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WOMEN DENTISTS,

A Neglected Profession.

It is surprising that more wo men do not prepare themselves for the profession of dentistry, writes Dr. Phoeba Sheavyn in a Home paper. It is one for which they are quite well-fitted; it offers the interest of highly skilled and delicate work, and the pro- spects of a lucrative career åre cod. Thirty years ago there was a woman dentist in London who had been trained in Phils.

-lphia. She was highly skilled, i -he had the right physique and Temperament, ard her success AR remarkable. But she was garded AŃ son ething of a freak," and not many women ave followed in her steps.

There are, it is true, some tientier to e faced. The raining is expensive, costing as uch as the education of a doc tor; but competition from other! palitied practitioners ju

isa vare, anti there

Creater ince of success in eresting a vate practice. It is not an upation for a delicate woman. Cnsiderable capacity for phgar- cal endurang is needed to sustain the long hours of stande! ing while engaged in closa and! -licate manipulation, and this i career should especially be avoid. el by women with the slightest ndency to varicose veins. Given Average Rood hesith, however, there is no reason why the work of a dentist should be found too! exacting by any woman. It wants a clever brain and hands. patience, and skill; and none off these are denied to women. It is fallacy that grest muscular strength is required: a "knack and practica are all that ar needed for the extracting of teeth, and in any case the modern de tist is concemed, much more! with the preservation of the teeth theo with extraction.

It must be cor leased that much of the reluctance often shown to taking up this profession is due to prejudice. The c!! conception of the dentist as a mere human forceps dies hard: it is not sell fully recognised that his is now a profession of high standing, re

quiring

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923.

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UNKNOWN SOLDIER'S

LETTERS.

Sent Home by Ex-German

Officer.

:

MR. ZANGWILL ON

DRAMA.

"Thank God Shakespeare's Dead!"

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An ex-German officer recently. Mr. T. P. O'Connor présided; handed to the officers of the over a complimentary dioner White Starliner Pittsburgh, when given at the Hotel Creil last the vessel was about to sail to month to Mr. J. T. Grein on the Halifax and New York" from completion at 42 years Bremen, a package of photography dramatic critic, and letters which had teen found 171 ben an unknown British soldier

lied in the battle of firandeourt

the Soram..

medical knowledge, and pres-ni- ine to the practitioner an infinite variety of experience in which dental and rener. medical con

No mention was made of the soldier's identity in the jetters -ceep that he was of the War workshin Batimen. It has been ler did to

with

communicate

terations are imately Merg et The close connection THA tablished between curtain well- known diseases and an to satis Factory condition of the teeth his! Mr. Marr, 25, Regiald Road, Tule demist and dər or chiar Salky, Birmingham, as this 3.

alize and fellow-work-re A pores was fortid 1 the letters, Pe less attractive features of! The German officer had kept a sife and this occupation. these ama the effects petting should say, not more re alives watisfactory toeans of sending than much which inevitably fal-*|them to Edgland.

to the lot of the or tinary medical

man.

REGISTRATEUR IND TRAININ deal with the order and cases Much was done to and to he where medicine ani dentistry No

and *apri-res

Need in hard. status of the dennst during the war, when marvellons wk was

P

Ny mang seolarships are at leen in the treatment of fament offered todental students. it some sencol have a few, and aisti curements resulting from in

Aaron Money prz 18. jury to jia and teeth over, the Dentists Art

now glgest the professor impana -old base of a treas

in the

all the dien teatras ta profession upen to ANY Trick who cond impos jupon an ignorant public. Soa most dentists, like dre brs, must

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Giving the to sat of "The drama. coupled with the asme of Miss Sybil Thorndike, Mr. Israel Zangwill said, "Nobody can suppose that the drama is in such a sound state that its health does not require drinking-aye. ani in bitter medicine. I used to lament that drama, which bezan as religion ani continued as art, seen

ending as a business. But now it has sunk lower

It is no lange run even 43) Lusiness. The Loudon stage as

w.

sl.

a whole is not a paying industry:{ in tota arrual receipts are fac it- expenses. Most

in

theres are more casinos Tuin- the bulk of their gamblera henriching the lucky few,"

Mr. Zingwill claimed that "it in the sham antique that our fremstic poets are apt to turn out. That is why the man in the street

justified in preferring even muscial plays, which have at least th breath of our own life." He confessed ind:ference or hostility to the latest dramatic develop Stage-setting. lighting. ments. drapery, or sennery-what were

Sheen the Fuster of fully ambitio dentista is not yet great and the unqualified practitioners

ther but surface matters ? that registration is

"The first time I met Irving- leomrut-org, gradually disappear,

here is room for the creation of it was over thirty years ago at a

certain par given by Henry Arthur) private practices. A

Jones-I told him," said Mr.

prove by the pession of de amount of captal is necessary Zangwill, with the audacity of for appliances, and to tide over the finice qualifications that they have waiting time; tut a woman who youth, that he had done nothing received an adequate professional possessal of the necessary quali- for the British drama.

fications and, can bide her time the British dramat replied Irving. As for Sir Herbert Tree, when may reckon upon being able to

Damn

angrier Bod

training.

This training may be taken part ly during apprenticeship to a remake a satisfactory living, and at rehearsal, I refused to let him istered dentist and partly at a mar, if she is really first-rate, change my words or scenes be dental school and hospital; or find dentistry a very lucrative got angrier and | may be taken wholly at the latter, profession. Appliances are rather In any case, two years' practical cestiy, but the tentist can avoid experience at least is required, in other *xperts necessarily addition to attendance of lectures incurred by the general medical an scientific, medical, and speci practitioner.

fically burst out: Thank God Shakespeare's dead!*

No doubt there was an element of humour

in both these utterances, but there was also a substantial sincerity."

TORIC LENSES ARE GROUND

fically central subjects. A four Ifnable to wait for a practice Teate course, of which two (to materialise, one may probably one) may be with a private regiaoh'ain a full-tine post in a school tered dentist, leads to a diploma.clinic, or part-time work in con- with a deep igner curve, which known as L.D.S. A five years a-ction with an institution conforms to every movement of course leads to a decree, known

or factory. The more highly the eye and makes the sight| as B.D.S. All students must be skilled may ren obtain part equally clear in every portion of

dental the glass registered by the Dastal Board of time employment in

Toric will set closer to

the United Kingdom at the be-hospital. Sope dentista also the eye than the ordinary flat ginning of their course of study.

now find it useful to employ a lens thus doing away with the The full course for the diploma woman as assitant. At the pres-annoying reflections from theedge costs at the London Dental Hosent moment vacancies are not of the glass. For those who wish pital about £300; in Manchester, numerous, a work in being the very best in-lenses, we reconi- £255; and in Edinburgh, £112 44. curtailed everywhere; but there mead torics. The Hongkong In addition there are extra ex must before long come an expan Optical Co., successors to Clark & penses for instrumente, books, sion of opportunities, and a private Co., manufacturing and refracting &c., averaging about £50 for the practice can be worked up at any opticians, located in 53 Queen's whole course. For the degree the time.

Road Central, manufacture Torics

Fia

cost is slightly higher, and there It should le said that at the loa all prescriptions in White, an extra year of training present time there is little or no Smoke, Amber,Crookes or Fieuzsl. Those who can afford another demand for vomen trained only three years or so of study and in mechanical dentistry-the an extra expense of rome £200 making of teeth, crownings, and would do wall to proceed alao to other appliances. Since & number a degree in medicine. This adds of disabled ex-service men were to one's standing among medical trained for this work vacancies men and to one's own cepacity to have been few.

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