PMM, 186; Heirs of Hippocrates, 785; One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine, n\u00b0 40; David, p. 113; Poletti, p.72; Norman, 768; Weinberger, p.48; Wellcome, II, p. 12; Garrison-Morton, 3671; En fran\u00e7ais dans le texte, 142.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition, very rare.<\/span><\/p>\n At a very young age, Pierre Fauchard (1678-1761) worked as a \u201cdental expert\u201d in Anjou and Brittany, then from 1719 in Paris, where his reputation “continued to grow, and the publication of his book definitively placed him among the \u2018greats\u2019 of Parisian medicine and surgery. His book was indeed a pioneering work and made him the founding father of modern dentistry, as it was the first work on a \u201cbranch of the art of healing\u201d left to charlatans or empiricists who practiced in deplorable conditions. An anatomist, pathologist, therapist, and hygienist, Fauchard used the knowledge of his time to provide a comprehensive overview of a specialty that we now call odontostomatology”. (see : Marie-Jos\u00e9 Imbault-Hurat, En fran\u00e7ais dans le texte<\/i>).<\/p>\n “Pierre Fauchard has been called the “father of dentistry”; his comprehensive and scientific account of all that concern dentistry in the 18th century is one of the greatest books in the history of the subject” (Garrison-Morton).<\/p>\n “[This work] inspired an immediate increase in the number of important books by dental practitioners” (Norman).<\/p>\n “Fauchard summarized in his pages with numerous illustrations all that was best in the practice of his day and disclosed what has been hitherto jealously guarded secrets. Le Chirurgien<\/i> Dentiste – The Surgeon Dentist, or a Treatise on the Teeth, with instruction on the means of maintaining them Sound and Healthy – is in fact the first scientific work on its subject, and modern dentistry begins with its publication. Fauchard describes in the fullest detail the procedure in operative dentistry, in the filling of teeth and most especially in prothesis, which is that part of dental surgery concerned with artificial dentures, bridge work and the like… He used antiseptic methods in filling teeth long before the germ theory of infection… Fauchard was the true pioneer of dental surgery” (PMM).<\/p>\n “No other individual in the history of dentistry played a more important role in its development than Fauchard… Publication of the present work in 1728 was immediately hailed as a major development in the dental profession because it incorporated the entire doctrine of theoretical and practical dentistry as it was then known and practiced\u201d (Heirs).<\/p>\n Good, complete copy of this seminal work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 volumes, 12mo (167 x 93 mm) engraved frontispiece by Scotin after Le Bel, 24 nn.ll., 456 pp., 16 nn.ll. (table and errata), 8 engraved plates (numbered 1 to 8) for volume I; 5 nn.ll., 346 pp., 13 nn.ll. (including last blank), 32 engraved plates (numbered 9 to 40). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red speckled edges (expertly restored).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":88939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[548],"product_tag":[1450,1271,1233,1296],"class_list":{"0":"post-82700","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-medicine","7":"product_tag-first-edition","8":"product_tag-medicine","9":"product_tag-pmm-2","10":"product_tag-teeth","11":"pa_auteur-fauchard-pierre-2","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Pierre FAUCHARD","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Jean Mariette, 1728","book_type":"","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n