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

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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

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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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I T1-IE REFLECToRg 32 Xl f V Palleyesch and Pelcyger had gone to Austria and opened an office in conjunction with one another. Palleyesch was extracting and his partner was the operative man. Both were doing well and striv- ng for McKee,s prize. As it was getting dusk, and realizing that I still had a few stops to make I hastened back to the machine and soon found myself in Dunkirk. Here I called on my old friend lX4cKnight. Mac was having remarkable success with his new system of extraction by natural hot air Qcommonly known as bullj, he used to extract eight teeth under ether nights in his sleep at the frat house while pursuing the mystic charm of knowledge. We never thought it would come to pass. He also gave a series of lectures at Drohenfs Theatre, on 'CI-Iow I wooed and won Willis Maul for my bride-in four parts. I told jim I would be up to call on him in the spring and departed. On to Michigan we fiew, and descended at Lansing. The only one I knew here was 'cjawnn Dickson, the f'Wolverine bear-cat , so it did not take me long to find him. john told me he still tested his vulcanizer by running it up to 32,0 degrees-if it didnat blow up it was safe. I-Ie looked very prosperous. CI-Iis hair was combed.D I left john, returned to the airboat and was soon in Detroit. On walking down the street, I saw a shingle, 4'Dr. W. E. Kay, M.D., D.D.S.7' I rang the bell and was pleasantly surprised to have the call answered by the doctor himself. I-Ie looked just the same as in the old days. I inquired about his practice and was informed that it was confined to oral surgery, due to a novel method. I-Ie attended all the boxing exhibitions in ringside seats, and when a contestant received a blow on the jaw, Doc would drop his professional card in the ring. It must have kept him busy, for his lab man was making six splints at the time. As I was leaving, I inquired for Sullivan's address, and was quickly directed to Lysander Street. I found my old bed partner in short time, and was soon seated in his reception room. I-Ie was specializing extraction. After remov- ing many teeth he would recommend a mouth wash of Blackis I-2-3, followed by large doses of sal hepatica. If these failed, he ordered an internal bath for the patient and proudly remarked he had never seen a case of anything that this failed to clean up. I-Iis pet theory of college days was at last practically realized. i 61