New York University College of Dentistry - Dental Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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r III 1 in E tive dentistry and dental therapeutics from 1898 and Dean from 1915 until his 5 .tlrlg llll I. death in 1924 The progress of development of the pre-dental requirements and the college 1111 1 'llll curriculum has kept pace with the demands of the State Legislature but as has been the case in medical education as well the dental schools have required the ' stimulus of outside agencies to bring them to their present state of evolution : - The passage by the New York State Legislature of a law requiring that all : - ' dental schools in the State become affiliated with universities made it imperative E - for the New York College of Dentistry to seek some university connection The E matter of affiliation of the College with New York University had been under 5 consideration for some seven or eight years On the side of the University the , authorities desired that the new school should function as a real asset since the it V, Klum llllll Council recognised that the budget of a modern dental college would not fall much 1 5 below that of 'i well-equipped medical institution Since the University Medical 2 : - College presented an annual deficit the University could not afford to take on - ' an additional liability of this sort The University authorities were finally con- : I : vinced that a Grade A dental school could be begun with the funds available from - ' 1 tuition and clinic especially since the Dental College had paid off all of the indebt- 2 : 5 edness upon its buildings. On June 30, 1925, the New York College of Dentistry E In f g if p 2 turned over to the University land, buildings and equipment worth approximately E p 1 5 gf, E S500,000, the equipment being of a character that would form the basis for the E tg IE. ' E construction of a first class educational institution. 1 5 ' E E ll, 2 , s V' 1 E E Ng Dental education is in a state of transition from the proprietary type of the Er E E55 5 uwnmiw .lm last fifty years to that in which the dental student receives proper fundamental training in his art. In the early beginnings in medicine, surgery received special i- i - 312 Ska if 1 ...E attention and in a similar way, dentistry has magnified the technical or manual side 1 fbi of the profession. Recently the art of dentistry has moved in the direction of becoming a branch of public health service similar to medicine and the tendency i has shown itself for the dentist to concern himself with all normal and pathological 1 F conditions of the mouth. If the dentist is to be considered as a specialist in medicine, 5 it 1 5 it is quite evident that his training should include those fundamental sciences now E E 5 2 S taught in the medical school. The dentist should be thoroughly conversant with . E .. E 5-E the mouth as a focus of origin for general or systematic symptoms indicating 11 F E L 3 1 1 pathology in order that- he may recognize the need for calling the medical man into E r-w : .. - E ll E . . . E 5 g g consultation when the need becomes imperative. : 2 I L E The curriculum of the New York University College of Dentistry will be W-llfllll lllllllll llllmll llllll umm ' 'W' lllllll ll Ilillll lll lllllhl nlmmllllllll ml' I1-1155 v fl l ' mwmmrmimuuumimimmmi mu u lu mum mmm u lnf..3:92i rg-.E ' A ' gig rr A E F: - ' ' E14 SS. sa va ff 'H' 'HM Hfmmmlm umm' 'mmumrmnmmn mnnmmnmmmm nur' V Isle-kiss. fi mum mmfmur rnmrnmlnrm.-mm mn nm n rmuu mum mmrmrmmnlmnm.nUlIlllllP.cB built upon a two year pre-dental course of physics, biology and chemistry, which ,ir V ga requirements also forms the minimum basis for entrance into a medical school in ' .1 -..-.2 2 Fl: 'F' rn 1 . . . . New York State. In general it may be said that the courses in the medlcal sciences QE given to the dental students will 'correspond in the main to those in the medical Qui LE is: i i i A A curriculum with special emphasis laid upon the oral cavity and its relations to 1 e rest of the body The teaching of anatomy and bacteriology is carried on in L r e medical school while the physiology chemistry pharmacology and pathology fi are taken care of in the Dental building While the heads of the departments in 1 e Medical School possess supervisory control over the teaching of these subjects ,E 1 nnll gran. in Ill IF' I I' ,xg-qw!! I 'gum II I 181 , th . 3 1 th ' , , , gf - 3 A th 3 ' QW' 'lpvgm qu' ---- g L'-Z1-. ll' 'l,.,,-TSI-:rl -1 M

