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istic remark: ''I can not be real honest and make money in this 

 business, for if I say an article is eighteen carats fine, it must be 

 so if I sell it." 



For some years after this he was a salesman for his brothers, 

 who were engaged in handling laces in New York City. A busi- 

 ness career seemed to have no attractions for him, and while cast- 

 ing about for a calling more suited to his tastes and ambitions, 

 someone suggested that his knowledge in the handling of fine tools 

 which he had acquired when a jeweler's apprentice could be turned 

 to advantage in dentistry, should he adopt that as a profession. 

 The suggestion was followed up, and we next find him a student 

 in dentistry in the office of Dr. J. W. Jay, at Richmond. Here he 

 remained and received instruction until qualified to practice. In 

 his first work done in a number of small towns within a radius of 

 twenty miles of Richmond he was eminently successful. 



Feeling the necessity of a broader training, he removed to Cin- 

 cinnati and entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, from 

 which he received the degree of D. D. S. in the spring of 1880. 

 It was not his intention at this time to follow dentistry as a life- 

 long profession, but to use it as a means of living until he could 

 complete a full course in medicine. Aside from the time devoted 

 to his dental practice, he attended lectures at Miami Medical Col- 

 lege in Cincinnati, and graduated from that institution with the 

 degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1884. 



While prosecuting his medical studies he began scientific re- 

 search work in physiology and pathology. The field proved in- 

 viting to one whose mind was always bent on investigation. This 

 collateral study along the lines of diseases of the mouth and teeth 

 was of great advantage to him in his dental work and made the 

 practice of dentistry in his hands a constantly advancing pro- 

 fession. 



Thus it happened that he never practiced medicine in the or- 

 dinary acceptation of the term, but he turned to good account in 

 dentistry all his medical learning. Being an expert mechanic, he 

 knew how to fashion and temper steel, and whenever it was not 

 possible to buy a tool such as he wanted, he made it. 



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