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obligatory in order that the applicant could be admitted as a
dental student.
In a royal letter of March 7, 1879, the State Medical Board
was, as a consequence, directed to draw up and issue further rules
and regulations for examination, which were embodied in its cir-
cular of December, 8, 1879, which declares that, "In order to be
admitted as a dental student, the applicant must have passed
the 'Maturity' examination at one of the State colleges of
Sweden."
At this time the fee required by the dentists from the student
for a full course in dentistry was on an average 3,000 crowns.
As the dental practitioners became more numerous, this instruc-
tion fee has been somewhat diminished.
February 15, 1864, a question arose in the Dental Society at
Stockholm, to establish a Dental Policlinic "for free treatment of
the poor, and for the instruction of candidates." According to
arrangements of the society and with assistance from the same,

said Policlinic was opened October 28, 1865. This institution
is still in existence, under the name of the "Policlinic of the City
of Stockholm for Diseases of the Teeth."
The odontological instruction remained for a long period in
this primitive condition, but after considerable preparation, dis-
cussion, committee work and correspondence, Svenska Tandla-
kare Sallskapet (Swedish Dental Association), on April 23, 1883,
petitioned His Royal Majesty, the King, for an appropriation, in
order to establish a " Policlinic for Diseases of the Teeth" where
the students could receive instruction in Clinical Odontology, as
well as in other branches of dentistry.
Riksdagen (the Congress) for this purpose appropriated, in
1884, at once 2,415 crowns, and for the time to come 4,000 crowns
yearly.
This Government Policlinic for Diseases of the Teeth was
opened in the beginning of the year 1885.
[Note.—The above is from the Scandinavian Dental Society's Journal
{Skandinaviska Tandldkare-Forenijigens Tidskrift), June, 1892, Dr. John
Wessler, Stockholm, being the contributor
]
In 1889 \he Gothenburg Dental College (Goteborgs Tandla-
kare Institut) was established in Gothenburg through the efforts
of two dentists of that city, Drs. Hj. Carlson and V. Bensow.
Before 1892 only the first, or the " candidate examination,"
could be absolved at this institution, but by that time the college