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HISTORY OF DENTAL SUKGERY 91

Continental forces were resting in winter quarters near Providence, R. I.,
in 1T81-S';!, Josiah Flagg, Joseph Le Maire and James Gardette frequently
met during those cold wintry months and Flagg learned much from them of
the dental art in wiiich these Frenchmen were tlien very proficient. After

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the war closed, lie estahlished himself as a dentist in Boston, having first,
however, carried on an itinerant practice in the various cities and towns
in the vicinity. A very interesting document, which graphically portrays
what dentistry was and how dentists olitained a practice at the end of the
cighteentli century, was some years ago puldislied in the "Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal."" It is an advertisement in a Boston newspaper of
Josiah Flagg, surgeon dentist, which is here reproduced in its original form.