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Looking 60,000 draftees in the mouth, U.S. Army dental examiners found that the best teeth in eastern Massachusetts are those of Negroes and Chinese; the worst, those of English and Irish. For every Russian-Jewish draftee rejected for bad teeth, three Irishmen were rejected...
Purser doctors also study anatomy (from books, not from cadavers), are taught the use of a few anesthetics and surgical instruments, including dental forceps. But they are warned not to practice surgery unless absolutely necessary...
Last week came news that: 1) the Central Medical School has increased its students to 76, including eight dental students; 2) there are 100 native nurses in training; 3) the Fijian Government now proposes an overall health plan for all the islands, with a base hospital at Suva served by air ambulances from the other islands...
...Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with any part of the head skeleton are conducted to the ear. That is one reason why people with dental fillings sometimes receive radio programs through their teeth and why some deaf people like to bite on their Sonotone earpieces now & then just to marvel at the racket...
...school was established on March 31 to replace the Harvard Dental School, oldest of its kind in the nation. Dr. Johnson, who will be the first head of the new school, has taught at Tufts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in addition to writing several books in the field of orthodontics...