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ing advancement and diffusing the chirurgico-dental science in
the Roumanian language. This end is sought to be accomplished.
" \a) By the establishment of a special school of dentistry as
soon as the means shall be forthcoming, in which lectures shall
be delivered on dental surgery and technique.
" '(#) By the collection of specimens and the founding of a
museum illustrating the various departments of dental surgery
and technique.
"
'(c) By the collection of literary works looking to the estab-
lishment of a dental library—the same to be at the disposal of the
students of the school, of the members of the society, and of the
general public.
II
\d) By the publication of a journal devoted to the inter-
ests of dentistry, with the title Progresul-Chirnrgico dcntistice-
rornane!
II
I felt bitter disappointment at the failure of my undertaking.
The cause of such failure was envy and pride on the one hand,
and material and pecuniary difficulties on the other. The asso-
ciation of seventeen members had to be dissolved, and my col-
leagues have thus far not established another society.*
" Afterward I determined to lay bare in a small book to the
public my own modest dental acquirements, and experience
gained by personal observation. I had hoped through the publi-
cation of such a work to elevate the standing, which had sunk so
low among us, of the profession of dentistry and of its representa
tives.
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An evidence of the slight degree of confidence which the
Roumanian public reposes in dentistry may be gathered from the
circumstance that the native dentists might exhibit mountains
of human teeth, if the patients were not in the habit of demand-

ing the same after extraction for preservation among their relics.
Our patients will have nothing but extraction; of reimplantation,
filling, or similar chirurgico-dental operations, there can be no
question in our country, for even when we have succeeded after
prolonged discussion in persuading a patient to submit to filling,
he demands the impossible, namely, that the entire operation
shall be concluded instanter.
"Inasmuch as the rate of progress of a science, art, or industry
is largely dependent upon the laws of a country bearing thereon,

*This society is now reorganized, as we are informed by Dr. Saul Schreiber, of Jassy.