The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-21
SOME WOMEN DENTISTS.
FAIR OPERATORS WITH TREATMENT
SKILFUL, DEFT, AND DAINTY.

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| Peekskiii. New York. and Brooklyn
| Queen Victoria and the Empress OF Aus
tria Have Employed wom-n De.,ist..
| There are perhaps half dozen women now
practising dentistry In New York city, Tho
list might be longer. but matrimony is sad
| despoler OF the feminine professional career.
and one fair practitioner after another. sue
cumbing to tho attractions OF its more homely
| joys and cares. vanlshes entirely from the pub
lie gaze. II is not that their professional path
way is beset with insurmountable Obstacles.
| for they appear to learn to manipulate tho
army OF little steel instruments required by
the dentist as readily as that essentially
womanly implement. the needle.
In large city such robust work as extract
Ing teeth giving gas and SO FORTH can be- re-
| ferred to specialists. In a smaller place the
| work OF the woman dentist is more general
us is illustrated In the case of bright little
woman in Peekskill. DR.. Emma C. Wygant
was horn into tho profession. so to speak.
With a grandfather who practiscd dentistry
| for over forty years and father who has fol-
lowed in the same footsteps for thirty years. IL
is not strange that her talents should have
had mechanical bent or that her first recol-
lection should DO of fussinG with dental i'm
| plementa 1t was second nature for her to
| assist In the Office. talk business" to the
| patients, and win their confidence. A practi-
| cal office experience makes n good foundation
| for n two years college course and DIR. Wy
CANT was not a novice when she took up her
practice regularly after n course ut the Penn
sylvana College OF Dental Surgery
| All kinds OF work fall To her share filing
extracting. giving gas. and the moro mechani-
cal part of dentistry. which latter work she
turns over to her father, unless requested to
give 1t her personal attention When possible
she limits her work at tho chair to six hours a
| day. Exercise with dumbbcls. rowing. and
| bicycling give hor good firm muscles and
steady nerves. and mon. women. children. oil
| come under her skilful hands. Little children
| nre less afraid OF woman dentist than Of q
man. and DR.. Emma Wygant thinks they
would be less difficult to treat IL unwise elders
would refrain from posing as martyrs. and re-
| lating thrilling tales Of tortures suffered in tho
| dental chair She does not agrec with other
dentists that men are not as courageous in
who D ess as MS@n and finds them on
| ono OF the first women to take up dentistry
In New York city is now. after six years ex-
r. what Is called u strictly private practice.
Women. children. and men come to hor-the
patient or friend. Her little office looks very
| attractive on warm summer day. with its
and ssa Hs S0k r Es Ire ss r nS
coo-looking chintz. The mistress OF the es-
IT'LL n Looks equally pretty and cool
and a certain air Of decision that must be a
m S tai of strength to timid patient. =,
suffering of a patient affect the steadin.ss Of
yo your, nerves. o the quick reply comes: :" am
The course, at a dental college comprises a
regular LAR medical Sousss including the dssect.
weeks at the college the student begins ns her her
| practice, but 30 it Is. During that time the In
s sttn have bern m purchased and the use
best use OF her eyes and ears while the other
operators have been at work. and when her
tooth as the uninitatei might imagine. but
upon genuine tooth in its proper location in
s s"o c OF rse p9ten inns mrs sst "hsratn
demonstrutor standing by to oversee It. Two
This tanHTi to i0f hass
People who could not AFFORD It wer. It more re
extensive; many shop girls and servants are
Eesn known to ind their way into tot" the dis" dig
e"vcrins the cost Of the material. Here %ef the
student has hrr first experience in winning
ronI EHrs and SECURING patronage and she
Of great heno'it to her in the amount and variety
| OF work it gives.
women and children. beg inning with friends.
and gradual y widening into q broader circle
I.N'Td'ilue lIltS 40 lOt ike. but u more eS-
tensive field Of work IL that done by Dr. Carrie
| Wolsbruck. who obtained her education from
Era G55aetea sxerience and n5bvate s Gstrueton
woman graduate Of the New York State Dental
Association. and carried of high ilonors. Sc.
| cured by practical work performed before the
| Board: Her first steps in the profession were
made in assisting for number of years a we'll
Reputation for extracting teeth. and there nS are
no branches of dentistry which she does not
| understand.
Except for the sinister associations Of the
| operating chairs ready for use back OF tho
SPACIOUS nar2r, everything is very comfort,
c"olness Should te Gsseminatcd by ha ii
dozen life,;:sze! Jnpan"S, frogs which ,appear
couple more on the logs in the fireplace seem
to b., searching for shady brooks ana still
the chandelier. Dr. woIsbruck. Who o is ali ali
ready for business. unites to her excellent
teeth hf Of being sna able hail. nns
oE cSms wthn her 9 d
gilist who mt one time stood up~or went
down-bctore the great and only John L..
doc III" Wrestler. They sat down and me had
thor teeth out like gentlemen., sh. says In
than women. she has found for while a woman
is saying, " DO you r,eaythnk you can do it p
nan sits down and out comes his tooth in
influence q gas and may knock things around
rather bndly. but though She shows yoM the
~
| bruck has never been obliged to call assist
ance at such times.
There is not ono woman in so. 900 who Is
| equal to tho strain required In the dental pro-
| fession." SO says DR.. Carman Of Wall street.
| who thinks that the ordinary run OF women
have not the necessary qualifications t. mako
| the right thing must he done at Just the right
moment, and i sympathy or lack Of nerve
| n suffering patient the result will 10 unsatis.
| factory. Yet Il was through his influence that
profession which she has followed SO success,
| fully. Ont OF the many students he has tutored
in the course Of thirty years practice. he con-
| sidors his daughter. the most expert. ono
son OF DR.. Carman has entered the profess
| sion, and another daughter assisted him
for n few years. hut neither OF them
| has shown tho, particular aptitude of DR..
Julia. out OF n class OF ninety -one students at
college She carried .Ir the highest. honors.
Men going into the o. office on Wall street are
Operating there but when they become sceHf,
tho work she does. In her fathers absence
Dr. Julia takes thu. entire charge OF the ofco