and tran^^planting of
teeth, and remarks
"It is not at all fabulous to speak of a successful transplanting of a tooth
from one nioutli into another. Not only the old writers, among which was
Ambrose Pare and many others, mention it, but we see it in our daily ex-
perience that teeth transferred froui the jaw of one person to that of anotJier
grow fast and remain firm and without change, and fully perform all the
requirements. It is even claimed tlmt teeth of this kind have resisted the
powerful action of mercury after salivation better than their near neighbors,
which are perfectly natural in their positions.
"This operation lias so fre(|uently been successful that I am surprised that
some practitioners should pronounce it as impossible. The teeth which are
suitable for replanting or transplanting are the incisors, the canines and the
little molars (bi-cuspids), because these contribute the most to the embellish-
ment of the mouth, and it is to be remarked that when this operation is to
be successful the person must be of good health; that the jaw and the gums
in which a tooth is to be implanted must not have been subjected to too
severe injury, and that the tooth and the alveolus which is to embrace it are
to be in due proportion to each other."
uemori!H.\i;ks .\nd styptics.
Fauchard treats of hemorrhages following extraction of the teeth and
recognizes the following as a styptic: "Sulphate of copper (vitriol), one
HISTOKY OF DP:NTAL SUKGEEY 53
expenditure of great time. The pelican is an instrument after the order
of the turnkey and constructed on the liook and lever principle. After teeth
had been placed in the desired position by means of this rapid process he
used a lotion composed of "a(iua rosaruni and aqua plantaginas, of each two
ounces ; white wine, four ounces, or alcohol one ounce ; honey, one ounce. This
is mixed together and used five or six times daily for two weeks."
Pie devotes several pages to the tying in of loose teeth and describes the
tochnic of placing gold wire for this jiurpdse. Sometimes he used strips of
gold bands which were supplied with holes through which gold wire was
jiassed, and these were tied and anchored upon firm teeth. In the description
of the instruments employed for the extraction of teeth and the operation
itself, he mentions the lancet, a push arm, tongs or forceps, an elevator and
t)ie pelican.
REPL.\XTJN(: .4.XD TRANSPLANTINU.
The autlior devotes cousi(k'val)le space to rciilauting and tran^^planting of
teeth, and remarks
"It is not at all fabulous to speak of a successful transplanting of a tooth
from one nioutli into another. Not only the old writers, among which was
Ambrose Pare and many others, mention it, but we see it in our daily ex-
perience that teeth transferred froui the jaw of one person to that of anotJier
grow fast and remain firm and without change, and fully perform all the
requirements. It is even claimed tlmt teeth of this kind have resisted the
powerful action of mercury after salivation better than their near neighbors,
which are perfectly natural in their positions.
"This operation lias so fre(|uently been successful that I am surprised that
some practitioners should pronounce it as impossible. The teeth which are
suitable for replanting or transplanting are the incisors, the canines and the
little molars (bi-cuspids), because these contribute the most to the embellish-
ment of the mouth, and it is to be remarked that when this operation is to
be successful the person must be of good health; that the jaw and the gums
in which a tooth is to be implanted must not have been subjected to too
severe injury, and that the tooth and the alveolus which is to embrace it are
to be in due proportion to each other."
uemori!H.\i;ks .\nd styptics.
Fauchard treats of hemorrhages following extraction of the teeth and
recognizes the following as a styptic: "Sulphate of copper (vitriol), one
