James Garretson

Dr. James E. Garretson AM, MD, DDS
Born	19 October 1828
Died	26 October 1895 (aged 67)
Other names	John Darby
Denomination	Quaker[1]
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James Edmund Garretson MD (UPenn), DDS (Baltimore), (18 October 1828 - 26 October 1895) was a professor at the Dental College of Philadelphia, a clinic for oral surgery. With his work A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws and associate parts, first published in 1869, he helped to establish oral and maxillofacial surgery as a specialty in the United States.^[2][3] He is known as the father of oral surgery.^[4][5]

He also wrote under the name John Darby.^[6]

He was initially critical of J. Leon Williams histological theories on the development of teeth.

He was buried in the Friends burial ground in Upper Darby.^[1]

Publications

• A system of oral surgery and dentistry: Being a treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, face, teeth, and associate parts. J.B. Lippincott Co. 1869.

As "John Darby"

• Brushland.
• Hours with John Darby.
• Thinking and Thinkers.
• Odd Hours of a Physician. J.B. Lippincott Co. 1871.
• Nineteenth Century Sense.
• Man and His World.

References

1. James Edmund Garretson, A.M., M.D., D.D.S. History of Dental Surgery 3. pp. 395–399.
2. Cillo JE (November 1996). "The development of hospital dentistry in America--the first one hundred years (1850-1950)". J Hist Dent 44 (3): 105–9. PMID 9468900.
3. Herschfeld J (April 1991). "Dr. James Edmund Garretson--pioneer in dentistry's first specialty--oral surgery". Bull Hist Dent 39 (1): 37–8. PMID 1811828.
4. William Harry Archer, Milton Baron Asbell, William B. Irby (1971). The History of the Development of Anesthesia, Oral Surgery and Hospital Dental Service in the United States of America. p. 407.
5. Walter C. Guralnick (1968). Textbook of Oral Surgery. Little, Brown. p. 7.
6. Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 47.