Miscellaneous> 1700 > A pocket set of oral hygiene instruments in a leather case, late 18th/early 19th c., France or England.
A pocket set of oral hygiene instruments in a leather case, late 18th/early 19th c., France or England.
Description:Physicians and healers of all sorts have always been interested in the diagnosis and treatment of toothache because of the urgent nature of the problem.
Dental disease has been found in human remains from as early as the Stone Age, and it was in the seventeenth century that skulls began to show a significant increase in the number of dental caries linked to the increase of importation of sugar from the New World.
Our personal hygiene set consists of three iron scalers with ivory handles.
The leather case has a secure push-button clasp, along with its original compartments for the instruments.
Both instruments and case are in a quite fine overall condition.
Age:late 18th/early 19th c.
Dimensions:the case 5 inc.: the instruments 4,5 inc.
Price: € 300,00
Item n°: RC 138
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