Transactions of the National Dental Association at the Fourth Annual Session, Held at Old Point Comfort, Va., Commencing July 10, 1900 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : National Dental Association |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2017-01-09 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781334957574 |
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Excerpt from Transactions of the National Dental Association at the Fourth Annual Session, Held at Old Point Comfort, Va., Commencing July 10, 1900 The meeting Of the International Dental Congress in Paris next month would be a very Opportune time for the promulgation by our committee of a desire on the part of this Association to establish permanent relations of affiliation with the various dental organiza tions of the world, and I suggest that a formal communication of this character be presented by the chairman of the committee. The normal function of this Association, let us hope, will never cease to be educational. We do not believe, however, that the greatest good can be accomplished on the desultory lines of its present plan of work. The annual exhibition of papers and methods of practice cannot be dispensed with, but there must be co-ordination Of effort. There must be appointed commissions, backed by the authority of the Association, to collect data, to prose cute research, and these commissions must be selected with a view to their special fitness for the task assigned. It is not enough that any ordinary dentist without special training or thought, but with commendable willingness, should read an amateurish essay before a section of this body, leaving the subject just where it was before, save for marks of a few drops of perspiration from the tyro; this is not the place for kindergarten work. Instead, the commission should have the time arranged for the presentation of a report of the year's work and correspondence Of each member, to be followed by a succinct chart of essentials and deductions, the essence and outcome of the work of the year. This would be a peg from which to start succeeding efforts. Real progress could be made, and true knowledge gained. This desultory reading of papers on the same subjects, repetitions, last year, this year, and next year, the same thing over and over again, makes much reading a weariness of the esh, and deprives our Association of any distinctive char acter. These commissions might be organized under the authority of the Sections, and their reports, when printed, would be more valuable than the text-books or works of reference, in that they would be the latest authoritative statement of the profession on the subject. They might include readily deductions from work done before other organizations without impairing their quality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."