{"title":"Empirical versus Evidence-Based Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment. A Successful Approach Despite Early State Restrictions?","authors":"Wolfgang Busch","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.suppl2.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2025.suppl2.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Can Johannes Andreas Eisenbarth (1663-1727), Jean \"<i>le Grand</i>\" Thomas (c. 1680-1757), and Martin Van Butchell (1735-1814), famous protagonists of their profession in the 18th century, be described - in the context of their time - as dental respectively medical practitioners working for the well-being of their patients, or were they ingenious bubblers, who knew how to convince others of their prowess primarily through their masterful self-promotion, rather than their actual (dental) medical skills and expertise?</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 Suppl 2","pages":"3-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144710154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dr. D. George Knecht - A \"Needle Dentist\" from Allentown, Pennsylvania.","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.02.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2025.073.02.116","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors had a surprising find when Dr. D. George Knecht's 4-panel advertising folder found its way into our collection; Martha Washington Needles! Researching Dr. Knecht and Martha Washington Needles proved to be quite revealing.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 2","pages":"116-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144710124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Japnour Bhasin, Theodore P Croll, Andrew I Spielman
{"title":"Dr. Hand's Remedies in Dental Trade Cards.","authors":"Japnour Bhasin, Theodore P Croll, Andrew I Spielman","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.02.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2025.073.02.137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A collection of 4,071 Victorian-era dental advertising trade cards, recently donated by Dr. Ted Croll to the New York University College of Dentistry, enhances the History of Dentistry and Medicine Core. These cards reflect late 19th-century cultural and social customs while illustrating how dental services were marketed. This study examines trade cards from the prominent physician and entrepreneur Dr. David Bishop Hand of Scranton, PA, exploring the rise and decline of his company and the historical significance of Dr. Hand's trade cards.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 2","pages":"137-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144710125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prof Dr Julia Fiedotin Harfin DipDent PhD (1940-2023).","authors":"Diana Clara Daich de Eidelsztein","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.02.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2025.073.02.119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper is based on several interviews with Prof Dr Julia Harfin held in 2013 and later expanded by researching aspects of her life. Julia Harfin was professor and director of postgraduate studies in orthodontics at the Department of Dentistry of Maimonides University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She wrote a number of books and chapters on the subject and developed orthodontic care for adults in Argentina.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 2","pages":"119-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144710129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert McCloskey, Theodore P Croll, Andrew I Spielman
{"title":"The Malena Company: An Early 20th Century Success Story.","authors":"Robert McCloskey, Theodore P Croll, Andrew I Spielman","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.02.156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2025.073.02.156","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dental trade cards from the late 19th Century are highly prized collector's items, primarily due to chromolithography, a printing technique prevalent at the end of the 19th Century. Beginning with the 1876 World's Fair in Chicago, these trade cards became a hallmark of business advertising. Among the most notable companies producing them was Malena (MA-LE-NA), founded by Dr. Chauncey F. York in 1899. Dr. Ted Croll, a Doylestown, PA pediatric dentist and life-long aficionado of such cards, donated his entire collection of trade cards to NYU, including 120 from the MA-LE-NA company. This paper explores the company's rise and fall, its founder's story, and the historical significance of Malena trade cards.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 2","pages":"156-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144710130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dentistry Advertising Ink Blotters and a Hungarian Dentist With an Ink Solution.","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.43","DOIUrl":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.43","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In addition to the practical need of drying ink to prevent smudging, another function of paper blotters emerged during the last third of the 19th century: that of advertising. In the same way that Victorian Era Advertising Trade cards were in their heyday, colorful printing promoted every product, service, or business, that one could imagine, including dentistry, using blotters. This continued well into the 20th century. Concurrently, what we know today as \"ball point\" pens were developed, which after World War II, became the chief writing instrument of modern times. The ink type for ball point pens was perfected by a Hungarian-Argentinian chemist, who also was a dentist.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 1","pages":"43-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guy Butcher BDS MSc FDS DOrth: Consultant Orthodontist, Paediatric Dentist and a Charity Journey Across America in an Ancient Austin 7 Car.","authors":"Stanley Gelbier","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.35","DOIUrl":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.35","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guy Butcher was a British specialist in orthodontics and children's dentistry. In retirement he and his partner Eunice Kratky drove over 18,000 miles across America in a 1920s Austin 7 Car to raise money for disadvantaged children.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 1","pages":"35-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Comments with Contemporary Overtones.","authors":"James L Gutmann","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.84","DOIUrl":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.84","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amongst the many definitions of the word <b><i>Quack</i></b> that are found in Merriam Websters Dictionary or the Cambridge Dictionary, one in particular that characterizes a professional as an ignorant, misinformed, or dishonest practitioner of medicine can be found. A perspective on the designation of being called a \"Quack\" was clarified by the editor of the Dominion Dental Journal, William George Beers, 125 years ago.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 1","pages":"84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"St. Jacobs Oil: So That's the Rub.","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.77","DOIUrl":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.77","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>St. Jacobs Oil started out as a patent medicine pain remedy in the last third of the 19th century. About 40 years prior to implementation of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, this \"cure\" was promoted as The Great Remedy for Pain of \"Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Backache, Headache, Toothache, Sprains, Bruises, etc.\" This paper follows the history of St. Jacobs Oil starting with its development by August Vogeler family in Baltimore, Maryland.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 1","pages":"77-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dentists and Dentistry in the British West Indies in the Late 1800s and Early 1900s.","authors":"Rahul Naidu, Stanley Gelbier","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.63","DOIUrl":"10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.63","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review explores dental care in the British West Indies (later termed the Commonwealth Caribbean) during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Information on dental care is limited for this region at that time. First-hand accounts of dentists who visited and worked in the region, newspaper items and documentation of the early steps towards dental laws and regulation in some territories provide some insights. Dentistry in the region was influenced by international developments in the profession and visiting dentists, particularly from the United States of America and United Kingdom, where dental training, qualifications and laws pertaining to registration and regulation were being established, along with advances in techniques and materials. These developments continued into the late colonial and post-colonial period leading eventually to the establishment of dental schools and locally qualified dentists in the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"73 1","pages":"63-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}