Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — There’s Nothing New. [ARTICLE]

There’s Nothing New.

The dental processes familiar to us are not so new as may be supposed. In the museum of Corneto, on the coast of Italy, are two curious specimens of artificial teeth found imEtruscan tombs probably dating' 400 or 500 years before our era. The teeth were evidently taken from the month of some animal, and had been carefully cut and fastened to neighboring natural teeth of two young girls by means of small gold rings. The dentist’s art was also applied to treating natural teeth in various ways, but the fact has hitherto escaped notice on account of the rarity of Etruscan skeletons. Ax old friend is not always the person whom it is easiest to make a confidant of; there is the barrier. of remembered communications under other circumstances. — George Eliot. ’' ;