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HISTORY OF DENTAL SUEGERY 349

growing needs of the many prosperous communities rapidly filling up the
middle west. More than this it had brought to the fore and introduced to
the profession many who liave since won distinction as dental writers, teach-
ers, and investigators. To Dr. Taylor, it doubtless proved a financial burden,
and the source of much an.xiety and care, for it was to him it owed its life
at tlie most critical period of its existence. That it has continued to prosper,
has entered its sixty-second volume and is today the oldest dental journal in
the world, is evidence that his nine years devotion to dental journalism were
not spent in vain.
The first number issued by its new owners, Ko. 1, of Volume X, October.
1856, consisted of 152 pages, a considerable increase. A still further en-
largement was promised as soon as the subscription list warranted the in-
creased expense. The following number was issued in December instead of
January, so as to make its issue intermediate with other quarterly dental
journals and so furnish the profession with a succession of reading matter
at shorter intervals. Volumes ten, eleven and twelve hear the imprint of
Taft- and Watt, editors and publishers.
Mr. John T. Toland, an enterprising business man who had established
a dental depot at Cincinnati, began in April, 1858, the publication of a quar-
terly dental journal entitled the "Dental Reporter," as an aid in advertising
his business. He made of it quite an interesting publication, at the very
modest price of twenty-five cents a year. The two-hundred octavo pages
which constituted the first volume were well filled with interesting and in-
structive articles. Early in 1859, he purchased the "Dental Register," and
announced that fact in the fourth number of the "Reporter," stating that
the "Reporter" would be discontinued, and that, \vith the beginning of the
thirteenth volume of the "Register," July, 1859, it would be issued monthly,
Drs. Taft and Watt remaining as editors. Up to this date the progress of
the "Register" had been hampered for want of funds, a large number of its
subscribers proving delinquent. Dr. Taft, referring to this wlien taking
leave of the journal as its publislier, announced that Mr. Toland would en-
force the rule of payment in advance strictly, and that in the future tlie
rule would be "no pay, no journal." It is presumed that Mr. Toland man-
aged the business end of the journal better than did its former publishers, as
after he took charge much less complaint of unpaid subscriptions appeared
on its pages.
The fourteenth volume was a short one, beginning with July, 1860, and
ending with December the same year, so as to make the following volume