Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-26
GOLD FOIL.
Tennessee Dental AssOciatiOn-Last
Days ProceedinGs-A Number OF
Interesting Papers Read and Dis
cussed-The Next Meeting Of the As
ISOLATION 10 be held in this City.

| Interesting Papers Read and Dis
cussed-Ttie Next Meeting of the IS
ISOLATION 10 be held in this City.
AT 81 O'Clock clinics were given at the
Office Of DR.. Morgan, and the Association
again came together at 10 o'clock. DIR. II
L. Beach, of GAINESVILLE was elected 10
membership.
The discussion of DR.. MOrgan's paper on
irregular teeth was announced in order,
and he exhibited an appliance he had used
for correcting an irregular arrangement OF
the front teeth.
DIS. Freeman and Beech each exhibited
models aud appliances illustrative of cases
of this kind. These were passed around,
and discussed al length by all present.
DR.. Morgan read memorial of the late
DR.. I. Il. Hamblin, and the Secretary was
instructed TO preserve memorial pages in
the record of the Society upon which TO
enter this paper and similar one to be
prepared relative to the death of DR.. NJ.
| McCarty, of Pulaski.
Amotion to set apartthe hour off O'Clock
for the election Of officers prevailed. Ad-
jOurned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Society met at 2 o'clock and pro-
! ceeded at once to the election Of officers.
The following named are the officers for
ensuing year:
President, E. 5. Chisholm; 1st V. p.
r. K. Freeman; I'd V. p, L. G. Noel,
Recording Secretary, J. S. King; Cores
pOnding Secretary, 5. J. Cobb; Treasurer,
j. C.. Ross; Executive Committee, A. +.
Claywell, w. II. Morgan, and j. Ii. Web
Der.
DR.. Morgan was elected delegate to the
next meeting of the Southern Dental Az
ISOLATION, at st. Louis, and DR.. Freeman a.
ternate. Drs. Herman, Ross and Noel
Were elected delegates from this Society to
the American Dental Association meeting
at Detroit in August next.
The next subject upon the published
programme was then taken up, viz: "What
are the various materials used in filling
teeth, as well as the different methods of
using them, and under what circumstances
should one be preferred to another" On
this subject DR.. Noel read an essay, in
which the relative merits Of cohesive and
non-cohesiye gold were discussed.
The paper was in the main
a vindication of cohesive gold as attacked
by an English writer, and was supported
by experiments made before the ASsOcia-
ton. After its reading, these preparations
of gold were largely discussed, and results
compared.
DR.. Morgan entered protest against the
manner in which the terms hard and soft
had been employed t6 distinguish between
cohesive and non-cohesive gold. He said
cohesive gold should be as soft as non
cohesive when properly manufactured, and
that it IS now being made so by
our best manufacturers of gold foil.
The discussion upon this subject was
spirited and lengthy, there being those pres
ent, who took strongeXceptiOns tOthe use of
the mallet, in restoring of the contour of
the teeth when lost by decay, and to many
other plans of treatment regarded as adj
vances upon old methods.
The newly elected and retiring Presi
dents, DTs. Chisholm and Russell, each
made relevant and well-chisOn remarks on
the occasion of entering and retiring from
Office.
A vote of thanks was accorded DR.. Free
man for furnishing 10 the Society pleasant
rooms in which to meet. Adjourned to
meet again in this city on the fourth We'd
neSday in June, 1870.
The Association had a very pleasant and
profitable meeting. The art of dentistry is
as much a progressive one as any, and the
convention, which is found to be a conve-
nient round in the ladder of progress to
other professions and arts, is made means
of great improvement by dentists. No
doubt the essays and debates of the AssO-
citation just adjourned will be found of
much benefit by the members in their
practice. But the meeting was one of real |
pleasure, as well as profit, and not the least |
of its good results will be the pleasant re-
collections of the fraternal gathering, 10y |
which a new life is infused into the pro- |