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

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IJr. Iltiiul, in liis valedictory In tlir uTadiiates, al ils first coninicinx-iiiciU exercises Marc ' n, 1841. says: You have been taug ' ht that denial surgery is not a new art separate from, and independent of, jjencral medicine; but that it is an important brancii of the science of healing. V ' ou have seen and traced out the exquisitely beautiful machinery by wliich the human organism is everywhere knit togetiier; you have carefully examined the phenomena of health and disease, as they are manifested in the dental arch, its connections and relations, and you have been taught to regard the human body as a whole, united in all its parts, and pervaded everywhere by strong and active sympathies; and your principles (jf practice have been carefully formed on a sound knowledge of general medicine and it is therefore that you nni«t be thoroughly educated in the fundamental branches of medicine as the medical man himself. The College was organized with the design of teaching dentistry as a regular brancli of medicine, and in order to denote the phenomenal progress of the old Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, we will start at the time of its birth, when there were about 1200 practitioners of detitistry in America, more than one-half of whom were ignorant, incapable men, whose knowledge was composed of a few secrets which they had purchased at fabulous prices from other charlatans. Three or four weeks they considered ample time in which to attain all the knowledge necessary to the successful pursuit of the calling. Hence contrast the past with the present. This is the sixty-first year of the career of the College with its prospects for usefulness brighter than ever- It has added to its faculty and clinical corps strong and active men. and is better equipped to carry out the purpose of its inception than at any period of its existence. The results of its work in sixty-one years are world-wide in their influence upon dentistry. Over nineteen hundred graduates have gone from this College into practice, and these are scattered all over the civilized world. They are located in nearly every city of Europe. They lead the profession in all the great centres of civilization and have won eminence in England, France, Russia. Switzerland. Spain and Italy. The have carried the honors of the institution into Asia, Australia, and the land of the pyramids, while in every State in our Republic they have demonstrated their own worth and the excellent training afforded them by their Alma Mater. The) ' have met with signal honor abroad, nearly every court dentist in Europe being a graduate of this institution. The present staff of instructors is composed of the following: 19

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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

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faculty. M. Will 1.1. DEN Foster, M.D., D.D.S., Dam a)id Professor of Therapeutics and Pathology. W ' li.i.i.vM B. Finney, D.D.S., Professor of Dental Mechanism, and Metallurgy . B. Holly Smith, M.D., D.D.S., Professor of Dental Surgery and Operative Dentistry. TiroxL s S. Latimer, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy. Wir.Li. M Simon, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Chemistry. Cii. RLES F. Be . n, AI.D., Clinical Professor of Oral Surgery. J. V. Cii. MBERS, Al.D., Professor of Anatomy . ' iLLi. M F. LocKWOOD, Al.D., Professor of Materia Medica. Lecturers. William F. Smith, A.B., M.D., Regional Anatomy. Edw. Hoffmeister, A.B., Pii.G., D.D.S., Materia Medica. J. N. Farrar, M.D., ' Q.T). ' i., Irregularities. George Evans, D.D.S., Crown and Bridge Work. Kasson C. Gibson, D.D.S., Oral Deformities and Fractured Maxillaries. John Walterhoi ' SL Lord, A.B., LL.B.., Counsel and Lecturer on Dental Jurisprudence. Cltntcal Instructors. WiLLi.- M G. Foster, D.D.S., Demonstrator of Operative Dentistry. George E. FIardy, M.D., D.D.S., Demonstrator of Mechanical Dentistry. Edw. Hoffmeister, A.B., Pii.G., D.D.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry. Hssistant Demonstrators. W. W. Du.xr.RACCo, D.D.S. C. R. Stewart, D.D.S. Geo. V. Milholland, D.D.S. J. C. Sutherland, D.D.S. L. F. Palmer, D.D.S. L. M. Parsons, D.D.S. Harry E. Kelsev, D.D.S. J. K. Burgess, D.D.S. C. S. Gore. D.D.S. L. D. CoRiELL, D.D.S. L. R. Pennington, D.D.S. H. H. Havden, AI.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy . C. F. Blake, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy .