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HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGERY 107

join them in efl'orts that resulted in the (leveh)pment of what is
now known as tlie dental j^rofession of the United States. Tlie in-
fluence of their activities, like a pebble thrown into the sea, kept on multi-
plying and increasing its circular ripples until its perpetuation became no
longer visible because it had extended to the farthermost shores. There
has been no jjart of the civilized world in which the ripple caused by the
pebbles thrown into the unexplored waters of dental possibilities by Cliapin A.
Harris and Horace Hayden and their associates have not been distinctly
discernible.
Dii. James Taylor, who was closely allied with C'hapin A. Harris in
his earlier work of research of dental science, found it inconvenient to as-
sist in the establishment of the college at Baltimore, and decided to estab-
lish liis home and field for labors at Cincinnati. The germ for a dental
college in the west was engendered in the mind of Dr. Taylor soon after Dr.
Chapin A. Harris had decided to start the school at Baltimore, and lie suc-
ceeded in establishing the Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery, in 1845 ; his
coadjutors being Drs. John Allen, Melancthon Rogers and Jesse Cook. The
Baltimore and the Cincinnati schools having been established and proven a
success, other schools were organized in ra])id succession in both the east
and the Avcst.
Tlie suliscri])tion list of the American Journal of Dental Science in ISlH
showed the followinsj:
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