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University of Minnesota, resigned in Jul}-, 1890. Dr. Jame.s Truman, of
riiiladelphia, was tlien elected editor.
For some years tlie journal was quite successful. Its pages were filled
with well written original matter, and it was accorded a prominent place
among the dental journals of the day. Later, all the dental journals con-
nected with dental supply houses reduced their subscription rate from two
dollars and a half, to the nominal sum of one dollar; they were able to do
this as they were largely used to carry tlie advertisements of the publishing
firms. The International Dental Journal, having no other resources than
its subscription list, was unable to meet this reduction. It was discontinued
with the close of the twenty-sixth volume, December, 1905. Immediately
thereafter the International Dental Publication Company wound up its af-
fairs. All obligations were promptly met and it disbanded.
This was by far the most successful efl'ort ever made in the United States
to publish an independent dental journal. The journal itself, from start to
finish, was a clean, well edited, professional journal. It was well supplied
with original articles, and rigidly excluded from its pages all matters not
pertaining to dentistry and its collateral sciences. It was well supported
until the subscription of all dental journals was reduced to below the cost
of manufacture. .This competition the publishing company was unable to
meet without abandoning the purpose for which it was formed.

THE DEXTAL ADVERTISER.
Later
THE DEXTAL PRACTITIONER AND ADVERTISER.

This quarterly journal, publislied by the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing
Company as an advertising medium, was a long lived journal. It began in
August, 1869, edited by Dr. Theodore G. Lewis. Dr. Lewis was well quali-
fied for the task, and made good use of the little quarterly in presenting
from time to time matters of interest to the profession. After twenty-two
years' service as its editoi-, the pressure of other duties compelled him to
resign it to other hands. The publishing firm selected as his successor Dr.
William C. Barrett, who had made of the "Independent Practitioner" a dis-
tinguished success, a change in the ownership of that journal having relieved
him of its care a few years before. It was decided to enlarge the journal,
and to emphasize that enlarged, and with a new and experienced editor, it
was entering upon a new career. It was rechristened "The Dental Practitioner