PHYSIOLOGY. SHEPHERD IVORY FRANZ, Ph.D. Professor . Instructor .Instructor This subject is taught in lectures, recitations and laboratory exercises. In the lectures and recitations special emphasis is placed upon those parts of physiology that have a known bearing upon dental medicine and surgery, especially digestion, secretion and the nervous system. Three laboratory periods a week during a semester give the students first-hand knowledge of the principal facts about the general functions of tissues, and the special functions of the nervous system, the special senses, the heart, circulation, digestion, and respiration. ANATOMY. W. O. OWEN, M.D. S. H. GREENE, Jr., M.D. Professor ..Associate .Instructor . Instructor .Instructor . Instructor The instruction in Anatomy is given in a graded course of lectures, recitations from prescribed text-books, and especially by practical work in the dissection of the cadaver. The lectures are illustrated by the use of dry and wet dissections of the cadaver, by models, diagrams, charts, and sciopticon views. Practical work in osteology and in dissection of the head are of fundamental importance. For the study of these subjects the class is divided into sections in order to make the instruction as practical as possible. The bones of the skeleton are placed in each student's hands, and he is instructed and quizzed upon all their important features. MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. B. M. RANDOLPH, M.D..... NOBLE P. BARNES, M.D....... Instruction in these subjects embraces: ....Professor .Lecturer on Dental Materia The study of crude drugs and their preparations and the art of prescribing; the physiological action of drugs in the human system; the practical application of drugs and other therapeutical agencies to the prevention and cure of diseases and the relief of suffering, together with their antidotal relation to poisons. The subject is taught by means of lectures, recitations, and blackboard illustrations, and is made practical to as great a degree as is compatible with a sufficiently thorough understanding of its principles. In connection with this chair is a pharmaceutical laboratory, well equipped with modern appliances, in which are taught the making of typical preparations of the Pharmacopoeia, prescription writing, and the compounding of prescriptions. Special attention is given to those drugs that are of most value in the practice of dentistry. ORAL SURGERY. CHAS. S. WHITE, M.D............. .Professor Instruction in this subject will consist of didactic lectures, recitations, case histories, together with clinics at regular intervals. The lectures will deal with surgical bacteriology and pathology, surgical technique, anesthesia, wounds, hemorrhage, shock, new growths, constitutional diseases, plastic operations upon the palate and face, dislocation and fracture of the maxillæ. Charts, diagrams, photographs and stereopticon slides will supplement the lectures. In the clinics at the Emergency Hospital, illustrative cases will be shown. The students will be expected to attend such operations which pertain to this subject. HISTOLOGY. HURON W. LAWSON, M.D.................... Professor The course in Histology consists in a systematic presentation of the subject of the minute anatomy of the various parts of the body, especial attention being devoted to the histology of the teeth and neighboring structures. The subject is presented partly by systematic lectures, and more especially by the practical study by the individual students of actual specimens under the microscope. The methods of preparation of microscopical specimens are presented and practiced in the laboratory. The projection microscope, affording valuable aid in illustrating and presenting the subject, is constantly used. The course begins with a consideration of the principles involved in the process of sterilization by dry and moist heat, the relative value and mode of application of each, and an explanation of the construction of the apparatus employed for the purpose. The use and construction of the thermostat is taken up at the same time and the student taught how he can dispense with these costly appliances in emergencies. The composition and modes of preparation of the various nutritive media are next considered, working formulas given, and the student required to prepare them at least once in the laboratory. This is followed by a discussion of bacteria as a class, their position in the biological world, their classification, distribution, and the general and special characters that belong to them. After this preparatory training the various methods in use for the isolation and study of bacteria are taught by practical demonstration and practiced by the students, after which the most important pyrogenic organisms are studied in detail, giving special attention to those found in the nasal and oral cavities. The aim of the course is chiefly to afford the students an opportunity to become practically familiar with bacteriological working methods, and to enable them to isolate and identify the bacteria present in suppurative processes, as well as to comprehend intelligently the references