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C Gysel

Publications and source records attributed to C Gysel.

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[Dentistry and its remedies in the Netherlands during the 17th century].

The XVIIth century is the Golden Century of Holland, liberated from spanish domination, and becoming an economical and political powerful State, owing to maritime trade. Art, Science and literature progress and shine as never equaled. Our investigation is based upon writtings of professors, and those of their students or any other practitioner newly established in Holland, land of liberty. In those writings we are in search of remedies against odontology. Usual therapeutics is all together general and local. General, its evacuated peccant humors by vein section and purgation; local, it acts upon surrounding regions (shoulder, tempel, ear, chin), in the mouth (collutorium), on the tooth or its cavity.

Dentistry, Operative↗

[Doctor Albert Kyper, his anti-Cartesian speech on method (1643) and odontology].

Young ambitious Lutheran, and then converted to Calvinism, Albert Kyper was opposed to Cartesianism, telling that "this was harmful towards Faculty of Medicine." He recognized decadent scolastic method and that it was just necessary to follow the ancients' ways. He wanted to ignore Fallope, Vesale, Eustache, Fernet, minor authors.

History of Dentistry↗

[The encyclopedia of Etienne Binet (1621), medicine and dentistry].

This jesuit, humanist devotee is the author of many spiritualism written works and of an "Essay des Merveilles de Nature" (Essay on Nature's Marvels), original book of personal observations. Concerning Odontology, BINET still belongs to Middle-Age, failing to recognize anatomy and esthetics, in spite of Renaissance.

Esthetics↗