dues 1914... dues 1914... King, N. Y. lance July 2, 1914..$ 2807 14 3905 01 $15349 66 236 50 4141 51 tfully submitted, H. B. MCFADDEN, Treasurer. MELENDY, Knoxville, Tenn., WHITE, Oklahoma City, Okla., Auditing Committee. DENTAL ASSOCIATION-SECRE- HIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. Remittance to Treasurer. $14221 93 .$12808 20 Relief Fund... neous 11 00 1402 73 $14221 93. Attalfling General Secretary. This is to certify that I have audited and approved the Secretary's books of the National Dental Association. HARRY O. DUNGAN, Approved January 6, 1915. VOTED that this House of Delegates extend a VOTE OF THANKS to the President, Officers, Committee Chairmen, etc., for their splendid work. At this point Dr. Brown thanked the members of the House of Delegates, the various committeemen, Secretary and various officers for the co-operation which he received. VOTED that the minutes of this meeting be approved as corrected. As there was no further business to come before the meeting, on motion made and seconded, the House of Delegates adjourned sine die. Owing to the illness and death of Dr. McFadden, the treasurer's report was not balanced for pubatron, on January 1, 1915. However, the next issue of The Journal will contain the treasurer's com eted report.-Editor. The Secretary reported that the Board of Trustees had elected to serve on the Educational Council of America, the following: Educational Council of America-J. V. Conzett, Chairman, 256 Thirteenth St., Dubuque, Ia.; Louis Meisburger, 85 North Pearl St., Buffalo, N. Y.; Arthur R. Melendy, Holston National Bank Building, Knoxville, Tenn.; LaFayette L. Barber, 718 Spitzer Bldg., Toledo, Ohio; George N. West, 32 North State St., Chicago, Ill. VOTED that the action of the Board of Trustees in reference to representatives from this Association on the Educational Council of America be confirmed. UNANIMOUSLY VOTED that there be published in the Bulletin of this Association a classified statement of the account of the receipts and expenditures of the Association, in sufficient detail as to give a clear understanding of both receipts and expenditures. REPORT OF TREASURER NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION TO JULY 2ND, 1914. Disbursements. July 9, 1913, C. B. Warner, Crocker July 11, '13, Frank O. Hettrick. July 11, '13, W. H. Scherer.. July 11, '13, Geo. E. Savage. July 11, '13, R. L. Simpson. July 22, '13, B. D. Brabson, Treas. S. B. Nov. 21, '13, Francis I. Stults, Postmaster, Huntington, Ind.. Jan. 7, '14, The Mathews & Northrup Jan. 29, '14, Addressograph Co...... Baltimore, Md.. March 11, '14, Otto U. King, Gen. Sec'y Jan. 30, '14, Wms. Donnally. 133 09 40 20 52245 119 32 500 18 8 80 5254 15 60 242 27 750 163 00 150 00 30 50 190 47 241 50 30 00 150 00 25.00 1208 36 20.00 Recepits. 400 00 325 00 *Owing to the illness and death of Dr. McFadden, the treasurer's report was not balanced for publication, on January 1, 1915. However, the next issue of The Journal will contain the treasurer's com pleted report.-Editor. THE JOURNAL of the NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION Entered as second class mail matter, November 22, 1913, at the Post Office at Huntington, Indiana, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Published Quarterly. All contributions and correspondence should be addressed to the General Secretary, Subscription to The Journal of the National Dental Association included in the annual dues. Subscription Price, for 1915, to non-members, living in all parts of United States, Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines, Guam, Porto Rico, Cuba, Canal Zone and Mexico, $1.00. Canada, $1.10. To other foreign countries, $1.40. The editor and publishers are not responsible for the views of authors expressed in these pages. VOL. 2 MARCH, 1915 No. 1 EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTION TO DENTAL LITERATURE BY A DISTINGUISHED GENERAL SURGEON. In this issue of the Journal is published an important paper by Joseph Colt Bloodgood, M. D., that makes special reference to the importance of early recognition by members of the dental profession, of precancerous lesions appearing about the face, mouth and jaws. In the major part, this paper contains commonly accepted pathologic surgical dictum, however, the author reaches a number of new conclusions which are of vast im portance, for he places a new responsibility upon the dentists who wilfully neglect leucoplakia and sinuses that lead from chronic infections about root ends. After he demands that all patients afflicted with leucoplakia be subjected to a Wassermann reaction adds that in his practise this lesion has rarely been associated with syphilis, which is not in accordance with the findings of most authors. We are informed that Dr. Bloodgood has never observed cancer of the gums about the teeth unless there was a definite history of leucoplakia, a bad tooth, usually a neglected abscessed tooth, a sinus or a non-ex women "The preventive measures in dentistry are tremendous, none of us realize what they are, we do not know whether leucoplakia, pernicious anemia, Banti's disease, Hodgkin's disease and many others, all incurable diseases, do not get in thru the teeth. How many cases of Bright's disease that shortens the lives of many of our great men and have their portal of entrance thru the teeth? So, this thing you dislike to do, cleaning the teeth, may be the most important and expert thing you can do. The great mass of people do not receive the benefit of modern dentistry, medicine and surgery, because they know of the dentistry and surgery of twenty years ago. With our present methods of public education, should it take twenty years to get the people of this country to know what preventive dentistry and surgery in the early stages mean?" From a close review of all state ments recorded, one discerns that the essayist holds the future of dentistry is confronted with two supreme problems, first, preventive dentistry and second, oral pathologic research. In our opinion both of these issues can more rapidly be advanced when the investigator has been trained both as a dentist and patholigist for it is in the separation of the scientific from the practical by too broad a margin that allows and accounts for many of the erroneous conclusions reached by our profession. From the contents of this article and many similar ones appearing in the last few years, may we not conclude that our profession is being viewed as having other aims than its traditional mechanical problems and becoming increasingly corporate in its development. Dr. Bloodgood has pointed out how one may recognize the early symptoms of precancerous lesions that appear in the mouth, and all who wish to avoid the moral and professional responsibility of the possible shortening of the lives of such patients should thoroly study this masterly contribution to den tal literature. A LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE FORSYTH DENTAL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN. J. P. BUCKLEY, Chicago. There is nothing especially significant about the names James, George, John and Thomas when ordinarily considered; but when it is recalled that these are the |