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Testimony of ilr. Laudumicy, royal dinlist to His Catholic Majesty Philip V, ling
of Spain:
I take too great an interest in the matters that inure to the common weal of all,
that I should not attest that I have never seen a book which is more complete, so far
as the teeth are concerned, thaT that of Mr. Fauehanl. I find in the same many vrise
suggestions and discoveries in our art; the title, "The Dentist," which this book
has inscribed upon it, and the happy genius his great zeal and constant labors im-
pressed upon it, give much satisfaction to the members of a great art and science.
My own experience, secured in the same way as that of the author, leads me to express,
with all due praise, my pleasure obtained from reading this excellent book which this
writer has composed, and which he, -with all disinterestedness, and praise-worthy and
very rare example, has made public and given to the view of all.
The opinion of Dr. Eecquet, regent of the Medical Faculty in Paris and former
dean of the faculty:
This book is no work that has originated in the imagination, nor is it a question
of means and operation, or of medicines which may be experimented with in the
treatment of the diseases of the teeth, but it is a sure and certain way, which Mr.
Fauchard has discovered by his labors and experience. This he now gives, with a
great deal of sincerity, with sensible reflection and with great deliberation, publicly
to the world, for which work he is entitled to the high esteem and assured confidence
by right.
Dr. Silva, regent of the Medical Faculty of Paris, iody physician to the duke
and consulting court physician to the Icing, says:
The book of Mr. Fauchard is based upon a great many experiences which have
been carefully noted, and from which wise and useful deductions have been made. It
is worthy of praise that the author has undertaken to produce a more accurate
work than all those which heretofore have come to light. The world owes him thanks
for this gift, and it could not have received it from any one else who could have
availed himself more nsefully of his experience.
Testimony of Dr. Duplessis. city surgeon of Paris:
Although the diseases of the teeth occur frequently, and there are many of them,
yet there has no one been found for a long time who has been able to give lessons and
rules, based upon his own observations, of such diseases and how to relieve them, but
Dr. Fauchard does this beautifully in his so-called "Dentist." In this book one
finds such sensible treatises, such well considered conclusions and such certain means,
that one would act unjustly if one did not express his great satisfaction that so
useful and so necessary a work, which heretofore was missing, has been supplied to
the surgeon.
There was no journalism at tliat period worth mentioninc:. and cer-
tainly no medical, surgical or dental journalism, hence there was no oppor-
tunity for press notices or criticisms of publications, and Fauchard certainly
showed a very practical turn of mind when he published the commendations
of his work as an appendix to the work itself.
Dupont early in the seventeenth century, emplo\'ed replantation as a cura-