Papers of Nathan Cooley Keep, 1817-1834 (inclusive), 1824-1834 (bulk).

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Papers of Nathan Cooley Keep, 1817-1834 (inclusive), 1824-1834 (bulk).

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Contains correspondence with businessmen in France, mostly about obtaining teeth for Keep's dental practice. Also includes some letters from patients in the Boston area, and related documents such as bills, notes, and inventories of dental instruments and equipment.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Keep, Nathan, 1800-1875

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Keep (Harvard, M.D. 1827) served as the first dean of the Harvard Dental School from 1868 to 1872. He had an extensive practice and devised a method for making porcelain false teeth. At the Parkman-Webster trial of 1850, he identified a set of teeth he had made for his patient George Parkman, providing the expert testimony which convicted John White Webster of murder. From the description of Papers of Nathan Cooley Keep, 1817-1834 (inclusive), 1824-1834 (bulk). (Harvard University). ...