Ancient Dentistry - A Tooth Extraction
The drawing shows us an expert, sitting behind the patient
lying, extracting a tooth and helped by two assistants. The man on the
left pokes fire with bellows, and the other on the right, holds fire
with a grip near the “dentist”.
Charaf-ed-Din (1404-1468) left us his famous Chirurgie of
Ilkhani, an ancient dental manuscript, written and illustrated by him in
1465. This Turkish manuscript of ancient dentistry is preserved at the
BNF (National Library of France).
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