Excerpt from Historical Booklet of the Illinois State Dental Society

Literature is the record of progress. In the dental profession, as in other fields of activity, the literature has a twofold value; the dissemination of knowledge at the time of publication, and the building and constant strengthening of the foundation for the future. As time passes, it becomes history. If we consider the establishment of dentistry as a profession to have been contemporaneous with the establishment of our first college and our first journal in 1839, we have now reached the period when we must rely on the printed records for our knowledge of the past. We can no longer get by word of mouth the history of the early days. The last of the men who laid the first stones in the foundation of our profession have passed away. What heritage have they and those who followed left for us? What is the foundation upon which we stand to-day? What is the record of our progress? These are questions which should come to the minds of the men of to-day - and of to-morrow. We should know more than we do of the record of our profession. A better knowledge of the men, work and writings of the past should be reflected in the literature and teaching of to-day.

There is so much of value in the published proceedings of the Illinois State Dental Society that it has been thought worth while to publish this index, and thus make the work of the first fifty years available for the future. The committee has been greatly pleased to learn that a considerable number of complete, and a very large number of tolerably complete, files of the transactions have been preserved, in both private and public libraries.

It was for the purpose of directing attention to the splendid work of the past, and at the same time to give those who have labored for the success of this Society and the advancement of the profession some small measure of credit, that the publication of this booklet was undertaken.

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