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Nrw YoRK, May A. he small number
of women who adopt the profession OF
dentistry as compared vita those who go
into medicine is subject of frequen re-
mark There are not less than two dozen
successful women physicians, regular
graduates of medicalc lIeges, in New York
and Brooklyn. There are not two dozen
women dentists in the country. New
York, until March 4 of the present year,
had but one woman de ltist in independent
practice and possessed of degree. The
gradua ing cass of the Pennsylvania Deu-
tai College has just swollen the number to
three. Brooklyn has one woman dentist,
Philadelphia has three, Chicago has two,
Hartford and NV Haven each have ore;
Boston, the best city in the country for tbs
practice of women physicians, is for wo nen
dentists an unoccupied field
The first regularly graduated woman
dentist TO oren an Office in Ne York vas
Dr.. Olga Neymann, the slight, dark-eyed
daugh, er 81 Nine. Clara Neymann. the
well-known writer and lecture who has
been in practice on Madison avenue for
three years. Miss Neymann was Cor
nell ''coed," graduating in 1881. For two
years she knocked at tie )ors OF the New
York Dental Co lege, but no hospitaole
soul came to ask her in. Then she vent to
Philadelphia, and the P iladelphia Dental
College bade her take of her bJnnet and
gave her a Quaker welcome.
DR.. Olga met cordial greeting when she
came back TO New YORK e. make place in
a p ofession monopolized by m,n. All the
chivalry of deutistdom was called out by
her single-ha ded endeavor, or mo proba-
bly,, sucn is dental and other human nature,
by her piquant countenance. Sne was IN
vited TO the meetings of the FIRST Di trict
Dental Society, a d speedily elected t.
membership, being the only woman enjoy
ing that distinction. She has met with
mark, d success in her practice, the home
ike appointments of her pretty parlor and
the rim whi.e aprol of the girl dentist
gong far to rob the dreaded cnair OF lis
terrors.
Miss Neymann is emphatic in her COM
snendauion of dentistry as a p otession for
women. Like the woman physician, she
finds her practice largely a.. ong women
and children. The average woman, she
thinks, likes better TO have her N )uth
operated on by dentist of the sex mascu-
line, ut many mothers who employ male
dentists in their own cases send their little
people to her. If the woman dentist has an
especial advantage anywhere she thinks it
may be in the confidence inspired in chill
dren.
sAnd is it pleasant to be called on to work
for menr
II do not take men as patients except
suca as belong TO the families of my re- IL
lar clientele or come to me with refere ces
from people whom know refuse engage
meats TO t. EN- if strangers
"Do you expect any marked increase in
the mum .er of women de ltiat,"
'Yes, but it will co lie slowly. Women
look to medicine more naturally because
the woman physician has been longer es-
fablished and has created precedent easy
to follow. Some women, { o, have tuet
with marked success as physicians and made
regulations which attract Others Then
many ambitious wome have an idea thai
dentistry Is not scientific enough for them
Some think it is 100 difficult business for a
woman
dentists are not greatly beloved. Is
not the pain one infiicts drain on the
sympathlesw
Il do not find it so. lam PERFECTLY happy
at the chair. or course, one Is so ry to
cause pai !, and causes a, lit le as possible,
but eaca patent is a case. aud ersonai
feeii & is lost 10 the scientific Interest Of the
operation
as woman strong enough to extrect
teet p
A fursive glance at the white wrists re-
vealed very Supp.e ones.
Certainly, a woman can extract, if she
doesn'y obj ct to the distu 'Uance and
screaming. / don't do it except when alb
solutely necessary. But dentistry is becom-
ing specialized There are probably twenty
o. tue best dentists in the city whJ refuse
all cases Of extraction, so that b ancl Of
-
practice of dentistry is easier and pleas
anter, think than medici4e, because one
can enjoy ones home, aud there are no out
side calls no midnight summonses"
The New York Denial college does not
admit cir. udents though it has hid 10 the
aggi egate many applications. Its charte.
dies not forbid their masriculatiol, but the
trustees refuse women permi sion to regi,-
ter. Not long ago convention Of dentists
met in the city. There were two women
in attendance, who were pr fessionally in
terested, one of them Being a deAtlst in
practice in Pa ladelpaia, not graduate Of
any dental destitute, who made herself
somewhat C nsplcuou, and whose card bo
the inscription in capitals. FIRST woman
dentist in the world"
That's the sort of woman who would
rush in on us,n said DIR. Abbott, the Dean
of he faculty, and man of very eonser-
care in the leas I, a diploma, answered tue
more literally disposed.
Tue New York Dental College has had
one woman graduate, however, the Cou..-
tess SwIderska, of 81. Peoersuurg, who was
admitted quite a number of years ago. She
returned o Russia G. practices aud is pros
periag in the profession.
There are three denial schools in Phila-
delpbia; The Pennsylvania Dental College,
tie Phlladelahia DeAJa Colleg and lne
dental department of the Penns lvania
University. The first two admit women.
The Peansylva la DeAtal College has
graduated probably sixty girls. Curiously
enough the greater nupb.r OF these fair
bddting dentIsls are German inadsche !.
who have come TO Anne lea especially to
learn the profession for practice At home.
o. class containing ten lonng women
three 0r tour years ago olly two were
Amsrlcaus Women aentists succeed bet
ter Germany than women phys cans,
reversing the American RUE. DR.. lib .rtaus
Of berlia and DR.. Henrietta Hlrschleld, Of
the same city, were both graduated from
schools la the Uui e1 States, DR.. HIrscl-
field carryins of houors at tue Ciacin ali
College Of Dentistry There are women
dentists, largely educated in this country,
II Ire den, IN Col, gae and all rough tue
hhi provinces DIR. A ina Van Dae -
ming OF Vienna is the de it,J of the Z n
pres, OF Austria an DR.. r by Clifford II
Ioadon practices on Que N Victoria.
Tie Dental Depa. tment Of Michigan
University at Ana Arbor admits wo men
and Drs. Elsie Haleck aud Marcy Hum
phery have leld the position Of assistant
dem Jnstrator.