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

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ORAL SURGERY CLINIC Chief of Staff PROFESSOR HENRY C. BOENNING, M IX Staff Assistants H. Augustus Bacon, M. IX. Ph. G., Chief Surgical Assistant W. Wallace Fritz, M. D., D. D. S., Chief Medical Assistant. C. P. Fkanklin, M. D., Chief ol Eye Clinic. J» Class Assistants Rov B. Disk Dudley Guilford Herman G. Nailok Arthur J. Pryt . Thomas II I meson Geoeoe B. Blkiler E. A. Schwabe Franz Zkm.sk a, M. D j. he Oral Surgical Clinic at the Philadelphia Dental College is unique. Oral surgery is a branch of our profession which is not universally given the attention its importance warrants. Indeed, if reports be credited, owing to unfavorable circumstances and environments its teaching is often much neglected. The oral surgery taught at a general surgical clinic cannot be as thorough as where that branch is a specialty. Nevertheless, for a complete clinic, a hospital with wards, nurses and beds is an absolute requirement. The Philadelphia Dental College is the only purely Dental college to which a hospital is attached, an I the Garretsonian Hospital is the only hospital specially devoted to oral surgery. Since the inception of the Philadelphia Dental College the acquirement o! a thorough knowledge of oral surgery has been carefully attended to and made an essential and special feature. -35- Jamo H. Kane Mads. P. Madsen

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The late Professor James M Garrctson (after rcferreil to as the Father of Oral Surgery was the first to specialize it as a distinct branch of general surgery, and was also the author of the first complete and standard work on the subject, which was largely based on operations performed in the clinics of the Philadelphia Dental College. The traditions of the Philadelphia Dental College in this respect have been ably and fully lived up to by his successor, Professor Henry C. Boenning. When the extensive new buildings for the Philadelphia Dental College were erected a large-section was laid out for hospital purposes. This section embraces male and ft male wards, nurses' quarters, storage accommodation, bath and lavatories, kitchen, surgeons' room, etc , and is fitted with all the appliances and equipment necessary foi the care and treatment of the gravest surgicil eases. On September 20. 1897, a charter was granted to this hospital, and it was designated the Garret-soman Hospital, in memory of the late Professor Garrctson While purely oral surgical cases have the preference, care is by no means confined to these. All lesions or diseases of the mouth, nose or throat or associate parts in cases presented arc taken care of and. as occasion demands, general surgical cases arc also looked after. Ear, eye, throat and general surgical an I medical clinics are held doily by the efficient surgical staff of the hospital. Special clinics are held, at least once a week, at which operations on the graver eases are performed. The surgical staff are as given above, numbers of the Senior Class being detailed as assistants at operations, thus familiarizing them with this branch from a practical standpoint By means of these clinics the symtomology. pathology and general treatment of the various lesions arc practically portrayed, and the student thoroughly familiarized therewith from the standpoint of personal observation amply supplemented by didactic teaching. The requirements of dental practice necessitate that a competent practitioner should possess, at least, a general theoretical knowledge of all branches of genera! medicine and surgery. Up to .1 certain point the acquirement of this knowledge needs to be as complete as for the general medical practitioner, the basal principles of the different branches of the healing art being common. After this point, or parting of the ways, each devotes his particular energies to the ramifications of the especial line which he has to treat, and thus be particularly able to differentiate and diagnose such local and pathological manifestations as fall under his care in his special field. In no section of the human body is there in such limited space so large a number of disease manifestations as the oral cavity and its associate parts—the field of the ora! surgeon. — 36—