The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-13
AMERICAN DENTISTS IN EUROPE

AMEhlCAN DENIlSlS IN EUROPE.
The Paris correspondent of the New York Tunes
saws:
will not pretend to explain why dentistry in
Europe is so far behind that in the United States
1t is most singular that, in France, where surgery
and the accessories of the toilet have been brought
to the highest perfection the art of the dentist
should have been left so completely in the rear
Until very lately, the art was ranked among tire
lowest OF trades; a dentist was in fact but puer
of teeth, and one of the commonest expressions in
French is to this day, an n,ent CONNIE an az
rachear de deatsP' (He lies like dentist or a
ooth-pulier.) 1t was not until American dentists
settled in France that the art at all respected
or indeed deserved to be respected.
Mr.. Brewster was the pioneer of American
dentists in Europe. He settled in Paris in 1886
and soon became the dentist of Louis Philippe,
the Gar Nicholas, and other monarchs. He was
bought out by Mr.. Thomas W. Evans of Lancas-
ter, Penn, in 1850, who, with his brother Theo-
dore, now continues the business. These gentlemen
not only maintain the position ceded them BY Dr.
Brewster, but they have extended it. They are
the dentists to the courts of France, Russia Bava-
Saxony. With such high protection it NAV be
readily conceived that the practice of these gen.
tlemen is immense. Besides the Legion of Honor
granted to the elder brother by the Emperor O
France, both the brothers have received decora-
lions and rich gifts from the other monarchs by
whom they are employed.
Mr.. James Fowler, formerly partner of the de-
ceased Harvey Burde, afterwards established in
years ago, and went into business as a dentist on
the Boulevard des ltaliens in partnership with a
French merchant by the name of Preterre the lat
ter furnishing the funds for the establishment of
the house. AT the end of three years. however
Mr.. Fowler sought and obtained before the tribu-
mails dissolution of the partnership, and at once
established new house in the Place de la Made
lelnc. Since his residence in Paris this gentleman
has made several pieces in gold for the replacement
of lost parts, which excited the establishment and
the admiration of the Academy of Medicine and of
the entire faculty of Paris Among these were an
entire lower jaw in gold with the teeth affixed,
several upper jaws, obturators, etc. Although not
new in America, it the first time any successful
attempt of the kind had been made in Europe and
Mr.. F. Is now in the enjoyment of tirst-rate repu-
tation and practice Mr.. Preterrc obtained work
man from the United States of the name of Fowler,
and is continuing the business at the old place I'M
der the name of Fowler IL Preterre.
MIR. Horner, of Philadelphia, is partner in the
iong-established English house in the Rue de Luxem-
oourg, which now bears the name of Stevens Wat
son Horner This is the largest and richest dental
establishment in the world, its income reaching
100000 a year. Gold work. however, has onlg
been introduced into this house since the entrance
OF Dr. horner Previously, their artificial piec IS
were made of hippopotamus entire and deca yed
teeth were filled with amagams-the ancient
French and English system.
;, DR.; Gage, formerly of Mobile, has also estab-
other, is doing good business Mr. Potter, an
American dentist who has practced in Bombay
and Lisbon, has been for some years established in
this city and lately took into partnership dentist
of New York, Mr.. Crane.
DIR. Parmly, formerly of New Orleans, an elder
brother of DR.. Eleazor Parmly, of New York, has
been practising dentistry for three wears past npon
children In the schools of Paris and London, till an
attack OF typhoid fever followed by partial paraly-
sis, disabled him from the active pursuit of his pro
iesslon. lie continues to reside in Paris however
and gives advice to families and schools in regard
to the care OF the mouth in young people
A gentleman who announces himself to the pub-
nc as an American dentist, DR.. Koth ''formeriv of
the United States, late dentist to her Majesty the
Queen OF Spain," has established himself in Par
Is, within month. DR.. Koth, according to his
circular, speaks English, German, Spanish and
Swedish
As was passing rapidly in a carriage few DAYS
ago. through an obscure quarter of the Faubourg
ST. German, had hasty glance at a sign which
had evidently just come from the painters hands.
and which bore the words Dentiste Americaine pre-
coded by name of the purest Gallo origin So
you see how the current is running
SO widespread is the reputation of American
dentistry, that the teeth of nearly every monarch
in Europe are filled, pulled and replaced by Ameri-
cans, or soi-distant Americans. Thus, as have al
ready mentioned, the Evans of Paris, are the den.
lists to the Courts of France, Russia, Bavaria,
" W urtemDurg and some other smaller States. At
Rome, DIR. Burgess, an American, is the principal
dentist; at Madrid it is DR.. McKeehan, another
American. The principal dentist of Berlin is DR..
Abbott, OF Bangor, Maine, while the Court dentist
IS German who studied in America, and who calls
himself In consequence American dentist At
Vienna, where it is almost impossible for n foreipn
err to get permission to do business Dr. North also
OF the State of Maine, has rapidly gained the first
pos, TIC. among the arstocracy although he has
to Vienna Mr.. North was obliged by the police re-
strlctions from giving any publicity, either by ad-
vertisements or by sign at the door While
slowed away privately in the upper part of house.
wondering whether his enterprise was going to fail
or succeed, he was one day surprised at receiving
the visit of Prince Lchtenstein who came to oct
work done. The American complained of the
rlgors OF the police, and the Prince said to him,
"Never mind the police: take house to suit Won.
put your sign out, and if they trouble YOU come to
me-" Mr. North did as the Prince advised the
Prince sent his daughters and others of his rela-
tiVes and acquaintance and from that day the for
tune of DR.. North was a fixed fact. He numbers
now in his protectors not only the Lichtensteins
but the Metternichs and Schwartzenbergs.
In St. Petersburg, the aristocracy employ two
lrlshmen, brothers, who studied their profession
with DR.. Brewster, at Paris, and who call them
selves American dentists The principal dentist at
Hamburg is DR.. Cohen, who studied in America
and calls himself an American dentist The broth
ers Iellander, who studied dentistry in New York
do the Court and the principal business in Stock
holm and Christiana, the capitals of Sweden and
Norway There are few other dentists scattered
through the German Confederation, Germans bv
oirth, who received their professional education in
the United States, and who call themselves Ameri-
can dentists
At London Mr.. Ram, an American dentist. has
rapidly reached large practice, in exclusively
families. Another American, whose
name forget, has ais arrived at large practice
In London. At Manchester there has been an Amer
lean dentist for good many years. This closes
the chapter on dentistry.
Two American physicians are in practice in Paris,
1r Bigeiow, of Boston, and DR.. Beylard, of Phila-
delphla, both graduates of the School of Paris
The latter gentleman however, is of French origin:
he was two years house physician in the wards Of
Dr. Trousseau, at the Hotel-Dieu Both these gen
emen are doing well, but fortunately for the small
american colony in Paris, their business is not con-
fined exclusively to their countrymen