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'The first scientific study of the teeth and basic to all modern dentistry'

HUNTER, John.
Historia naturalis dentium humanorum: in qua eorum  structura, usus, formatio, incrementum, ac morbi explicantur ..Anglice consscripta; a Johanne Huntero ... In linguam Latinam et Batavam versa a Petro Boddaert /  Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch, in welke  hun zamenstel, gebruik, vorming, groey, en ziekten uitgeleyd worden. Uit het Engelsch in het Latyn en  Nederduitsch vertaald; door Pieter Boddaert.

With illustrations of (sets of human) teeth and skulls on 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption 'Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson'.

With illustrations of (sets of human) teeth and skulls on 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption 'Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson'.

With illustrations of (sets of human) teeth and skulls on 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption 'Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson'.

With illustrations of (sets of human) teeth and skulls on 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption 'Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson'.

With illustrations of (sets of human) teeth and skulls on 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption 'Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson'.



Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1773. 4to. Contemporary boards covered with marbled paper, uncut copy. With illustrations of (sets of human) teeth and skulls on 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption 'Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson'. XXII, 213, (1) pp.

First edition of the bilingual translation, in Latin and Dutch, of the famous study on the mouth, jaws and (sets of) teeth by John Hunter (1728-1793), one of the greatest surgeons of his time. John, even more remarkable than his brother, the London physician and obstetrician William Hunter, was an anatomist and surgeon, also practicing in London. He lacked the education of his brother, yet his tireless energy helped him to overcome whatever obstacles his educational and cultural lacks may have provided. 'Hunter remains one of the great all-round biologists like Haller and Johannes Müller, and with Paré and Lister, one of the three greatest surgeons of all time ... He found surgery a mechanical art and left it an experimental science' (Fielding H. Garrison (1929), p. 137). With this study John Hunter was the first to apply medical science to the structure of teeth, introducing the classes cuspid, bicuspid, molar and incisor. With Fauchard and Pfaff he was the father of modern dentistry, based on rigorous scientific observation. '... the first scientific study of the teeth and basic to all modern dentistry' (Heirs of Hippocrates, pp. 267-8).
First published at London in 1771 by J. Johnson under the title The natural history of the human teeth, the book was much republished and translated in all languages. The plates in the present parallel Latin and Dutch translation are the same as in the first English edition. According to Garrison-Morton-Norman the plates are exceptionally accurate.
After the half-title (p. I), Latin and Dutch title (pp. II-III), the dedication to Eduard Sandifort, professor of anatomy and surgery at the Leiden University in Latin and Dutch (pp. IV-V), and the bilingual preface by Boddaert, dated Utrecht, 15 September 1773 (pp. VI-XXII), follows the text on pp. 1-191; pp. 192-213: explanation of the 16 plates; p. (214): stock list of the Publishers Blussé & Son.

Good uncut copy.- (Spine sl. rubbed).
Wellcome II, p. 185; Waller 10648; Blake 226; BMN. p. 332; Crowley 200; Guerini p. 318 ff.; NUC lists three copies; Hoffmen-Axthelm, History of Dentistry, pp. 219-20; Fielding F. Garrison, An introduction to the history of dentistry (1929), p. 137; Garrison-Morton-Norman 3675 (English ed.); Heirs of Hippocrates (1980), 609 (English ed.); cf. PMM 186; DNB XXVIII, pp. 287-93.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dentistry  Dutch  Medicine  Printing and the Mind of Man  Science 

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