Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-20

William c. Park was elected president of the Norwich Rotary club, Dr. Hugh B. Campbell, vice president: Joseph N. Weymouth, secretary; Dr. Clarence A. Spear, treasurer, and Charles R. Butts, sergeant at it's annual meeting held at noon Wednesday at the Waure- gan house with a large attendance at the usual weekly dinner hour.
 Election of the officers was by the eight directors who had been elected by the vote of the members taken at the meet ing. The directors chosen Were Dr. John S BIackmar. LIlcius Briggs Arthur M. Brown Dr. Hugh B. Campbell. William G. Park. Charles A. Saxton, Dr. Clar- ence A. Spear. and Joseph N. Weymouth.
 Mayor Lerou. Jim Crawford Charlie Butts and Joe Weymouth acted as tellers on the vote for directors.
 The blessing was asked by Rev. W. A. Keefe and Ll1cius Briggs, who has been president during the year. presided at the orening of the meeting and Secre- tary Weymouth gave notice of an invi- tation from the Holyole Rotarians to at tend a meeting there on Friday. June 90. Tickets for the ladies' night were dis posed of and it was decided to omit the Wednesday meeting next week as Ladies' night on Tuesday evening will be consid- cred 8 regular meeting.
 s Paper on Dentistry
 An instructive paper on Dentistry was read by Dr. Alfred Richards who made his brief resume of much interest to the Rotarians.
 i Dr. Richards read his paper upon i Dentistry as follows:
 When dentistry was born, . puny in- 1 fant in the family of arts. will probably | never be known. Perhaps Adam whittled i a piece of ivory of the mammoth or a ! wooden stick to make q filling for a de- i cayed tooth.
 l Some years ago the claim was made
 that Egyptian mummies were found
 whose teeth contained gold filings but
 investigations proved that It was sim i ply leaf gold pressed on the teeth to i ornament the dead for burial. The first reference to dental operations occurred in the writings of Herodotus and Hippo crates, in tine fifth century, B. c. There are, however, strong evidences that at 1 an early date, Egyptians and Rtndoos attempted to replace lost teeth by at- f taching ivory substitutes to the remain ing sound teeth by means of ligatures ot II gold and silver wire.
 Between 400 and 500 B. c. developed
 among the practitioners of medicine and surgery considerable knowledge or dent GSLrY, put IL was a QeutlSlTy SO pditI4 u
 and inadequate that one shudders as h'
 thinks of the sufferings which the vic
 tim so praoticed on, must have had On is wont to consider inlaying a new denta , 1 art, yet ruins give up things which mari out this belief, as inlaying of green jad l are found in human teeth, uncovere 3 by explorers of the remains of ancien civilization in Copen. Honduras an Yucatan The filings of dental cavi . ties is undoubtedly an art whose root
 spread far back into antiquity. It ] believed that it's first forms were tn l fitting in of wooden and ivory parts GU
 to fit the holes or cavities. Celus i ] 100 B. C. advised filling hollow and fra : teeth with lead so it would mot brea
 i while being extracted. He also recon . mended the filing of of sharp edges caus - ed by decay 50 that the tongue woul ,, not be injured by them.
 f Galen about 130 A. D taught that th . teeth were true bones which existed be
 1 fore birth and he is credited with th T belief that the upper Canines receive
 branches of the nerve that supplies th D eye Thereafter the Canlnes were calle
 eye teeth and even to this day there al