RT Journal
A1 TALBOT ES
T1 THe higher and better education of the dental student
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD September 13
VO 73
IS 11
SP 805
OP 807
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610370003002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610370003002
AB The object of the formation of this section was to assist in establishing a closer relationship between the mother profession of medicine and the younger specialty of dentistry, and eventually to place the specialty on a medical basis. How much has been accomplished in this direction since its formation, history has shown. Certainly the interest displayed by the ablest men in the medical profession by their presence, in reading and discussing papers, demonstrates that they have done more than their share in placing this section on an equal footing with the other sections in this great Association.In my early practice of dentistry I soon realized that if I was to become a successful practitioner, I must know more of pathology than I had obtained in the dental school. To obtain that knowledge I must attain a medical education; and although it was a hardship for a man with a