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Trials Of A Public Benefactor - As Illustrated In The Discovery Of Etherization (1859) (Paperback)
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Trials Of A Public Benefactor - As Illustrated In The Discovery Of Etherization (1859) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER II. BEGINS PROFESSIONAL CAREER HIS FIRST ATTEMPTS TO INDUCE
ANAESTHESIA. " Men are fond of repeating that discoveries are most
commonly the result of accident; we have seen reason to reject this
opinion, since that preparation of thought by which the accident
produces discovery is the most important of the conditions on which
the successful event depends."? Wtimsell, History of the Inductive
Saienees. Previous to the period to which we now refer, the art of
dentistry had, but in rare instances, reached the dignity of a
separate and respectable profession. Composing a part of the
knowledge 'and duties of every medical practitioner, it was never
expected that much relief would be afforded through their aid,
except by the extraction of some troublesome and aching tooth, and
the employment of such mechanical appliances as the press of a
daily round of business and their low price allowed. Even in the
larger towns, where constant demand had induced some to turn their
attention to this as an especial study, but few were really
competent and well-skilled men. Ignorant of everything appertaining
to this branch except what could merely be acquired by them from
their own experiments, without previous education, they did not
hesitate unscrupulously to subject their unsuspecting victims to
every mischance which their ignorance or hardihood might cause to
happen. It is only necessary to quote, in support of this, from the
mouth of a man who was fully able to pass an opinion. In an address
delivered at Baltimore in the year 1840, by Dr. Chapin A. Harris,
he says: " No credential or evidence of competency having been
looked for or required, the profession has become crowded with
individuals, ignorant alike of its theory and practice; and hence
its CHAP. II.] DENTAL SUR...
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