Doc Holliday.

Between the two world wars several medical journals were published in Transylvania for shorter or longer periods of time fully or partly in Hungarian language. Only dentistry had its own periodicals, two for dentists (Revista Stomatologica--Stomatologiai Szemle 1823-1940, Stomatologia 1929-1937) and one for dental technicians (Viata Dentara--Dentistisches Fachblatt--Fogászati Szaklap 1934). Because of the difficulties in their accessibility little or inaccurate data have been published so far on these journals. It is the main goal of the present paper to give an overview on these journals, which are very valuable not just for their professional merits but also for their historic value.

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Solyman Brown, a giant of dentistry and its poet laureate.

Solyman Brown 1790-1876), widely hailed by his contemporary literary establishment as the poet laureate of dentistry," was one of the visionary individuals who put dentistry on a true foundation of professionalism. He was instrumental in the formation of the first dental journal, the first national dental society, and the first dental school. He is one of the true giants in the history of American dentistry. Solyman Brown's great-great-grandson was cleaning out his father's attic and found a trunk full of original material relating to his illustrious forebear. Among the wealth of material was a notebook kept by Solyman's daughter, Augusta. Selections from it give us a rare personal insight into the type of person this significant dental historical figure was, as well as the struggles he endured in his hard life.

History of Dentistry↗

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The hidden poetry of Solyman Brown, the "poet laureate of dentistry".

One of the most important figures in the development of the dental profession was Solyman Brown, in whose home the leading dentists of his day met and organized the first national dental organization in the world as well as the first dental journal in the world. He was named the first secretary of the organization and served, for two years, as the first editor of the journal. A true Renaissance man, Brown was also a consummate, and widely published, poet, and his epic poem, Dentologia, was hailed by the critics of his day as a literary masterpiece, earning him the sobriquet, "Poet Laureate of Dentistry." Recently Solyman Brown's great-great grandson, cleaning out an attic, discovered a trunk full of material relating to Brown's life - his daughters' memoirs, many of his letters and other of his writings, and many of his unpublished poetical works. This author was fortunate to be able to study all this material, and the poems published herein give a much fuller and rounded picture of this monumental figure in American, and world, dentistry.

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