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AMERICAN DENTISTRY.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the American Academy of Dental
Science : ^~
In attempting to meet the requirements of this important occasion,
this commanding assembly of professional men, and in the desire in
some measure to fulfil the expectations and requite the high honor it
has been .your pleasure to confer upon me, I have naturally been
embarrassed in the selection of a fitting theme for entertainment,
instruction, and professional profit.
"American Dentistry," — 'and in the outset I take leave to proclaim
that it is no misnomer, that it is an entity, that there is such a thing as
"American Dentistry," and that it stands out upon the pages of con-
temporaneous history in broad and inefiaceable lines, with as dis-
tinguishing diflierences and characteristics as mark the nationalities, the
languages, the customs, and modes of thought and expression of the
peoples of all civilization. And in saying this, I do not mean to under-
rate or disparage anything good in European, Asiatic, nor the den-
tistry of any other land or people. I remember with gratitude, and
acknowledge with pride, the labors, the researches and discoveries
of the illustrious men of France, of Germany, and of England, —
names imperishable and immortal, —great men working upon different
lines to a common centre and end, but all failing to evolve or crystallize
a compact and symmetrical department of true and accepted science.
But to resume our line of thought: for fifty years "American
Dentistry" has been systematically and steadily making requisition
and levying tribute upon all the collateral and kindred departments of
science, and upon nearly all the other sources of human knowledge.
The " Curricula" of our academics, colleges, and universities com-
prise all that is considered essential in preliminary education and train-
ing, and our standard and current literature teems and overflows with
the announcement and discusi^ion of the advances and discoveries of
almost each diurnal revoluti(Mi (jf the earth.
AMERICAN DENTISTRY.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the American Academy of Dental
Science : ^~
In attempting to meet the requirements of this important occasion,
this commanding assembly of professional men, and in the desire in
some measure to fulfil the expectations and requite the high honor it
has been .your pleasure to confer upon me, I have naturally been
embarrassed in the selection of a fitting theme for entertainment,
instruction, and professional profit.
"American Dentistry," — 'and in the outset I take leave to proclaim
that it is no misnomer, that it is an entity, that there is such a thing as
"American Dentistry," and that it stands out upon the pages of con-
temporaneous history in broad and inefiaceable lines, with as dis-
tinguishing diflierences and characteristics as mark the nationalities, the
languages, the customs, and modes of thought and expression of the
peoples of all civilization. And in saying this, I do not mean to under-
rate or disparage anything good in European, Asiatic, nor the den-
tistry of any other land or people. I remember with gratitude, and
acknowledge with pride, the labors, the researches and discoveries
of the illustrious men of France, of Germany, and of England, —
names imperishable and immortal, —great men working upon different
lines to a common centre and end, but all failing to evolve or crystallize
a compact and symmetrical department of true and accepted science.
But to resume our line of thought: for fifty years "American
Dentistry" has been systematically and steadily making requisition
and levying tribute upon all the collateral and kindred departments of
science, and upon nearly all the other sources of human knowledge.
The " Curricula" of our academics, colleges, and universities com-
prise all that is considered essential in preliminary education and train-
ing, and our standard and current literature teems and overflows with
the announcement and discusi^ion of the advances and discoveries of
almost each diurnal revoluti(Mi (jf the earth.
