AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DENTISTRY

The American Academy of Dental Science held its seventeenth annual meeting and banquet at Young's Hotel last night, the President, Dr. George T. Moffatt, occupying the chair. The following were elected officers for the ensuing year : President, Dr. Geo. T. Moffatt ; Vice-President, Dr. J. H. Bachelder ; Recording Secretary, Dr. E. E. Hopkins; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. E. B. Hitchcock; Treasurer, Dr. E. H. Smith; Librarian, Dr. H. C. Merriam ; Executive Committee, Dr. C. P. Wilson, Dr. E. C. Briggs, Dr. J. S. Mason. The annual address was delivered by Dr. E. N. Harris, of Boston. Dr. Harris gave a brief history of the society, which was organized Oct. 19, 1867, and has admitted 124 members in America and Europe, being the second dental society instituted — in Boston, the first, the Massachusetts, having been organized in 1864. He then described the advantages of a dental society to the profession and the community. In his remarks he called attention to the new dispensation in the healing art, termed metaphysical healing, or Christian Science, or mind cure. This, he said, was a subject destined, as it became known, to be of great benefit to the race, and one that would be of mighty importance to the profession in allaying the fears and pains of the patients, preventing any unfavorable after-effects, and in preparing them for the operation, by lessening the dread. He, himself, had taken a course of instruction in the science, and advised his brother dentists to do the same. — Boston Journal, Nov. 6th, 1884.