Henry Higgins

[nq:1]I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling than to ever let a woman in my life[/nq]
Funny you should bring up that line. I was listening to the CD just the other night, and I started wondering about dentists having drills at the time the story takes place. It struck me as anachronistic.

Dena Jo
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[nq:2]I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling than to ever let a woman in my life[/nq]
[nq:1]Funny you should bring up that line. I was listening to the CD just the other night, and I started wondering about dentists having drills at the time the story takes place. It struck me as anachronistic.[/nq]
I'm quite certain that Victorian dentristy used drills powered by foot-trea

"Harvey Van Sickle" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:1]On 07 Jun 2004, Dena Jo wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Funny you should bring up that line. I was listening ... time the story takes place. It struck me as anachronistic.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm quite certain that Victorian dentristy used drills powered by foot-treadle, I think.[/nq]
Yes, and they were agony. If the dentist wasn't careful,

[nq:2]I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling than to ever let a woman in my life[/nq]
[nq:1]Funny you should bring up that line. I was listening to the CD just the other night, and I started wondering about dentists having drills at the time the story takes place. It struck me as anachronistic.[/nq]
Further to my suspicion, turned up some piccies:

[nq:1]http://www.bda-dentistry.org.uk/museum/oral.cfm?ContentID=482[/nq]
That's fascinating. Thanks, Harvey.

Dena Jo
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[nq:2]I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling than to ever let a woman in my life[/nq]
[nq:1]Funny you should bring up that line. I was listening to the CD just the other night, and I started wondering about dentists having drills at the time the story takes place. It struck me as anachronistic.[/nq]
Ha! They'd already invented the fax machine when Higgins was a kid. Dentist

John Dean quoted from a website:
"The father of modern dentistry, the Frenchman Pierre Fauchard (1678-1761), described an improved drill in 1728.
Its rotary movement was powered by catgut twisted around a cylinder, or by jewelers' bowstrings.
Whatever in the world are jewelers' bowstrings?
Google does not seem to know about them.
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[nq:1]Ha! They'd already invented the fax machine when Higgins was a kid. Dentists' drills? http://www.carabelli.com/dental/dhistory.htm[/nq]
When I was a kid, I assumed anything that was good was invented during my lifetime. I guess I have that same tendency with the 20th centu

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[nq:1]****, Doc Holliday coulda used a drill. If he'd put down his sawn-off for long enough.[/nq]
The sawn-off got rid of the teeth a **** of a lot quicker, though.

Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 21 years.
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[nq:1]Dena Jo wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Funny you should bring up that line. I was listening ... time the story takes place. It struck me as anachronistic.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm quite certain that Victorian dentristy used drills powered by foot-treadle, I think.[/nq]
Yup. I have had my teeth worked on with one of those. Back in the old days, of course. In Latvia. Without any kind of pain killers. Let'