THE PERIODICALS USEFUL IN THE DENTAL LIBRARY

摘要

I THINK Mark Twain would have said if he were in my place: " Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now talk to you on dental library affairs, and I assure you that I am well qualified for it, for I am neither a dentist nor a librarian by profession." However, I have been connected for eighteen years with a dental college bearing a medical name, but having no school of medicine. Here I became acquainted with many problems of dentistry, and, being a lover of books ever since I could read, I examined one day about fifteen years ago the accumulation of books called the library. They were mostly medical books sent as review copies to the Pacific Medical Gazette, a few medical magazines, a few dental books, and not a single dental periodical. At that time the college discontinued its medical course and specialized entirely in teaching dentistry.