Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-08-14

or ten years ago, arrived in TeheT
the capital of Persia, and had ha1
begun to practise when a 70
courtier rushed into mis- office "
the news That the Shah's brother
suffering from toothache. The d
fist hurried to the palace, but tn
he found that the hostility of
courtiers toward such an innovat
as an American dentist-they
nounced it American Ilumbug"-l
already persuaded the monacn to
himself in the hands OF To-
practitioner, no other than the COZ
barber. DR.. Wagshall returned to
office and the august patient stretc
ed himself on the floor Of his palac
with the barber kneeling over hi
armed with determination and a pa
Of tweezers. There is reputed /
have been one twist of the tweezer
good, loud, royal yell from tn
patient, court barber being nu
ried off to prison, and court me-
senger again speeding in search {
the exponent of western civilizatio'
in dentistry.
This time the opposition of the
courtiers was useless, the tooth was
pulled under more civilized conditions
and DR.. Wagscnall became dentist tc
the Shan's brother. The royal teeth
had been long neglected and it was
necessary to make a set of new ones,
with which the patient was so pleased
that ne decided then and there to pen
sion the operator; and at last &C.
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
as 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 it is a native-born American.
Large numbers of foreigners come
to this country every year to study
dentistry. Another goodly regiment
have 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
nave gone abroad to make their
fortunes in this particular profession.
In the Harvard dental school, which
was the first anywhere established as
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 der
Brock, Rafael Torruela, Moses Alex
ander Chertok, Nathaniel Abraham
FiDkelstein and others that hardly
suggest a very long line of American
ancestry. Although the American
students are naturally in the grea
majority, one finds also that student
whose names are less distinctivel
SdIu6IGt
from every corner of the civilize,
world-from New Zealand, China
Australia, Canada, Turkey, Germany
Ireland, Holland, France and Sout
Africa. In other words, we make der
lists for Europe out of her own ray
material quite as much as we suppl
the rest of the world with practitioner
who are the final product of our ow.
public school and professional syster
of education.
The American dentist finds plent.
OF opportunity abroad. Even in thi
country, where it is estimated tina
100000 in gold yearly disappears
in filling for the national teeth, any
thing approaching general care o.
the teeah is a matter of the last two
Or three decades. In many parts OF
the continent-througho the peasan.
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 tt
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 rival's superior training
makes him a dangerous and success
fui competitor.
In Ancient DAYS,