Dental quackery : an address before the American Dental Convention at Niagara Falls, August 5 1859 / by E. T. Wilson.

  • Wilson, E. T.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Dental quackery : an address before the American Dental Convention at Niagara Falls, August 5 1859 / by E. T. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    were presented to the profession through the nicdiuni of the ]Mo(lieal Journals published in New York and Philadelphia. l)ut it was as late as 1(S29 before the first volume worthy of being ranked as a text book for students, Avas published by an .Vnicrican author. This was an illustrated work of 500 pages, by Samuel S. Fitch. Those who have had access to the vol- innc (I have vainly tried to obtain it) speak of it as being very thorough and comprehensive for that period of our pro- fession. In 1830, Chapin A. Harris—a name at whose mention we should all bow—gave us the first edition of his Princi2)les and Practice, then published under another title. I pre- sume this work, in the shape of one of its advanced editions, is possessed by all of you ; if not, it should be, for every dent- ist in America, at least, owes him a debt of gratitude, the pay- ment of which can only be approximated by the purchase and careful study of his two great works—the volume I have re- ferred to, and his *'Dictionary of Dental Surgery. Since the ycjir 1840, which, from the fact of its being marked by the establishment of the first Dental College, and the first Dental Journal in the world, is looked upon as an epoch in the histo- ry of dental literature, there have arisen many able writers who have given us volume after volume, some of which bring to view the very foundation of our art, and present its many intricate paths with a masterly hand. Prominent amonu^ these are '* Piggot's Dental Chemistry ; Bond's Dental iVIedi- cinc; ^'Taft's Operative Dentistry; Jacobi on Denti- tion; Kobertson on Extracting Teeth;—a valuable book by the way for students ; and last, though by no means least, '* Diseases and Surgery of the ]\louth. Jaws and Associate Part^, by James E. Garretson. ]May God bless him and his labors. In 1840, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery was founded—the first in America, the first in the world. In 1846, the Ohio College was established in Cincinnati. In 185G, the ** Peunc?ylvania College sprang into existence, lol-