Instruments for oral surgery

Plate 1, Instruments for oral surgery, including platens for holding the mouth open, depressing the tongue and protecting the inside of the cheeks, and also scalpels and cauterisation tools. From Tome 2 'Traité des maladies et des opérations réellement chirurgicales de la bouche, et des parties qui y correspondent. Suivi de notes, d'observations and de consultations intéressantes, tant anciennes que modernes ' by Anselme Louis Bernard Bréchillet Jourdain, 1778. This was the first specialist book dedicated to oral surgery in the 18th century, and was translated into English in the mid-19th century.