The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-25

gripsaclz and boarded an Erie canal boat for Lockport to find out how the trick was done. On arriving in Lockport he found that Harrison had gone to Lewis ton. Taking the first stage to Lewis ton he arrived there and found pr. Har rison dead drunk behind a stove in a bar room. The subsequent morning struck Dr. Bristol as the psychological time at which to make overtures to Dr. Harri- son. Approaching him with direct propo- sition to give him suit of clothes and pay fcl a bath a hair cut, a drink and a breakfast in exchange for the secret of gun block tooth manufacture, he made a trade. In a lew months he discovered that the teeth, although fair to look upon and glove fitting, would not stand damp ness and fell to pieces after short period of service.
 When Morris Leavett of New York patented an enamel for coating silver or gold plates the color of natural gums, he sent out an agent to sell office, coun- ty and state rights. The agent had made S4J,000 when he arrived at Bunalo. pr Bristol was one of a number Of dentists who assembled to discuss the value or the nemel While tests were being made the agent called one dentist aside and sold him the rights for Erie county, much to the consternation of the others. While tossing upon his bed that night worry ing over his hard luck, Dr. Bristol con cluded that perhaps an enamel he used for coloring glass eyes might do lie tried it and found that it was as good as the other patent, and the LeaVeu scheme soon fell through.
 Amone the most notable American den- lists who practiced at the time when den- tistry had begun to develop into scl- ence, were Elczear and Levi Parmele or Vermont. After both had been educated abroad, Elezear settled in New York ana his brother In New Orleans. The for- mer helped to establish the American Journal of Dental Science. and was one of the founders of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the first dental col- Iege In the world. Another of the toun- ders Of this institution was pr. Horas Hayden who had received honorary oe- grees in medicine from the University or Maryland and the Jefferson Medical col leee of Philadelphia. Dr. Hayden was the first president of the institution and aided in orgs nizing the American Society or Dental Surgery One of the prominent dentists of this period was pr. Horace Wells of Boston, who discovered the use of ansesthetics in dental surgery which antedated the use of anaesthetics Tn sur gery.
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  nized by physicians until comparatively recent times The dentist today is a spe- cialist of the oral cavity and practices medicine as well as surgery. He IS as indispensable as the aurist or ocullst' and many a patient who would have con tlnued in ill-health under neHectuai uos- ing by his physician a half-century ago. is nov turned over to the dentist Tor special treatment. Tbe modern dentist extracts teeth only as a last resort. Tn treating patients to preserve their teeth and their health he uses long list or medicines and In his mechanical work he is aided by numberless instruments and appliances of modern inventive genius Dentistry, like medicine and sur gery, which it combines and ot Whlch IL is a branch, is now recognized as one of the professions most useful to hu- manity, and 1t is in America where the trade of dentistry had such singular history, that the science has reached US hi~hest development.
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