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

taken IN france and Germany virtual
ly make an application OF the pro-
tective tariff principle for the benefit
OF nome-trained dentists in compet1,
ton with those educated in America.
Action such as this calls attention to
a profession in which this country,
by acknowledgment OF the world at
large, has for outstripped the older
nations. Although China invented
the toothbrush, ancient Egypt the
geld filings, and France, many cen
turtles later, the first porcelain art1-
fetal teeth, it is curious fact that
the American dentist is the one who
is nowadays practically omnipresent
the world over.
At the time of the American revolu~
ton, France, which is now so serious
ly disturbed over the position attained
among her people by practitioners
from this side of the water, led the
world in dentistry, and the most ex-
pert dentists VINO treated the teeth OF
our forefathers were probably
Frenchmen who come over with
Rochambeau. 1t is worthy OF note
|. That the father of his country chose
an American dentist-one Mr. Green
wood of New York, whose father had
practiced dentistry in Boston and
whose grandfather was one OF the
early Harvard college professors
make nim false teeth that few
Americans realize nowadays were
one of the great commanders most
priced possessions.
Even before the revolution, how,
ever, Americans were turning their
attention to dentistry, the profession
being followed by one OF the most
famous figures in American history
Paul Revere, who made the famous
ride to Concord on the 18th OF April,
1775. The following announcement
may still be read in the old Boston
Gazette of December 10, 1858:
Whereas many Persons are so I'M
fortunate as to lose their Fore-Teetn
by accident, and otherways, to their
great detriment, not only in Looks,
but speaking, both in Public and
Private: This is to inform
all Sucn, that they may have
them replaced with artificial Ones,
that looks as we'll as the Natural &
answers The End OF Speaking to all
Intents, by Paul Revere, Goldsmith,
near the Head Of DR.. Clarkes Wharf,
Boston. All Persons who have had
false Teeth fxt by Mr.. John Baker,
Surgeon-Dentist, and they have got
loose Gas they will in Time) may
have them fastened by the above,
VINO learnt the method OF fixing them
from Mr. Baker,
Since the time of Paul Revere,
American dentists, not content with
caring only for the teeth OF their fell
low-countrymen, have gone abroad and
are now Aound not only in all parts
of Europe but in the more remote
quarters of the globe. The graduate
registry of the Harvard dental scnooi
alone shows practitioners in nearly
every important European center, to-
say nothing Of such more distant
places as Cape Colony, New Zealand,
Australia, south Africa, Japan ana
South America. The professor OF
dentistry in the University of Japan
is Kotai Masuda a graduate OF the
Harvard school, VINO came to this
country as a poor young man ana
won his professional degree while
working hard to earn his daily living.
Professor Masuda is also an officer
in the Japanese reserve forces.
The crowned heads OF Europe, to
use the expression made famous by
?. T. Barnum. are often in the hands
of American dentists. Nearly every
body has read the story OF DR..
Thomas w. Evans, who has gone
down in history as the rescuer of the
Empress Eugene at the time of the
French commune. Evans was long
the dentist of Napoleon III, and was
a prominent figure in the Paris OF the
second empire. Another American
dentist, DIR. A. H. Sylvester, has been
the recipient of honors from the
present German emperor, Who made
him royal Prusian councillor. But
the story of DR.. Miller is likely to
appeal more strongly to Americans
than an account of the honors heaped
upon DR.. Sylvester. Miller was one
of the first American dentists in Ger
many, where more than 800 doctors
in dental surgery, trained in The
United States, are now in practice.
OF him the story is told That he
missed the opportunity of becoming
the imperial court dentist by refusing
to leave a less august patient when
Emperor William, then crown prince,
demanded his immediate services.
These men, Americans by birth as
well as by education, belonged, one
might say, to the class of dentist adj
venturers, hundreds of whom have
left home to win their spurs else
where and have succeeded in doing it,
although their individual histories
are never likely to be written.
One of the most amusing stories