Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Dental Society at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting, Held at Springfield, May 10 to 13, 1898 We do not claim that dental societies can readily transform every poor and indifferent operator into a paragon of perfection, but we do claim that they will make of every honest seeker of truth and progress a better dentist in every sense of the word than he can be without them. Nor do I deny that there may be good operators that do not attend societies, but I think I'may safely say without fear of contradiction that if they are good operators with out the aid oi a society they would be much better operators by placing themselves under a society's influence. If the proies sors in our colleges, the editors of our journals and allof the most eminent members of our profession consider these societies so essential to them in this day of rapid progress, what shall we say of their crowning necessity to the wants of the great masses of the profession who have not as yet been brought to a position where they can see and fully-appreciate the benefits to be derived from them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.