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in France and Germany, so as to verify the fact that Oregon prunes are for the same varieties, the same as those of France and Germany. He also expended money freely on remedies for the diseases of fruit trees. He was for fourteen years the president of the Oregon Horticultural Society, and twice president of the Oregon Dental Society, as well as professor of Dental Jurisprudence and Ethics in the Northwestern Dental College of this city.

Of the early dental practitioners, the best ;remembered are Drs. Hatch, Glenn and Barber. Dr. Hatch held the leading position for many years, and then re- moved to San Francisco, Dr. S. J. Barber succeeding to his practice and holding the same by attention to business and excellence of dental work. Dr. Glenn was eminently a good citizen, and a good neighbor, but cared but little for money or professional reputation. For years Dr. Norris Cox not only maintained the repu- tation and good name of Glenn dental office, but by his excellent social qualities as well as his superior dental work, added largely to the patronage and income of both men.

Fifty years ago the dentists styled themselves "dental surgeons," and asserted and maintained the same code of ethics as the medical profession. It was then a very profitable profession, although the dentists had not one-tenth the facilities for doing good work as today. They all got their porcelain teeth from one fac- tory in old Philadelphia, made their own gold plates from U. S. coin, or block tin, and attached the teeth with platinum rivets. The first tooth pulling operation the writer of this book witnessed was sixty years ago; and the operator pulled the tooth with a "turnkey," which operated on precisely the same principle as the "peavey" used to roll logs in a logging camp — and there was no chloroform used then. The first set of "false teeth" I ever saw were owned by Dr. Robert Morrison of Morristown, Ohio; and they were teeth selected from the mouth of a sheep, mounted on plates of block tin, held in place by spiral springs, and made and worn by the doctor himself — his first job.

Afterward Dr. Morrison went to Pittsburgh and learned something of den- tistry, and after that traveled a circuit of towns and villages in central Ohio, and gave satisfaction to his customers. Most of the dentists sixty years ago were traveling dentists.

DENTAL ETHICS.

Fifty years ago dentists did not advertise their business any more than mem- bers of the medical profession. It was considered unprofessional to do so. But in these later times a large section of the dental profession has taken on a de- cidedly commercial flavor. There are incorporated dentists, Yale dentists, New York dentists, Chicago dentists, Harvard dentists, with advertised prices, sign boards and column advertising equal to a department store. What will it be in the next fifty years?

DENTAL EDUCATION.

With great energy, public spirit and liberality, the dentists of Portland have succeeded in establishing a dental college equal to anything in the United States. And their efforts in this respect have been highly appreciated, and the college has been liberally patronized from its first opening.

The course of study in this college covers a period of three years, or four years, as the students may decide.

The students are graded into freshmen, junior and senior classes, these with but few exceptions having separate and distinct courses of study. In the opera- tive and prosthetic clinics the teaching is directed to the individual pupil, and adapted to his particular needs.

NORTH PACIFIC COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY.

Board of Directors — Herbert C. Miller, president and treasurer; James R. Cardwell, vice-president; Louis J. Fitzpatrick, secretary.