A treatise on the management of the teeth / by Benjamin James, M.M.S.S.

  • James, Benjamin.
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1814
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A treatise on the management of the teeth / by Benjamin James, M.M.S.S. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : Published by Charles Callender, 1814 (Boston : Printed by Joseph T. Buckingham, Winter Street)

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141 pages, 1 leaf : illustrations ; 19 cm (12mo).

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Additional engraved title page, showing a sufferer from toothache, artificial teeth in the foreground and, in the background, a fanciful rendering of a hippopotamus. (Hippopotamus ivory was the preferred material for the manufacture of artificial teeth.)
Copy 1 First book-length treatise on dentistry published in the United States.

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