Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1313.9

JOSEPH FOX (1776-1816) The natural history of the human teeth ... To which is added, an account of the diseases which affect children during the first dentition ... printed for T. Cox. 1803 First Edition. viii, 100, [12] p. 13 pl. 30 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1314

“Fox was a surgeon practicing dentistry, whose method of treatment was a great improvement over that of Fauchard and Bourdet. The first direct attempt at classification was by this author.” Formerly a student of John Hunter, Joseph Fox was the first lecturer on dentistry at Guy's Hospital, the first dental surgeon appointed to a hospital position, and one of the first medical practitioners to devote himself completely to the care of the teeth. Fox's two works - subsequently issued together in two volumes under the title The Natural History and Diseases of the Human Teeth (London: 1814) -- employed his surgical knowledge to offer practical diagnoses and treatments: the text and finely-detailed plates describe both the diseases and the corresponding operations (using toothkeys and other instruments), and ensured the treatise's pre-eminence in the following fifty years as 'the most complete work of its kind and ... the first to give specific operative procedures for correcting dental irregularities' (Eimas 1314, of London: 1814 edition).

See Related Record(s): 1495

Cited references: Wellcome III p.50; Garrison & Morton 3679

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