to micro-organisms in the current professional literature of the day. PROSTHETIC TECHNICS. W. FRANCIS LAWRENCE, D.D.S........Associate Professor Senior Year The technic laboratories are thoroughly equipped for their particular work. The course in prosthetic technics extends through the Freshman, Junior, and Senior years. The first year is a technical and didactic course. The students are taught the proper equipment of a dental laboratory; the preparation of the mouth for dentures; methods of taking impressions of the mouth and manipulation of the various impression materials; the preparation and mounting of models; selection and artistic arrangement of teeth; the construction of plastic dentures and crowns with general details. In the Junior class the course is a review of the Freshman year with extended technical and didactic work, embracing a practical course in the swaging of the various metals, as taking impressions, making models and dies, swaging, rimming, attaching teeth by rubber, and in general construction of metal dentures, crown and bridge work. The Senior year is a practical course, embracing the swaging of plates, teeth attached by soldering, clasps, porcelain work, advanced bridge work, removable bridges, and the detailed construction of all work in prosthetic dentistry. The work of the Department is under the immediate supervision of the associate professor. METALLURGY. J. R. DE FARGIS, D.D.S.... .Associate Professor The subject of Metallurgy taught in the chemical laboratory will be reviewed and an extended course will be given in metals, alloys, and amalgams which are used in dentistry. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, DENTAL JURISPRUDENCE AND ECONOMICS. These lectures on ethics consist of a brief statement of the moral obligations of professional men to each other and to their patients and upholding the honor and dignity of the profession, the differences between the profession, business and manufacturing pursuits. The lectures on jurisprudence will follow the text-book by Dr. Rehfuss, which fully elucidates the legal relation of the dentist to his patients, the importance of dental records, the limitations of dental practice, the liabilities incurred by those who administer anesthetics, the penaltes, etc. Economics. This course will instruct the student in the proper methods to insure a practice and to retain patients; will discuss business relations between patients and dentists, fees, book and card systems, and the general economy in conducting an office. The Infirmary is open every week day for nine continuous months (being closed during the months of July, August, and September), during which time an abundance of clinical material is readily available. In fact, as many patients present themselves as can possibly be attended to by the students. It is under the immediate supervision of the Demonstrator in charge, who is present from I until 6 o'clock each week day. OPERATIVE TECHNICS. CADMUS L. ODOR, D.D.S... .Associate Professor This subject is taught by lectures, illustrated by enlarged models and drawings, together with demonstrations of instruments and materials. The students perform exercises in manipulative procedure under the direction of the instructors. The subjects embraced in the course consist, first, of the study of dental nomenclature, that the student may acquire an understanding of the technical terms used in the course of his dental studies. This is followed by descriptive dental anatomy and the forms and surface markings of each tooth studied, the natural teeth, as well as enlarged models and drawings, being used for the purpose. Each student is required to make various sections of the teeth for the thorough study of the pulp chambers and root canals and their relations to the external surfaces of the teeth. That tooth-forms may be more perfectly impressed upon the mind of the students, each one is required to carve a tooth of the several classes, as incisor, cuspid, bicuspid, and molar, in bone or artificial ivory, representing the actual form and size of the natural organ. Cavities are classified and illustrated by drawings and models, followed by their preparation and filling in technic forms by the student. Treating and filling root canals is given full attention, the students performing operations of this kind upon natural teeth mounted for the purpose. All work, in its relation to operative dentistry, is given the necessary consideration to fit the student for meeting, as far as possible, the actual requirements of the infirmary. The operations in the technic department require a large number of natural teeth and a sufficient supply is difficult to obtain. COMPARATIVE DENTAL ANATOMY. The senior students will study in this course the food habits and the teeth of animals. The forms of teeth and their uses as weapons of offense and defense will be studied. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK, GOLD INLAY, AND PORCELAIN. ALLEN S. WOLFE, D.D.S..... . Associate Professor Instruction in this course is systematically given by lectures and clinics. The course in technique extends through the Freshman, Junior, and Senior years. |