DEPARTMENT OF DENTAL PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS

JOSEPH DUPUY HODGEN, D.D.S., Professor of Dental Pathology and Histology.

JOHN ALBERT MARSHALL, D.D.S., Ph.D.. Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Dental Pathology (on war leave).

HORACE IRVING SPARE, D.D.S., Demonstrator in Clinical Dental Pathology. HAROLD C. KAUSEN, D.D.S., Clinical Instructor in Dental Pathology.

This department is of special importance, as it embraces a study of the conditions met with in general dental practice and the most recent and successful methods of treatment.

The course will be given in the form of lectures and quizzes, supplemented by practical demonstrations of the various therapeutical measures and whenever possible by exhibitions of lantern slides and apparatus. Experimentation and research work will be encouraged.

The pathological conditions considered will be abrasions, erosions, stains and caries of the enamel and dentin; constructive and destructive diseases of the dental pulp; diseases of the pericementum, both apical and gingival. Under the head of therapeutics the following subjects will be taught, both by lectures and practical demonstrations in the infirmary: bleaching teeth, the various methods of pulp devitalization and removal, canal treatment and filling, treatment of alveolar abscess.

In those diseases of the pericementum classed as pyorrhoeal, demonstration will be given of deep scaling of the roots with application of the accompanying remedial agents and an exhibition of the different forms of splints and loosened teeth.

Instruction will be given in oral prophylaxis and the modern prophylactic treatment of scaling and polishing the teeth, together with the use of compressed air sprays.

The different practical methods of obtunding sensitive dentin and relieving the pain of other operative procedures will form an important part of the course.

HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF DENTAL SCIENCE

GUY S. MILLBERRY, D.D.S., Dean

A lecture course in the above subject will be given to the fourth-year students following the general plan of instruction given during the past two years. The time required is one hour per week with examinations at the close of each half-year. Embraced within this general heading

there will be included a general review of the history of dental art and science from earliest times down to the present day, with special reference to its growth and development in the United States. The works and lives of men who have made dentistry a science will be discussed. The economic phase of dental practice will be discussed under such headings as dental records, fees, collections, money, banking, credit, investments, insurance, ethics, professional associations, preparing and presenting papers and clinics, lectures to the laity on mouth hygiene and oral prophylaxis, and concluding at the close of the spring session with equipping an office and conducting a dental practice.

Theses may be required from time to time on any selected subject. Full credit is given for the course.

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY

GUY S. MILLBERRY, D.D.S., Professor of Dental Chemistry and Metallurgy. JOHN E. GURLEY, D.D.S., Instructor in Dental Chemistry.

The course in chemistry and metallurgy is both theoretical and practical. The lectures and recitations are further explained and elaborated by half-day laboratory periods.

In the laboratories every apparatus and opportunity is afforded the student not only for the work of the course but also for original research. Each student is provided with a bench, all necessary reagents, and a locker with some fifty pieces of apparatus. Special attention is given to the study of nitrous oxide, porcelain, basie zine cements, to working steel, hardening and tempering instruments, refining and alloying gold, the production of gold foil and other forms of gold for practical work, and a thorough, practical and experimental course in the properties of dentalamalgam alloys.

A deposit of $5 is required of each student in the laboratories. The following is a general synopsis of the course:

First Year. Following Simon's Manual of Chemistry and our own laboratory manual, the first-year course includes the subject of general inorganic chemistry applied to dentistry. There are two lectures and one laboratory period each of a half-day each week, where the student is required to perform about three hundred practical illustrative experiments. A number of themes are required from the class, from time to time, upon chemical subjects particularly important to dentistry.

Second Year. During the second-half of the second year organic chemistry is taught didactically, two hours each week being devoted to this subject.

The work in metallurgy comprises two lectures and two laboratory periods of a half-day each week during the first half-year. The laboratory work includes practical and experimental work on all the metals of importance to dentistry, the preparations of basic zinc cements, alloys of all the various metals, especially of gold and silver, practical preparation of gold foil from scrap gold, and the preparation and practical study of dentalamalgam alloys. During the year themes are required upon subjects of particular importance. A special feature of this course embraces the theory and construction of the electric furnace. Each student will be required to construct a furnace for his personal use, at a cost approximating $25.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY

CARL LESLIE HOAG, M.D., Instructor in Physiology (for one half-year). GEORGE WILLIAM SIMONTON, D.D.S., Assistant in Physiology (for one halfyear).

The courses in physiology are given during the first and second years. Instruction consists of lectures, recitations, demonstrations and individual laboratory work. Written tests are held each week. The laboratory is well supplied with kymographs, inductoriums and other apparatus by means of which the students are enabled to repeat the more fundamental physiological experiments. In connection with all experiments and demonstrations carefully written notes are required. In the first year the main facts of the physiology of the blood and circulation, respiration, absorption, secretion and excretion, metabolism, digestion, and reproduction are studied. In the second year is given the physiology of the nervous system and the special senses.

