In 1868 Harvard University did what she ought to have done at the outset. She opened a dental department and began the teaching of dentistry as a branch of medicine, establishing therefor a separate degree,—D.M.D.,—Den-tarioe Meclicince Doctor. In 1874 the University of Michigan established a dental department, and a little later the University of Pennsylvania did the same. These university schools gave an immensely widened scope to the study, which was made broader with each succeeding year.
There are now forty-five dental colleges in the United States. Forty of these are members of the National Association of Dental Faculties, organized for the purpose of securing uniformity in teaching and in graduating men. Membership in this association is a certificate of high standing and of comprehensive advantages.
Last year (1894) the number of students in dental colleges was 4979, while the number of graduates was 1208. At present nearly all the States have legislation governing the practice of dentistry, and often more strict than that regulating the practice of medicine. In New York the law places dentistry on precisely the same plane as medicine,—prescribes the same qualifications for matriculation, the same length of study, exactions for graduation, examination, etc. In other words, the law is quite as strict regarding admission to dental colleges as to medical. After 1897 at least a full high-school course will be demanded for matriculation, and from now on we may look forward to having a really educated dental profession.
INDEX.
INDEX.
Advances in other sciences, [153] Ægidius, [077] Æsclepiadæ, [011] Æsculapius, [007] Ætius, [049] Age of foundation, [012] Age of renovation, [012] Age of transition, [012] Agnew, D. Hayes, [295] Akenside, [213] Albiuus, [164] Albucassis, [063] Alchemists and charlatans, the, [187] Alchemy, [141] Alexander of Tralles, [050] Alexandria, library of, [031] school of, [032] Alkindus, [060] Ambulant physicians, [017] Amendment in medical affairs, [151] American teaching of to-dav, [298] Amphitheatres, dissecting, [111] Amussat, [269] Anæsthesia, history of, [300] Anatomic period, [012], [030] Anatomy and physiology of Galen, [039] Anatomy, chairs of, [111] Andral, [245] Andry, [177] Anel, [215] Animalculists, [183] Animism, [196] Animists, [183] Antiseptics, history of, [317] Antyllus, [051] Arabic period, [012], [057] review of the, [097] Archiaters, [053] Aretæus, [034] Argentier, John, [014]6
Aristotle, [028] Arlt, [253] Arnold de Villeneuve, [088] Asclepiades of Bytlunia, [044] Aselli, [160] Astrology, [141] Astruc, [138], [214] Aubrey, [183] Auscultation, [262] Avenbrugger, Leopold, [210] Avenzoar, [064] Averroës, [064] Avicenna, [061]
Bache, Franklin, [287] Baclitischua, [059] Bacon, Lord, [153] Bacon, Roger, [068] Baglivi, [162], [172] Baillie, [213], [224] Barba, [165] Barthez, [201] Bartholin, [161], [184] Barton, John Rhea, [293] Baseilliac, [214] Bayle, [245] Bell, Benjamin, [219] Bell, John, [219] Bell, Sir Charles, [219], [274] Bellini, [172] Benivieni, [114] Bernard, Claude. 247
Bernard the Provincial, [077] Bhang, [301] Bichat, [160], [162], [164], [208] Bienaise, [177] Bigelow, Henry J., [295] Bilguer, [215] Billroth, Theodor, [264] Blumenbach, [222] Boerhaave, [193] influence of, [168] Boerhaave's, clinics, [167] system of medicine, [194] theory of inflammation, [164] Bonnet, [270] Bordeu, [201] Borelli, [160], [172] Borri, [176] Botal, Leonard, [146] Boucliut, [259] Boyer, [267] Boylston, Dr., [279] Bouillaud, [244] Boulot, [177] Bourgeois, Louise, [166] Braid, Dr. James, [204] Braidism, [204] Brainard, Daniel, [295] Brasdor, [214] Brigham, [290] Brisseau, [178] Brissot, practice of bleeding by, [118] British surgeons, modern, [275] Brodie, Sir Benjamin, [273] Bronssais, [243] Brown, Dr. John, [200] Browne, Sir Thomas, [175] Brunner, [183] Brunonian doctrine, [205] Buck, Gurdon, [293] Bumstead, Freeman J., [289] Burking, [231]
Cabalistic theory, [141] Cæsareau operation, [134] Camper, Peter, [219] Cardan, Jerome, [142] Cardinal powder, [165] Carion, Stellwag von, [253] Casserius, [162] Cataract, [178] Cathedral medical schools, [089] Cell, the term, [153] Cellular pathology, [256] Celsus, Cornelius, [036] Cesalpinus, [155] Chamberlain's obstetric forceps, [166] Chapman, Nathaniel, [286] Charitable institutions, ancient, [055] Chemical system of medicine, [169] Cheselden, [216] Cheyne, John, [248] Chinese, medicine of the, [005] Chiron, [007] Chloroform, discovery of, [303] Simpson's introduction, [313] Chopart, [314] Circulation, capillary, discovery of, [158] discovery of the, [155], [160] lesser, [112] failure to discover the, [113] Civiale, [269] Clark, Alonzo, [288] Classification of the history of medicine, [012] Clinical teaching, earliest systematic, [167] Cloquet, [269] Cnidus, Temple of Æsculapius at, [009] Cocaine, [314] Coction, doctrine of, [024] Colics, Abram, [248] Collot family of lithotomists, [177] Colonial physicians, [276] Columbus, [107], [155] Compass, invention of the, [099] Constantine the African, [074] Contrastimolo, [210] Cooper, Bransby, [273] Samuel, [273] Sir Astley, [271] Cornelius Agrippa, [139] Corpuscles of the blood, [158] Corvisart, [168] Cos, [019] Temple of Æsculapius at, [009] Cosmogony, Greek, [013] Countess's powder, [165] Cowper, [158], [182], [183] Cox, John R., [286] Crisis, doctrine of, [025] Cruveilhier, [245] Cullen, William, [198] Currie, [229] Czermak, [253]