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HISTORY OF DEXTAL SURGERY 395

oral surgery, distinct and apart from that of operative dentistry, and iu
cliarge of a special professor who gives didactic and clinical instruction in
such specialty. That oral surgery is not now generally regarded as a synonym
for dental surgery is also supported by the fact that the dental examining
boards of the various states of this country in the test of the qualificatious
of dentists have instituted special examinations in oral surgery apart from
that of operative dentistrv, as does also the United States army dental ex-
amining board.
Great progress has been made in operations of oral surgery since the ad-
vent of Dr. Garretson as a specialist in this department of surgery or dental
surgery. Many daring and skillful operations have been and are daily being
performed in this department by men who are dentists, as well as by men who
are general surgeons, and the number of specialists in this braueh of surgery
that have been developed from the ranks of the dental profession is larger, in
proportion, than that coming from the medical profession.
Among tlie dentists who have especially excelled in this department of
specialty of surgery may be named Drs. James E. Garretson*, J. H. McQuil-
len*. M. H. Cryer and W. J. Rowe of Philadelphia ; H. A. Smith, of Cincin-
nati; J. Adams Bishop, T. B. Gunning, Xorman W. Kingsley, G. L. Curtis, of
New York: Thomas Fillebrown,* Boston: John S. Marshall, George B.
Carpenter, Truman W. Brophy, E. S. Talbot, Thomas W. Gilmer, A. D. Black.
W. H. Logan and F. B. Moorehead of Chicago : James E. Power and D. F.
Keefe of Providence: G. V. I. Brown and G. B. Maercklein of Milwaukee; H.
H. Grant of Louisville: S. I. R. McCurdy of Pittsburg and a number of others.

* Deceased.