DEPARTMENT OF THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDICA HENRY B. CAREY, B.S., M.D., Instructor in Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

This course is made as thoroughly interesting and practical as possible, and is graded as follows:

General Principles of Therapeutics.-Under this head the general application of medicines will be noticed their actions, constitutional and topical.

Special Therapeutics.-In connection with dental materia medica, as incidentally related thereto.

Materia Medica will be taught by lectures and recitations.

The course will embrace prescription writing, pharmacology and the use of drugs in general.

These lectures will be illustrated by crude drugs, pharmaceutical preparations, and special attention will be given to those drugs and preparations used in dental practice.

Special attention will be given to the subject of anesthesia. The student will be given practical instruction in this important subject. As an aid in this work several lectures and practical work will be given in physical diagnosis to enable the student to detect the more important signs which contra-indicate anesthesia. Heart lesions will receive special attention and the student will be taught the use of the stethoscope.

DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY

HENRY B. CAREY, B.S., M.D., Instructor in Anatomy and Histology.
HOWARD E. HENDRICKS, A.B., Assistant in Biology and Anatomy.

The course in biology includes a study of plant cells and the lower forms of animal life including the earthworm, the lower forms of piscatores including the crayfish and shark, and the lower forms of vertebrates including the cat. Laboratory work is required with dissection and a microscopic study of the material presented. Notebooks with drawings and a description of each constitute a part of the course. text required will be announced at the opening of the course.

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The courses will consist largely of laboratory work and will be attended by the members of the first-year and second-year classes.

The student is required to provide himself with a gown and apparatus of approved type.

The dissecting rooms are spacious, well ventilated, and contain all the modern conveniences. They will be open to the students during the hours allotted to this subject and at such other times with permission of the instructor in charge as may appear necessary or desirable. An abundance of material is always on hand. The material is kept in first-class condition and at no time is the air in the room filled with unpleasant odors.

The histological laboratory is located in the college building proper. It is very well lighted and has all of the necessary apparatus for the giving of a thorough course in Histology.

The first-year course is divided as follows:

A. General Gross Anatomy.

(a) Osteology. This subject will consist of the study of all the bones save those of the skull. The work will consist of modeling in clay, drawing and recitations. At the completion of the course examinations both oral and written will be given.

(b) Dissection of two parts, upper and lower. The student will be furnished a guide for this work. When the student has satisfactorily

dissected and demonstrated a part of the work, it is checked off on the guide by the demonstrator. At the completion of the dissection of each part, the student is required to pass a satisfactory examination both oral and written, when credit for the same will be recorded. In addition to the above, the instructor in charge may require such other recitations, quizzes or exercises as may be deemed advisable. Students in this department are required to pay a special fee of $2.50; of this sum $1.50 will be retained to cover the use and loss of material in Osteology; $1 is required as a deposit for the dissecting guides, which, if properly marked and returned at the end of the course, will allow of a refund of the same.

(c) The dissection of the thorax and abdomen. The student will be furnished a special guide for this dissection. The work is covered in a general way, much of the minute anatomy and detail being omitted. It is not deemed necessary to cover this work as minutely as for medical students. The student, however, is given a good general knowledge of all the organs and viscera, and is encouraged, if time permits, to examine and dissect the heart and stomach completely.

B. Histology. This course is given during the second half-year, and as far as possible is concentrated. The students receive for study sections of the tissues and organs of the body. The sections are as a rule prepared by competent assistants, stained and cleared, ready for mounting. The student is instructed as to the different methods by which the preparations are made, but beyond the technique of mounting and the methods of making and staining teased preparations, smears and fresh mounts, his time is devoted as much as possible to the actual study of the structures under consideration.

Careful notes have to be taken and drawings made of each of the sections studied. As each subject is completed, the drawings made in the study of the structures involved are arranged in sequence, labeled and explanatory references attached, and then handed to the instructor for examination and correction. For the structures of the mouth cavity the student is especially required to prepare a concisely written paper illustrated by his drawings and incorporating his observations in the laboratory, his lecture notes and reading. The laboratory periods are supplemented by an informal talk or lecture bearing on the histology of the tissues which are being studied.

A deposit of $10 is required to cover breakage and repairs of microscopes and apparatus.

The second-year course in Special Anatomy is divided as follows:

(a) Osteology of the Skull. Bones will be studied with care. The majority of the bones will be modeled in clay, paper or other material. The rest of the work will consist of recitations, demonstrations and quizzes.