Wolf Benjamin Cohen dit William ROGERS
Manuel d'hygiène dentaire à l'usage de toutes les classes et professions[Manual of Dental Hygiene]
Sans nom d'éditeur|Paris 1845|12 x 18.4 cm|Broché
First edition of one of the many productions of an odontological charlatan (cf. David, p. 245).
Illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Spine clumsily restored with an adhesive repair and showing small losses; corner losses to the boards; foxing.
Born into a Dutch Jewish family, Benjamin Cohen (1818–1852) adopted an Anglicised pseudonym in order to facilitate his business dealings, passing himself off as a London practitioner holding a degree from the University of Edinburgh, where he claimed to have been "admitted" in 1833. In reality, he had undertaken no formal studies.
Nevertheless, he set himself up as a dentist in Paris in 1836. Lacking any
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