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. .I Ill. H lil,llllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllll ull ll 'SES' lll lllllllllllllllllll ll .lil Ii J E E S'E 55 EAW: ft 5-2-E is 1' 1 2 s 5 s-.2 F 35 E E g i p THE MERGER DEAN HOLMES C JACKSON The first dental college in the world was instituted in 1840 as the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery The name indicates that in the minds of the origin- ators the manual side of the art was predominant And yet in the early minutes of the College commenting on the results of the examination of a practitioner of dentistry who desired the degree of'D.D.S. the statement appears that the indi- vidual was rejected as altogether unworthy of the honor as he showed no acquaintance with the science of dentistry being nothing but a dental mechanic This conception of the requirements of a dentist so clearly set forth by this early writer has been gradually developed as dental education has advanced during the past half century And very slowly but nevertheless definitely it has come to be established that dentistry and medicine are fields of public health service with the same scientific foundation In this connection it is worthy of attention that in one of the annual announcements of the New York College of Dentistry prior to 1908 appeared the paragraph The purpose of the institution is to educate men to practice dental surgery as a specialty of medicine therefore, the curriculum includes the fundamental departments of medicine with operative dental surgery and oral prosthetics. The lectures on the fundamental departments of medicine are specially directed to the needs of the dental surgeon . With some minor modifica- tions this might well appear in the forthcoming bulletin to be published some forty years after the above was written. Some of the older men had the vision which still is far from coming to complete fruition. The New York College of Dentistry was incorporated in 1865, it being the fifth regularly established dental college in the United States. The first session opened on November 5, 1866, with 31 students, and a faculty of ten professors and 18 clinical lecturers. In March, 1867, nine students were graduated. Owing to dissensions in the faculty the College found itself in the courts and it was not until 1869 that the sessions were reestablished. From this time until 1895 the College maintained an unbroken career of success. In 1896 disagreements con- cerning the Deanship brought the College to the notice of the regents. Upon final settlement of this matter, the College resumed its sessions which have been con- tinued uninterruptedly until this year. ' In the history of the College the name of Faneuil D. Weisse, M.D., stands as one of its pillars. He was professor of general and descriptive anatomy from NN 5 A IIll HI1 .U Ill Il lllll 1 nmnmm mmm mmm llllnmmlllmlm 2 Mlflm E 5 E-E 1 1 I I l 1 2 '-' -' E E :SLE -T: E i s F' Q ml' III'I.r'llIllllf'tll!'m:-iq .--- I :Pwllnllllllllllllllllnllmmulllln llllll ,V - Um:umumlllulnlnnmmullmlllllll lliu'--ny?-lrmrnlljlllllll l-'- I lm' 1' I 17 1, . .- -we A nu 'nur ME .s i n. .IH llu. . I 1 1 llllll Il i Ill . -ul h. .1 Q 4 C X 1 5 sl 5 nhl? 5-E n E-2 2 2 E a Q . . E E E : ' 5 s j Z 1 E E I- as , E : E , sa. ' Z 5 A , U ., A E 515 . 'IE E 5 - , ,'E E Z , cs -. S x ' , r P ' . 535 2 U: 1865-1896 and Dean from 1896-1915. Professor Frank Abbott acted as clinical lecturer and professor of operative dentistry from 1868-1897. Professor Alexander W. Stein, M.D., was in continuous service from 1868-1896 in the department of v X :. : :1- 16,31 595 -IE 51.2 physiology and microscopical anatomy. Owing to failing health he was succeeded in the chair by his son, J. Bethune Stein, M.D., the present associate professor . of physiology in the College Well known in the dental profession in this city g ill ' were Professor J Bond Littig who served from 1869 to the time of his death , in 1907 and Professor F LeRoy Satterlee PhD M D. from 1869 until 1916 1 , . And finally mention must be made of Alfred R Starr who was professor of opera- Q 115 . if ' ' ' fu I E , . , . ., . , . E . , ,: 1 E ia r I m:m.nq -qw? -----'--- n llI jl' 'Il 'll jll ll'll lk -- nl... ll -'fs-fqlllplll f- 7' Q 'r--1. lIII!ll1gv'-s2-.f-- ul!!! 0 - 'll.., 'flIi.., -nu 1.., J .. X 6 ll .,ll 'l l..nnrr- ..ulli'l'....ll' -:sandal ll E l W W ' ' lf - l 11212 W 1171 U

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