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

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THE FIRST CENTENNIAL OF ORGANIZED DENTAL EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND SOCIETIES 1840-1940 The story of dentistry in this country is the . story of a single century. It is a story of humble beginnings. It is the story ofthe efforts mf many I and of the genius wi the few. It is the story of a triumph over hostility and indiference. It is the story mf a crude, primitive craft that was . brought to the dignity of a profession that now serves faithfulbv the health security of this country. This story begins in Baltimore in 1840 with the names of Horace H. Hayden and Chapin A. Harris. In that year dentistry was given its first formal educational discipline with the establishment Q' the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery on February 1. In that year also, the jrst attempt at a systematic professional literature was made with the appearance of the frst number M The American Journal of Dental Science. Dental organ- ization also had its beginnings in that year for, on August 18, 1840, the Almerican Society ey' Dental Surgeons was founded. Harris, with Dr. Hayden's advice and assistance, but otherwise almost entirely unaided, secured the signatures ay' representative citizens to a petition in the legislature of Maryland for the incorporation of a College M Dental Surgery at Baltimore. lifter numerous dificulties and considerable op- position by jealous medical rivals, which he jinally overcame, the charter was granted. Thus was founded the first unit of an educational system which was to contribute so monumentally to the progress cy' American dentistry. Horace H. Hayden was born on October 13, 1769, at W indsor, Connecticut. At an earbf age he began to follow the sea but recurring attacks of tropical fever compelled him to return home to take up work as an architect. In the winter cy' 1792 he sought the services Qf Mr. fohn Greenwood, who had served George Washington as a dentist. Intrigued with Greenwood's skill and ingenuity he undertook the study cy dentistry, procuring from Greenwood the few available books on the subject, among them fohn Hunter's famous work. He left New York for Baltimore and set himseh' up in practice. He began to teach a class in dentistry and, in 1825, he accepted an invitation 5, P 0 D x O fir f.sfKf:-if G I J, Ke.':je,L-+tL:iF.z'1fgj.,, fab

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in the United States. In this country alone there are thirtytfour high schools and twenty-three colleges and universities taught by the Order. American ffesuits operate the foreign mission jields of Pata, India,q' the Philippines, British Honduras, jamaica, fllaska, Iraq, China, Ceylon and among the Indians on our own Western Reservations. More than one hundred W' the members W' this order have been raised to the heroic dignity Q' saints and many hundred more are still awaiting the pronouncements cy' the Congregation cd Rites before they too join that saintly company. Many of these were men of heroic virtue in the ordinary execution of their routine life. Many more are nzen who have made the final sacri- jice of martyrdom. At one time the Society of 7esus operated in many parts ry' the world 669 colleges, 176 seminaries, 273 missions and 32.5 residences. In 1870 the yesuits founded St. Ignatius College on the West Side of Chicago. Later that institution became Loyola University cy' which the Chicago College of Dental Surgery is one of eight schools. 0n the shores of Lake Michigan, whose waters had once borne the canoes cy' the early ffesuit explorers, the present Campus of Loyola University stands. Its cluster Q' buildings, dominated by the slender loveliness Q' the Chapel of Maria Della Strada-Our Lady of the Wayside-gives living testimony q' the work 4 ffogues, Brebeuf, Damen and Marquette. Its name is that M Ignatius cy' Loyola, first leader cy' the Society who sent these men to all corners cy' the earth. When the shadows deepen along the western curve W' the lake waters, when the noise of the city comes but faintbf to the ear, the figure of a black- robed father may be seen pacing the peacdul campus as he tells his beads. Through four hundred years the tasks and dreams and ideals of Ignatius Q' Loyola have come down to him. He is a follower in the steps U the Spanish knight who jirst sent the Company cy' Yesus to do unceasing battle in the service of the Eternal Leader. 1 ew N' --nfgbmw M QL' OX' v ca

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to deliver a course qt lectures in dental surgery to the medical class of the University of Maryland. In 1817 he was instrumental in organizing the first union Q' dental practitioners into an association for mutual benefit. In 1841, through the agency cy' the newly organized society, he aided in the publication M The American Journal of Dental Science, the first dental journal ever to be published. bVith Chapin A. Harris and other collaborators, Dr. Hayden founded the first institution dedicated to special dental education and became, at the age cy' seventy, its first president and professor of Principles of Dental Science. Four years later Dr. Hayden died and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Baltimore, where his remains still lie in the famibf vault. Chapin Aaron Harris, whose name is always intimately associated with that of Horace H. Hayden, was born at Pompey, New York, on May 6, 1806, and thus was many years Haydcn's junior. He began the study mf medicine in 1824 in Madison, Ohio, and was later duly licensed to practice. In 18.28 he began the practice of dentistry and soon became an itinerant dentist, eventually to settle, in 1835, in Baltimore where he came into as- sociation with Hayden. In 1839 he published his jirst dental text, The Dental .firt-a Practical Treatise on Dental Surgery. This was to be merely the first fy' his many published writings for hc contributed prolyic- ally to the literature on a wide variety of subjects in later years. He joined with Hayden in founding the first dental journal and the jirst dental society. In the winter cy' 1839-1840, under great digfculties, he managed to secure a charter for the incorpor- ation of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and became its ffff dean. He continued to be a vital force in all of these projects until his death I on September 29, 1860. A century ago dentistry was a craft concerned with materials and the prices to be made from adapting these to the occasional needs of the people. It was a craft that had many things in common with the silversmith and the vendorwf potions. It relieved gross sujering and infrequentb attempted to restore those organs lost through such ministra- tions. It required nothing more than a mild ambition to undertake these primitive dental operations because there was no system of education or licensure. Dentistry in those days was not associated in friendbf relationship with . 4. ig gage?-Xcsym Ou olafgixv 0 K 4Ki oCJ30g.JoL Q