The autobiography of Dr Lilian Lindsay

Unwillingly, Lilian Lindsay started to commit to paper the story of her professional life, although, sadly, this did not progress further than the early years of her distinguished career. Her autobiography, entrusted to one of us with her personal historical notes and manuscripts in 1950, is published here for the first time, with annotations (in italics) to clarify the text by adding biographical details of persons she mentions and commenting on places and events. For some 40 years Lilian studied the history of dentistry, publishing many important papers as well as a book, Short History of Dentistry, but perhaps her most important contribution to dental history is her translation of Fauchard's Le Chirurgien Dentiste.