The availability of dental care in Halle: a local study.

Whilst not necessarily claiming to be representative of Germany as a whole, this detailed study of a local area provides further insight into dental practice in the region within the context of its economy, politics, the development of University education and medical care. The availability of individual resident and visiting dentists, together with the nature of the treatments they provided, is described.

German dental literature around 1800.

The extent of material on dentistry published in Germany around this period is shown in this chapter and its associated bibliography of some 134 works (Appendix 5). However, some doubt is expressed as to the extent to which the information in these texts was disseminated to the predominantly 'craftsmen' of dentistry who would obtain their knowledge from a more oral and practical tradition, compared with the more academic tradition of the physicians and surgeons who also provided some of the dental treatment.

Germany between 1780 and 1810.

A study of the relationships between the nobility, townsfolk, artisans and those living in rural areas, as well as the legislation that binds them together, are important for the understanding of dental treatments needed and/or requested by all of these groups. Education, literacy, citizenship, religious tolerance (or the lack of it) are also analysed in this chapter which provides a relevant background to the subsequent studies on German dental practice.