ral years elapsed
after these ladies were graduated before others were accepted.
When that time did arrive, under the present dean, Dr. C. N.
Pierce, they were accorded everything, without any reservation,
and the school has continued ever since to accept them. At the
meeting of the National Association of Dentists, held at
Saratoga, 1869, Dr. Truman introduced a resolution looking to the
recognition of women in the profession. The resolution and the
remarks were kindly received, but were, of course, laid on the
table. This was expected, the object being to make the thought
familiar in every section of the country.

These efforts have borne rich fruit, and now women are being
educated at a majority of the prominent dental colleges, and no
complaints are heard of coeducation in this department of work.
The college that first accepted and then rejected--the
Pennsylvania of Philadelphia--has a yearly average of seven to
eight women, nearly equally divided between America and Germany.
Of the three dental schools in Philadelphia, two accept women,
and the third--the Dental Department of the University of
Pennsylvania--would, if the faculty were not overruled by the
governing powers.

The learned theories that were promulgated in regard to the
injury the practice of dentistry would be to women, have all
fallen to the ground. The advocates of women in dentistry were
met at the outstart with the health question, and as it had never
been tested, the most favorably inclined looked forward with some
anxiety to the result. Fifteen years have elapsed since then, and
almost every town in Germany is supplied with a woman in this
profession. Many are also established in America. These have all
the usual requisites of bodily strength, and the writer has yet
to learn of a single failure from physical deterioration.

The first lady, Miss Lucy B. Hobbs, to graduate in dentistry, was
sent out from the Cincinnati College, and she, I believe, is
still in active practice in Kansas. She graduated in 1866. Mrs.
Hirschfeld, before spoken of, returned to Germany and became at
once a subject for the fun of the comic papers, and for the more
serious work of the _Bajan_ and _Uberlana und Meer_, both of them
containing elaborate and illustrated notices of her. She ha