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Did you Know? Around 35 A.D., Roman
encyclopedist Celsus wrote an extensive medical text, called On Medicine, which
covered not just dentistry, but also heart disease, insanity, tonsillectomy and many
other conditions. Celsus' book included an entire chapter on dealing with toothaches,
which he called "among the worst of tortures." He recommended using mouth rinses,
hot poultices, steam and other remedies to relieve pain, and believed extraction
should be used only as a last resort. He also recommended cleaning stained teeth with
a mixture of pounded rose leaves, gallnuts (little round growths produced on the
leaves and shoots of oak trees by insects) and myrrh.
------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. George Franklin
Grant was the son of former slaves, one of the first African Americans to graduate
from Harvard Dental School, and an avid golfer. On December 12, 1899, he received U.S.
patent No. 638,920 for the world's first patented golf tee. In his patent
application, Dr. Grant wrote, "This invention has for its object the production of a
simple, cheap, and effective tee for use in the game of golf, obviating the use of the
usual conical mounds of sand or similar material formed by the fingers of the player
on which the ball is supported when driving off." ------------------------------------------------------------- The 1500s may have been a
period of an intellectual Renaissance, but people were still stuck in the Dark Ages
when it came to taking care of their teeth.
People cleaned their teeth by rubbing
them with a mixture of powdered pumice stone, brick and coral - an abrasive
combination that not only removed the stain, but also the enamel. Other
"toothpastes" of the time featured various combinations of honey, sugar, burnt salt,
vinegar and white wine. -------------------------------------------------------------
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