THE ROOTS OF DENTAL SCIENCE

¹ Henry Willson Payne Professor of Anatomy; Director of the Hamann Museum; Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

A study of the history of dentistry shows, first, that it has tended toward craftsmanship rather than science; secondly, that, in common with medicine and religion, it is honeycombed with white magic even to-day; and thirdly, that it is in need of the rigorous thinking which has no fears of hypotheses and is wise enough not to bind itself to so-called facts.

The lessons of this study are obvious corollaries to the findings.