Pennsylvania Association of Dental Surgeons. [Volume: 2, Issue: 10, May, 1861, pp. 548-558]

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THE DENTAL COSMOS.

PROCEEDINGS OF DENTAL SOCIETIES.
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL SURGEONS.
REPORTED BY GEO. T. BARKER, D.D.S.
A STATED meeting of the Association was held on the evening of April
2d, 1861, at eight o'clock.
President, Dr. Dillingham, in the Chair. Present, Drs. Kingsbury,
Peirce, Buckingham, Fitch, Harris, Haines, Hopkins, and Barker.
The minutes of previous meetings were read and approved.
The Committee on Membership presented the names of the following
gentlemen as candidates for membership: Drs. T. E. Stellwagen and
G. A. Sinclair.
An election being entered into, they were unanimously elected.
The Library Committee reported that the following books had been
added to the library of the Association since the last report:By donation, through the courtesy of the Hon. Thos. B. FlorenceMechanical Reports of the Patent Office, 1859. 2 vols.
Agricultural Reports of the Patent Office, 1858-9. 2 vols.
By purchaseFox & Harris on the Teeth.
Annual of Scientific Discovery, (from the commencement,) 1850 to
1861. 12 vols.
General business being in order, a lengthy discussion ensued upon the
subject of the duties of certain committees. Without taking action, the
meeting adjourned.
A MONTHLY meeting of the Association was held on the evening of
April 9th, 1861, at eight o'clock.
President, Dr. Dillingham, in the Chair. Present, Drs. Buckingham,
Flagg, Fitch, Garretson, McQuillen, Roberts, Peirce, McGrath, Ellis,
and Barker.
The subject for discussion, stated by the President to be
"AMALGAM,"7
was opened by Dr. Peirce, who said, in opening this discussion he was
not unmindful of the liability to misrepresentation one incurred in speaking
favorably of amalgam. First, on the part of those who, purposely ignorant of the material so far as their own experience is concerned, are constantly attributing results to it that are due not to the amalgam, but to
its improper use. Second, by those who, unable to perform a successful
operation with gold, are eager to seize upon any remark in favor of a
plastic material as an apology for their own empirical conduct. But fully