ISBN: 1150900083

[EAN: 9781150900082], Neubuch, GEORGE RIPLEY,EDUCATION AND REFERENCE, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers ca… More...

[EAN: 9781150900082], Neubuch, GEORGE RIPLEY,EDUCATION AND REFERENCE, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: . . . by Le Mair, of the French forces which joined our army duringthe revolutionary war. An Englishman named Whitlock also commenced the practice soon after the arrival of Lo Mair. About the year 1788 Mr. John Greenwood established himself in New York, the first American of this profession. In 1790, and again in 1795, ho carved in ivory an entire set of teeth for Gen. Washington. They were secured by spiral springs, and the neatness and ingenuity of the work was considered equal to any executed at that period abroad. Other dentists soon appeared in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Their work included the extracting of teeth, filing and cleaning them, and replacing the natural teeth when lost with artificial ones, commonly made of ivory. Dr. Hudson, formerly of Dublin, who had settled in Philadelphia, first directed his attention particularly to the cure of tho diseases of the teeth, and to arresting the progress of dental caries. In 1820 the number of practitioners in the United States was probably little more than 100. Ten years afterward, as estimated by Dr. C. A. Harris, in his work on the Principles and Practice of Dental Surgery, there were about 300, of whom probably not more than were well instructed. But the increase in their numbers was afterward very raipd. In 1842 they were believed to number about 1, 400, and in 1858 about 4, 000. An important event in the history of dental surgery in this country was the establishment of the American Journal and Library of Dental Science in Baltimore, in 1889. The society of dental surgeons was soon after formed, and at its second annual meeting the Journal was made the property and organ of the association. Maryland, which appears to have taken the lead of the other states in. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., [PU: General Books, LLC]<