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still wanting, and the dental students are obliged to enter in the
laboratory of a competent dentist to acquire the necessary
knowledge.
" Several cantons by degrees changed their dental legislation,
adapting them successively to the real standing of the profession,
and the advancing state of dental science, and appointed com-
petent dentists for the practical part of the examination.
" In 1881 the Canton of Geneva created a complete dental
school, which, in combination with the Medical Faculty of the
University, offers every opportunity for a thorough dental educa-
tion.
" The number of students at this L'Ecole Dentaire de Geneve
was during the term, 1892-93, twenty-eight.
" The school has issued seventy-three diplomas of surgeon-
dentists.
" The excellent clinical lecturer, Professor Redard, kindly
procured me the notices of the number of those who frequented
the lectures. But there still existed a great inequality in the
different cantons of Switzerland, and in the year 1886, more than
sixty dentists met to form a society, and directed a petition to
the Swiss Government for a regulation of dental examination, to
be valid all over Switzerland. Thus was created the present
Swiss law of dental examination, which went in force in 1890.
This law requires: 1. The maturity of an acknowledged gymna-
sium. 2. Full medical studies and examinations up to the anato-
mical and physiological examination of the medical student. 3.
Lectures on general Pathology and Therapeutics, Pathological
Anatomy, General Surgery and Special Pathology and Thera-
peutics of the Mouth. 4. The statement of technical education
at a recognized dental school, or in the laboratory of a compe-
tent dental practitioner for at least two years.
" Thus we hope that the Swiss dentist will be able to compete
with those of other countries.
" We have in Switzerland now ( 1893) about 279 dentists, as fol-
lows: In Zurich, 36; Bern, 28; Luzern, 9; Uri, 1 ; Schwyz,6; Unter-
walden, 2; Glarus,4; Zug, 2; Freiburg, 4; Solothurn, 8; Basel, 28;
Schaffhausen, 4; Appenzell, 10; St. Gallen, 23; Graubiinden, 6;
Aargau, 13; Thurgau, 8; Tessin, 3; Waadt, 33; Wallis, 1; Neu-

chatel, 14; Geneva, 36.
"The Swiss Odontological Society counts 125 members, with
special sections at Basel, Geneva, Luzern, St. Gallen and Zurich.