Spigelius, born in Brussels in 1578 (as Harvey, his fellow, student in Italy) was the last great anatomist of the school of Padua. After his death in 1625 his disciple, Brucetius and his son-in-law, Liberalis Crema, published two years later his "Anatomy" and his "Embryology", illustrated with beautiful plates bought from the heirs of his master Casserio (1561-1619). The sinus maxillaris and the odontology of Eustachius are only mentioned in De humani corporis Fabrica libri X, not in De formato Foetu liber singularis. In order to appreciate the normality of the head he described four diameters of the skull and has been considered by Topinard as the father of craniometry. He also mentions the changes in the proportions of the body during growth and the effects of illness upon growth. His theory and practice of oral surgery are those of his master Fabrizio ab Aquapendente (1533-1619) and of his pupil Scultetus (1595-1648).

Belgium↗

PubMed1979

[Cartesianism and Henricus Regius' dentistry (1598--1679--1979) (Henricus de Roy, René Descartes].

Henricues Regius (1598--1679), professor at the University of Utrecht was the first physician who accepted the physiology of the philosopher Descartes (1596--1750) that he exposed in Fundamenta physices (1646) and in Fundamenta Medicinae (1647) but in Praxis Medica (1657) his therapy of the "odontalgia" is still mediaeval according to the principles of Galen.

Biomechanical Phenomena↗

PubMed1979

[Odontology and the beginning of cartesianism (1673--1650) (Rene Descartes)].

In the seventeenth century the universities of the Netherlands underwent the influence of Descartes in all the faculties. In medicine three periods can be distinguished: in the first, pathology and therapy are still galenic; the second, by the application of the cartesian method, triumphs in physiology; and the third, corrected by the views of Newton is integrated in a moderate biomechanism.

Education, Medical↗

PubMed1979

[Helmontianism and odontology. I].

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Belgium↗

PubMed1979

[Cartesian implication of the bucco-dental nosology of Pierre Fauchard (1678-1761-1978)].

Fauchard's 103 dental diseases can be reduced to 20. The other are clinical variations of the same disease, or deductions from erroneous ideas of ancient or cartesian physio-pathology. In 1778 Plenk describes more than 200 diseases but the same year J. Hunter sets up the foundations of modern classification: dental caries and its complications, diseases of the parodontium, dental anomalies and malocclusions.

Dental Caries↗