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Dental History Magazine

The Dental History Magazine has replaced the old Newsletter and is available in PDF format. See below.

Newsletter

The Newsletters from April 2000 - June 2007 are available on the web.  Please follow the hyperlinks below.  The contents of previous newsletters are listed.  If you would like a copy of a particular issue please contact either:
Chairman: Dr Rufus M. Ross. Telephone 0141 638 2575
e-mail: rm.ross@btinternet.com
or
Secretary: Mrs Audrey Noble. Telephone 01475 672083
e-mail: daksnoble@yahoo.co.uk

Printed versions of the Dental History Magazine are available at a cost of £10 per annum.  Subscriptions should be sent to the Honorary Treasurer,  Dr Marie Watt, Glasgow Dental Hospital and School, 378 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JZ.

The Secretary would be pleased to hear from retired general dental practitioners, hospital personnel, and other members of staff who would like to contribute material to the newsletter. The group would also welcome any old photographs associated with dentistry; practice accounts, records or other documents of a dental nature associated with the history of dentistry in general and the West of Scotland and Glasgow in particular.

Old dental books but not text books unless earlier than 1921 would also be welcome.

Newsletter editor: Professor David A. McGowan e-mail address: dmmcgowan@btinternet.com
Assistant editor: Dr Jo Cummins e-mail address: luxvespertina@ymail.com

Dental History Magazine

Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 2009 (PDF)
Contained in the above issue:
Update
A Short History of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Scotland.
Professor Khursheed Moos
Dentistry in the 1930s Part 2: Preparation for Hostilities.
Dr Rufus Ross
Dental War Heroes Number 2: Pierre Audige and the Dentists of Nantes.
Dr Xavier Riaud
'The Man who Paints those Dreadful Pictures': Francis Bacon and the Oral Diseases Textbook.
Professor David McGowan
Web News.
Carol Parry
Letters
Word of Mouth: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
Dr Jo Cummins
List of Supporting Members

Volume 2 Number 2 Autumn 2008 (PDF)
Contained in the above issue:
Update
Dentistry in the 1930s Part 1: the years of hunger
Rufus M Ross
Dental War Heroes- Number 1. Danielle Casanova (1909-1943) of the French Resistance
Xavier Riaud
Handsome Tom: The Dental Pimpernel
Jo Cummins
Reminiscences. Sir David Mason (Part 2)
Web News
Carol Parry
Word of Mouth
David McGowan

Volume 2 Number 1 Spring 2008 (PDF)
Contained in the above issue:
Update
Background notes on the Pattison Case
Jo Cummins
Child Oral Health Improvement Programmes in Glasgow and Beyond: a 30-year journey
Lorna Macpherson, Ken Stephen, David McCall, Yvonne Blair
Francis Brodie Imlach (1819-1891)
Paul R Geissler
Dental Verses: The Shortage of Dentists
by T Evans Johnston
Some Dental Extracts: The Life of Sir James Reid Personal Physician to Queen Victoria
Rufus Ross
Web News
Carol Parry
Word of Mouth
Malvin E. Ring

Volume 1 Number 1 Autumn 2007 (PDF)
Contained in the above issue:
Editorial and Update
Richmond and his Casting Machine
Sir David Mason and Pat Lilly
A Scottish Physician Ahead of His Times: Sir James Crichton-Browne
Malvin E. Ring
The Taylor Family Victorian Dentists in Glasgow
Michael A. Gow
Reminiscence: Professor Sir David Mason in conversation with David McGowan and Bill Smith
Reunion - 60 years on
The "Twoth" Brush
Rufus Ross
Web News
Carol Parry
Word of Mouth: Experience by Martin Amis.
Anna Land

Newsletter
Issue No 20 - June 2007
Editorial and Update
Jacob Hemet, Dentist to Royalty and Entrepreneur Extraordinaire
Malvin E. Ring
As the storm clouds gathered: recollections of Glasgow Dental Hospital and School 1935-1939
George Fleming
Display Cabinet in Memory of Dr Henry Noble FDS RCPSG
Carol Parry
Refreshment and Catering in the Glasgow Dental Hospital and School
Bill Smith
Denture Recycling Parisian-Style
Len Schwarz
Web News
Carol Parry
Correspondence
Word of Mouth - Manners maketh the dentist
Edna Robertson
List of supporting members
Issue No 19 - November 2006
Editorial
Update
Saving Prince Hal: maxillo-facial surgery, 1403
Jo Cummins
The Caldwell Memorial Lectures
Bill Smith
A life of two halves
Alasdair Gillies
Dental Verses 2 - BDA Branch minutes
Bob McKecknie
Web News
Carol Parry
Correspondence
Word of Mouth - "Staring at the light" by Francis Fyfield
David McGowan
List of supporting members
Issue No 18 - May 2006
Editorial and Update
Oswald Fergus, a pioneer of simulated dental clinical practice
Sir David Mason
Dental Roots
Michael Gow
Response to 'Among the deep-sea fishers'
Bill Hutton
New medical exhibition at the Hunterian
Dental verses 1
Bob McKechnie
The Tomes of Long Marston
Audrey Noble
Web News
Carol Parry
Correspondence
Word of Mouth - "Barchester Towers"
Khursheed Moos
List of supporting members
Issue No 17 - November 2005
Editorial and Update
The Seigneur De Joinville's Cure
Josephine Cummins
Lilian Lindsay Lecture Abstract
The Liquefaction of Nitrous Oxide Gas
Rufus Ross
Orthodontics v Orthodontia
Stuart Taylor
Mr Boultbee and the King's Toothache
Reminiscences - R. McKechnie
In Conversation with David McGowan and Bill Smith
Letters from Patients to Glasgow Dental Hospital, circa 1933
Web News
Carol Parry
BDA Conference 1955
Word of Mouth - A Dental Tale from a century and a half ago
Malvin Ring
List of Supporting Members
Issue No 16 - April 2005
Editorial
Update
The Fairley Collection
John Fairley - a biographical note
Collecting dental items
Glasgow Dental Hospital and School in the 1930s
Reminiscences - H.D. Campbell
J.G. Houston
Correspondence
Web news
Word of Mouth
List of supporting members

