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Another event of 1770 that I neglected on its 250th anniversary this year was the mobbing of Jesse Saville.Or rather, the mobbing of Jesse Saville in March 1770, because we have to distinguish that mobbing from several others.To start at the beginning,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “He can fix them as well as any Surgeon-Dentist who ever came from London.” Silversmith Paul Revere placed several advertisements in 1770, but not for his primary...
As I quoted yesterday, in 1853 a story surfaced saying that Josiah Waters, Jr., had delivered intelligence about the impending British army march on 18 Apr 1775.This story is significant in predating Henry W. Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s...
As you may be aware we have previously written about 18th century dentistry and I was interested when I came across ‘City Women in the 18th Century’ which showed a trade card for a female dentist, Catherine Madden. British Museum Catherine...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Newport Mercury (July 24, 1769). “This valuable tincture … sold … at Mrs. CROSSWALL’S in Thames-street[,] Newport.” In the summer of 1769, Mr. Hamilton,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Pennsylvania Gazette (July 13, 1769). “At Mr. JOSEPH SOLOMAN’S … in Lancaster, by the appointment of Mr. HAMILTON, Surgeon Dentist.” At the same time that...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? New-York Gazette or Weekly Post-Boy (July 10, 1769). “No CURE No PAY.” As part of his marketing efforts, Mr. Hamilton, “Surgeon Dentist and Operator for the Teeth,...
When the Rev. William Gordon visited British prisoners of war in Concord in the spring of 1775, he reported that Pvt. John Bateman was “too ill to admit of my conversing with him.”Bateman didn’t get any better. In 1835 local historian...
Supplement to the New-York Journal (April 6, 1769). What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “MICHEAL POREE, SURGEON DENTIST.” The professions of surgeon, dentist, and barber were once the same. The familiar...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Massachusetts Gazette [Draper] (September 8, 1768).“WHEREAS many Persons are so unfortunate as to lose their fore Teeth … they may have them replaced with false Ones...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Supplement to the New-York Journal (April 30, 1768).“Each pot is sealed with his coat of arms, as in the margin of the directions, to prevent fraud.” For quite some...
In Episode 15 of Under The Knife, I explore the horrible reality behind dental practices from the past, including how dentures used to be made from the teeth of executed criminals, exhumed bodies, and sometimes even slaves. Don’t forget you...
Next Monday I have an appointment with the dentist so I can sympathize with JEMIMA CONDICT when she wrote in her journal on a Monday morning in 1775: “Resolved if Possible to have my tooth out.” So down I went to Dr. C. and he got his Cold...
L. van Leyden, A Tooth Drawer, 1523 (Wellcome Library) "To keepe and preserve the teeth cleane. First if they bee very yellow and filthie, or blackish, let a Barber scoure, rubbe, and picke them cleane, and white, then after to maintaine them cleane,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Newport Mercury (December 29, 1766).“Dentifrice … will preserve the Teeth.” John Baker, a surgeon dentist, had recently arrived in Newport. Since potential local...
Years back, I gave a teachers’ workshop at the Paul Revere House in the North End. It took place upstairs in the neighboring Pierce-Hichborn house.As I recall, we had about two dozen people crowded into a small, irregularly shaped room with sloping...
What was advertised in a colonial newspaper 250 years ago today? New-York Mercury (July 21, 1766).“James Daniel, Wig-Maker and Hair-Dresser … Also Operator for the Teeth.” This advertisement first caught my attention because of the...
Last month saw the publication of my new book, Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Refined Bodies (London: Palgrave, 2015). By way of introducing it, I thought I’d write a post to introduce some of...
In the popular mindset there is perhaps the belief that early modern period never cleaned their teeth and so bad breath must have been commonplace and unexceptional. However, medical writers and practitioners throughout the period many practitioners of...
The 9th of February is St. Apollonia’s Day and, in the U.S., National Toothache Day. So I offer you tooth-worms, which–as Nicolas Andry described them in An account of the breeding of worms in human bodies (1701)—“occasion a deaf Pain mix’d...
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