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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1917)
The American Dentist By Frederic J. Haskin. Washington, Miy 24. According to recent dispatches, the kaiser is a man of great personal bravery. Or else, he is a subtler diplomat than his pres ent reputation would seem to indi cate. When his majesty became af flicted with toothache a few weeks ago, he deliberately summoned an American dentist to great headquart ers and bade him repair the mon archal molars. A vision of the kaiser in an Ameri can dental chair suggests various pos sibilities. There are many Americans, especially those with strong social istic tendencies, who would be de lighted to have the kaiser in such a position. On the other hand, one is reminded of the story of the martial gentleman who ordered the enemy's surgeon to attend him, with instruc tions that death would be the penalty if the treatment hurt. In Justice to the American dental Iirofession and to the kaiser, however, t mult be admitted that American aentists'have always been greatly ap preciated in Europe. For years the rourt dentist of Germany has been in American, and the same has been true of other countries. This is be cause in the beginning Europeans were slow to practice and develop dentistry, and allowed Americans to get in ahead of them. Today, there is no better equipped and experienced dental service in the world than that of Germany, yet it still remains the custom for the wealthy and the titled to patronize American dentists. In the United States, during the early days of dentistry, the situation was different Here the science ap pealed to the individual rather than to the people in general, who con tinued to regard dentistry as a part of medicine and to go to the family doctor whenever their teeth- needed attention. In 1839,' however, a few energetic dental pioneers established the Baltimore College of Dental .Sur gery, Which marked the beginning of dentistry as separate and distinct profession. Other dental schools toon opened, hundreds of dentist were trained, and, lured by the greater opportuni ties for practice abroad, the emigra tion of American dentists set in. Eu rope welcomed them enthusiastically, and rushed to have its teeth repaired. Because the building of a career in foreign country in those days re quired a great deal more originality and aggression than it does now, the men who went to Europe to practice dentistry were of a particularly high type. They were not only gqod den tists; they were men with particular ly strong and attractive personalities who made many friends in scientific circlet and were not without their in fluence on Europe. One of the first dentists to achieve any great recognition in Europe was Dr. Francis Peabody Abbot, who for years had a large practice in Berlin, where he did a great deal to encour age other American dentists. Dur ing the civil war in this country, the sympathy of; Europe was almost whol ly with the south. Thus it was ex tremely difficult for the union to bor row any war money in Europe, but through the influence of Dr. Abbot and other American dentists in Ger many, loans were at last secured. At the same time, in France, Dr. Thomas W. Evans, another American . (dentist, was working vigorously for the northern cause. Dr. Evans was very skillful dentist, in sddition to being an intelligent and fascinating conversationalist, , and his friends were among the most noted people of Europe. It was Dr. Evans who first introduced Louis Napoleon III to the Princess Eugenie, afterward helping Eugenie to escape to England when her husband was deposed. Hence, it was to Dr. Evans, an American and one of his best friends, that Napoleon turned for advice when the French government was on the point of lend ing money to the south. The doctor went to America, made his own ob servations and when he came back s;ave a confidential report As a re sult France did not lend money to the south. Tkis part of Evans' career is tittle known, but his name still lives in Evans institute of the University of Pennsylvania, to the establishment of which he gave his fortune. The name of Horace Wells, another American dentist of about the same period, is probably not as well known in the United States as It Is in France, where, in 1910, a monument was erected to his memory. The monu ment is dedicated "to Horace Wells, the discoverer of surgical anesthesis, and to his devoted French disciple, Paul Bert" " If the American dentist commanded a wide popularity in Europe before the war, he commands genuine devo tion now. In the American hospital in Paris he has worked day and night, after serious artillery engagements, building whole new jaws and making new plates of teeth for wounded sol diers. In this war, where so much of the righting is done in the trenches, most of the wounds are head wounds. In an immense number of cases the jaw is injured. But in any event, the wounded man's teeth must be re paired. , , The regular hours of the dental corps of the American ambulance hospital in Paris are from 9 until 5, but when the wounded arrive in large numbers from the front sleep is not only postponed, but suspended, until all the patients are cared for. ' At the beginning of the war the French did not realize the grave importance of good dentition in their soldiers, and as a result the teeth of a large per centage of French wounded are in bad condition. All are in need of scaling and cleaning. Nineteen out of twenty require fillings. Fifty per cent have abscesses of one kind an,d another, and nearly 20 per cent must be fur nished with plates to replace lost teeth. There are ten dentists and nine nurses in the American ambulance dental corps. In the morning each of the doctors makes the rounds of a certain number of beds in his di vision! repairing the teeth of men who cannot be moved to the dental operating room and making plaster casts of particularly difficult cases. The treatment of a jaw wound is al ways long and complicated; the den tist must be a skillful surgeon, and the apparatus required is elaborate. In the first place, the misplaced bones must be moved back into position and held in place by splints. Some parts of tissues, utterly destroyed, must be replaced by metal or vulcanite. In tome cases, the jaw bone itself is missing, and has to be replaced by a piece of bone taken from some other portion of the patient's body say, the - rib or the shin bone. All this must be done by the dental surgeon before the. plastic surgeon can begin his molding of new features for the patient with skin also grafted from different parti of the body. Other complicated caset are where Hoover Will Use British Bread Rules as Basis of War Regulations ' Washington, May 26. Food regula tions of the allies which probably will furnish the basis for similar rulet in the United States are being assembled by the government American regulations probably will be less stringent, but this is not de terring Herbert C Hoover, selected for food administrator, and other oir ficials from giving careful study to the codes of other warring nations. Here are umt of the more striking British regulations: For public meals the allowance of meat is based on an average of five ounces for each luncheon and dinner, and two ounces for each breakfast served on non-meatless days. Tuesdays are meatless days in Lon don and Wednesday elsewhere in the kingdom. Potatoes musrnot be served except on meatiest days and Fridays. The making of any light fancy pas- the teeth are shot out of place by bul lets and become imbedded in the soft tissues of the face and head. It also happens that a nerve will be laid bare by the fracture of a tooth which has been hit by a bullet,' and cause the most intense suffering to the wounded man until it is cared for. These are onlv some of the peculiar complica tions coming under the care of the American dentists working in the war hospitals of fcurope, but they illus trate the fact that too great attention cannot be paid to the importance of healthy" teeth in soldiers. If an ahflresaed tooth should become lm bedded in the tissues of -the nose or cheek, for instance, it might cause death. - At the beginning of, the war Ger many was tne oniy nation oi an inc i- i:t- i: I .1.:- DClllgerenis wnicn rcamcu una iaci, Knr Hiteen vears nrietr to 1914. Ger many had maintained den tar clinics in its schools primarily to insure the healthy dentition of the young men going into the army. Once in the army, the army dental corps saw to it that every soldier's teeth remained in good condition. No time was wasted on account of toothache after the men were in camp, and there was no indigestion on account of their inability to chew the army rations. It may sound extreme to the layman but the experts state that the superior teeth of the German army have had a great deal to do with its efficiency. fortunately, all the American den tists have not gone to Eurooe. Hun dreds of them have already enlisted in the Preparedness League ol Amer ican Dentists and are ready to answer the call of the government for dental services as soon as the drafted army begins to assemble. ,.' -- - - i FT Tn) 1 . ' ' I , ' ..I I I - : " . - ' - ' , When You Buy a Used Car, Get a ' Good pne. ' !'' Don't just buy a used car, but get one that hasn't been abused. - Packard buyers are usually ex perienced car owners. The cars we take in trade have been care fully cared for high grade-cars such as Franklin, Stevens, Cadil- lac and Pierce-Arrow. 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