"J.L.T. Appleton, dean from 1941 to 1951, emphasized the role of dentistry in the health professions and strengthened association with the Graduate School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The demand for graduate education in areas of dental medicine, such as endodontia and periodontia, resulted in the creation of a Department of Dentistry in the Graduate School of Medicine. To prepare students for teaching and research in dental schools and institutions, several departments of the Dental School established interdisciplinary programs with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. For the training of more auxiliary dental personnel, the school developed a course for dental assistants in this period."
From Penn Archives
"Dentistry is the health service specifically concerned with the establishment, maintenance, restoration and improvement of the health, function and appearance of the oral cavity and its associated parts, in their interrelations with other parts and with the individual as a whole.
This includes the recognition of oral disease and of the oral signs of systemic diseases; the prevention and treatment of oral disease, inquiries, malformations, and deficiencies; the repair of teeth when damaged by accident or disease, and their replacement when lost"
- J.L.T. Appleton, jr. from A Century of Dentistry: A History of University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine by Milton B. Asbell
Louis Grossman's Copy of Bacterial Infection written by and gifted from J.L.T. Appleton in 1950.
Robert Schattner's copy of Bacterial Infection with marginalia and notes!
Robert Schattner's Quiz from Appleton's class Bacteriology taken in 1945
Ray Spryes's notes from Appleton's Bacteriology course.
Could you pass Appleton's Quiz?
Question 10:
How would you confirm by bacteriological methods the clinical diagnosis of following conditions?
A) Subacute bacterial endocarditis
B) Typhoid fever
C) Pulmonary T.B.
D) Epidemic cerebral meningitis
