A Dentist's Shop is Fitted Up

A History of Dentistry at Canterbury Shaker Village

History of Dentistry: 

New Hampshire Dental Society. http://www.nhds.org 

American Dental Association.org.  Topics & Resources, History of Dentistry.  http://www.ada.org/public/resources/history/index.asp 

Anesthesia Nursing and Medicine website.  History of Anesthesia page.  http://www.anesthesia-nursing.com/history.html 

Avasthi, Amitabh.  “9,000 Year Old Drilled Teeth Are Work of Stone Age Dentists.”  National Geographic.com.  April 5, 2006.    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0405_060405_teeth_drill.html 

Bower, Bruce.  “Mystery Drilling:  Ancient teeth endured dental procedures.”  Science News Online:  The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science, Vol. 169, No. 14 (April 8, 2006), p. 213.  http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060408/fob5.asp   

Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry virtual exhibition.  "I Cannot Tell a Lie: George Washington." http://www.dentalmuseum.org/gw/gwmenu.htm 

Gale, Thomas. "Dental Drill." Thomson Corporation: How Products are Made website: Vol.3.  http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Dental-Drill.html 

Glover, Barbara. "Early American Dentistry, Part III."  Riversdale Historical Society Newsletter Online (Fall 1998): Town of Riversdale Park, Maryland website.  http://ci.riverdale-park.md.us/History/riversdaleletter/fall1998.html 

 

Shaker Dentistry: 

Blinn, Henry.  “Church Record.”  Unpublished manuscript.  Canterbury Shaker Village Archives, #764. 

Blinn, Henry.  “A Historical   Unpublished manuscript.  Canterbury Shaker Village Archives, #763. 

Blinn, Henry.  Shaker museum inventory 

Blinn, Henry.  “The Turnkey.”  The Manifesto, Vol. 28 (June, August, and September 1898). 

Building Journal. 

Evans, Jessie.  Diaries.  18   -19   . 

Unpublished manuscript.  Canterbury Shaker Village Archives, # 

Greenwood, Irving.  Diaries.  18   -1939.  Canterbury Shaker Village Archives, #   (See Maynard, Susan, A Shaker Life:  The Diaries of Irving Greenwood for excerpts from these diaries, available at www.shakers.org/shop 

Swank, Scott T.  Shaker Life, Art and Architecture:  Hands to Work, Hearts to God.  New York:  Abrams, 1999.  See the chapter “Mind and Body,” especially the section “Healing, Health, and Death,” pp. 91-9, for a discussion of health practices and the Infirmary at Canterbury Shaker Village. 

Welch, Sabra.  Unpublished lecture on Shaker healthcare.  Audiotape.  1994. 

Wilson, Josephine.  Diaries.  1913- 19  Unpublished manuscripts.  Canterbury Shaker Village Archives.  #

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