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1) Iv N T A I, r< A \V S C O N D E N S K D. lOI
arc not acccptt-d in Swit/ciland. ( )nt' American tk-ntist in /nrich
lias l)cen praclisinjr as an understudy with a Swiss for ten years,
lie lias a diploma from the University of Pennsylvania, and has
an- excellent reputation in his profession, but he has never been
able to obtain a license to practise in his own name, notwith-
standing that he has powerful influences back of him, even to
men his^h up in the profession and in the Collep^e of Dental Sur-
gery in the Swiss University.
"American dentists stand high in Switzerland, as they do
elsewhere in luirope. but, as above stated, the law and the opposi-
tion of dentists in the country make it ])ractically impossible to
obtain permission to practise. The American dentists here are
Swiss citizens, who got their degrees in American colleges."
"Jeru.salem, Syria, March 15, 1912.
"The Turkish regulations provide that
Syria. a foreigner, in order to practise dentistry,
must be possessed of a diploma from
some regularly recognized foreign dental school, and that this
diploma must be registered with the local government at the
place where the dentist in question desires to locate. In fact,
however, there seems to be little desire on the part of the Jeru-
salem Government to enforce these regulations.
"While there is not now so good an opportunity for an
American dentist as existed two years ago (an Englishman hav-
ing established himself here within that period), there still re-
mains a fairly profitable field for moderate priced work. With
the exception of the English dentist already referred to, there
is also a properly qualified German and a large number of others
whose qualifications are doubtful. Any American with a diploma
from one of the institutions you mention (Universities of Penn-
sylvania, Iowa, California, Harvard, Minnesota, Vanderbilt,
Michigan, Valparaiso at Chicago, Northwestern University),
would have no difficulty in securing a permit to practise den-
tistry.
"The Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, Syria, has recently
opened a course in dentistry, and in a few years the graduates of
this school will probably have filled any available opportunities
in this part of Turkey. I would suggest that any person w^ho
contemplates coming to Syria to practise ought to correspond
with the professor of dentistry at the aforementioned college."
"Beirut. Syria, March 20. 1912.
"The laws of Turkey to-day require that all who desire to
practise dentistry within the Ottoman Empire must be in legal
possession of a diploma from a recognized dental school such as
the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, etc., must present the
same at Constantinople to the Imperial Medical Council, who