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108 HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGERY

1839 may be estimated from the fact that the "Journal" had 178 sub-
scribers. The territory in which these practiced extended as far as Jackson-
ville and Springfield, 111. In the former place was C. Clark, and in the lat-
ter James Clark. These were the only Illinois snbscril)ers. B. B. Brown of
St. Louis was located the farthest west. Tliere seems to have been no
dentist then at the villag-e of Cliicago, if judged by this snbscrij)tion list, who
took an interest in dental journals.

THE PACIFIC COAST.
On tlie Pacific coast the first dental jn'actitioncr is said to liave been
Dr. George Wellington, who was a member of the Hudson Bay mission to the
Columbia river tliat founded Fort Vancouver, in lS"3-t. A Frencii dentist
named Talliaferro visited Fort Vancouver, and, in 1S;5G, he and Dr. Well-
ington returned to Europe. Xo further record of a dentist on that coast is
known until about 184-t, when W. Dunning of New York visited Astoria at
the mouth of the Columbia River. He was a few years later succeeded by
Dr. Adams, who came from New Orleans, and is said to have practiced also
in the coast towns of Central America and Mexico. When the gold dis-
coveries of California caused a migratory wave thither, a number of dentists
visited California, among whom was Dr. Buchner, who is said to have been
among the first to practice in California.

EAELY CHICAGO DENTISTS.
According to Andreas' History of Chicago, ''Dr. William H. Kennicott
began practicing dentistry at tlie Eagle Tavern in Chicago, 111., on March
25, 1834. He seems to have had the field entirely to himself for some time,
but in a copy of the "Chicago Express'," puldished October 21, 1842, these
advertisements are printed, which we feel warranted in reproducing as they
represent fairly, no doubt, the education of the public with reference to
dentistry, as well as the progress made by the practitioners of that profes-
sion at that time. We of today may look upon these announcements as
unethical, but the conditions of those days jirobably required that a dentist
sliould inform the ]>eople through the public press just what sort of an
individual a dentist was.