{"product_id":"items-of-interest-the-dental-independent-vol-vi-no-11-november-1884","title":"Items of Interest. The Dental Independent. Vol. VI., No. 11. November, 1884.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePrinted wraps, 8vo, (531)-594pp. VG- with chipping to bottom front corners, 2\" paper residue to cover, and tidemark to the upper corner throughout, not affecting text. With snippets from Scientific American, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, British Journal of Dental Science. Pages 579-594 all ads, many illustrated, representing T. B. Welch's products (mostly filling materials) and other suppliers\/manufacturers including \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFleet \u0026amp; Co. and Delaware operations Wilmington Dental Manufacturing Co. and L. D. Caulk (among others).\u003c\/span\u003e Not in OCLC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEditorial segments: \"Full, Yet Empty,\" \"Busy, Yet Accomplishing Nothing,\" \"Dignity,\" \"Phonetics,\" \"Anti-Natal Influences,\" \"What is the Outlook?\" \"Cash Payments,\" and, \"Neutralizing Syrup.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCombines dental industry content with more general health articles and niche interests, like insisting phonetic spelling is not a \"utopian scheme\" (572). The varied content is reflective of its editor Thomas Bramwell Welch, a dentist and Methodist minister best known as the founder of \"Welch's Grape Juice,\" the result of discovering how to keep grape juice from fermenting in pursuit of making a temperance-friendly communion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eOne of several dental trade journals being published in Philadelphia, a \u003c\/span\u003ea major hub for dentistry in the late nineteenth century. By 1885, it was home to 3 dental schools: Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery (est 1856), Philadelphia Dental College (est. 1863), and the University of Pennsylvania Department of Dentistry (1878). Gopsill's Philadelphia City Directory lists 17 “Dental Materials and Instruments\" businesses,including Welch and Sibley, and over 350 dentists in the 1887 issue, the closest year available for reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRef.: Penn School of Dental Medicine. 'Dental School Library Historical Collection' finding aid; \u003cem\u003eGopsill's Philadelphia City Directory,\u003c\/em\u003e 1887, 178-180.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Welch, T. B.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46421243920534,"sku":"Q2419","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-7-2_1dbdfac2-0fe9-454d-8393-81bca397d14c.jpg?v=1781302195","url":"https:\/\/alsobooksbooks.com\/products\/items-of-interest-the-dental-independent-vol-vi-no-11-november-1884","provider":"Haec City \/ Also Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}