The aims and duties of the dental profession / by N. C. Keep ; address before the Massachusetts Dental Society.

  • Keep, Nathan, 1800-1875.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The aims and duties of the dental profession / by N. C. Keep ; address before the Massachusetts Dental Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDRESS. With gratitude to Almighty God, that peace has dawned upon our nation, we meet to-day to celebrate this, our first anniversary. The first thoughts which arise, regard the formation of our little band, the mutual acquaintances which we have made, and the pleasure and profit which we have derived from the interchange of ideas, and professional and social civilities. We feel that we are thereby better prepared to discharge our duties to our patients. We find confidence and friendship taking the place of that distrust aud alienation which might have existed, and which would have prevented the highest usefulness of our profession. Our first obligation as dentists is to our patients; we are in honor bound to seek their interests before our own. In my own experience not more than one in three of those who apply for relief from toothache can tell which is the painful tooth. How imperative careful diagnosis, that grave mis- takes may be avoided. The customs of trade may