Show DENTAL FORCEPS IN ANTIQUITY proof ta that at they existed but no specimens are in existence I 1 dri botlon long ago read apa per before the leipzig Aled medical cal society on dental forceps in antiquity ile he said that even before the time of hippo crates reference to the use of such in are found but no specimens are met with among the surgical implements clements ts belonging to classical times that have been discovered this can only be due to the material of which they were made unlike the mass massof of other gracco roman surgical instruments which were nearly all of bronze the dental forceps of antiquity must have been made of iron or steel although no medical hiiter mentions the fact in the aristotelian Alech mechanical anical problems however there is a passage which according to dr has hitherto been overlooked in which it is mentioned as a familiar tact fact that thai dental forceps were made of iron in the museum at homburg where there is an almost unrivaled collection of iron implements two steel plated dental forceps one for the upper the other for the lower jaw have been found that dental forceps should have formed part of the armament armamentarium arf of a military surgeon in a 1 I remote outpost outposts shows bows in what common use rise the instrument was british medical journal |