Stories
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Is your job bad for your teeth?
Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
Catalogue
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Cavity preparation and abutment construction in bridgework : a treatise on the fundamental priniples and the technical phases governing the cutting of cavities or preparations in natural teeth for purposes of anchorage impression methods for accurate reproduction and the construction of inlays and abutments in accordance with modern successful casting procedures / by Jacob R. Schwartz.
Schwartz, Jacob R., 1889-Date: 1936- Pictures
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A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.
Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm, 1799-1862.Date: [1834?]Reference: 659102i- Digital Images
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Human saliva
Macroscopic Solutions- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.
Date: 11 May 1872Reference: 21053i- Books
Teeth / Dr Charlotte Cooper.
Cooper, CharlotteDate: [2018]