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

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mf iw HOW I CAME TO DO RESEARCH WORK BY DR. B. ORBAN You boys asked me to write about research, about what I am doing in my lab- oratory. Research is like real love. we don't speak about it. I will tell the real story of how I became a research man. In the winter of IQ23, I had iust studied for a few months the science of Dentistry, and liked especially of all the courses presented, the lectures of Dr. Gottlieb who lectured about the biology and histology of the teeth. It happened at this time that there was an entertainer in a cabaret in Vienna who could bite through iron rods and chains. Dr. Gottlieb at this time was lecturing about the biology of the cementum. He claimed that the existence of the teeth depends on a good reaction of the tissues to build new cementum. Wie supposed that the iron biter must have large cement- um hyperplasia around his roots. Dr. Gottlieb wished to examine this man's mouth and asked the class if someone would bring him to his ofhce and have his teeth examined. He promised the student who was successful that he would show him his original slides on histology of the teeth. No one else wanted to try so I promised him that I would. This entertainer was admired very much in Vienna and consequently it was very hard to get near enough to speak to him. I was unable to see him at his hotel, so that night I went to the cabaret and spoke to his manager. He promised me he would call Dr. Gottlieb and make an appointment with him. Next day Dr. Gottlieb came into class and happily told me that I had been successful in my enterprise, as the chain-biter had called him on the telephone and told him that he would come and be examined. Dr. Gottleib fulfilled his promise and showed me his original specimens. There for the first time I saw the epithelial attachment, the primary and secondary cuticle, and cementum hyperplasias. This day was certainly a great event in my life for from that time on, we started experiments together, and I started my work in research. 26

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I 1 -.- gm. A f 5 A X .' 4, x., BILLIE KEPLER Racliograplier. LOILA XVILLIAMS Information Clerk. JULIA XVITTMAN Librarian, and Fiscal Clerk LAURA S. DICKISON Secretary to Registrar. E. KIAUDE SHARE Assistant Librarian.

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