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

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THE MIRROR The American Journal of Dental Science. During the first year of its publication it was issued with some irregularity at the price of $3 per annum. It was printed in Baltimore. His next task was the creat- ing of faculties for educating men for the duties of the dental profes- sion; accordingly in the winter of 1839-40, he obtained signatures to a petition to be laid before the Legislature of Maryland for the incor- poration of a College of Dental Surgery, at Baltimore. After much opposition the charter was granted and Dr. Harris continued through life to exercise the duties of one of its most important professorships. In 1840 Dr. H. H. Hay den went to New York and Boston with the design of forming a Dental Society. Dr. Harris, among others, immediately responded to the call and the speedy result was the organi- zation of the American Society of Dental Surgeons. In 1840 he pubHshed a Monograph of the Physical Characteristics of the Teeth; in 1841 a Dissertation on the Diseases of the Maxillary Sinus. He also revised his Principles and Practice through sev- eral editions, and completed his Dictionary of Dental Science Biography, BibUography, and Medical Terminology. He also translated from the French the works of Delabarre. Through his labors for the profession and his unbounded generosity, although his practice was large, he died poor in the city of Baltimore on the twenty-ninth of September, 1860. HORACE H. HAYDEN was born at Windsor, Conn., October 13, 1768. He was remarkable from his childhood, and it is said that he learned to read almost as soon as he did to talk, and at once contracted that love for books which was so marked all through his life. While a boy he also mani- fested a great fondness for natural history which clung to him in after life. At ten years of age he began the study of classics, but, probably for the want of means, soon abandoned it and at the age of fourteen, in the humble capacity of cabin boy of a fine brig, he made two voyages to the West Indies. At the age of sixteen he became apprenticed to an architect until he became of age. He then pursued his business in the West Indies, 13

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33alttmore College of Bental g urserp Baltimore has justly been called the cradle of dentistry, as it was here that the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, which bears the distinction of being the oldest and for many years, the only dental college in the world, was conceived and brought forth; and here, also, the degree of D.D.S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery) was originated. The Uves of two men, Dr. Chapin A. Harris and Dr. Horace H. Hayden, are so closely interwoven with the history of our College as well as the history of the dental profession, that we can do no better at this time than to insert a short sketch of their lives. For this purpose we will make use of the sketches written by Charles McMa- nus, D.D.S., of Hartford, Conn. CHAPIN A. HARRIS was born in 1806, in Pompey, New York. He commenced his medical studies early in hfe and began practice in Ohio. His attention was called to dentistry by his brother, John Harris. Until after 1827, however, he gave but little attention to dental practice except to extract and clean teeth and insert a few fillings ; when, after studying Hunter, Fox, and Delabarre, he entered upon the exclusive practice of dental surgery. From 1827 to 1833 he traveled South and West, elevating the profession of dentistry and establishing his reputation. In 1833 he opened an oflEice in Baltimore and wrote largely on dental subjects. In 1839 he published his first edition of his Principles and Practice of Dental Surgery. With the end in view of preserving the experience of the profession, he visited New York and with some of the leading dentists of that city established a periodical devoted especially to the interests of the profession. Drs. Harris and Eleazer Parmly were joint editors of this periodical and, in accordance with the arrangement, the first volume was issued from New York, June, 1839, under the title- of 12

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THE MIRROR Connecticut and New York. While in the latter State he had occasion to call on Dr. John Greenwood (dentist) for his services, when the thought struck him that he would like to follow that profession. Obtaining such information as he could from Dr. Greenwood ' s instruc- tions and from his books, he went in 1804 to Baltimore, Md., to prac- tice the profession and labored to elevate the calling. To this end he commenced the study of medicine, and in later life the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon him both by the University of Maryland and the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. In 1814 he was appointed acting surgeon in the Thirty-ninth Regiment of Maryland Militia. About the year 1825 he was invited to read a course of lectures on dentistry before the medical class of the University of Maryland. He also contributed several papers to medical journals on his physio- logical researches. Having ever in mind the elevation of the dental profession, he, Dr. C. A. Harris and others sent a petition to the Legislature in Decem- ber, 1839, to establish a dental college, the faculty to consist partly of dental and partly of medical practitioners. The legislature having granted a liberal charter the college was founded with a faculty com- posed of the following named gentlemen: H. H. Hayden, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Pathology; R. W. Baxley, M.D., Professor of Anatomy; C. A. Harris, M.D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Dentistry; and Thomas E. Bond, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics. Although at the advanced age of 70 years Dr. Hayden entered upon the duties of the chair assigned him, and until the illness which ter- minated his life, he continued to exercise the duties of his profession and lectures to his class. In 1840 in Nev York, was held a meeting of the best dentists then in the profession, the outcome of which was the formation of the Amer- ican Society of Dental Surgeons. This outcome was chiefly due to the labors of Dr. Hayden, and he was unanimously elected President of the society and reelected each year until his death. He died on the twenty-sixth day of January, 1844, at the age of seventy-five. A remarkable feature of dentistry, a feature common to no other 14