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HISTOKY OF DENTAL SURGERY 99
deliver afterwards at Guv's liospital. This popular treatise was written on
the lines of the teachings of John Hunter and Joseph Fox.
Downing mentions that great improvement had been made of late in
making artilieial teetli of porcelain composition, instead of sea horse bone,
and further comments that, where cost is no object, tlie superior cleanliness
and incorruptibility of such artificial teeth entitled them to preference. His
suggestion that the ])ersons who require artificial teetli would find "'them-
selves 1 letter served by a practitioner of established repute than by those
whose cupidity permits them to set truth and even common sense at defiance."'
seems but another form of stating the same condition that was represented
as existing in Boston a year earlier. Thus, we see, the metropolis of old
England and the metropolis of Xew England were practically laboring under
the .same conditions at that time so far as practitioners of dentistry were
concerned.
THE ARCHITECTS OF DEXTISTKY IN THE UNITED STATES.
There were a few men in the United States in the lieginning of the
nineteenth century who may well be called the architects of dentistry as a
separate calling and profession. While the structure they designed and reared,
through the force of t'ircumstances surrounding them during the process of
construction, was built separate and apart from that of the luedical pro-
fession, it is, nevertlieless, an undeniable fact that these early builders were
in the great majority men who had liad in their earlier years mure or lesa
of a medical training.
EDWARD HUDSON.
Euw.vRD IlrDSOx, one of the earlier Philadelphia dentists, and who left
a lasting impression behind him, was born in Ireland, in 1773. His par-
ents, who belonged to the religious Society of Friends, died while Hudson
was very young, and a cousin of his, who was then a dentist in Dublin,
adopted Edward as his son, educated him in Trinity College, and later in-
structed him in dental surgery as a student in his office. It is said that
while Hudson was at Trinity College that lie developed great ability in de-
bate, which brought him in contact with such of the distinguished men of
that era and country as the Poet Moore, and Emmets, Sheares and Corbetts.
Hudson became involved in the political movements of the day, was arrested
and imprisoned in Fort George, Scotland, and when released from prison,
1802, removed to America and commenced the practice of dentistry in
Philadelphia, in 180."). He is represented as a man of exceptional character
HISTOKY OF DENTAL SURGERY 99
deliver afterwards at Guv's liospital. This popular treatise was written on
the lines of the teachings of John Hunter and Joseph Fox.
Downing mentions that great improvement had been made of late in
making artilieial teetli of porcelain composition, instead of sea horse bone,
and further comments that, where cost is no object, tlie superior cleanliness
and incorruptibility of such artificial teeth entitled them to preference. His
suggestion that the ])ersons who require artificial teetli would find "'them-
selves 1 letter served by a practitioner of established repute than by those
whose cupidity permits them to set truth and even common sense at defiance."'
seems but another form of stating the same condition that was represented
as existing in Boston a year earlier. Thus, we see, the metropolis of old
England and the metropolis of Xew England were practically laboring under
the .same conditions at that time so far as practitioners of dentistry were
concerned.
THE ARCHITECTS OF DEXTISTKY IN THE UNITED STATES.
There were a few men in the United States in the lieginning of the
nineteenth century who may well be called the architects of dentistry as a
separate calling and profession. While the structure they designed and reared,
through the force of t'ircumstances surrounding them during the process of
construction, was built separate and apart from that of the luedical pro-
fession, it is, nevertlieless, an undeniable fact that these early builders were
in the great majority men who had liad in their earlier years mure or lesa
of a medical training.
EDWARD HUDSON.
Euw.vRD IlrDSOx, one of the earlier Philadelphia dentists, and who left
a lasting impression behind him, was born in Ireland, in 1773. His par-
ents, who belonged to the religious Society of Friends, died while Hudson
was very young, and a cousin of his, who was then a dentist in Dublin,
adopted Edward as his son, educated him in Trinity College, and later in-
structed him in dental surgery as a student in his office. It is said that
while Hudson was at Trinity College that lie developed great ability in de-
bate, which brought him in contact with such of the distinguished men of
that era and country as the Poet Moore, and Emmets, Sheares and Corbetts.
Hudson became involved in the political movements of the day, was arrested
and imprisoned in Fort George, Scotland, and when released from prison,
1802, removed to America and commenced the practice of dentistry in
Philadelphia, in 180."). He is represented as a man of exceptional character
