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GARRETSON, James Edward (1828 – 1895)

GARRETSON, James Edward (1828 – 1895)

1828 – 1895

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Burton Lee Thorpe et al. · History of Dental Surgery, volume 3, p396 · Public domain

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1869 CE

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A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, and associated parts.

GARRETSON, James Edward (1828 – 1895)
GARRETSON, James Edward (1828 – 1895)

The first modern textbook of oral surgery. Garretson received the first official hospital appointment as “oral surgeon”. He helped to establish oral surgery as a specialty.