Day: September 24, 2015

Front facade of Houghton Library

Heister’s wedge

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.   Heister’s mouth-wedge was a popular tool used in dentistry in the late 19th and early 20th-century.  The purpose of the tool was to keep the mouth wedged open in case a mouth-prop slipped, though one had…