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Liam Shaw: Hold on to your teeth, 17 April 2025
Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
by Bill Schutt.
Algonquin, 320 pp., $24.99, August 2024,978 1 64375 178 8 Show More
by Bill Schutt.
Algonquin, 320 pp., $24.99, August 2024,
“... that succumbed to the treatment were to be spat out. In his history of teeth, Bite, the zoologist Bill Schutt tells us that the fumes would at least have dulled the patient’s pain by giving them a noxious high. Belief in tooth worms persisted across the centuries. A carved ivory tooth from 18th-century France opens to reveal a battle being waged ... ”