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The Practice of Dental Mutilation

Nature volume 130, page 397 (1932)Cite this article

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IN NATURE of Aug. 20, p. 268, reference is made to a letter published in the August number of Man in which I state that the earliest evidence I could find of evulsion of teeth and other dental mutilations in Nubia could not be pushed back before about 300 B.C.

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  1. J. Anat. and Physiol., vol. 49, p. 72; 1914.

  2. Mitt. d. mediz. Fakultat d. Kaiser. Universität zu Tokyo, Band 28, Heft 3; 1922.

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  1. G. ELLIOT SMITH
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SMITH, G. The Practice of Dental Mutilation. Nature 130, 397 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130397b0

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