Word: hartmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing had happened since 1846 when Dentist William Thomas Green Morton of Charlton, Mass., having successfully pulled teeth from patients under ether, persuaded a notable Boston surgeon to use that drug in a major operation. Anesthesia was again the ladder by which Columbia University's Dr. Leroy Leo Hartman mounted to last week's fame...
...publicity campaign began two months ago when Columbia University announced that Dr. Hartman had invented a tooth desensitizer which prevented pain while the dentist drilled to prepare a cavity for a filling. On grounds that Columbia's University Patents, Inc. wanted to patent the desensitizer Dr. Hartman, alarmed by what might happen to his professional reputation, obdurately refused to answer a multitude of pleas which dentists made to him for his preparation and method (TIME...
Fortnight ago the New York City branches of the American Dental Association announced that Dr. Hartman would soon tell all at a big meeting in a hotel. The effect of that announcement on dentists and people who needed their teeth fixed made Editor Dr. Charles Raymond Wells of the Bulletin of the Second District Dental Society snort: "The premature publicity does not pay for the many explanations to our patients of why we haven't the desensitizer yet, neither does it prove a good argument in convincing patients to have their dental work done now. Many patients have purposely...
...last week's climactic moment Dr. Hartman, a big, handsome scholar, was confronted by 3,000 dentists and scouts for dental supply houses. Them he vexed by what they considered a needless description of a tooth's construction: hard, nerveless enamel over dentine over pulp. The pulp contains the tooth's nerve. The dentine contains a fatty substance called lipoid which Dr. Hartman believes transmits pain to the nerve. By temporarily disconnecting the lipoid from the nerve he believes that he interrupts transmission of pain during drilling in the dentine. Following this theory, he devised a solution...
Patent rights to the "desensitizer" have been assigned to Columbia which will, Dr. Hartman promised, soon make the stuff available for general use, protect the public from exploitation.* Because patent negotiations had not yet been completed, Dr. Hartman was unwilling last week to disclose the composition and rationale of his beneficent substance. Eagerly awaiting details, grateful spokesmen for New York City's 3,000 organized dentists cried: "We hail Dr. Hartman's discovery as a miraculous advance...