Issue No 15 - November 2004

Editorial

Update
Dr Henry Noble
Correspondence
Among the Deep Sea Fishers
Beaverbrook's toothache
Word of Mouth
Web news
List of supporting members

Issue No 14 - April 2004

Update
The Edinburgh College
Helen Dingwall
A Platt postscript
Linda Chapman
The flouride case
Robert McKechnie
A Victorian surgery
Malvin E. Ring
Web News
Carol Parry
Book review
Word of Mouth
Any questions

Issue No 13 - October 2003

Update
From silversmith to oral surgeon
Khursheed F. Moos
Jimmy Campbell
David McGowan and Henry Noble
Glasgow women dental students of 1922
Margaret Campbell
Eating ivory
A story of Irish extraction
David McGowan
Formation of the Royal Army Dental Corps
Henry Noble
A compostition on 'stents'
Edna Robertson, Henry Noble and David McGowan
Web news
Carol Parry
Word of Mouth
Bill Smith
List of supporting members

Issue No 12 - April 2003

Update
'Sequah': Crown Prince of Charlatans
Rufus M. Ross
Instruments of Old
Carol Parry
Licensed to Practice
Elma P. Douglas
Web News
Carol Parry
Book Review
Word of Mouth
Letters

Issue No 11 - October 2002

Update
Dr J. Menzies Campbell - as I knew him
Malvin E. Ring
Memories of Dr Margaret Menzies Campbell
John Kerr, David Mason, Robert McKechnie and Henry Noble
Tooth Transplantation: a controversial story
Henry W. Noble
Web News
Carol Parry
An odontological centenary
Henry W. Noble
Reminiscences: Henry Ernest Gray 1908-2002
With jigger and baffy: tales of dental golf
Archie R. Whitelaw
Word of Mouth
Robert Orchardson
Letters to the Editor

Issue No 10 – April 2002

Update
Whithorn Investigated
Alma Adler-Beck
Maestro of Murray Place
Linda M. Chapman
Tale of the Tooth-Straighteners: a very special specialty
G. Stuart Taylor
Appreciation: Ronald A. Cohen
Khursheed F. Moos
Reminiscences: Alec Pairman, LDS, RFPDGlasg
Henry W. Noble
NHS Greater Glasgow Archives
Alistair G. Tough
Web News
Carol Parry
Word of Mouth - 3
Patrick Lilly
Letters to the Editor

Issue No 9 - October 2001

Update
A Glasgow Dentist, an Edinburgh Legacy
Paul Geissler
Web News
Carol Parry
Dental Hygiene in Glasgow
Eveline A. Gray
Whithorn investigations
John Orr Remembered
Bill Smith
Dentist at the OK Corral
Rufus M. Ross
George Cunningham, pioneer of preventative dentistry
Shirley Zangwill
Decline of Decay
Henry W. Noble
Word of Mouth

Issue No 8 - April 2001

Update
From the Minutes
New Horizons
Web News
Robert the Bruce and Leprosy
Reminiscences
Word of Mouth: New Series

Issue No 7 – October 2000

News Update
Public Health and Dentistry:
A Dog That Didn't Bite
Origins of Orthognathic Surgery
Robert the Bruce
Rankine Crerar
Regulation of the Dental Qualification in Norway

Issue No 6 – April 2000

News Update
From the Minutes
Glasgow Dental Hospital and School: the early days
Rufus M Ross
Adam Cubie's Contribution to Clinical Instruction at Glasgow Dental Hospital and School
Henry W Noble
Dental themes on stamps
W. Neithercut
The Struggle for Professionalism in Dentistry
Henry W Noble

Issue No 5 – October 1999

News Update ...Latest Group Activities
Recollections of a Dental Student in 1899
Dr W Ferguson MacKenzie
Dr Ferguson MacKenzie: A Biography
Books on Dentistry in the Library of the RCPS of Glasgow
James Beaton
The Early History of the School Dental Service in Glasgow
Archie Whitelaw
The First Orthodontic Diploma
Professor W John S Kerr

Issue No 4 – April 1999

News Update
Editor
Recollections of the Norwegian Invasion
W. Smith
The Life and Times of a Registered Dentist
Dr R.M. Ross
An Account of a Dental Journey to the Western Isles
John and Gilbert Cadden
Random Recollections of a Dental Student in the Early 1890’s
Alex MacGregor O.B.E.

Issue No 3 – October 1998

News Update
Editor
All Our Yesterdays 17th Menzies Campbell lecture at the BDS Jubilee celebrations, 11 September 1998
Dr H.W. Noble, Dr R.M. Ross, W. Smith
Reminiscences
Miss Mary MacDonald
William Dall – Dental Research Pioneer
Dr H.W. Noble

Issue No 2 – April 1998

News Update
Editor
Glasgow’s Dental Hospital
Development and Management

R McKechnie
Our Dental Library
Dr H.W. Noble
Dental Archives and Artefacts at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Carol Parry

Issue No 1 – October 1997

The History of Dentistry Research Group Introductory Article
Professor D McGowan
From Small Beginnings
Founding Members

Dr R.M. Ross (Editor)
Lest We Forget
W Smith
Success and Failure in the Early Days
Dr H.W. Noble
Reminiscences
T Neil Rose

 

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