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

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In 1869 Professor Kingsbury resigned his chair and was made Emeritus Professor, and Dr. Thomas C. Stellwagen was chosen his successor. In 1870 Professor Flagg resigned his chair. 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 Professor Garretson resumed his chair of Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. Henry J. Door was made Adjunct Professor of Practical Dentistry. In 1879 the chair of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics was established, and Professor Flagg was chosen to fill it. Owing to the lamented death of Professor McQuillen during this year, some changes in the chairs were made necessary. Professor Stellwagen succeeded Professor 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 Professor H. J. Door was chosen to fill it. In 1881 Professor Smith resigned, and Dr. S. H. Guilford was elected incumbent of the chair of Operative and Prosthetic Dentistry and Orthodontia. In 1889 Professor Door’s chair was changed to that of Practical Dentistry Anaesthesia and Anaesthetics. From then until the death of Professor 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. C. Cryer. for 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 Greenbaum was thereupon chosen to succeed Professor Door, and the chair changed to include Materia Mcdica, Anaesthetics and Odontotechny. Dr. H. IT. 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. Buchard’s failing health compelled his resignation. In October, 1896, Dr. Cryer resigned to accept a position in the Dental Department of the University of Pennsylvania. In May, 1899. 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 May, 1900, Dr. Thompson resigned to resume his former Professorship in Kansas City Dental College, and Dr. Otto E. Inglis was elected Special Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. In October, 1901, Dr. Boom succeeded Dr. S. 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. 16

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%)tstorp of tfjc $f)ilatielpf)ia JDental College ant) hospital of £ral urgerp jfrom its inception in 1852 to 190S |HE first institution established in Pennsylvania for imparting of knowledge 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 internal dissension and ceased to exist. In the fall of 1862 Dr. John M. 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, after great expenditure and overcoming of great opposition, he succeeded in obtaining from the Legislature of Pennsylvania a charter for a new institution under the name of the 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. McQuillen. Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. Dr. J. Foster Flagg, Professor of Institutes of Dentistry. Dr. C. A. Kingbsury, Professor of Physiology and Operative Dentistry. Dr. Thomas Wardell, Professor of Mechanical Dentistry and Metallurgy. Dr. Henry A. Morton, A.M., Professor of Chemistry. Dr. McQuillen was elected Dean, and held that office continually until his death. In 1865 Professors Kingsbury and Morton resigned, and were succeeded by Dr. George W. Ellis and Alfred R. Leeds, A.M. In 1866 Professor Ellis resigned, and Professor Kingsbury resumed his former chair. In 1867 Professor Wardell resigned, and Dr. D. D. Smith was elected to succeed him. 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, Professors Garretson and Leeds resigned, and Dr. S. B. Howell was elected to succeed Professor Leeds. '5

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In 1905 Dr. Leo Greenbaum was elected Assistant Dean and in June, 1906. Dr. S. H. Guilford resigned the office of Dean and Dr. Greenbaum was elected to that position. The last named is the present incumbent. The College has witnessed few changes in the Presidency of the Board of Trustees. The first incumbent was Rev. Richard Newton, D.D., the second was Hon. James Pollock, LL.D., and the present incumbent is General James A. Beaver, LL.D. At the time of its incorporation there were hut three other dental schools, beside the Philadelphia Dental College, with a combined attendance of one hundred students. To-day there arc in the United States more than fifty institutions, with a total yearly attendance of about five thousand students. In the forty years of its existence the Philadelphia Dental College has graduated no less than 3000 students. Like the other schools, it has advanced from a two-year to a three-year course, with supplemental spring and fall courses, covering three months or more. From a yearly curriculum that required thirty-four lectures from each professor it has advanced into one in which more than one hundred didactic lectures are given annually bv the incumbent of each chair. In addition to this, the clinical facilities have been enlarged, thereby giving to the students opportunities which were undreamed of years ago. One of the most recent advancements has been the establishment of technic courses in the Freshman and Junior years, this being of great advantage to the new student The Philadelphia Dental College was the first to introduce into its cur-ricuium a course of oral surgery and the first to establish a hospital for the treatment of diseases of the oral cavity. Professor Garretson was the first to introduce this, as a part of the dental curriculum. The Philadelphia Dental College in the many years of its existence has lost but five of its professors through death. These men were Dr. Garretson. Dr. McQuillen, Dr. C. A. Kingsbury. Dr. J. F. Flagg and H. H. Burchard. Each of these was a master in the art of teaching, and each at the time of his death was not only the Dean of the school, but the most distinguished member of the Faculty. During its existence two changes of location have been made necessary by the growth of the college. LTpon its establishment it was located at the northwest corner of Tenth and Arch Streets. There it remained until 1887, when it removed to a new and larger building on Cherry Street, below Eighteenth. Outgrowing these quarters in the course of eight years, it was decided to purchase ground in a new locality, and erect a large and commodious building, adapted solely to its own educational purposes. In 1896 a suitable location was found at Eighteenth, Buttonwood and Hamilton Streets, and here ground was broken and the erection of a new building begun. 1