Specification of Eugène D'Estanque : instrument for drawing teeth.

  • Estanque, Eugène d'
Date:
1862
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Credit: Specification of Eugène D'Estanque : instrument for drawing teeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UEstanques Improved Instrument for Drawing Teeth, that the operator may govern at will. The tooth, being seized between the two bits or nippers, slides along the lower bit by the attraction of the upper one, which is moveable backwards and in an upward direction. This bit or nipper may be drawn backward in several ways, by a rack, a rod, a spring, in fact, by any means which will give a resisting power. In conclusion, I desire it to 5 be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein given and illustrated in the annexed Sheet of Drawing, but that my Invention is entirely based upon the mobility of the upper bit, hook, key or nipper, which seizes the tooth and extracts it by sliding it along the lower bit or nipper. Thus my tooth-drawing instrument, without any fulcrum on the 10 adjoining teeth or on the guns, will prove an efficient substitute for the series of keys and other tooth-drawing instruments hitherto used. In witness whereof, I, the said Eugene d’Estanque, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. 15 EUGENE D’ESTANQUE. (l.s.) - LONDON: Printed, by George Edward Eyre and Willtam Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1862.