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

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Kingsbury resumed his former chair. In 1867 Professor Wardell resinned, ind Dr. D. L». Smith was elected to succeed him The same year two new chairs were created, one of Principles and Practice of Surgery, and the other or Anatomy. In. James E. Oarrctson was chosen incumbent of the former and IJr. Harrison Allen of the latter. In the following year, 1868, Professors Garretson and Leeds resigned, and I Jr. S. B. Howell was elected to succeed Professor Leeds. In iSfrj Professor Kingsbury resigned his chair and was made Emeritus Professor, and I r. I C. Stcllwagen was chosen his successor. In 1870 Professor Flagg resigned his chair, and was divided among the others. Thus far some change had taken place In the ptnonnd of the faculty each year but one. During the succeeding eight years no change occurreJ, but in 1878 Professor Garretson resumed his chair of Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. Henry I. Door was made Adjunct Professor of Practical Dentistry. In 1870 the chair of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics was established, and Professor Flagg was chosen to till it. Owing to the lamented death ot Professor Me-Quillen during this year, some changes in the chairs were made necessary. Professor Stellwagen succeeded Professor Me Quillen 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 Professor H. I. iJoor chosen to till'it. In t88i Professor Smith resigned, jnd Ur. S. H. Guilford was elected Incumbent of the chair of Opera tlve and Prosthetic Dentistry. In 1889 Professor Door’s chair was changed to that of Practical Dentistry, Anesthesia and Anesthetics. From then until the death of Professor Garretson, in October. 189$. J period of fourteen years, no changes occurred, but after his death Dr. H. C. Boenning was elected to the chair ol Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. M. H. Ayer, lor many years the assistant of Professor Garretson. was chosen Adjunct Professor of Oral Surgery. In January, 1896, Professor S. H Guilford was elected Dean of the Faculty. In the spring of the same year, Professors Door and Flagg resigned, owing to ill-health. Dr. Leo Grecnbaum was thereupon chosen to succeed Professor Door, and the chair changed to include Materia Medic a, Anaesthetics and Odontotechny. Dr. H. H. Burchard was also chosen to till the place of Dr. Flagg and made Special Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. After serving the school most acceptably for three years. Dr. Burr hard's failing health compelled his resignation. In October. 1896. Dr. Aver resigned to accept a position in the Dental Department ot the University of Pennsylvania In May, 1899, Dr. A. H. Thompson, ol Topeka, Kansas, and Dean of the Kansas City Dental College, was chosen to succeed Dr. Burchard, and the chair wasextended to include Comparative Dental Anatomy. In May, 1900, Dr. Thompson resigned to resume ! I

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hi former professorship in the Kansas. City Dental College, and L)r. Otto H. Inglts was elected Special Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. 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 of the institution. Professor McQuillen held the position from the establishment of the school in 1869 until his death in 1879. He was succeeded by Professor Smith, who held the office for two years. Professor Garret son assumed the office In 1881. and retained it until his death, 1805. 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 he was succeeded by the Hon. James Pollock, L. L. D., ex-Govcrnor ol Pennsylvania, who retained the office during the remainder of his life, after which Gen. James A. Beaver, L. L. D„ ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, was elected to the Presidency, which position he still so worthily tills. 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 rive thousand stu dents. 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 has advanced from a two-years' course of four months each to a three-years' course of seven months, with supplemental spring and tall courses covering three months more. From an annual curriculum that required hut thirty-four lectures from each professor, it has developed into one In which more than one hundred diadactic lectures are 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 attainment of a mutual dexterity undreamed of years ago. One of the most prominent advances In recent years has been the establishment ot technic courses in the Freshman and Junior years, cultivating not only the hand but the eye and brain, as well as adding 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 was the first to make a special study of such diseases, and to constitute their consideration a part of the dental curriculum. With him the trained hand of the dentist, in conjunction with the medically-educated mind, made possible operations never before attempted. The Philadelphia Dental College, in its many