Dental education at UM (exhibit) July 23, 2009
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If you’d like to learn more about the nature of dentistry education at the University of Michigan, be sure to check out this new online exhibit on the HSL homepage!
The exhibit features photographs of the Dentistry Library as it evolved on North University Street, before its recent move to the Taubman Medical Library, and a series of images of the “Annual Announcement,” describing the School of Dentistry and the dentistry program as they were in the year 1900.
You may also view a slideshare version of this exhibit:
Making the American Mouth April 15, 2009
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Recent UM graduate Alyssa Picard was interviewed by the Boston Globe about her book, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Pubic Health in the Twentieth Century, published by Rutgers University Press.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/12/q__a_with_alyssa_picard/
Dental Patent #1: 1876, Dental Articulators February 5, 2009
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We are beginning a new series which we hope you will enjoy. Some years ago the Dentistry Library had the opportunity to acquire a collection of historic dental patents covering the late 1800s through the early 1900s. The collection is intriguing for several reasons. Most important, the collection includes copies of patents award to such notables of dental history as Claudius Ash, Samuel S. White, and William Taggart.
The collection is of patents from the United Kingdom, but includes a great many American inventors. The reason for this is that it was more difficult to gain patents in the USA, so a common strategy was to first apply for a UK or European continental patent, and to use that patent to establish precedence in the American patent application process. You can find patents from New York, Florida, South Carolina as well as Austria, France and of course England.
The variety of careers represented is also curious. Many of the dental patents actually came not from dentists, but from engineers, jewelers, and people who identified themselves as Gentlemen or Gentlelady.
We have a partial finding aid available:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/dentalpatents/
Currently we are seeking support to complete the finding aid and find new ways to make this unusual collection more available to the public. As we begin this process, for the next few weeks we will highlight one patent per week, illustrating some of the more interesting aspects of the collection.
Our first highlighted patent is the earliest one in the collection, from 1876 on dental articulators.
CLASS: Dental Articulators.
ADDRESS: 415 Old Kent Road, Lambeth, UK
PROFESSION: Dentist
APPLICATION DATE: January 5, 1876
AWARD DATE: April 19, 1876
ACCESS NUMBER: PATENT-UK-1876-45
Here is an image of the key innovation.
Here are other images from this patent.
Let us know what you think of this project. You can send email to the Health Science Libraries at hslibraries@umich.edu, or add comments to this blogpost or the images in Flickr. We look forward to your feedback.
WD Miller: Scientific Pioneer of Dentistry December 4, 2008
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Last year we released the online version of Willoughby Dayton Miller’s personal pamphlet collection.
Broschüren. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=browse;c=dentalj;key=title;cc=dentalj;value=b
This was done in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of the great man. Other events around this memorial included exhibits done in both the Sindecuse Museum and the Dentistry Library, as well as presentations. Here are the final slides from one of the presentations that was given.
You might also be interested in these images from the real exhibit.
Flickr: WD Miller, Scientific Pioneer of Dentistry: http://flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/sets/72157601456908704/
Dental History Flickr Collection Gets Blogged! March 28, 2008
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Earlier this month a couple of notable and interesting blogs highlighted the online dental history image collection hosted by yours truly in Flickr. You might enjoy seeing what they picked out as interesting images, and you might enjoy browsing the collection itself.
b00kn3rd: Teeth: http://bookn3rd.com/?p=18
Morbid Anatomy: University of Michigan Dental Library’s Flickr Collection: http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2008/03/university-of-michigan-dental-librarys.html
Want more? Check here:
Flickr: RosefireRising: Collections: Dentistry: http://flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/collections/72157600001949538/
"For Each Child the Mother Loses a Tooth" – Where Did it Start? August 12, 2007
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In 1740, Joannus Baptista Mongin wrote a short (7 page) work describing pregnancy as a risk factor for tooth loss. You may remember the old saying, "for every child, the mother loses a tooth"? Well, perhaps this is where it began. The original book is in the Rare Book collections of the Dentistry Library, but for those who would like to take a look at this without coming to the library, here are images of the original pages in Latin.
Flickr: Mongin on the Teeth of Pregnant Women:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/sets/72157601464435811/
History of British Orthodontics (New Article) July 27, 2007
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In Britain, there was a professional society for orthodontics in 1907, but the orthodontics wasn’t legally recognized as a specialty until 1999. What happened? You can find out here:
Taylor GS, Nicolson M. The Emergence of Orthodontics as a Specialty in Britain: The Role of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics. Med Hist. 2007 July 1; 51(3): 379–398. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1894876
Virtual Exhibit: Women & Children First July 24, 2007
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We are about to take down our exhibit, “Women and Children First”. The topic of the exhibit was to look at how the insights of mothers and teachers about the oral health concerns of children shaped the focus and importance of dentistry as it evolved in the United States. Don’t worry — you haven’t missed it, though! If you want to see parts of the exhibit, you can visit the Flickr photo collection to explore the photos and descriptions.
Flickr: Women and Children First: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/sets/72157594577380706/
Don’t have that much time? Watch this slideshow version made with SlideFlickr. (NOTE: You can click “fast” if you are really in a hurry.)
Enjoy!
Online Exhibit & Gallery: Conjoined Twins March 17, 2007
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The National Library of Medicine has an online exhibit about the history , science, and treatment of conjoined twins. This includes information about Craniophagus, twins joined at the head.
NIH: NLM: History of Medicine: rom ‘Monsters’ to Modern Medical Miracles Home > Marvels on Exhibit (15th through 18th-centuries): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/conjoined/
Entry #200!: International Women's Day & Exhibit: Women & Children First March 8, 2007
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In honor of International Women’s Day, the Dentistry Library would like to direct your attention to our current exhibit:
Women and Children First: The Origins of Hygiene and Preventive Care in Dentistry.
- Did you know that the first known mention of preventive care in oral health was from St. Hildegarde von Bingen in the 11th Century in Germany?
- Did you know that the first organized outreach of dental hygiene education was directer to schoolchildren during World War I? And that the dentists and hygienists in those schools saw patients in the hallways and on stairway landings?
- Early instruction in preventive care was often in the form of nursery rhymes?
Preventive care in dentistry was inspired in large part by the needs of children and through the determination and inspiration of women. In short, dentistry would not be what it is today without women and children.
If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet, please stop by the library to see our exhibit. If you can’t make it to the library, you can find a selection of some of the images here.
Women and Children First: The Origins of Hygiene and Preventive Care in Dentistry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/sets/72157594577380706/
International Women’s Day: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
“Celebrated on 8 March, International Women’s Day (IWD) is the global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. IWD celebrates the collective power of women past, present and future.”
My thanks to Valentina G. for bringing this event to my attention.
