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HISTOEY OP DENTAL SUEGERY 155

It now seems as though tliere will have to be further delay in the final
enactment of a law establishing a commissioned dental corps in the army, as
the present congress fears that the appropriations will exceed the revenues of
the government. It is a great disappointment to the dental profession that the
surgeon-general should have felt impelled to take this view of the case, as that
office in the past, as has been shown, has thoroughly appreciated the value of
the sei vices rendered by the dental surgeons in the army. It would seem some-
what surprising that an expense for the preservation of the soldiers' health,
through this means, should not be fully as worthy of the necessary appropria-
tions, as the care of their health, or the guarding against diseases engendered
from other causes.