The Texts that Cemented The Myth

Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland, School of Medicine (1807-1890) The first significant text that relied on Winder’s words was Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell M.D.’s 1891 Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland, School of Medicine (1807-1890)....

Dental Department or College of Dental Surgery

Nothing in the history of dentistry has done more to injure the profession in public esteem or to inhibit its educational program than the fallacy that dentistry was forced to accept autonomy as a consequence of the unfavorable action of the Medical School, University...

Baltimore’s Medical Foundation

That a college for the education of persons for the profession might be gotten up, and that it would be well sustained, I think is more than probable, for if a school of this kind was in operation, it would be expected of dental practitioners, that they should be...

Horace Henry Hayden

Charcoal Portrait of Horace Henry Hayden, c. 1840 Establishing Roots Although born in Windsor, Connecticut on October 13, 1769, Horace Henry Hayden became an integral part of Baltimore and Maryland’s history at the turn of the 19th century. In 1800, Dr. Thomas...

Dentistry at the Turn of the 19th Century

Warner & Hanna’s Plan of the City and Environs of Baltimore, 1801, Peabody Library Collection of the Johns Hopkins University “The rising-est town in America” In 1797, Baltimore was officially incorporated as a city, and by 1798, George Washington...
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