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45201517171734Code 4603 Dentist setDentist set signed Evans & Wormull 31 Stamford London dated back to 1880 circa. This set contains 12 pliers, a wrench and a removing tartar set with 5 instruments, all signed. Steel instruments, mahogany box with red velvet inside, ebony handle of wrench and of the removing tartar set. Cm 39x20x5 - inches 15.35x7.87x1.96.
The first documents which referred to the dental extraction date back to the Code of Hammurabi, dated around 1800 BC: tooth extraction in this case is a punishment and not a cure. Both Aristotle and Hippocrates describe the extraction of teeth. In the Middle Ages the monks looked after dental extraction, an operation then passed to the barbers: various papal edicts forbade to those who belong to religious orders this type of intervention. The first book known which fully covered the dentistry was the Büchlein Artzney published in 1530. The instruments were not particularly sophisticated: from the "pelican", instrument for extraction attributed to the French surgeon Guy de Chauliac in the fourteenth century, to the "turn-key dental" introduced in the eighteenth century, later ousted by modern clamps.
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