Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1036.5

THOMAS BERDMORE (1740-1785) A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and gums : explaining the most rational methods of treating their diseases : illustrated with cases and experiments. Printed for the author : sold by Benjamin White … James Dodsley … and Becket and De Hondt 1770 A new edition with additions. xv, [1], 279, [1] p. (last blank). 18 cm.

Thomas Berdmore was born around 1740 and died in 1785. He may have been apprenticed to Mark Skelton of Sheffield, Surgeon, in 1755 for the sum of £85. In due course he became renowned as the King's Dentist (King George III). As early as 1768, in what seems to have been the first English dental textbook, he had proclaimed the use of sugar as being bad for the teeth. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berdmore).

Cited references: Wellcome II p.146

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