Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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CONDHNSKD HISTORY OF THE Philadelphia Dental College and Hospital of Oral Surgery HE first institution established in Pennsylvania for the imparting of knowl- edge in the science and art of dentistry was organized in 1852 under the ■ title of Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery. After a useful but short life of four years, it yielded to the throes of internal dissension and ceased to exist. In the fall of 1862, Dr. John H. McQuillen, holding the Chair of Operative Dentistry and Physiology in the Pennsylvania College, retired from the Faculty, and in 1863, with the assistance of other members of the profession in the City and State, and after the expenditure of much effort and the overcoming of great opposition (for charters were not as readily obtained in those days as now), he succeeded in obtaining from the Legislature of Pennsylvania a charter for a new institution under the name of Philadelphia Dental College. After the securing of a competent Faculty and Board of Trustees, the new institution opened its first term in November of the same year. Its Faculty consisted of: Dr. J. H. McQurLLEN, Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. Dr. J. Foster Fi.agg, Professor of Institutes of Dentistry. Dr. C. A. Kingsbury, Professor of Physiology and Operative Dentistry. Dr. Thomas Wardell, Professor of Mechanical Dentistry and Metallurgy. Dr. Henry Morton, A. M., Professor of Chemistry. Dr. McQuillen was elected Dean and held that office continuously until his death. In 1865, Profs. Kingsbury and Morton resigned and were succeeded by Dr. Geo. V. Ellis and Alfred R. Leeds, A. M. In 1866, Prof. Ellis resigned and Prof. Kingsbury resumed his former chair. In 1867, Prof. Wardell resigned and Dr. D. I). Smith was elected to succeed him. '7

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The play is done, the honors won, and we realize that the prompter is about to ring down the curtain for the last time. Should fate prove unkind, even then we trust this book will prove an unfailing talisman : a special solace will be found if read in the shade of a buttonwood tree. The blessed print and pictures will recall much that was pleasant during the last three years of the nineteenth century ; with the classic writer one can say : 14 All of this I saw, part of it I was,” And so this volume, embracing much that was brightest and best in our college career, will become an abiding inspiration for all to come. Some may rise to high seats in our synagogues of learning, while others fall early by the way ; but all are children of the Philadelphia Dental College, and owe that tender mother an unswerving allegiance. ’Twas in her hospitable halls our minds knew expansion and our hands learned cunning ; there, too, we felt our hearts go out to those endeared by fraternal relations. “ Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to day his own. He who secure within can calmly say— To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Come foul or fair, come rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine— Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. ' J. K. M. 16

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The same year two new chairs were created, one of Principles and Practice of Surgery and the other of Anatomy. Dr. James E. Garretson was chosen incumbent of the former, and Dr. Harrison Allen of the latter. In the following year, 1868, Profs. Garretson and Leeds resigned and Dr. S. B. Howell was elected to succeed Prof. Leeds. In 1869, Prof. Kingsbury resigned his chair and was made Emeritus Professor and Dr. T. C. Stellwagen was chosen as his successor. In 1870, Prof. Flagg resigned and his chair was divided among the others. Thus far some change had taken place in the personnel of the Faculty each year but one. During the succeeding eight years no change occurred, but in 1878 Prof. Garretson resumed his chair of Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. Henry I. Dorr was made Adjunct Professor of Practical Dentistry. In 1879, the chair of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics was established, and Prof. Flagg was chosen to fill it. Owing to the lamented death of Prof. McQuil-len, during this year, some changes in the chairs were made necessary. Prof. Stellwagen succeeded Prof. McQuillen in the chair of Physiology, and his former chair of Operative Dentistry was united to that of Mechanical Dentistry. At the same time a new chair of Clinical Dentistry was established and Prof. H. I. Dorr chosen to fill it. In 1881, Prof. Smith resigned and Dr. S. H. Guilford was elected incumbent of the chair of Operative and Prosthetic Dentistry. In 1889, Prof. Dorr's chair was changed to that of Practical Dentistry. Anaesthesia and Anaesthetics. From then until the death of Prof. Garretson in October, 1895, a period of fourteen years, no changes occurred, but after his death Dr. H. C. Boenning was elected to the chair of Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. M. H. Cryer, for many years the assistant of Prof. Garretson, was chosen Adjunct Professor of Oral Surgery. In January, 1896, Prof. S. H. Guilford was elected Dean of the Faculty. In the spring of the same year Profs. Dorr and Flagg resigned, owing to ill health. Dr. Leo Greenbaum was thereupon chosen to succeed Prof. Dorr and the chair changed to include Materia MedicaAnaesthesia and Odontotechny. Dr. H. H. Burchard was also chosen to fill the place of Dr. Flagg and made Special Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. After serving the school most acceptably for three years. Dr. Burchard’s failing health compelled bis resignation. In May, 1899, Dr. A. H. Thompson, of Topeka, Kansas, and Dean of the Kansas City Dental College, was chosen to succeed Dr. Burchard, and the chair was extended to include Comparative Dental Anatomy. In October, 1896, Dr. Cryer resigned to accept a position in the Dental department of the University of Pennsylvania. Few changes have occurred in the Deanship of the Institution. 18