Show profession AN OLD ONE that ancients An clente knew know the th art of dentistry has ha been abundantly proved by discoveries mid made J tooth Is doubt doubtless len as an am cleat clent a surgical ope operation mUon if ro it may mray be called an a Is known to mankind but tooth ailing filling bag been supposed to be a modern Inre atlon herodotus Herod and of course galen knew know something about deuth tty but apparently not about milage fillings but as a early as the sixteenth century there la Is found printed eri evi dence use of gold leavea leaves to fill cavities bad had long been known if it not generally practiced the assertion that egyptian mum mien hare have been frundt uh gold filled riled teeth Is I 1 now generally thought to be an error out of the fact bat that the egyptians often glided gilded the teeth of mummies for ornament the ques afon comes up ta in connection with the exploration explorations of professor pro feor saville of columbia in ecuador lie found many pre altee skulls perhaps 1000 years old of a type superior perlor au to the and god what hat was wa especially remarkable was ax that their teeth showed both cold gold and cement ailing the gold filled test struck him aa the most unusual feature of his floda in mexico he bad dug up 09 skull teeth filled or ornamented with tone stone 4 L at J but he had cover before een seen gold sold fill ings in a prehistoric kull skull the gold wr was on the edge of the teeth and had been applied from the inside it showed little onolie on he outside on tilde 60 0 o the purpose appeared to be less for or orna orns than for utility borne some of the teeth were filled with cement in all cases whether the nil fill inga ing were gold or cement the boring ii ludica ted that a tool had been used bat hat did the vork work possibly as 61 rell well as a the 1 As of he the modern dentist some of f abe teeth that apparently had bad loosened were held together bj by gold band hands professor saville aid sald that the residents or natives ol 01 that part of ecuador here where he h found the kulle skulls and the pottery just north of the equator apparently were the on only I 1 Y primitive who understood lood the art of using jewel jewels and platinum la ili decorative art one of tle me object objects in gold la in the teeth doubtless doubt leee wae was ornamentation but the chief pun pup pose seems to be to |