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a pfltriot of the Revolution, Paul Revere, the hero of the midnight ride, wlio
was an ivor}- turner and goldsmitli, in dentistry, at least in its prosthetic
branch, as will be seen from an advertisement published in Boston in 1768.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: EFFORTS TO EDUCATE THE PITBLIC.
Early in the nineteenth century tiie dentists of note appreciated the neces-
sity for the education of tlie public with reference to the importance of the

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teeth, and published broclmres, essays and books for that purpose, which
undoubtedly contributed greatly, not only to the possibilities of dentistry in
its conduciveness to health of the laity, liut must also have been the stimulus
that prompted many of the earlier practitioners to enter the profession.
Such a book on the management of the teeth, published by Benjamin James,
M. M. S. S., and printed in Boston, in IPl t, reveals the condition in that