[479] Sprengel, Part ii (?), p. 322.
[480] Nouveaux éléments d’Odontologie, contenant l’anatomie de la bouche, ou la description de toutes les parties qui la composent, et de leur usage; et la pratique abregée du dentiste, avec plusieurs observations, par M. Lécluse, Chirurgien dentiste de Sa Majesté le Roi de Pologne, etc., Paris, 1754 (vol. in 12mo of pages viii-222 with six plates).
[481] Abhandlung von den Zähnen des menschlichen Körpers und deren Krankheiten, 1756.
[482] Geist-Jacobi, p. 164.
[483] Die eingebildeten würmer in Zähnen, Regenburg, 1757.
[Schaffer’s publication is of considerable interest in that his illustration here reproduced exhibits one of the devices somewhat generally employed for the eradication of dental worms as a cure for toothache. In the title of his work Schaffer describes himself as Protestant preacher at Regensburg, member of the Royal Society of Fine Arts at Göttingen, of the Royal Society of Science at Duisberg, honorary member of the Fine Arts at Leipsic.
The several details of the plate are designated as follows:
Fig. I. The supposed worms, with single and double tails, or actually seed buds of the henbane driven out by heat, natural size.
Fig. II. Kidney-shaped seed of the henbane, natural size, without seed buds.