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by John Hunter, with notes by Eleazar Parml}-, and embellislied with a
creditable portrait of Hunter. This was followed by Dr. Solyman Brown's
"Dentologia, a Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, nnd Their Proper Eeme-
dies."
The year's work of these progressive members of the dental profession
was well done. The journal loses nothing by comparison with other scientific
journals of the day, and as the work progressed it was plainly to be seen
that it was accomplishing the object for which it was designeil. It Ijrought
the members of this great profession nearer together, and taught them that
it paid to make tlie results of observations and experiences common prop-
erty. Dentists the world over cannot too highly commend tlie unselfish devo-
tion of those who voluntarily assumed the financial burdens, the responsibili-
ties, and tiie unremunerated labor of giving to the world its first dental
journal.
Beginning with the second volume, September, 1811, the newly organized
American Association of Dental Surgeons took charge of the enterprise as
part of their work, and Drs. Chapin A. Harris and Solyman Brown were
appointed editors.
Its new owners increased the subscription price to five dollars, and made
it a quarterly instead of a monthly ; the volume, however, contained a few
more pages (304). With the first number of the second volume appeared a
lithographic portrait of Dr. Hayden, from a painting by Eembrant Peale,
executed 1825, and believed to be the only portrait extant of this distin-
guished man. In the number for September, 1811, is found a well executed
colored lithograph of the pulp of a bicuspid tooth from a drawing by Mr.
Charles Brown, of Woolwich, Kent, England, showing a highly congested
condition. It is nine inches long, and was drawn, Mr. Brown states, from
the specimen under the microscope. Another well executed colored litho-
graph illustrates an article on the vascularity of dental bone, by Dr, Chapin'
A. Harris. In this volume Dr. Solyman Brown began a series of articles ou
"Mechanical Dentistry.'' They were well up to date, written !)y a thoroughly
practical man, and were much appreciated. For some years they were con-
sidered the best contribution to that subject in dental literature.
With the new volume the title was changed to read, "The American
Journal and Liiirary of Dental Science."' This addition to the title was
dropped at the close of the volume. During the year a treatise on "First
Dentition," by M. Baumes, translated from the French by Thomas E. Bond,
Jr., M. D., and "Principles of Dental Surgery," by Leonard Koecker, il. D.,