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

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JUIBRARY BALTIMORE COLLEGE ; : ' RGERY.

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Regrets Say! have you ever thought, boys.. How the time lias flown away And the three short years we spent here. So happy, so merry and say. Xow let us just consider, boys, And think of the future at hand: Will we be successful dentists, Shall our work lie in demand ' . ' We all have our trials and troubles. Xo matter how good we might lie But whatever we do. let us do it right, And have our conscience light and free. — Anon. 18

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The Dentist and the Guy Will you step into my parlor? Said the dentist to the guy. ' Tis the swellest dental parlor That ever you did spy. Xow have that tooth extracted You no longer need refrain ; In my modus operandi There is not the slightest pain. So you step across the threshold Of his cunning little lair And he lands you very quickly In his cushioned dental chair. There he props your mouth wide open. He ' s a humane sort of guy, And he asks you twenty questions When he knows you can ' t reply. Then a drill that would lie famous On the Panama he takes And Vesuvius is an infant To the earthquake he creates. After weary hours of torture. Having hammered, ground and drilled. Gleefully he then assures you That the nerve must now be killed. ()li. the agony you suffer — Words can scarce describe the pain. While the dentist blandly tells you Of his methods safe and sane. And he keeps right on tormenting With his hammer, file and saw In a manner most distracting To that molar in your jaw. Through this pain excruciating- Staring at you all the while There ' s a mural decoration Asking why you do not smile. ' Well, you ask me how I know this — Where I got this blooming hunch ? Let me tell you, gentle reader, That T had the toothache once. 20