A treatise on first dentition, and the frequently serious disorders which depend upon it. By M. Baumes...A work crowne by the Royal society of medicine, of Paris, in the year 1783. Tr. from the French, for the American journal of dental science, by Thomas E. Bond, Jr. A big part of what I liked in this was the actual text. I'll try to transcribe later. OK, Flickr won't let you copy it if the text is in a comment, so I am editing to add it here. Fingers crossed! ------------------------------------------ 1. The life of man is distinguished by certain periods, during which, the body acquires a new degree of perfection by the development of its organs, and of the functions which belong to them. These periods are characterized by certain phenomena which depend upon the nature of the developing organ, and the excellence of the functions that pertain to it. When regular, they result in real increase and perfection: when irregular, they become the cause of suffering and even of death. When regular, they shew that nature exercises free command over the body she has formed, for upon this they depend: when irregular, they manifest errors of this same nature counteracted by our consitution and by other physical causes under the influence of which we live. 2. The acquisition of the Teeth is the first of these developments. It takes place at a time when the body is excessively excitable; when pain produces severe effects, and when the irritation consequent upon the local development, largely influences the rest of the system. Dentition, therefore, is a very important epoch in the history of man, and it is extremely useful to examine it in all its different aspects. In it may often be found the cause of the death of a great number of infants, and the foundation of certain serious disorders which are subsequently developed, or which remain for life as taints in the constitution. ------------------------------------------

This article by Miss L. Jenny Kellogg is from an 1866 issue of Dental Times, the same year that the first woman dentist received a DDS degree. Lucy Beaman Hobbs, shortly before her 33rd birthday, graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery under the mentorship and Deanship of Dr. Jonathan Taft.

Dr. Hobbs' graduation was in many ways inflammatory to the profession, with this article as evidence. Her acceptance into the degree program had been equally inflammatory. Dr. Taft was the Dean of OCDS, and when Ms. Hobbs first applied to the program, his faculty threatened to strike if she was allowed to study there. Ms. Hobbs had been apprenticing in Iowa, and when her application was declined the Iowa dental association threatened to secede from the national dental association. Evidently, secession was in the air ...