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\"boilly\"<\/a>

Louis-Leopold Boilly, 1827.<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve been enjoying The Smile Revolution<\/a><\/em>, Colin Jones\u2019s trenchant, very readable history of the smile\u2014specifically its evolution in eighteenth-century Paris, where smiling was once, as the jacket copy puts it, \u201cquite literally frowned upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously the emergence of the smile owes plenty to the emergence of dentistry, but as Jones tells it, the smile owes as much to changing social mores as it does to science\u2014and much of the fun in The Smile Revolution<\/em> is in reading about this cultural shift. Consider\u00a0the story of Le Grand Thomas<\/em>, a charlatan who made a career of yanking people\u2019s teeth out. Apparently you could find him standing on the bridge every day, barking and hawking his talents, dressed in a baggy scarlet coat. He traveled with a pair of musicians and a large cart with an enormous tooth (\u201cGargantua\u2019s awesome molar\u201d) hanging from it. Here\u2019s Jones:<\/p>\n

\n

Every day, from sometime in the 1710s until his death in 1757, Jean Thomas stood on the Pont-Neuf, alongside the cheval de bronze<\/em> \u2026 and offered to pull out the teeth of all and sundry.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] His portrait proudly proclaimed:<\/p>\n

Our Grand Thomas<\/em>, beplumed in glory,
The Pearl of Charlatans (or so\u2019s the story).
Your Tooth aches? You need never doubt
Le Grand Thomas <\/em>will yank it out.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] The demeanor of le Grand Thomas<\/em> was such that it seemed that he could terrify peccant teeth into submission. Everything about him exuded mythic power. The medicines he described were made up in doses suitable as much for a horse as a man. He himself weighed the same as three men, and ate and drank for four. His barking voice could be heard across the city. If a client\u2019s tooth resisted his assaults he would, it was said, make the individual kneel down in front of him and then, with the strength of a bull, lift him three times into the air with the hand still clenched on the recalcitrant tooth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Le Grand Thomas <\/em>was no mere physician\u2014he was a folk hero. In 1743, toward the peak of his massive popularity, there was a character based on him in a play called Le Vaudeville<\/em>. A few of his lines:<\/p>\n

\n

Beware the lure of windy exaggeration
Which doctors use\u2014for our assassination.
Tho\u2019 I, Thomas, am tongue-tied in truth
At least I can help with the ache of a tooth.
I pull it right from the root.
Crack! Right from the root.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In all my years of dental, orthodontic, and periodontal care\u2014years of care that, don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m quite grateful for\u2014I\u2019ve never encountered a figure with such panache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been enjoying The Smile Revolution, Colin Jones\u2019s trenchant, very readable history of the smile\u2014specifically its evolution in eighteenth-century Paris, where smiling was once, as the jacket copy puts it, \u201cquite literally frowned upon.\u201d Obviously the emergence of the smile owes plenty to the emergence of dentistry, but as Jones tells it, the smile owes 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