University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine - Reflector Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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T1-11-3 REFLECTOR y W t Ny 9? They informed me, Becker and McKee were practicing in Buffalo. Becker was also giving two afternoons per week demonstrating at the college on the malocclusion of trial plates in deciduous dentures. McKee was Lord High Ranny Buck of the Jagged Ten Clan which was still offering S25 to Palleyesch if he could say 'COsinnominatum'7. I wandered over to college and there learned Kohler was doing missionary work to the heathen Chinamen of darkest Africa and showing them Cconclusively-without a doubtj why a bald-headed man must put on his hat to know how far up to wash his face. Levy had left the dental profession to pursue medicine. Stafford had discovered the germ which caused students to rush down to the infirmary after nine o'clock lecture as well as eat an eight course lunch at noon in five minutes and get back to the chair. He called it the Dippylococcus Grindoctopus. Swiados was President of the Swiados Dental Co., manufac- turing vulcanizers guaranteed to blow up independent of the gas regulator and at the same time insuring safety to the dentist. I remembered his first experiment on this invention in the Junior Lab. Valanti, I learned, was court dentist to the King of Italy and incidentally played the trombone in the royal string orchestra, Kutscher 8C Wallach were running a 5 and IO cent store in Jerusalem-the Holy City-selling Glyco-Thymoline and Phillip's Milk of Magnesia at reduced rates-toothbrush free with every bottle. Ianowitz was conducting an extensive practice in the section of the city inhabited by Irish, and he used to wonder where they got all the money the Hebrews took away from them. Newell and Doc Williams, I was informed by the roster of the college alumni, had located in the Arctic clime. They had a hard time getting a practice started, because the Eskimos had little decay in their teeth. This I readily understood, because Dr. Waugh had once told us they ate mostly protein foods and very little carbohy- drates. They evidently remembered it, too, for they had a shipload of gumdrops sent up every year, and in the last letter to a classmate had said there was hardly one who did not .have plenty of dentistry 59

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ae THE RF ,ECTOR V Here Woodbury was found and he told me that a few years after graduating he was dental surgeon to the Qld Soldiers, I-Iome. After that institution fell into decline, he had to shift for himself and said he was just barely making a living out of his practice. I-Ie insisted a man couldn't live properly on the paltry SI0,000 per year he was making. I extended my sympathy to him for his hardships and was just about to depart when I noticed a trolley car pass the door. With pride, Woodie pointed at the car and remarked Those cars have it all over those Sunday night cars to Lancastern. All I could say was I guess you know, Woodie.'7 On to Batavia at lightning speed, and stopped directly in front of Bill Maulis oiqice. Bill had a device which was quite original and exclusive in plate work. The idea was a bulb in between the molars. When the patient bit into anything the bulb was compressed, throw- ing great air pressure against the palatal portion which forced the plate to remain in place. I-Ie said it also prevented the teeth from rattling when the patient was walking. Gus Ebling was across the street, as the strains of piano music clearly indicated to me. Gus gave me the glad hand and told me he declined a scholarship in a conservatory of music in Berlin in order to perfect and manufacture a new wash basin which was entirely dif- ferent from the one he used one night after a party during college days. Soon after leaving Batavia we arrived in Buffalo. The first place of importance I came to was the NG. A. I walked in, and as it was nearly five o'clock the place was filled with a crowd of students and a few human beings hitting up the free lunch. I looked around and could hardly believe my eyes when I saw Bode and Kiefer bal- ancing 'fschupersi' in their hands in such a way that the contents landed in their oral cavities. They seemed glad to see me and offered to buy a drink. CNever proposed such offers while in collegej I declined and inquired about their practices. Kiefer had just edited a book on extraction which introduced his latest method called the f'Wiffelbat lVIethod'7. It seems you pour sand down the patient's throat to give him something else to think about while you extract. After the extraction a vacuum cleaner is inserted in the oral cavity and the sand withdrawn. Rather clever, I thought. Bode was local agent Cselling Kolynos Dental Creamj-Prophylaxis taught free. 58

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THE REFLEC o 32 ' V T R t E? to be done. Doc was the extracting and laboratory member. Newell had established a little church of his own and still retained the title Brother7'. At this time Tench walked in the oHice, and while I talked with him he informed me he was on the governing board of the faculty, also president-emeritus of the new National Federation of Mustache Clubs, not to speak of head of the Y. M. C. A. White Hopel' Mission Class. He told me Schwartz now had an automobile, and for his evening exercise would drive around his old mail collecting route. Ed wasnit positive, but was willing to wager the same horse was on that route now that he drove while in college. The reason he deduced that was because every time he drove by the wagon the horse turned around and laughed at him. Evans was also in Buffalo enjoying a large practice as well as a large family. He still wonders what became of the platinum post he put in a root canal when in college. Pawlowslci I learned became tired of dentistry after practicing ten years and was president of the A. A. U., as well as U. S. Rep- resentative at the Qlympic Games. He conducted a jewelry story for one year, to sell all the prizes he won at athletic meets in Buffalo. Lay, I was given to understand, had returned to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to practice and from there had given to the dental profession a new and valuable substitute for guttapercha. He discovered soft coal could be molded and used as a temporary stopping in place of the guttapercha. In his spare time he was a cartoonist for a New York paper, as the originator of a new and popular series known as 'fjutt and Meff. H Moore went to England to practice orthodontia. In his office in London he had a cabinet for his models Qplaster, of courseb, just as Dr. Hoffman claimed to have, and had set apart from the others the models he made while in college, including the ones he painted for Dr. Paclcwood in our junior year. He also had an elaborate col- lection of photographs which he had taken during the time he had been in England. 6o