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Year: 1815
Last Name: Vittorio
First Name: Cornelio
Title: Il ritratto parlante risposta di Vittorio Cornelio chirurgo dentista alle osservazioni critiche del chirurgo Francesco Dellerba.
Publisher: stamperia di Vincenzo Bianco
City: Torino
Country: Italy
Binding Detail: Contemporary soft wraps, printed label on front.
Condition: Mild wear to cover edges.
Notes:

8vo; 56 pgs. Includes copper engraved frontis of author.

Vittorio (Turin, 1752-1832), was one of the most distinguished dentists of the time, was an honorary surgeon-dentist of the King of Sardinia as well as a friend of Scarpa, who entrusted him with the task of composing a treatise on dental technique.

This text deals with the issue of caries in human teeth, entering the heated debate among contemporaries.

Poletti, p. 46. Wellcome II, p. 393. Micheloni, The world of teeth and its history, III, pp.1005-1008.

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