Thread by @POH_Smiles

Good #ThrowbackThursday for us today. -|- "A practical essay on the human teeth : explaining the art of effectually preserving the health, utility, and beauty of the teeth, gums, and contiguous parts of the mouth : and setting forth the use of the various operations employed ..."

" ... by the dentist in preventing and remedying the diseases, defects, and deformities incident to the several parts of the mouth : with such instructions as will enable the patient to judge for himself when they ought to be performed : ..."

" ... wherein the most material objections against scaling the teeth and the use of artificial teeth are considered and a full refutation of them attempted ... / by Paul Eurialius Jullion"
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.…

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

“One principal cause of these calamities is the employing of inexperienced and unskillful Practitioners, who, incited by the Emoluments attending the Practice, and encouraged by the Credulity of the Public, confidently avow themselves Professors of this Art, ..."

" ... though divested of every Requisite; and thereby, instead of removing, increase the fatal Effects above mentioned, the very Evils they profess to eradicate or to remedy.” -\- #ThrowbackThursday to 1781.