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

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chair was extended to include Comparative lK-nt.il Anatomy. In May. 1900. Dr. Th»tn{»v n reigned to resume his former professorship in the Kansas City Dental College, and Dr. Otto K. Inglis was elected Special Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Thera politics. In October. 1901. Dr. Boom succeeded Dr L. B Howell, who became Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Physics and Metallurgy At this time also Dr. Otto E Inglis was elected to the chair of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics Few changes have occurred in the Deanship oi the institution Professor Mc uillen held the posi tion from the establishment of the school in 1869 until his death in 1870. He was succeeded by Pro fessor Smith, who held the office for two years Professor Garretson assumed the office in 18S1. and retained it until his death, 1895, after which Professor Guilford, the present incumbent, was elected to the position The college has witnessed but few changes in the Presidency of the Board of Trustees The first incumbent was Rev Richard Newton, D.D. At his death lie was succeeded by the Hon. James Pollock, I, I, D,, cx-Governor of Pennsylvania, who retained the office during the remainder of his life, after which Gen James A Beaver. I, I. 1 . ex Governor of Pennsylvania, was elected to the Presidency, which position he still so worthily fill-. At the time of the incorporation of the Philadelphia Dental College there were but three other dental schools in the country, one in Cincinnati, one in Baltimore and one in Philadelphia, with a combined attendance of less than one hundred students. To-day there are in the United States more than fifty institutions in which dentistry is regularly taught, with a total yearly attendance of about five thousand students. In the thirty-eight years of its existence, the Philadelphia Dental College has graduated no less than twenty-seven hundred students. Along with other schools it lus advanced from a two-years' course of four months each to a three-years' course of seven months, with supplemental spring ami fall courses covering three months more. From an annual curriculum that required but thirty-four lectures from each professor, it Ii3s developed into one in which more than one hundred diadactic lectures ate given annually by the incumbent of each chair. In addition to this, the clinic facilities have been greatly enlarged year by year, giving to the students opportunities for the attainmentof a manual dexterity undreamed of years ago. One of the most prominent advances in recent years has been the establishment of technic courses in the Freshmen and Junior years, cultivating not only the hand but the eye and brain, as well is add ing immensely to the symmetrical development of the pupil. The Philadelphia Dental College was the first to introduce into its curriculum a course in oral surgery, and the first also to establish a hospital for the treatment of diseases of the oral cavity. The late Professor Garretson wa the first to make a

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In honor of its founder, the hospital has been named the C'.aiTctson Hospital. It occupies a large portion of the first floor of the new building, and consists of a public ward with seven beds ami .1 private ward with two There ate also a nurse’s room, kitchen, a beautifully furnished hath room, an etherization and recovery rooms 2j