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

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Professor Garretson assumed the office in 1881 and retained it until his death in 1895, after which Professor Guilford was elected to the position. In 1905 Dr. Leo Greenbaum was elected assistant dean. In June. 1906. Dr. Guilford resigned the office of dean and Dr. Greenbaum resigned the office and Dr. Guilford was re-elected dean. The college has experienced 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. LL.I)., ex-governor of Pennsylvania, who retained the office during the remainder of his life. General James A. Beaver. LL.I)., ex-governor of Pennsylvania, was elected to the office after the death of Mr. Pollock. The federation with Temple University, in the spring of 1907. caused a change in the board of trustees and Russell H. Conwell was elected to the presidency. 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 pupils. Today there are in the United States more than fifty institutions in which dentistry is taught regularly, with a total yearly attendance of between four and five thousand students. In the forty-one years of its existence the Philadelphia Dental College has graduated no less than 3.000 students. Along with other schools it has advanced from a two years’ course of four months each to a three years' course of eight months, with supplemental spring and fall courses covering two months more. From an annual curriculum that required but thirty-four lectures from each professor, it has developed until more than one hundred didactic lectures are given annually by the incumbent of each chair. In addition to this the clinical facilities have been enlarged year by year, giving to the students opportunities for the attainment of manual dexterity undreamed of years ago. One of the most prominent advances in recent years has been the establishment of 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 it 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 12

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MATTHEW H. CRYER Ml).. D.D.S. Matthew H. Cryer «1849-1921 . was a student of and lalcr assistant to Dr. James E. Garrelson. and l ecame known throughout the world as an authority on cranial anatomy. His accurate knowledge of the anatomy of the face and cranium fitted him for the most delicate surgical operations which he performed in these regions. I)r. Cryer devised numerous improved methods of sectioning the jaw for the correction of prognathism. He also became widely known for operations which had been so successfully taught by his predecessor. Dr. Gar-detson, for the removal of tumors in and about the oral cavity. Dr. Cryer became Professor of Oral Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania Dental School in 18%. which position he held until a short time before his death. He was the author of a l ook on “Facial Anatomy which is today the most authoritative textbook on the -uhject. The chapter on anatomy of the face and jaws in Cray’' Anatomy” is practically a product of Dr. Cryer’s efforts. Dr. Cryer was horn in Manchester. England, in 18-10. MARSHALL II. WEBB D.D.S. Dr. Wehh (.1811-1883). was horn in Chester County. Pennsylvania. October 28. 1814. Although he died at a comparatively early age. being only thirty-nine years of age at the time of his death, he attained a national reputation as an expert gold operator which has been equaled by very few in the annals of dentistry. He received his professional education in the Philadelphia Dental College and practised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Early in his professional career he developed an utter contempt for amalgam, which he discarded entirely as a filling material, and began filling with gold all classes of cavities, no matter how difficult or inaccessible. Dr. Webb’s success in the field attracted nation-wide attention, and in his contemporaries commanded the greatest admiration ami praise. His biographer and professional colleague said of him: “No man toiled harder than Dr. Webb, ami probably no one has done so much to elevate the standard of dentistry. Ilis operations were faultless in point of execution and there was an elegance almut their finish that was truly fascinating. The skill which he attained gave him the prominence in his profession surpassed by none and, though dying so young, he fairly was entitled to rank as one of the most distinguished of American dentists.” 11

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JAMES TRI MAN D.D.S., LL.D. Dr. Truman (1826-1914 ), was horn at Abington, a suburb of Philadelphia, November 22. 1826. Throughout his career I)r. Truman was a prolific contributor to the literature and in 1890 became Editor of the International Dental Journal, which position he held until that journal ceased publication in 1905. He quite fully recognized the intrinsic possibilities of his professional calling, and it became his life-problem to demonstrate by his work, by his educational efforts, by bis contributions to the literature and by his active participations in tin- deliberations of the dental professional associations his convictions as to the larger possibilities of usefulness that dentistry had to offer mankind. lie had a masterly command of the English language and a forceful ness in style of writing that carried conviction with his utterances. Dr. Truman died in Philadelphia. November 26. 1914. SIMEON H. Cl ILFORD A. 11., M.A.. PH.D., D.D.S. Simeon Hayden Guilford, dental surgeon, was born at Lebanon, Pa, in 1841. He received his preliminary education in the public schools and at Lititz (Pa.) Academy, and was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1861 with the degree A.B., in 186-1 with the degree A.M.. and in 1866 with the degree Ph.D. He then began tin- study of dentistry, and was graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1865 with the degree D.D.S., and in 1884 he received the honorary degree D.D.S. from the Philadelphia Dental College. In 1881 he was elected to the chair of operative and prosthetic dentistry and orthodontia in the Philadelphia Dental College (Temple University), and from 1896 to 1918 lie was Dean of that institution. He was the authoi of “Nitrous Oxide: It’s Properties, Methods of Administration, and Effects” (1887); “Orthodontia” (1889); The American System of Dentistry” (1886); chapters in The Textbook of Operative Dentistry” (1900-3-5); was a frequent contributor to dental journals, and was regarded as an authority on orthodontia, lie died in 1919. in his seventy-eighth year, after a short illness. !