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The development of the modern practice of dentistry can be traced to the work and life of Pierre Fauchard, a French dentist who worked in the first half of the eighteenth century.

Laennec invented the stethoscope. It helped doctors listen to the sounds of patients’ bodies.

Louis has been described as the ‘inventor of the numerical method in medicine’.

Flying ambulances

Asylum reform advocates in the 1800s celebrated Pinel as the doctor who first ‘freed the mad from their chains’.

However, Freud always acknowledged Charcot’s influence and his unparalleled diagnostic eye

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.

In 1861 he became the first to demonstrate at autopsy that a speech defect was linked to a specific spot in the brain

Claude Bernard was important as a developer and teacher of experimental methods in medicine

Louis’ mathematical method might now be described as clinical epidemiology and the foundation of evidence-based medicine.

Modern dentistry owes its greatest debt to a remarkable Frenchman who synthesized what was known in Europe about dentistry

Louis was a strong proponent of numerical methods in medicine

He was one of the pioneers in the usage of experimental methods in neuroanatomy.

In 1728 Pierre Fauchard, who was widely acknowledged as the "Father of Modern Dentistry" published "Le Chirurgien Dentiste"