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450 HISTORY OF DENTAL SUEGERY

at the chair and in the laboratory. Respecting their wishes the "Plan of Or-
ganization" adoi^ted in 1866, embodied this feature, and the board of trustees
p.nd directors for several years, appointed a "Board of Clinical Lecturers" as
a part of the teaching body. Experience proved, however, at that time and
subsequently, when it was taken up again, that this method of education, is of
no advantage to the student body.
Weekly section clinics—to a limited number of students—have Vieen and are
conducted by the Professors of Dental Surgery, Oral Prosthetics and Oral
Surgery.
The lecture room oral surgery clinic to the student body was established as
earl}- as 1867 and has been continued ever since. During later years the work
increased so much that in 1906 a clinic room was fitted up and a daily
clinic established. Today every phase of injury and disease of the buccal par-
ietes presents—sent by the hospitals and dispensaries of Greater New York.
During the past j'ear 168 fractures of the inferior maxilla were treated—it is
safe to say that since 1867 over 1,500 fractures of the inferior maxilla have
been treated. Where operations are required patients are returned to the hos-
pitals, where the third-year class-men go to witness them.
The conduct of the infirmary has been along the lines of other dental insti-
tutions, with the cardinal differences tliat we have maintained a special exam-
ination and financial department of the infirmary, where patients are examined
as to the work required, estimates made as to the cost of the same and fees
received. Furthermore, the faculty have, since 1869, held, that the earlier the
student is brought to the inspection of the human mouth and thereafter kept
continuously at it, the better : therefore, our first-year class-men have always
been demonsrated to as to the cleaning of teeth and have practiced the same for
the infirmary patients.
From 1886-94 students who applied for their first registration, who did
not hold a diploma from a public school or credentials from a higher grade
institution, were required to submit to an examination, conducted by the Dean,
as to their proficiency in public school subjects.
In the spring of 1894 the board of trustees and directors received from
the regents of the University of the State of New York a communication to
the effect that, they would not consent, from that date, to the conferring of
the degree of D. D. S. upon any graduate who did not hold the academic di-
ploma of the State of New York, or credentials of a preliminary education
equivalent thereto.
After a conference of Professor Faneuil D. Weisse, M. D.—appointed, with