Operative Surgery.

Operations are performed before the students one day each week throughout the year in the Amphitheatres at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston City Hospital.

The Surgical cases at the Eye and Ear Infirmary and at the Boston Dispensary are shown by the surgeons in charge.

Dental Pathology.

Lectures. Professor BRACKETT.

Once a week.

Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

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Lectures. Professor E. C. BRIGGS. Once a week.

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Recitations, and instruction in prescription writing. Dr. RODGERS. Twice a week during December and January; once a week, second half

year.

Neurology.

Lectures. Dr. TAYLOR. Once a week, for four weeks.

METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.

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A detailed account of the methods of instruction in the various subjects of study and a list of text-books employed in the courses and books recommended for collateral reading will be found, with other important information, in the special pamphlet issued by the School. This pamphlet can be obtained at the Publication Office, No. 2 University Hall, Cambridge, or by application to the Dean of the Dental School, No. 283 Dartmouth Street, Boston, Mass.

CLINICAL ADVANTAGES.

The Dental School is established in Boston, in order to secure those advantages for Clinical Instruction which are found only in large cities. The clinics of the Dental Hospital afford a sufficient number of patients to give every student abundant practice in all branches of Dentistry throughout the year.

Each student is assigned a chair, and is expected to improve his opportunity and operate three hours every day, five days in the week, giving each student during each year 480 hours of practice in Operative Dentistry.

In the mechanical department the student gives three hours a day for six days each week, giving 576 hours of practice each year.

The Massachusetts General Hospital. - During the past year, more than five thousand patients were treated in the wards, and over thirty thousand in the out-patient departments. Patients are received from all parts of the United States and the Provinces, and are visited by the students, with the attending physicians and surgeons, on four days in the week.

The Boston City Hospital. - During the past year, about nine thousand cases were treated in its wards, and twenty-two thousand in its various out-patient departments. The medical wards always contain many cases of acute diseases, and changes are taking place constantly. Clinical instruction is given by the physicians and surgeons twice a week.

In these two hospitals, the facilities for witnessing Operative Surgery are unsurpassed. Twice a week operations are performed in the presence of the class. The number of these operations is large, reaching nearly two thousand a year. The variety is great, embracing every surgical disease and injury, including the surgical operations on the eye and ear.

The Boston Dispensary. — More than forty thousand patients were treated at this public charity during the past year.

The Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. · Over twenty thousand patients were treated at this institution during the past year. These cases present every variety of disease of the ear and eye, and supply a large number of operations.

A Free Dental Service at the Homes of the Sick Poor.

The School is prepared to send a dentist, who is a graduate of the School and registered by the State Board of Registration, to hospitals or to the homes of the sick poor for the purpose of relieving pain originating from the teeth. This service can be obtained by telephoning to the Harvard Dental School, Boston, or by letter. The men appointed for this service as Dentists to Out-Patients are Drs. HORACE L. HOWE, JAMES B. CROFWELL, CHARLES G. PIKE, LUTHER D. SHEPARD, Jr., WALTER A. BRADFORD, AUSTIN H. PARKER, FRANK L. EAMES, LEROY M. S. MINER, BENJAMIN TISHLER.

LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS.

The College Library at Cambridge is open to students, and also the Library of the Boston Medical Library Association which has a dental section containing a large and very complete collection of dental literature. It includes the libraries of the American Academy of Dental Science, and the Massachusetts Dental Society.

The Dental School Library, for reference only, also contains about seven hundred well selected volumes to which the students and graduates of the School have free access.

The Boston Public Library is open to students who are inhabitants of Boston. Students who are not inhabitants of Boston, who have filed bonds at the Treasurer's office, or deposited with the Treasurer the sum of fifty dollars, may also use this Library.

The Dental Museum is in charge of Dr. WALDO ELIAS BOARDMAN, Curator. It contains over 3500 specimens, and offers unusual facilities for study of the teeth. The pathological anatomy of the teeth is shown by more than 2000 specimens, among which are over 200 dissected teeth showing formations of secondary dentine in the pulp cavity, and also many other rare specimens of great value. There are 700 other specimens of human and comparative anatomy, illustrating a wide range of knowledge.

Students in the School have access also to the Warren Anatomical Museum in the Medical School.

INSTRUMENTS.

With the exception of extracting instruments, lathes, and vulcanizers, flasks, impression trays, blow-pipes and articulators, each student will be required to furnish his own instruments, and appliances for both laboratory and operating room.

No dental instruments are required during the first year. At the beginning of the second year a list of instruments required for use in both the Operative and Mechanical Departments is furnished by the School, and each student is required to provide himself with the instruments enumerated upon the lists before beginning his work. The cost of these instruments, including the dental engine, is about one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

EXAMINATIONS.

