DENTAL SOCIETIES.

AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION.

The Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Dental Asso ciation will be held at Minneapolis, commencing August 4th, 1885. The present prospects are that the meeting will be an unusually large one.

The railroad rates have been secured unprecedentedly low. Tickets for the round trip from New York to Minneapolis and return will be furnished for $24.00. Round trip from New York to Chicago and return $18.00. Round trip from Chicago to Minneapolis and return $6.00.

At present it will be necessary for those wishing these tickets to secure them in Chicago. Later we may be able to make arrangements by which they can be secured at different points east. By sending check for tickets to Chairman of Committee of Arrangements the tickets will be promptly forwarded.

Negotiations are pending for rates from other points that the committee anticipate will accommodate all, and more definite information will be given in a circular sent to every member.

The hotel rates will be as follows:

West Hotel, $4.00 per day; Nicollet House, $3.00 per day; National Hotel, $2.00 per day.

It is hoped that members having any new facts or ideas in regard to theory or practice will come prepared to present them in connection with the section work. Any one having anything new. in the way of appliances will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their use during the half day that will be devoted to clinics.

ATTRACTIONS AND EXCURSIONS.

Come equipped with guns and fishing tackle. While the interest and benefit of the meetings, the attractions of the trip, and the beautiful city where we meet are too well known to need special mention, it may not occur to all that they will find themselves in Minnesota in one of the finest of hunting and fishing countries. Minnesota is especially famous for its prairie chicken and grouse shooting, and its fine fishing grounds.

It is estimated that there are no less than 10,000 lakes dotting the state.

If one wishes a still greater variety of scenery, to see a new,

wild and picturesque country, to draw out the big brook trout, the black bass and the mighty muskalonge from the cold waters of the Lake Superior region, in fact to enjoy the finest fresh water fishing in the world, a round trip ticket from Chicago to Ashland and return will be furnished for $10.00.

A still greater attraction (if one more were needed) is offered in shape of a ten days' excursion to the far famed "Yellow Stone National Park," immediately upon close of the Association, provided a sufficient number send in their names to warrent the securing of special cars and rates. The committee believe that when so far on the way as Minneapolis, many will wish to avail themselves of this opportunity of seeing the grandest scenery in the world. The entire expense for the round trip from Minneapolis, including rail transportation, Pullman sleeping car-fares, meals on Northern Pacific dining cars, hotel accommodations, five days in the Park, and stage transportation, will be $120.00.

A circular describing the magnificent scenery in full will be sent to every member of the American Dental Association at an early day. Others than members who may contemplate going will receive the same by making application for it. Come one, come all, and bring your wives along. It will be a trip that ladies will especially enjoy. Those wishing to go to "Yellow Stone Park" will please send in their names at an early day that all arrangements may be speedily and satisfactorily completed.

For further information, address,

J. N. CROUSE,
Chairman of Committee of Arrangements.

2101 Michigan Ave., Chicago,

NEW JERSEY STATE DENTAL SOCIETY.

The Fifteenth Annual Session of the New Jersey State Dental Society will be held at the Coleman House, Asbury Park, Wednesday, July 15th, and continue in session three days. Every effort has been made to make this particular session the most memorable of any heretofore held. Interesting papers have been promised from the most eminent in the profession, and the society membership have also contributed liberally. The clinics to be held will be made an important feature, and considerable time and attention has been given towards an exhibition of new and important surgical and mechanical appliances for use in dentistry. It is in contemplation

of giving a grand reception to the visiting members of the profession on one evening to be arranged for. The place is easy of access from everywhere; the cuisine the best; $2.50 per day the rate; the location superb, within fifty feet of the surf; the hall for sessions attached to the hotel commodious and cool. Members of the profession are cordially invited.

CHAS. A. MEEKER, D.D.S.,

PENNSYLVANIA STATE DENTAL SOCIETY.

Secretary.

The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society will convene at Cressen Springs, Pa., Tuesday, July 28th, 1885, at 10 A. M., and continue in session three days. Rates at the Mountain House have been reduced from four to three dollars per day to delegates and their families, dating from Saturday, July 25th, and continuing as long as desired. Orders for special excursion tickets will be issued over all lines of the Penna, and A. V.

