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Waterloo Teeth


Posted by Mrsk on June 21, 2015 at 04:19:14:

In Reply to: Castlebar Man at Battle of Waterloo posted by Alan King on June 19, 2015 at 14:30:15:

"Claudius actually got into dentistry as a battlefield surgeon at Waterloo and it was he who initially marketed the teeth he extracted from the corpses after the battle as Waterloo Teeth, they being the first commercially-available dental prosthetics."
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/france/teeth.htm

 
 
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