"Owing to the illness and death of Dr. McFadden, the treasurer's report was not balanced for pubon, on January 1, 1915. However, the next issue of The Journal will contain the treasurer's comtd report.-Editor. UNANIMOUSLY VOTED that previous action in reference to report of Necrology Committee be reconsidered. VOTED that the report of the Necrology Committee be received without being read and that hereafter the reports of the Necrology Committee be published in the Bulletin. 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. 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 133 09 40 20 522 45 119 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 Jan. 29, '14, Addressograph Co.. 25 00 1208 36 *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 completed 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 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 No. 1 portance, for he places a new re- He very properly takes the dentist to task and points out some of the great opportunities when he affirms that "the majority of dentists prefer to do the higher mechanical work, bridge work and other procedures which require great skill they do not like to clean the teeth-yet more people's lives will be saved by keeping people's teeth clean than by doing bridge work." "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 women 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 dental 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 arc the |
0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified Write review |