Word: working
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...progress of dentistry during the past sixty years has been extraordinary. Indeed, dentistry as a profession requiring a wide range of varied knowledge and a high degree of skill of eye and hand may almost be said to have been created within that period. The work to be done by the dentist, and his materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable...
...profession has every reason to be content with its progress during the past sixty years; but it is looking forward to further development. It is expecting a separation of the professional work on the patient from the mechanical work, which can be done by a skilled mechanic on a pattern or mold. It will not long be necessary, indeed, it is not now necessary, that the professional dentist should make with his own hands bridges, plates, or other carriers of artificial teeth. The dentist of the future will make all the designs or patterns needed, just as the orthopaedic surgeon...
...know and we see that in the future the medical profession is to largely develop in the care of health not less than in the curing of disease, and nothing affects it more than the work which the dentist does. Therefore by its own development as well as by the internal development of the medical profession, dentistry is becoming more and more a branch of the great medical profession...
...their lighting, so admirable in their equipment that they are little short of perfect in their entirety. But you speak of it as the Dental School. In a certain sense it is not a School at all, or rather not mainly a School; it is a hospital. The work of teaching dentistry except for the clinic instruction, is done mainly in the building of the Medical School at its side. The work done in the Medical School is mainly the treatment of patients in the hospital, and this is the first of many hospital buildings which we hope...
...eminently fitting that these keys should be delivered to your hands (addressing the Dean of the Dental School) for it is by the effort, the earnest faith and the conscientious work of yourself and your colleagues that these buildings have been erected, and it is by your wisdom, sir, that they will be made an ever-increasing source of usefulness to the community...