University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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w P 1 ■ij ' -■SiiAAS , k ' , lt • r- m Dr. Cyrus M. Gingrich was born in Dauphin County, Pa., in 1853. During the year 1876 he was graduated from the ' Maryland Dental College, which was afterwards merged into the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. In 1890 he was elected President of the Maryland State Dental Association of which organization he had been a valuable member for three years. At the present lime he is also a member of the Maryland State Examining Board. Dr. Gingrich was appointed by the Faculty of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery to the position of Clinical Instructor to demonstrate the manipulation of non-cohesive gold, of which he is an ardent advocate. Dr. Thomas Sollers Waters was born in Montgomery County, Md., March 11, T842. He was educated at Brook- ville Academy and Calvert Hall College, New Windsor, and studied dentistry under Dr. Philip Austin. He attended the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery for two terms, graduating in 1865. He was for a number of years Demonstrator of Operative Dentistry and later of Mechanical Dentistry at his Alma Mater, and at present is Chief Clinical Instructor. Dr. Waters is a member of American Dental Association, Southern Dental Association, honorary member of Dental Society of New York and Central Dental Association of New Jersey, President Maryland State Dental Association and President of National Association of Dental Examiners. 16

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History of Baltimore College of Oental Surgery. T WILL PROBABLY be news to most persons to know that Baltimore has the distinction of having instituted the first dental college in the world, and of having originated the degree of D.D.S., Doctor of Dental Surgery, now used in all parts of Europe, and wherever modern science has gained recognition throughout the world. Yes, such is the case. For many years the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery was the only institution of its kind in existence. It was chartered in 1839 by the Act of the Legislature of the State of Maryland, the following gentlemen constituting the faculty: H. H. Hayden, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Pathology: A. W. Baxley, M.D., Professor of Anatomy; C. A. Harris, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Dentistry: and Thomas E. Bond, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics. For this reason Baltimore may be said to be the cradle of dentistry and the dental profession. Perhaps of no other profession can it be said, as of dentistry, that its evolution is embraced within the span of one human life. The practical inauguration of the new college presented a difficulty well known in America, when professors often outnumbered students. At length five legitimate students of dentistry were fou nd to covet the honor of the new title D.D.S., and the first course of instruction was given in the winter of 1840-41. The didactic lectures were delivered in a small room, publicly situated, but the teachings of practical anatomy demanded privacy, and other prudential considerations also suggested the use for that purpose of a secluded stable loft, the prejudice of the community against dissection having shown itself some years before. lb