Excerpt from Souvenir Seventeenth Anniversary of the First District Dental Society of the State of New York, December 9, 1885
The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Brady Backus, of New York.
President William Carr delivered the following address:
President Carr. Seventeen years ago a few earnest men met at Cooper Institute and organized the First District Dental Society of the State of New York, electing Dr. A. L. Northrop its first president. A law had been recently enacted in this State which gave dentistry a legal status. Prior to that it had none. Then it was too often customary for persons who had failed in other vocations to turn to dentistry as a respectable means of gaining a livelihood, and, by a few days or a few weeks preparation in a dental office, to launch out into the world as full-fledged "dental surgeons." At that time our meetings were small, and but few of the representative dentists of our city took an active interest in our society. The subjects discussed were usually of a mechanical, not of a scientific, nature. Our colleges were but few and the curriculum limited. Then we were obliged to look to Europe for our knowledge of histology, pathology, and many of the higher branches of our specialty. Mark the change! At our meetings the attendance, instead of numbering from ten to fifteen, has steadily increased until, during the present year, the average attendance at our regular meetings has been one hundred and thirty. With this steady numerical growth there has been a corresponding increase of activity among the members, each vying with the other to contribute his mite to the science and literature of our profession.
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