Instruments of Daniel Harwood

Instruments of Daniel Harwood

Harvard University. Dental School. Museum

Dentistry

Harwood, Daniel

Dental instruments and apparatus

These ivory-handled instruments (an excavator, scaler, chisel, and three mirrors) were used by Boston dentist Daniel Harwood (1801-1881). Soon after the formation of the Harvard Dental School in 1867, Harwood was appointed to the professorship of dental pathology and therapeutics, but resigned before the first lectures, believing that Dentistry should be not taught in a separate institution. "He had not been in sympathy with the movement from the beginning, and he continued to hold rigidly to his view that the dental student should be educated both in medicine and in Dentistry in the Medical School, by adding to that school a chair of Dentistry."

Set of ivory-handled dental instruments used by Daniel Harwood

Unknown

1870, circa

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Harvard Dental School Museum Collection (HDSM 1663)

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1 set of tools

physical object

HDSM 1663

DigID0002304

Gift of Dr. Charles C. Patten to the Harvard Dental School Museum, 1906