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Shows benefit of ecclesiastical records in dental history
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Clarifies status of dental practitioners in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century
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Gives insight into provision of dental healthcare in the provinces
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Shows activity (official) of women in medical and dental healthcare
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Reveals official requirement for continued compliance for retaining licences in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century
Abstract
In the histories of dentistry, some mention is made of the licensing of tooth-drawers, and those who provided dental healthcare before the term Dentist started to become general in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. One of the most striking references to licensing appears in a little piece of doggerel printed under a 1768 print by Dixon after Harris.
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* Melanie Barber is the Deputy Librarian and Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library, London SE1 7JU
† Sarah Wickham is the Assistant Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library, London SE1 7JU
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Bishop, M., Gelbier, S. & Gibbons, D. Ethics – dental registration in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Br Dent J 191, 395–400 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4801191
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