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devote as much of his time in lecturing on Osteology,
Physiology, Materia Medica, Theory and Practice of Medicine
and Obstetrics, as his professional avocations may permit;
and every possible facility will be afforded to those
who may see cause to patronize his efforts.
No student will
be received who has not at least a first rate English education.
Terms of tuition will be reasonable, depending on
circumstances. October 25, 1827."
By the same medium, from February 21, 1828, to December
3, 1828, Dr. Harris added further: "From his
knowledge of the Medical Profession Surgery and Dental
Surgery in particular, he flatters himself that he shall be
able to render general satisfaction to all, who may have
occasion to employ him."
From 1835 to 1836 Dr. Harris attended a course in
medicine and gave dental instruction at Transylvania. In
1836 he tried to obtain a charter for a regular university
dental institution in Ohio, but failed. This has been mentioned
as the first effort anywhere to obtain legislative permission
for a dental school. In the winter of 1839-40
Dr. Chapin A. Harris, brother and student of Dr. John,
succeeded in obtaining a charter for the first dental college
in the world at Baltimore.
Dr. Chapin A. Harris was the instigator, and became the
editor, of the American Journal of Dental Science, New
York, 1839, the profession's first periodical. The second
periodical worthy of note was Dr. James Taylor's quarterly
Dental Register of the West, published at Cincinnati, under
this title, from 1847 to 1865. It became the Dental Register
and issued its last number in November, 1923.
Dr. Taylor, who had been a student of Dr. John Harris
in the School of Medical Instruction, founded a dental
college at Cincinnati in 1845, after his efforts to have it as
a separate department in the Ohio Medical College had
failed. "No funds, no buildings, no apparatus, and with but
few competent teachers. However, through patience, labor,
and anxiety, which endured year after year, success
crowned their perseverance .
."
. . The school was char-