. Dental ofhis ability. In time of battle he did his part nobly fighting for Ameri-can independence. During the winters of 1781-2, while inwinter quarters, he tutored Josiah Flagg and James Gardettin the art of dentistry. He was the first and original Ameri-can dental preceptor, and his coming marked the beginning ofdentistry as a profession in America. At the close of the revo-lutionary war, he instructed others and located in New Yorkcity. Later, 1784, he removed to Philadelphia, where he madea practice of transplanting teeth and carving artificial teethfrom blocks of ivory. LeMair
. Dental ofhis ability. In time of battle he did his part nobly fighting for Ameri-can independence. During the winters of 1781-2, while inwinter quarters, he tutored Josiah Flagg and James Gardettin the art of dentistry. He was the first and original Ameri-can dental preceptor, and his coming marked the beginning ofdentistry as a profession in America. At the close of the revo-lutionary war, he instructed others and located in New Yorkcity. Later, 1784, he removed to Philadelphia, where he madea practice of transplanting teeth and carving artificial teethfrom blocks of ivory. LeMaire was a talented writer and con-tributed a number of valuable works to our literature;amongst them, The Ladies Dentist; A Manual on the An-atomy and Physiology of the Teeth; A Treatise on DentalPhysiology and Pathology; and several other works writtenin French. His name will live in dental history as patriot andpioneer surgeon-dentist, whose coming marks the beginning ofdentistry in America. 1S6 THE DENTAL SUMMARY. Jas. (lardette James Gardette, a fellow-countryman of LeMaire, born inFrance, 1756, educated with the intention of the career of thenaval surgeon. After an academic course, he was sent toParis, in 1773, where he remained two years studying anat-omy and surgery at the Royal Medical School. During thisperiod he received instructions in dental operations from Roy de la Faudiniere, a dentist of high repute, of Paris.(At this time such instructions were a part of the naval sur-geons requirements). He studied the works of Fauchard andBourdet, both at that time recognized dental authorities. Hecompleted his college course, and was sent to the hospital atToulouse, where he remained 18 months as student and in-terne. From there he went to , where he took the ex-amination conducted by the surgeons of the admiralty withsuccessful results and was commissioned a surgeon in theFrench navy. He immediately entered the service and sailedfor America, October, 1777, on a
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