Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . er a private interview of three hours which I gavehim, not a word did they say, save that I was not able to showup clearly my own inventions after forty years with it. It was,however, published in the Dental Office and Laboratory, in 1886, butit failed to reach the spot. The American System of Dentistry hasa copy of the 1885 article, which Dr. Litch refused. But the pub- ORIGINAL COMMUNICA TIONS 99 Ushers demanded he should place it in that work, etc. Concluding,he says: Let me repeat what I have often said before in interviewsand lectu
Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . er a private interview of three hours which I gavehim, not a word did they say, save that I was not able to showup clearly my own inventions after forty years with it. It was,however, published in the Dental Office and Laboratory, in 1886, butit failed to reach the spot. The American System of Dentistry hasa copy of the 1885 article, which Dr. Litch refused. But the pub- ORIGINAL COMMUNICA TIONS 99 Ushers demanded he should place it in that work, etc. Concluding,he says: Let me repeat what I have often said before in interviewsand lectures that the majority of dentists can never grasp it unaidedby my personal instructions in the laboratory where I may have eachand all do the work in my presence with my models before of the foregoing history, Dr. Ottolengui, in a foot-notesavs: He returned to the author his article requesting that it be catout, but Dr. Bonwill returned it endorsed: Ottolengui please let thisgo in. Says the editor: This is sad reading when the author is no. more, yet it is symbolical of this unique man that his last professionalwriting should by chance close with an invitation to others to comeand learn of him. The importance of Dr. Bonwills work is pressed home by theopening paragraph in his article, just referred to, where he says:For a third time I here revise all that I have said and done uponthis most important of all my lifes work and discoveries, and uponwhich I am willing to die, feeling that it was as pure a revelation andinspiration to me as the laws of motion were to Kepler and the fur-ther continuation of those laws in establishing gravitation by New- 100 THE DENTAL REVIEW. ton. His own written words establish a claim for him of modestyand humility; both prime factors of true greatness. He says: Theonly mystery to me is that I, a poor, uneducated man, without anyknowledge of geometry, should have been permitted to work out sucha problem in the middle of the 19th centur
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