BROWN, Solyman
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Dentologia, a poem on the diseases of the teeth and their proper remedies. With notes, practical, historical, illustrative, and explanatory, by Eleazar Parmly.New York: Peabody & Co., 1833.Brown founded the first US dental school, the first US national dental society, called The American Association of Dental Surgeons, and the first US dental journal, entitled the American Journal and Library of Dental Science. This work was an unusual type of partnership between Brown and Parmly, with Brown composing the poem, and Parmly, who was also a dentist-poet, composing all the extensive notes which occupied about half the volume. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link. Subjects: DENTISTRY, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology › Poetry |
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Essay on the importance of regulating the teeth of children before the fourteenth year, or the period of life when the second set of teeth become perfectly developed.New York: J. A. Fraetas, 1841.This 11-page pamphlet was the first American work on orthodontics. Subjects: DENTISTRY › Orthodontics |