R. R.; usual excursion rates over other roads. Orders or general information can be obtained by addressing

W. H. FUNDENBERG,

958 Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.

Cor. Sec'y.

ODONTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

The Annual Meeting of the Odontographic Society of Pennsylvania was held in the hall of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, May 19th, 1885.

The following officers for the ensuing year were elected :President, J. R. C. Ward, D.D.S.; 1st Vice-President, C. A. Kingsbury, D.D.S.; 2d Vice-President, Chas. E. Pike, D.D.S.; Treasurer, Jno. N. Wunderlich, D.D.S.; Recording Secretary, Chas. E. Graves, D.D.S.; Corresponding Secretary, Alonzo Boice, D.D.S.; Curator, S. J. Dickey, D.D.S.; Librarian, J. C. Macartney, D.D.S.; Executive Committee, L. Ashley Faught, D.D.S., Wm. A. Breen, D.D.S., I. S. Fogg, D.D.S.

CHAS. E. GRAVES, D.D.S.

Recording Secretary.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.

MEDICAL DIRECTORY OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. DelaWARE, AND THE SOUTHERN HALF OF NEW JERSEY FOR

1885. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Phila. Price, $2.50.

The Directory with the above title-page is one of the most complete books of the kind it has been our good fortune to peruse, containing as it does nearly four hundred pages of such information that the writing-table or desk of a physician or dentist would hardly be complete without it. The first forty pages are devoted to associations-medical, pharmaceutical, dental, veterinary and miscellaneous. The information contained therein regarding these has evidently been obtained from those who were familiar with their objects and working capacity. The medical, pharmaceutical, dental and veterinary schools and universities all receive the attention to which they are entitled, their location, their sessions, the price of tickets and requirements for graduation are given so that any student could procure the desired information with the expenditure of a minimum of time and labor, as it can readily be referred to by reference to a well-arranged index. Hospitals, dispensaries, and homes, general and special, training-schools for nurses, laws relating to physicians, druggists and dentists; soup societies, charitable organizations, all have not only such information as is generally found in directories but matters of interest regarding them which the public desires to know. The full list of physicians, druggists and dentists practicing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and part of New Jersey is really formidable. Truly are we a community of dyspeptics, to need so much assistance from those attendants upon human infirmities, as to support 2,000 physicians, 300 druggists and 300 dentists in this city of Philadelphia. The chemists, veterinary surgeons, electricians, opticians, and manufacturers of surgical and dental instruments also receive their share of its pages, and make the book as nearly complete as it is possible to make a volume of the kind. The publishers claim that it has been compiled under their imme-. diate supervision and direction, and that neither time trouble or expense has been spared to render it correct and thoroughly representative. Buy the book. You will be sure to get a valuable acquisition to your desk.

C. N. P.

THE

Dental Practitioner.

A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF DENTAL SCIENCE,

VOL. III. PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST, 1885.

THE SYSTEMATIC DENTIST.

BY DR. M. A. WEBB, MARENGO, ILL.

No. 8.

I desire to express my views on the practice of dentistry from a systematic standpoint, and shall make use of a few of the more salient features to illustrate my remarks. Every one is aware that there is a right and a wrong way of doing everything. Why not apply this knowledge to our practice, for we also know that a systematic following of any line of work will soon lead to proficiency.

The great tendency is to be unstable in our theories, and in our conclusions regarding the best way of performing operations or of treating certain forms of disease. This must be overcome before we can become successful practitioners. One dentist will use one thing and his neighbor another. One will not use amalgam, and another will not use gold. As well may one surgeon refuse to amputate a limb and another offer to perform the operation for the same sufferer. What reason would there be in such practice as this? Would it show any system in the art of surgery? It would show that the medical profession had very unsettled. ideas in such matters. System in dental matters covers not only the material but especially the methods of work. It is well for the young practitioner to become accustomed to one good way of doing things, provided it is recommended by good sense and is in accordance with the teaching of the college or preceptor.

Greater success will attend the practice of dentistry if pursued under this motto: "To become proficient in doing things a given way" until we are sure of some better way or material.