Chicago College of Dental Surgery - Dentos Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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362555 cents -s TRUMAN W. BROPHY Prof. Truman XX'illiam Brophy was born in XYill County, lll., April 12, 1848. Early in life he resolved to become a dentist, and, after a thorough course in the common and academic schools of Elgin, and in Dyreriforth's Business College and the Atheneum of Chicago, he entered the dental othce of Dr. J, O. Farnsworth. The death of his preceptor soon after the beginning of his new work left to Dr. Brophy a large practice, and he was soon impressed with the need of a systematic education in this work. Accordingly, he entered and graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. ill Philadfllbhia. which was then the center of medical and dental education. Following his return to Chicago and the resumption of practice, he graduated from Rush Medical College in 1880. Almost immediately afterward the faculty tendered to him the chair of dental pathology and surgery, in token of the splendid scholarship exhibited in his work. This position he filled for a number of years, ln 1883 the first regular course of work in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery was opened. This was the result of months and years of effort, beginning as long before as 1874, when the lirst agitation was begun for a dental school of this kind. Prof. Brophy was foremost in the plans and work for the forming of this school, and in the anxious months preceding the opening of the school, his indomitable will and ceaseless energy were largely responsible for the success which crowned the efforts of the men who were so deeply concerned in the movement. The present site of the institution was his selection and through his advocacy was linally chosen. Prof. Brophy has been dean of the faculty since the organization of the college. and professor of oral surgery as well. lin each week he gives a lecture to the senior class on oral surgery. and once a week gives a clinical demonstration of his methods of surgery. He has contributed largely to dental and medical literature during the years of his practice. both current publications and works of reference. For some time past he has had in preparation a work on oral surgery which will shortly be published, giving to the profession at large the benefit of his remarkable achievements as a surgeon. XYhile Prof. Brophy operates with success in all branches of the field of oral surgery, he has emphasized the value of intra-oral surgery in many instances where the practice has been otherwise, and his work in cleft-palate and harealip operations has given him a world-wide reputation and made him authority on the subject. He pioneered the work of successful infant operations for this defect. Against the judgment of the medical world he advocated early surgical interference for the correction of this deformity, and by means of the operation, now known everywhere as the Brophy Method, proved the correctness of his position. Prof. Brophy is a member of many dental and medical societies, State, national and international, and of the Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity. As the representative of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery in the Institute of Dental Pedagogics and the National Association of Dental Faculties. he has labored unceasingly for the better- ment of college conditions, requirements and ideals, and has shown himself always the friend and champion of the student and of the practitioner. The value of his instruction and demonstrations. his warm and genial nature, his friendly interest in the students, his splendid character, all endear him to the student body, and an acquaintance with him becomes an inspiration that lasts through life. 9

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