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From: "Doug McMillin" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Civil War dentures
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:28:43 -0400
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I did a bit of digging on the subject this morning, there are many
references to it on the web. Here a a couple of links and a photograph is
also attached. It looks like the practice was dieing out prior to the civil
war and gained a brief surge in popularity due to the sudden abundance of
teeth available. Most of the teeth seem to have been shipped to England to
(pardon the expression) feed the craze. Porcelain seems to have replaced
"Waterloo Teeth" after the war.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A5103271


http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/france/teeth.htm

Doug McMillin
Gettysburg Camp 112

On 10/19/07, Ernest Everett Blevins <> wrote:
>
> Does "Smithsonian" give a source for that? Maybe contact the author if
> you
> can for a source.
>
> Ernie
> List Admin.
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>
> On 10/18/07, Sam Gant <> wrote:
> >
> > The following exerpt on dentures appeared in the August 2007issue of
> > Smithsonian magazine:
> > "....Dead men sometimes came to the rescue: in England they were called
> > 'Waterloo teeth,' and during the American Civil War, the teeth of slain
> > soldiers were shipped from the battlefields by the barrelful, to smile
> again
> > in the mouths of the living...."
> > Richard Conniff, "What's Behind a Smile," Smithsonian, August 2007, p.
> 51.
> >
> > Is this an accurate statement about the handling of the remains of our
> > slain ancestors?
> >
> > Sam Gant
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