Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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El nbaae from a Diary fcbruary 5 186- brite and fair. there is a new thing amoung the boys in school it is a frattirinity a frattirinity is sumthing you belong to and cant tell about Fattyr belongs to it and Whack and some other fellers. me and Beany says we wont join it if they do ask us we think they are mean not to ask us i dont care. it is the sigmer zeter whitch is hebrew, the boys in it has to fite for eech other Beauty says he can lick any too of them and i can to. fehruary Io, 186- cold as time. i have joined the sigmer zeter gosh it is the greatest thing i ever dremt of we have secrets whitch we cant tell on pane of deth. Whack asked me to join and Boog was asked too B0053; was scared when they took him in i wasent. they all said let Beany join but i said no i clout think Beany will make a good frattimity man and i blackhaled him we must keep the frattimity se- lect. when anybody is fiting a trattirnity man i means a sigmer zeter man and he is about to get licked he can holler help and a sigmer zeter in distress and all the others has to help him lick the other feller. february 12 186- Beany he found out i blackbaled him and he cought me away from the sigmer zeter boys and we had :1 Fite i have promised to let Benny join. gosh the initiation fee is to dolers i dideut no how to get the money but Beany says he noes where there is a emty house and we wil go tomorrow nite and get some of the gashxchers which aint no use to anybody it being empty and sell them to get to dolers for me and Beany two. there is another fruttirnity it is cl 1: ee it hasent any chapter at our school it is nothing to sigmer zeter i would not speak to a d k e if i met him in the rode, february 27 1867the sigmer zeter is broke up it was this way me and Benny sold the gwhxchers and got four dolers for our initiation fee and father found out about the frat- timity and made me tell all about it and he went and saw VVhackk father audieech one gave us a licking rite before the school, I have to work to pay for the gashxchers i gess i would be to hisy to go to sigmer zeter any more if it waeent broke 11p.

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lDaIuabIe hints to the Eentiet There is just one way to receive a patient on his or her first appearance in your chair, whether your own patient or one just assigned to you, and that way is this: Give each a close, careful examination, go over every tooth, examine every piece of work already there, commenting favorably, if you wish on all the good work. Be very careful, how- ever, about expressing an opinion about any work there that might fall :1 little under grade, if in your judgment the work should be done over, say so without a long explana- tion of the lack of skill in evidence on the part of the person who did the work. If you can't keep still for the sake of charity and good will to others, then do it for fear you may adversely discuss a forgotten piece of your own work some- time. If lack of time allows no examination, only an ap- pointment, then place after the name to be examinch By doing this from the very start it will in time become second nature to you. Allow your patients to have the hand mirror; let them see for themselves all the various conditions found in the mouth. Many times they are not aware of decays, these being out of ordinary sight; the rehecting glass and hand mirror will ottentimes give them great surprise, If you do this they will never say you made holes in their teeth to hll. Sometimes we chafe under the advice, restrictions, ad- monishiugs of our teachers, our elders, 01' those over us. Teachers themselves are held accountable by others for the welfare and advancement of those under their charge None are 50 perfect but that counseling i5 needed, sometimes a shortcoming made plain. If a teacher frets under the watchfulness of those to whom he is accountable, he had better get out; so is it with the. student. Dorft hestitate to ask for help and advice. But above all things learn to go to your books. Go to your books. Let those four words sink deep into your brain. Don't sell your textbooks, thinking you are forever through with them when examinations are over. If you desire to be only 130 an ordinary commonplace tinker in dentistry, then forget you ever-had a book. If you desire good reputation, Sklll and good judgment, go to your books now, ter1 years from now, forty years from now; when you get mto practme indulge occasionally in a new book relating to your profes- sion, Don't attempt to read it as you would a novel, skun- ming ever it and then adding it to your library of has- beens. Go to it for advice. Letls back trade to our new patient again. When your examination is over, plan out your work; let it be your campaign. for so it is, your fight against destruction. Don't fear to let your patient know something of your plans. He will think more kindly of you if you do. Donlt let him see worry stamped all over your face. If you must distort your features through doubt and anxiety, go make faces at yourself in some tar-off looking glass. You will hnd it a good tonic for an adclled brain. Dont get the notion into your head that swaggering and horse play with more or less roughness about the patient impresses him with the idea of your manliness. You may not believe it, but I once saw John L, Sullivan, in the Pennsylvania railroad station at Pittsburg, pick up a frightened kitten as carefully as the most gentle woman might have done; in two minutes the little thing was purring on his arm. Here are a few SilTlplC don'ts, guideposts on the road to painless dentistry: Doult squirt cold water into sensi- tive cavities. Donlt play the end of the explorer around the vicinity of the pulp and ask if it hurts. Don't let your burs get hot. D0113; let your Chisels and excavators get dull. Don't work all the time on one Spot. Doult attempt much work in the presence of a highly inflamed nerve. Donlt forget that the patient can feel pain. whether you believe it or not, and so, dont continue producing pain when he indicates it, unless you canlt absolutely help it. When you are finally away from where assistance and advice may be obtained, please remember that nWhen in doubt leadlliuo, I mean tlgo to your books.

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Dogmatism is merely puppyism come to maturity. Make your bed are. a coffin, and your coffin will be as a bed. Troubles are like babiesithey only grow bigger by nursing, The character that needs law to mend it is hardly worth the tinkering. Character Hies. lighter it is the quicker it goes. Yes, it has wings. and 0f connc the My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should he able to change her, like a bzmk-note, for two twenties. I never by chance hear the rattling of dice that it doesn't sound to me like the funeral knell of a whole family. TO discover the spots in the sun is to some men greater than the discovery of the laws that govern the sun itself. Honesty without sharpness in this world is like a sword without edge or pointevery well for show, but of no real use to the owner. There are fellows who go every day into billiarrl-romns to get their dinners, just as a fox sneaks into a farm-yard to look about for a fat goose. Married happiness is a glass ball-folks play with it during the honeymoon, till, falling, it is shattered to pieces; and the rest of life is a wrangle who broke it. I31 In their intercourse with the world people Should not take words as so much genuine coin of standard metal, but merely as counters that people play with. He Who in this world resolves; to speak only what is too good for the mass of mankind to understand, and will be persecuted accordingly. EPITAPHS. Mary Ann is gone to rest, With her head on Abraham! breast. liis a very good 1hing for Mary A1111! But kinder hard on Abraham. And be she dead? and 21m she gone? And is I left here all alone? Oh, cruel Fate, thou be'cst unkind To take she lfore and leave I 'hind! Reader, pass on, nor waste your time In bad biography 01' bitter rhyme; For ivhat I am, this cumbrotls Clay inaurex. And what I was is no affair of yours, Beneath this sod and under these stone: Lieth the body of Mary jones. Her name was Lloyd, it was not Jones; But Jones was used to rhyme with stones, Here lies the body of Betsy Bimi, Who was so very pure within She bust this outer shell of sin. And hatched herself a clieruhim,