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1 Professional Education of Dentists 1879

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PROFESSIONAL         EDUCATION      OF   DENTISTS,
BY
E. B. GARDETTE, M. D., DENTIST.
To the Editors of the Medical Examiner.
GENTLEMEN :-When I claimed the courtesy of you to repub-
lish my  Memorial  addressed to the Medical Colleges of our
country, recommending the establishment of Lectures on Dental
Surgery, I had no thought that the kindness you then extended
would involve a necessity for asking to occupy another page of
your valuable journal. I had no desire nor expectation to open
an argument or controversy with other journals or individuals, as
to the propriety or feasibility of the project then suggested solely
from a wish for improvement in the mode of educating Dentists.
Hence, I was careful to assail no one, but to make a sinple pro-
posal, designedly in memorial form, for the consideration of the
medical schools, who, if disposed to give it their attention, would
necessarily seek information from all reliable sources before
adopting any plan.   Then would have been the time for the
friends of such a scheme to defend it by argument, and consider
the deficiencies felt to exist in other systems of professional edu-
cation; and then too might its enemies properly make their
objections.
But the Editor of the 4 Baltimore Journal of Dental Science,
has seen fit, in a selfish fear lest the mere proposal itself should
injure the prospects of the Baltimore Dental College (of *hich
he is a professor), to misconstrue or misunderstand my language,
and oppose the project of such Lectureships. That writer, in a
determination to anticipate and forestall any action on the sub-

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