Dental Practice in Europe at the End of the 18th Century

Christine Hillam studied at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne. She gained her PhD on ‘The Development of Dental Practice in the Provinces from the Late 18th Century to 1855’ at the University of Liverpool in 1986. Formerly Research Associate and Honorary Research Fellow at the Universities of Birmingham and Liverpool, respectively. She has published extensively on the history of dentistry, was editor of The Roots of Dentistry and author of Brass Plate and Brazen Impudence. She was also editor of the Medical Historian (1988-91) and the Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry from 1998 until her death in 2000.

Foreword

Preface

Contributors

Christine HILLAM: Introduction



PART I: FRANCE

1 Pierre BARON: Dental Practitioners in France at the End of the Eighteenth Century

2 Pierre BARON: Dental Practice in Selected Areas of France

3 Pierre BARON: Dental Practice in Paris

4 Pierre BARON: Discussion



PART II: THE BRITISH ISLES

5 Anne HARGREAVES: Dentistry in the British Isles



PART III: THE NETHERLANDS

6 Frank HUISMAN: Itinerant Dentists and Patent Remedies in the Dutch Republic



PART IV: HUNGARY

7 Judit FORRAI: Dental Practice in Hungary at the End of the Eighteenth Century



PART V: GERMANY

8 Thomas NICKOL and Curt Gerhard LORBER: Germany between 1780 and 1810

9 Thomas NICKOL: German Dental Literature around 1800

10 Peter SCHRÖCK-SCHMIDT and Curt Gerhard LORBER: Biographical Sketches of some Dental Practitioners in Germany at the End of the Eighteenth Century

11 Thomas NICKOL: The Availability of Dental Care in Halle: A Local Study



APPENDICES

Appendix 1 French Sources

Appendix 2 List of Individuals Offering Dental Treatment in Selected Areas of France, 1785-1800

Appendix 3 A Select Bibliography of the French Authors

Appendix 4 List of Individuals Offering Dental Treatment in Britain in the 1790s

Appendix 5 Alphabetical List of German Dental Literature Published Between 1775 and 1820

Appendix 6 Individuals Offering Dental Treatment in Germany Between c.1780 and 1810



Index