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]or, IIISTOTJY OF DENTAL SUEGEEY
which resulted in the hirtli of the American profession of dentistry, first
Dental School, first Dental Journal and first Dental Society. The establish-
ment of the first school for the education of dentists; of the first periodical
journal for the dissemination of knowledge and professional news to the
men who were devofino' themselves to the care of the human teeth ; and the
DR. JAMES TAYLOE.
formation of the American Society of Dental Surgeons, in wliich tlie few
widely scattered dentists of the day were brought together to be better enabled
to work more effectively in the upbuilding of the new profession and to carry
on a propaganda of education among the people, were undoubtedly the rocks
of the foundation upon which these master minds started to build the benefi-
cent calling of the dentist.
It would be difficult to say whether Harris or Hayden had the higher
or stronger mind. It is certain that the ripe thought of the one imited with
the capacity for work of the other, and, operating in unison of purpose and
execution, took the initiative that stimulated other high minded men to