The final examination in every required subject is held at the close either of the first or of the second term of the School year. The examination, therefore, in every subject occurs once a year, but an opportunity to make up failures in examinations is offered at the opening of the School year.

The amount of time allowed for each examination is as follows:

First Year.—Anatomy* (3 hrs.), Histology* (1 hr.), Physiology (3 hrs.), Physiological and Dental Chemistry (3 hrs.).

Second Year. - Dental Pathology (3 hrs.), Materia Medica and Therapeutics (2 hrs.), Operative Dentistry (3 hrs.), Bacteriology* (1 hr.), Mechanical Dentistry and Orthodontia (2 hrs.), Crown and Bridge Work (2 hrs.).

* The examinations in these subjects are held at the end of the first half-year.

Third Year. -Operative Dentistry (2 hrs.), Surgical Pathology and Surgery (3 hrs.), Mechanical Dentistry (2 hrs.), Orthodontia (2 hrs.), Crown and Bridge Work (2 hrs.). These examinations will include operations performed during the course.

In addition to the above examinations every student is required: To dissect the three parts of the body to the satisfaction of the Demonstrators;

To satisfactorily complete the required specimens of Mechanical Dentistry for the Junior and Senior years;

To demonstrate his ability to meet satisfactorily the requirements in Operative Dentistry;

To successfully carry on the treatment of at least two cases of irregularities of the teeth.

Students shall not be entitled to enter the third-year class in practical Operative and Mechanical Dentistry until they have shown reasonable proficiency in the work of the second year.

No student may advance with his class until he has passed a satisfactory examination in a majority of the studies already pursued by his class.

No student will be allowed to anticipate the examinations in the regular programme of his year, except by special permission of the Administrative

Board.

Those who fail in any subject may present themselves in that subject again at the next regular examination. The regular examinations for the year 1905-06 will begin June 1 and September 18, 1905. After two failures to pass in any subject, a student must give notice twenty-four hours in advance, at the Dean's office, of his intention to take each subsequent examination in that subject, and pay a charge of three dollars.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE.

The degree of DOCTOR OF DENTAL MEDICINE (Dentariae Medicinae Doctoris) may be conferred upon any candidate of adult age, and of good moral character, who has passed all the required examinations, and fulfilled satisfactorily the special requirements enumerated above. He must also give evidence of having studied Medicine or Dentistry in some recognized school three full years, the last continuous year of which must have been spent at this School.

The degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine cum laude will be given to candidates who have pursued a complete three years' course in this School and obtained an average of eighty per cent. or over in all the required examinations.

The course is a graded one of three continuous years. Graduates from other reputable Dental Schools whose Course of Instruction consists of three years of nine months each may obtain the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine by spending one year in the School and passing the required examinations.

Candidates for the degree are obliged to apply for the same in writing, on blanks furnished at the Dean's office, on or before May 1 of the year in which they propose to graduate.

FEES AND EXPENSES.

There are no fees for matriculation, for the diploma, or for the demonstrators. For the first year of a student's membership in the School, the fee for instruction is two hundred dollars, in two payments of one hundred and twenty dollars and eighty dollars, at the beginning of the several terms; for the second and third years, one hundred and fifty dollars each, in two payments of ninety dollars and sixty dollars, at the beginning of the several terms; and for any subsequent year, fifty dollars, payable at the beginning of the year.

During the first year there are the following additional expenses: Two dollars for each of the three parts required for dissection; two dollars for laboratory materials in Histology; three dollars for physiological material; and a maximum of five dollars a year for chemical material, in addition to the charge for breakage of glass apparatus. Students are required to deposit with the Bursar* at the beginning of the academic year six dollars to cover Anatomy charges, two dollars for Histology, and fifteen dollars for Chemistry and Physiology. The balances of these deposits are

returnable at the end of the year.

All of the above fees and deposits are required to be made punctually to the Bursar without the presentation of a bill. Each student whose dues remain unpaid on the day fixed for their payment is required at once to cease attending lectures and using laboratories or making use of any other privileges as a student until his financial relations with the University have been arranged satisfactorily to the Bursar. Failure to comply with this rule is deemed cause for final separation of the student from the University.

A deposit of two dollars with the Dean of the Medical School will entitle a student to the use of a locker in the Medical School building during the first year.

A student who wishes to rent a microscope of the School can do so upon payment of three to six dollars a half-year. During the second and third years a deposit of ten dollars is required to cover any loss or breakage of

*The Bursar's office is in Dane Hall, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Hours 9-1.