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

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its J in 'a 'I' .. ' ',' IIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllll umm ull 12557 I in mu ' lj ' i... , fi: E E 2-'-:E IUIIIIIIIII llll were thought to be beneficial Explanations of the actions of drugs were either entirely lacking or consisted in assumptions which were generally incorrect During the last half of the nineteenth century there gradually developed a school of pharmacologists who by the use of experimental methods began to examine into and accurately determine the actions of drugs on the living animal There arose also the class of manufacturing druggists who supplied the drugs which the doctor previously was obliged to collect and prepare for himself I this way there came about a lessened interest in the botanical and physical aspects of drugs and a greater interest in the exact manner in which they produced their effects The teaching followed these changes slowly and it was not much more than twenty five years ago that efforts were begun in the better medical schools to secure as instructors men whose main interest was in the experimental method and who had an adequate training and modern point of vievs for pharmacological '. 9 N 'L til' . nl lllm llll lllmllmlllll I - '-dc. , ,, gi J4t?'s,z'.-, litmuiin in nun ui uldI...1i??g'g . . . sg J s . : 5 . . if 2 rs . :QE g H Hliwlmmnllv nmnnumlu num nl Ill 11p1lI1l '1 .a9s-TEE Ejgm XT -gl n I mnul nn n......nn n nm nmm nunn v-UlllL'5,c'?P h-'f 'rug 2rlf::g:: l'fiv ' I IIII nww A 1 -u IIIII II iv .,-'E5ll!!F.?F E.!!.l7-fifl,'il. r ..l1.Z.-'1'.2f-ll..' Fliflllw 5 .- research At the present time all of the first class medical schools have independent ' : 5 departments of pharmacology manned by a full-time staff and the subject itself - g 5 has become one of the basic medical sciences The use of drugs as therapeutic - 2 a ents is no lon er an em iric one but is a rational a lication of harmacolo ical I ' S 8 P PP P S 2 2 knowledge 3 2 If the present status of pharmacology has been of slow development in the 2 E 1 E N E medical colleges, it has received still less attention in the schools of dentistry. The E W' gf ,E use of drugs in dental practise is a limited one. It is confined, in fact, to antisep- E ,xg E E tics, anaesthetics, protectives, irritants-escharotics, drugs which are used for local 5 E E l effects only. These effects, together with methods of applying the drugs can be ill 2.5 learned with no diH'iculty in a short time, and from a strictly practical standpoint, 5 : 5-:E ?-if A 2: : : might be considered all that the practitioner need know. But this knowledge gives g E to its possessor no conception of pharmacology as a science. It affords a certain 5.2 7 E . . . . . . . . . . 37 work in an approved manner, but it remains mechanical and there is no underlying . scientific basis for meeting new or unusual conditions. EE p Q That dentistry should be a learned profession and not a highly developed Q , l 3 l 5 system of mechanics is generally recognized. The view is held more and more l j E i 5 widely that dentistry should be a specialty in medicine in the broad sense of this ii f T i mechanical facility, which it is true may result in carrying out a certain piece of 7 Y 3 5 : : term. To use an example, it should not be compared to optometry, which often ?.-'E 5: E 2 Fgq ii i- 5 5. means a mechanical fitting of eyeglasses, but to ophthalmology, which considers E :E' not only all phases of eye disease, but also the relationship of the body as a whole to eye function and disease. The acceptance of -this view means that the dental F-'E student must have a sound scientific foundation in physiology, pathology, chem- : F istry, pharmacology, comparable to that given the medical student. On this broad foundation he builds up his specialty, on which he becomes able to speak with the same authority, breadth of view and scientific exactness that his medical confrere EF exercises on a medical specialty. gf The present course in Pharmacology and Therapeutics has been arranged to gg afford the proper scientific background for rational therapy. In the second year, 2 v by means of lectures, recitations and experimental laboratory work, a general view 'A E I and understanding of Pharmacology as a whole is developed. In the third year a : ' ' if g s aqjg ,lllllllll Wa In ll H I l 152' I ulllllllll l 63 l

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