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334 HISTOEY OF DENTAL SUEGEKY '

Samuel W. Stockton & Conipauj'. Tht' lirst vdluiue liail forty-seven pages.
The matter presented was varied, and practical at the time it was written.
The second volume was doubled in size, containing ninety-five pages, as
also did the third. The fourth and fifth volumes were paged continuously,
the two containing 400 pages. This was a large increase in size, and its gen-
eral "make up'' showed improvement. The sixth and seventh volumes con-
tained, each, 25"^ pages, and the eighth "268. The journal had now an assured
place in dental literature. The publishing firm had prospered ; they had
become the leading dental dealers in the country, and their publication at-
tracted a larger circle of subscribers and dental writers. From the seventh
to the twelfth and last volume, it was edited by Drs. .1. D. White, and .7. R,
McCurdy. Dr. White was an accomplished dentist; he was well versed in all
that pertained to his profession: an excellent writer: and at this time was at
the height of his popularity and usefulness. His editorship gave a tone
and character to the journal, and his timely, practical, well written articles
increased very much its value to the profession. The remaining volumes had
from about 300 to 316 pages of well arranged reading matter. The adver-
tising pages were few in number. Tlie subscription price was raised, as the
size was increased, to one dollar, and later to one dollar and a half, a very
moderate price, considering that it was nearly all reading matter.
With tlie last number of the twelfth volume, Dr. McCurdy retired from
dental journalism in a nicely worded valedictory. The publishers announceil
the termination of the jouriuiTs existence, and the advent of a monthly pub-
lication to take its place, "The Dental Cosmos," under the editorial numage-
ment of three gentlemen well known to the profession—Drs. J. D. Wliito,
J. H. McQuillen, and G. J. Ziegler. Dr. J. D. White took charge of original
eomnumications ; to Dr. McQuillen was assigned dental literature : and Dr.
Ziegler had oversight of medical and general science in their relations to den-
tistry. This systematizing of the editorial work and enlarging the scope of
tlie journal was the .suggestion of Dr. McQuillen. He had earned for him-
self the reputation of a skillful and painstaking operator ; he was a born
teacher, and possessed in a marked degree the rare faculty of grasping the
abstruse writings of scientific masters, and of revising and making them
useful to students. He was ambitious ; he had an exalted idea of the import-
ance of his profession, and protested most earnestly that it should not be
confined to tooth filling and the mechanical routine of tooth replacement. He
urged as it never before had been urged, that the dentist sliould he a man of
.science, well versed in all the sciences closely related to liis own. His broad