The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-11
The Fourth Annual Session Of the vir.
etnia State Dental Association.
SECOND DAY

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| Pursuant to adjournment the Virgnis
state Dental Association met yesterday morn.
ing at 103 o'clock, the President. DR.. Thack.
ston, In the chair. -..i
| The minutes of Tuesday were read and
approved. ,
land Dental College, of Baltimore city, were
introduced to the Association and invited to
seafs amongst the members, and also to par
ticipate in the deliberations Of the AsSocla'
| tion.
: The first business claiming the attention OF
the Association was the reading of the re-
! mort Of the Committee on Dental Physiology,
| which had been postponed until this morn
| ing's session. ,...---
| On account Of the absence of the chairman
of the committee (Dr. Grant,, owing to
Eillness in his family, DR.. Wood presented the
Erenort. which was received and discussed
| Its great length prohibits even synopsis OF
/ so much as would be of interest ID the pub
DIR, Johnston rejoiced at the character oi
Ethe report, that it contained such full allu'
/ sion TO the dental organs, whilst reports on
the subject generally took such wide
range.
Professor Coy approved entirely of the re-
mort, and that surely no dentist could make
| correct diagnosis without being gooo
pbysiologist. It was one of the necessities
of the age.
Dr. T6ackston took the floor and spoke in
/ commepdatory terms of the report. The
main force of the paper dweit upon the true
Inv and doctrines of advanced physiology.
This research must be perseYered In, for the
accented physiologist Of to-day is the modi-
fed pbysiologist Of tomorrow. Day Dy day
nrogress is made. He urgently requested
the Association to dwell IN constant study
mon this subject. He had nothing new to
nresenf, as the report bad apparently covered
she entire ground which the time OF the AS
4 sociation could be occupied Wltn. Let eacn
one verify by his own researches Tue poihts
| presented in the report.
ON motion the further discussion OF the
! report was dispensed with.
| nr Moore. chairman Of the Commlttee oh
| Dental Pathology, presented report, "nle1
treated most especially of the. patnologlcai
| condition of exposed nerves, &c. ....
| DR.. Thompson took up the su1Ject, re-
ferrine more particularly to the applications
tn me iIsed In the treatment of its pathology.
caIeordition, preferring the combination OF
iodine With the arsenical preparation.
DR.. Johnston did not agree with the re-
port in the use. of the arse1ical preparations
He had found great difficulty arising In com;
batting the pain which so frequently followed
| its applications, and such cases were NOR more
| ant *, give trouble in future. He preferred
1 iodine and creosote. BE had charge OF
| school of sixty or seventy young ladies, and
in bis practice often met with cases in Whlct
i there were many diseased teeth in which ths
nerves had been destroyed and the flilng'
nIaeed in without the proper removal Of tn
nerves. BE had used with much success IN n
salt water, Us advised at the last session. ~ :,
reaped more benefit from us lailules slia h;.,
from his successes, as the former urged hin
! to redoubled diligence.
Dr. Moore asked If abscess did not as ofte'
j result from the use of oxychlorlde OF I'm
as from arsenic. - ~ -,
4 Dr. johnston replied that they did mol
He ol.en found that thsmepby tic gas H'sin