guerini's

Updated: May 22, 2025

For obvious reasons I prefer to quote Guerini's summation of this medieval student of dentistry's rules for dental hygiene: "For the preservation of teeth considered by him, quite rightly, a matter of great importance Giovanni of Arcoli repeats the various counsels given on the subject by preceding writers, but he gives them as ten distinct canons or rules, creating in this way a kind of decalogue of dental hygiene.

James J. (James Joseph) Walsh - Old-Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences: Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages