Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-08-10

or ten years ago, arrived in Teheran,
the capital of Persia, and had hardly
begun to practise when a royal
courtier rushed into mis- Office with
the news That the Shah's brother was
suffering from toothache. The den.
fist hurried to the palace, but there
he found that the hostility OF the
! courtiers toward such an innovation
as an American dentist-they pro-
nounced 1t american numbug"-haa
already persuaded the monaco to put
himself in tle hands of local
practitioner, no other than the court
barber. DR.. Wagshall returned to his
office and the august patient stretch
ed himself on the floor of his palace,
with the barber kneeling over him
armed with determination and pair
of tweezers. There is reputed to
have been one twist OF the tweezers,
a good, loud royal yell from the
patient, a court barber being nur-
ried off to prison, and a court mes
senger again speeding in search of
the exponent of western civilization
in dentistry.
This time the opposition of the
courtiers was useless, the tooth was
pulled under more civilized conditions,
and DR.. Wagscnall became dentist to
! the Shan's brother. The royal teeth
| had been long neglected and it was
necessary to make set of new ones,
with which the patient was so pleased
that ne decided then and there to pen.
counts DR.. Wagschall was suing his
patient for over $4,000 worth of I'M
paid pension. DR. Wagschall's ex,
perience, however, is hardly so tempt
ing to the American student-dentist
a" that of many another American
dentist now practising in Europe
whose name has never come so
prominently before the public.
The sign American Dentistry which
greets the traveller abroad in practi.
cally every known language, does rot
necessarily mean That the man who
displays 1t Is a native-born American.
Large numbers of foreigners come
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dentistry. Another goodly regiment
lave studied here and then gone back
| to the lands of their forefathers to
practice. And still another strong
element in the American dentistry of
Europe consist of Americans who
have gone abroad to make their
fortunes in this particular profession.
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was the first anywhere established as
I, part of an important American uni
Versity and Is, of course, typical Of
the conditions at other leading
schools in the United States, one
finds such names as Varaztad Hovan-
mes Kazanjian, Simon Vartan
Pazeian, Willem Matthias van den
Brock, Rafael Torruela, Moses Alex
ander Chertok, Nathaniel Abraham
FiEkelstein and others that hardly
suggest a very long line of American
ancestry Although the American
students are naturally in the great
majority, one finds also that students
whose names are less distinctively
foreign looking have been gatnered
from every corner of the civilized
world-from New Zealand, China.
Australia, Canada, Turkey, Germany.
Ireland, Holland, France and South
Africa. In other words, we make dem
lists for Europe out OF her own raw
material quite as much as we supply
the rest of the world with practitioners
who are the final product of our own
public school and professional system
of education
The American dentist finds plenty
of opportunity abroad. Even in this
country, where 1t is estimated that
100000 in gold yearly disappears
In filling for the national teeth. any.
thing approaching general care of
the teeah is matter of the last two
or three decades. In many parts of
the continent-througho the peasant
population of Russia, for instance
the mes of native operators are
SO unskilled and barbarous that PEG.
pie will suffer an extremity OF torture
before they will permit themselves to
be treated" In the agricultural
classes of every country dentistry is
practically an undreamed-of luxury;
while in such centers of civilization
as Paris or Berlin. where the home
dentist Is trained practitioner, his
American rivals superior training
makes him a dangerous and success
fui competitor.