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330 HISTOKY OF DENTAL SURGERY

The editors remained the same for the ninth volume. To tlie library
was added a translation of the treatise on "Diseases and Surgical Operations
of the Mouth and Adjacent Parts," by M. Jourdain, the first work ever written
on oral surgery, publislied at Paris, in two volumes, in 17T8. The transla-
tion was made by Dr. P. H. Austen, of Baltimore, his name, however, does
not appear on the title page. The "Y^outh's Dentist," by J. R. Duval,
translated from the French by J. Atkinson, surgeon-dentist, was also pub-
lished.
TJie tenth and last volume of the first series was edited by the same
staff. With it was published the last contribution to the library, "A Prac-
tical Treatise on Dental Medicine," by Dr. Tliomas E. Bond, the only
article of the library that was original, all the others being either reprints
or translations. That, revised and enlarged to keep in touch with the ad-
vances made in the science, it still continues to be an acceptable text-book
in dental colleges, is sufficient evidence that Dr. Bond's foundation work
was well done.
About August, 1850, the journal passed into the hands of Dr. Chapin
A. Harris, who became its proprietor and editor. The first number of the
first volume of a new series is dated October, 1850. It remained a quarterly.
The republication of dental works was discontinued. It was enlarged to
571 pages. It required a great deal of courage to shoulder unaided and
alone the responsibility of publishing a journal that had not paid its way,
but had each year presented to its publishers a deficiency instead of a profit.
It is not probable that it proved a paying investment to Dr. Harris. Shortly
after Dr. Harris assumed its publication. Dr. Alfred A. Blandy assisted in
the editorial work. Beginning with the fourth volume. Dr. A. Snowden
Piggot was added to the editorial force.
Beginning the volume October 1st proved inconvenient. The October
num!)er of 185-1 was, therefore, omitted and the first number of the fifth
volume, dated January, 1855, thus making the volume concurrent with the
year. With the close of tliis volume Dr. Blandy's work as editor ceased,
and until the close of tlie pulilication by the deatli of Dr. Harris, September
39, 1860, Drs. Harris and Piggott were tlie editors. The last number of
the tenth volume, dated Octolier, I860, closed the new or second series, and
with it the first dental journal in the world's history ceased to exist. (A
tvpographical error in tlie lieading of this number makes it read. Vol. XI).
These ten volumes, tlie new or Fecond series of the "American Journal of
Dental Science," readied a liigli mark in dental journalism. There was about