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

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If a person who has teeth eats, as so many people with teeth do. he Is very apt to get holes in his teeth which become filled up with toothache. Bacon tells us that this is a kind of a hug. hut we think he is bughouse Toothache is a thing you don't want and can't give away. When you get toothache, you go to a dentist and get it made worse. We don’t know-why this is. hut it is the custom. Finally you go to the dentist and get the tooth extracted. tx-traction means the Liking out of anything, and a dentist takes all he can get out of you. A dentist is a foxy guy. R. E. M. if he has no teeth he is a monstrosity. By looking at a horse's teeth you tan tell his age, by looking man’s teeth you can tell him anything, and he will believe you. It Is expensive for the man hut good for the dentist. There arc some teeth which are dead ones ’ Dead ones are those that play billiards all night and do not get around to eight o'clock lectures Some people may doubt this, but what are billiard-balls but ivories t 12

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 arrth m he teeth are those useful and more or less ornamental appliances situated behind the grin factory midway between your bald spot and your first vest-button and used (or the purpose ol chewing the r.« There are various kinds of teeth, long, short, flat and irregular, besides milk teeth or toofies” as the fond mother designates the outfit which her progeny first develops in this world of sin ( before lie gets his teeth he is a funny little sucker. I loothoma, tooth-erup-tion and toothache completes the list that grow naturally, false teeth and a few other varieties may be raiseJ artificially. Teeth are found in the Human Race and many other quadrupeds, as cows, kittens, cogwheels, combs, saws etc The chief uses of teeth arc to make dents in boarding-house beefsteak, and to wear away the pies that mother used to make. Some people use them to spit through. If a person uses plaster teeth Ite is called a freshman, if he has gold teeth he is an advertisement, and 11

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THOM'S COOK STM I WA'.FN, A M '» P P I) 1‘riUmor »l homaS Coox Stli.lwagi.n was horn in Philadelphia, I’.i , July 4, 1S41, itul oldest child of Capt.iin II. S. Stellwngen, 1. S. . and Mur A. Cook. He was graduated at Philadelphia Central High School av B. A. In 1K59, anJ received the degree of M. A. in 1864. He studied dentistry in l8 ; ) under Dr. ;N. I Dickey, ot ew Orleans, md .it the Pennu. College of Dentil Surgery in i8s«A 'Go .uni 6l. gr.nl-luting as D. I). S. in 1861. He served as Paymaster In the U. S. Navy in 1861, taking part in several engagements and on blockade duty until t86t, when he went to the Mediterranean to join the U. S. ship ■ Constellation,” the senior ol the fleet that his fattier commanded. I11 1865 he resigned (torn the U. S. Navy, resumed practice In Ills native city and accepted the demonstratorship of Operative Dentistry in the Philadelphia Dental College from which lie received the jJ eundtm degree March 1. 1866. Two years more of study in the Medical Department of the University ol Pennsylvania were followed by the degree ot M. D. from it. The same year, i8Tk;, he was elected to the chair of Dental Histology and Operative Dentistry in the Philadelphia Dental College. In 1870 he was given the chair of Operative Dentistry and Dental Pathology. Finally, in 1879, upon the death of his professional life-long friend. Prof. John H. McQuillcn, M. D., D. D S.. the founder ot the College, the professorship ot Physiology thu sadly vacated was by the Board ot Trustees at the recommendation of the Faculty conferred upon him. Since 1861 he has had a lively interest in dental societies, being one of the original members of the Petlna. State Dental, of which he was its first secretary and later president. Among foreign societies hits. one ot the two corresponding members in the U. S. of the Odontological Society ot Great Britain, to which he was elected after he lud edited the American Edition of Coleman’s Dental Surgery and Pathology. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and President of the Delaware County Medical Society.