James Blair (1747-1817), provincial dentist.
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TH[E LATE eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a considerable increase in the number of dentists, as barbers, hairdressers, perfumers, jewellers and other traders extended their field of operation and declared themselves capable of curing all dental ills, usually painlessly and undetectably. Their more flamboyant side made them the butt of the contemporary caricaturists. There have been studies of a number of London and Edinburgh practitioners of the period, concerned primarily with those who were notable for their scientific contributions to dentistry or for their sheer personal eccentricities, but little detailed work has been done on the ordinary provincial dentist. Such a man was James Blair. By means ofa detailed examination of his life, this paper aims to give some preliminary answers to the following questions: what sort of men took up dentistry? What was their social and commercial background? How much time did they devote to dental practice? What kind of treatments did they have to offer the public? However, only further work on the period will reveal how typical Blair was of his kind.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1978