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DR ELEAzAR PARMLY-Dear Sir: The reply to my
letter published in the Dental Recorder for December, ap
pears in The Tribune Of this morning The Recorder was
the medium through which expected your answer, but 1t
appears the editor refused insert your communication
account Oiits length
The very courteous you have given prompts me
IN return to respond your inquiries in the respect
full manner The language aseribsd to you differs from
phrase which you sed yourself While speak
ing the State Society of Dental Surgeons you said it was
formed by Amalgam dentists. and the Amsgam society
but you did that 1t was formed for an Amagam So
ciety neither did | thus write it. The word for a.
first supposed committed by the printer, but
on speaking with the editor he stated that It his usua
practice to erase or substitute words when the sentence
would be rendered perfect thereby and that such
the case this instance The addition Of this word for
changed the cOnside ably, a. observed when my
attention after had read the proof was called to It,
The substance Of The inquiries contained in your letter
which YOU require answers TO- will now proceed with
First If the falsehoods and the practices OF the
Crswcours msde them morally and professionally dishonest
why are not American Amseam dentists equally 90 2"
American Amagsm dentists equally so, shonld they
purtue the same course OF practice which was condemned
Seoogd~ What Is the difference between the dishonesty
OF Euglsbman who called jew and thai OF an Amer
lean who is called Christian" Their dishonesty Is the
same. vet If we to lake the Crawcours and Sc
veIal other dental Jew swnders as specimens, should
rsiae 10 lie opinion without beItaton that the Jew
would in moral point Of view out Herod the Christian.
Third VIII you tell me II the members OF the Society OF
Denial Surgeons Of the Stale of ork have ever taken
stems 10 discourage discontinue the OfAma gam J"
The Society have taken any steps one way or the
olher Many OF the members use Amalgam occasionally
and perhaps frequently while there others who do not
use it, have had opportunities Of sssocatug with the
members Of the Society very generally, and do not be-
eve there member but that considers far inferior TO
Fourth "Would it not be gratifying to professional
honesty hesr that lead sold for hing teeth
Than materials for making Analgamp II would be qaiIe
gratifying in my estimation II we were to use gen
eTa filling for the teeth either OF Amagam or lead should
choose the latter have witnessed cases IN when lead
has remained the teeth and preserved them from urther
decay for than twenty years. yet DO not believe
lead is good filing for teeth
FUh-"I Ii ANA gam is what The Crawcours and their
followers say is why should II not be used not Only gen
orally but uHiversalycoud you recommend lsad as the
best filling for teeth and be professionally honest " Anal
gam what the CTsweours and their followers say II is, Il
might be used generally but is not we have proved na
they were Rposers and swinders and the testimony Of
such Witnesses would be believed under oath No one
could recommend lead as the besnng ana De az the same
time professionally honest.
have thus briefly and perhaps quite lmperfecuy,
sweTed your heterogeneous, and will now give my own
opinion on The subject OF Amalgam believe hH any pre-
psraon 10 which mercury forms component part ought
BOZ 10 be emp owed as an ordinary stopping teeth and
would recommend any such material, except
perhaps, in those extraordinary cases mentioned IN my
letter addressed 10 you In the Recorder have oilen VII
messed the deletehOas influence OF Amagsm upon the v
Ing well upon dead teeth. Thousands OF teeth have
been destroyed that lad been filed with amagam hch
under different treatment, might have been preserved
Or Gosdby's letter which s appended 70 your commu-
uicaon furnishes lair example OF the Pernicious enden
cy of any preparation 10 which mercury s combined and
proves coEcusvey that although the nerve OF tooth may
not be exposed al the une u IS ne1 YET fo ne pefhea
ing influence Of Amagsn the pulp subsequently becomes
involved and the destruction Of the tooth apt soon TO fol-
low.
DIR. c. S Brewster, the celebrated American dentist liz
Paris while on visit 10 this city, remarked that
"hPamly and Harris, aided by the American Journal OF
Dental Science hsd successfully opposed the intro
ducton Of Amagam lcoad hare become general" and
he might have added 70 ne dgr0ce and Iazy Of dental
science
II s admitted throughout Europe and, believe, in al
foreign countries, thai the dental ranks higher ia the
United States than In Rny other nation Of the world and
no better commentator Of the you have pursued
could be given than the fact that you have stood the head
OF the profession in this City for tran thirty years
during which time you have from The svsls OF your pro-
fesson. only acquired immense fortune bat a. The
present time occupy the highest position IN the Baltimore
College Of Dental Surgeons.
I remain, very respectfully, yours. sc.
HARVEY BURDELL.