Address to the Society of the Alumni of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery / By James Robinson.

  • Robinson, James.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Address to the Society of the Alumni of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery / By James Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the same position in England, Ireland and Scotland as any member of your Society, however eminent he might be, would fill, if he became a practitioner in the British Isles. Many details connected with this subject press themselves upon my attention, but the length to which this address has already extended warns me that I must not, perhaps, further trespass upon your indul¬ gence and patience. My zeal in what I feel to be a good cause has led me, in all probability, beyond the limits prescribed by the rules of your Society, but enthusiasm has never been fettered by ordinary laws, and feeling deeply interested, as I do, in the well-being and advancement and respectability of a profession of which I am an humble member, I shall spare no exer¬ tions, I shall hesitate at no sacrifices, that may aid in rescuing it from the odium that attaches to it in Eng¬ land, and placing it in the high and honorable position which it occupies in the United States. The conclusions I draw from the foregoing remarks may be summed up in a single sentence. I believe that Dental Science has not advanced so generally in Eng¬ land as in the United States, although this home truth may not be very palateable to the profession generally, but I make the assertion advisedly and without in the remotest degree reflecting upon the many able and scientific men in England who may be said to represent the very quintessence of dental knowledge and me¬ chanical skill in their own country. I feel satisfied that until the barriers of professional jealousy and private interest are broken through, until a kindly and more liberal feeling is established among the leading members of the profession, until unanimity of purpose and hon¬ esty of intention prevail, until a college of Dental