Identifier: dentalsummary2819unse (find matches)
Title: Dental summary.
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Edward Maynard, Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Toledo, Ohio : Ransom & Randolph
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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m the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Uni-versity of New York, 1835, and immediately began the practiceof dentistry. In 1836 he wrote a 208-page book, Guide toSound Teeth, or a Popular Treatise of the Teeth, in which hewas the first to publish to the profession the use of arsenic fordevitalizing the dental pulp. In 1838 he published An Essayon the Art and Manufacture of Mineral, Porcelain, or Incor-ruptible Teeth. In 1838 he published A Treatise on Surgi-cal or Incorruptible Teeth. He was a great book lover and published the AmericanEdition of Boydells Illustrations of Shakespeare, also aBiographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers,Sculptors, Architects, and Curiosities of Art (1853). He alsopublished a superbly embellished edition of the New Testa-ment, illustrated by engravings after designs by the best Italianartists. The arduous duties of compiling these works under-mined his health. He died a nervous wreck, literally workedto death. THE DENTAL SUMMARY 269
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Edward Maynard Edward Maynard—A born mechanic, educated for anarmy career, a cadet at W est Point. Delicate health compelledhim to relinquish this ambition and to study civil engineering,drawing, architecture, law and anatomy, all of which devel-oped him for his future career. He was very skillful, makinghis own instruments. He located in Washington, where hesoon attained eminence as an operator, and in wood caiving,wood engraving, modeling in clay, architectural drawing anddrawing and coloring, which, for correctness of detail and fin-ish, ranked with the best efforts of the most accomplished ex-perts. He spent many evenings at the Washington SketchClub, sketching from the nude. By his knowledge of anatomy,he discovered the great diversity of form and situation of rhcmaxillary sinus, which he made known to the faculty of theBaltimore College of Dental Surgery, in 1846. He went toEurope and was dentist to the Czar of Russia, who honoredhim with gifts and medals. He operated for many

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