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il8 HISTOEY OF DENTAL SUEGEEY

and demand, they gravitated to a central point, and a new tiling under the
sun was revealed in the shape of a resident dentist.
"The tinker developed into a traveling dentist, he to a resident dentist,
he to a seeker, otherwise a dental student ; he to an imparter, otherwise a dental
teacher; he to a co-operator with otlier men of science; and, co-operation in the
cultivation of science means a college; and, with dental science as the leading
thought, we have a dental college ; and all this in ol)edience to the law of
supply and demand.

"An event closely connected with the founding of this school occurring with-
in the writer's (Dr.. Watt's) memory, this man relates to one who, in a certain
sense, is 'the father of lis all.' 'Determined to stand or fall with dental science,
notwithstanding his medical education, in the peregrinations tlien necessary to
such a career, weary, ill, and hungry, with a horse as hungry as liimself. ap-
proached an Ohio village. He met there a young lawyer possessing both a heart
and a soul, who invited him to his father's house, thus rendering it unnecessary
for the traveler to reveal his penniless condition, and who secured for him a
number of remunerating patients among his acquaintances. But the fools were