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90 HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGERY
R. I., where he remained Tintil 1810, and then again established liimself
in New York, this time, it is said, as the successor of liis brother Clark, in
the business of a mathematical instrument maker.
In an article in the Providence, R. I., "Journal" of October 26, 1858, in
an obituary tribute to Dr. William Bradley, who was supposed to have been
the first dentist of that city, is this notice: "Dr. William Bradley died in
Pliiladelphia last week. He was a man of much skill in his profession and
highly estimable in private life." This same paper for October 97th prints
a letter from "W. H. H.," who says
Dr. William Bradley, whose decease was mentioned in yesterday's "Journal," was
not as stated the first dentist who practiced in this city. Dr. Isaac Greenwood was
the first who followed that art as a distinct profession here. His advertisement ap-
pears in the "Providence Gazette" as early as the year 17SS, and in it he alludes
to his having had nine years' practice in his business. He was the brother of Dr.
John Greenwood of New York, who, in 1789, made an upper and lower set of teeth
for General Washington. » » B(,t of £)]•_ Bradley's superior skill the writer as
one of his successors, can bear a willing testimony. » » » Many teeth filled by
him under favorable circumstances, though the work was performed thirty or forty years
ago, are still preserved and the fillings as good, apparently, as when first inserted.
WILLIAM PITT GREENWOOD.
John Greenwood's younger brotlier, William Pitt Greenwood, assisted him
for a time, and then in 1790, established himself in Salem, Mass., as a den-
tist, and later removed to Boston, where he continued in the practice of dentis-
try until very old age caused him to retire. In November, 1840, the Baltimore
College of Dental Surgery conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor
of Dental Surgery, being one of the earliest degrees thus conferred. In July,
1842, at the meeting of the American Society of Dental Surgeons held in Bos-
ton, he greatly interested and entertained that body with the story of his fifty
years' experience as a dentist.
He died at Boston, May 10, 1851, on his eighty-fifth birthday.
Another patriot of the Revolution, Paul Revere, the hero of the mid-
night ride, who was an ivory turner and goldsmith, also practiced dentistry,
at least in its prosthetic branch, as will l)e seen from an advertisement pul)-
lished in Boston in 1778.
JOSIAH FLAGG.
Little is known of the earlier life of JosiAit Flaog. We find him a
vouth of eighteen in the Continental army. When the allied French and
90 HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGERY
R. I., where he remained Tintil 1810, and then again established liimself
in New York, this time, it is said, as the successor of liis brother Clark, in
the business of a mathematical instrument maker.
In an article in the Providence, R. I., "Journal" of October 26, 1858, in
an obituary tribute to Dr. William Bradley, who was supposed to have been
the first dentist of that city, is this notice: "Dr. William Bradley died in
Pliiladelphia last week. He was a man of much skill in his profession and
highly estimable in private life." This same paper for October 97th prints
a letter from "W. H. H.," who says
Dr. William Bradley, whose decease was mentioned in yesterday's "Journal," was
not as stated the first dentist who practiced in this city. Dr. Isaac Greenwood was
the first who followed that art as a distinct profession here. His advertisement ap-
pears in the "Providence Gazette" as early as the year 17SS, and in it he alludes
to his having had nine years' practice in his business. He was the brother of Dr.
John Greenwood of New York, who, in 1789, made an upper and lower set of teeth
for General Washington. » » B(,t of £)]•_ Bradley's superior skill the writer as
one of his successors, can bear a willing testimony. » » » Many teeth filled by
him under favorable circumstances, though the work was performed thirty or forty years
ago, are still preserved and the fillings as good, apparently, as when first inserted.
WILLIAM PITT GREENWOOD.
John Greenwood's younger brotlier, William Pitt Greenwood, assisted him
for a time, and then in 1790, established himself in Salem, Mass., as a den-
tist, and later removed to Boston, where he continued in the practice of dentis-
try until very old age caused him to retire. In November, 1840, the Baltimore
College of Dental Surgery conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor
of Dental Surgery, being one of the earliest degrees thus conferred. In July,
1842, at the meeting of the American Society of Dental Surgeons held in Bos-
ton, he greatly interested and entertained that body with the story of his fifty
years' experience as a dentist.
He died at Boston, May 10, 1851, on his eighty-fifth birthday.
Another patriot of the Revolution, Paul Revere, the hero of the mid-
night ride, who was an ivory turner and goldsmith, also practiced dentistry,
at least in its prosthetic branch, as will l)e seen from an advertisement pul)-
lished in Boston in 1778.
JOSIAH FLAGG.
Little is known of the earlier life of JosiAit Flaog. We find him a
vouth of eighteen in the Continental army. When the allied French and
