“Frankfort, December 31, 1595.”
Elsewhere it is stated that the boy who was the possessor of the “Golden Tooth” was born December 22, 1586. As Horst’s Treatise appeared in 1595, the Silesian boy was probably not over seven or eight years of age. We also find that the “Golden Tooth” was a lower molar, and upon the left side, and further, that there was no molar posterior to it.—E. C. K.]
[331] Illustrious Father, do not believe too much in the color.—{Virgil, Ec. ii, 16.]
[332] Joh. Stephani Strobelbergeri, thermiatri cæsarei emeriti, etc., de dentium podagre, seu potius de odontagra, doloreve dentium, tractatus absolutissimus, in quo, tam doloris istius mitigandi rationes, quam dentium sine et cum ferro artificiose extrahendorum varii modi, theoretice ac practice proponuntur, in medicorum ac chirurgorum quorumvis gratiam. Lepsiæ, 1630.
[333] In Latin, gutta, that is, drop.
[334] Handbuch der Zahnheilkunde, Berlin, 1848, ii, 422.
[335] Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde, p. 101.
[336] Arnauld Gilles, La fleur des remèdes contre le mal des dents, Paris, 1622.
[337] Remèdes contre le mal des dents, Paris, 1633.
[338] Sprengel, Geschichte der Chirurgie, Part II, p. 293.