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DUBOIS DE CHÉMANT, NICOLAS. A Dissertation on Artificial Teeth. Evincing the Advantages of Teeth made of Mineral Paste, over Every Denomination of Animal Substance . . . Fourth Edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait (heavily offsetting onto title); double-page plate of dentures. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, front cover detached. London, 1804
Fourth edition in English of a work originally published in French in 1797 and first translated the same year. "Dubois de Chémant was the first dentist to manufacture porcelain teeth by a process modified from that originally invented by an apothecary named Alexis Duchâteau in 1776"--Garrison-Morton 3677 (1788 original edition in French of an earlier work on the subject by Dubois). Hoffmann-Axthelm, pages 253-54.
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