Author: Horatio C. Meriam

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-17

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781330342244

Excerpt from Footprints of a Profession: Or Ethics in Materials and Methods; Address Delivered Before the Maine Dental Society, at Their Twenty-Second Annual Meeting, Held in Waterville, July 19 and 20, 1887 This rendering of the claim in our code of ethics has, perhaps, received more attention than any other one sentence. It is not strange that this should be strongly held to, but strange rather that it should be debated by dentists. Why they more than oculists or aurists? The answer is to be found, I fear, in the fact that we have taken the position, or many think that a place in the medical profession can be reached and held by education, and education alone. My object to-night is to call attention to methods and materials, and see if there are not other things as well as education, or the title of M. D. to be thought of. And if another "Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything." let me illustrate a principle with a plugger, enforce an ethic with an excavator, and find in the methods and materials of our profession the weak spot which is the cause of the uncertain position. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.