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Collection Highlights
Taubman Health Sciences Library displays a monthly highlight of various print and electronic materials. Topics are selected from National Health Observances during that month or exhibits featured on the 4th floor of THL. If you have questions or would like to suggest a topic, please send a message to thl-outreach@umich.edu.
Current & Future Collection Highlights:
January 2011: Disabilities Studies
February 2011: Disabilities Studies/Darwin and Genetics
March 2011: Darwin and Genetics
April 2011: Global Health and Water
May 2011: Sports Injuries
June 2011: Smoking and/or Addictions
July 2011: Obesity
August 2011: Immunizations
September 2011: Medical Illustrations
October 2011: LGBT Health
November 2011: LGBT Health
December 2011: TBD
Past Collection Highlights:
December 2010: Affective Disorders
November 2010: Traumatic Brain Injury
October 2010: Traumatic Brain Injury
September 2010: Organ Donation & Transplantation
August 2010: Psoriasis & Autoimmune Diseases
July 2010: Prostrate Cancer
June 2010: Diabetes
May 2010: Speech & Hearing
April 2010: HIV/AIDS
March 2010: HIV/AIDS
February 2010: Cardiology
Dentistry program expenses in 1900
The following description of the Dentistry Program is taken from the School of Dentistry's "Announcement" of 1900-1901, pp. 26-28. Incoming students were informed of the expenses they could expect to incur during their course of study.
MATRICULATION FEE.—For Michigan students, ten dollars; for all others, twenty-five dollars.
ANNUAL FEE.—For Michigan students, thirty-five dollars; for all others, forty-five dollars.
DIPLOMA FEE.—For all alike, ten dollars.
LABORATORY EXPENSES.—Chemical Laboratory.—Students are required to pay for the materials and apparatus consumed by them. The average expense for the required course is about ten dollars. Histological Laboratory.—A charge of seven dollars is made for materials used in this laboratory. Anatomical Laboratory.—A charge of ten dollars is made for materials used in dissection. A fee of three dollars is charged to cover the expense of gas, plaster of paris, wear and tear of laboratory supplies, and clinical facilities each year.
The following table will indicate the necessary expenses of a student, who is not a resident of Michigan, for each year. The expense to residents of Michigan will be $25 less the first year and $10 less for each subsequent year. To determine the total expense of any year, it will only be necessary to add the usual expenses of living for forty weeks, and including traveling expenses, charities, pleasures, etc. Board in Ann Arbor is to be had at all prices, from $3 per week up. The average for respectable board, room and washing will vary from $4 to $6. The instruments, tools and books in this table should not be considered college expenses, as they are unperishable and necessary for practice after graduating.
| Tuition Fees ($25.00, matriculation; $45.00, annual) | $70.00 |
| Dental Laboratory Fee | $3.00 |
| Dental Laboratory tools | $50.00 |
| Books | $20.00 |
| Material used in Dental Laboratory | $7.00 |
| $150.00 |
Junior Year
| Tuition Fee (annual). | $45.00 |
| Dissecting Ticket | $10.00 |
| Chemical Laboratory Ticket | $10.00 |
| Histological Laboratory | $7.00 |
| Dental Laboratory | $3.00 |
| Books | $20.00 |
| Tools and materials used in Dental Laboratory | $5.00 |
| $100.00 |
Senior Year
| Tuition Fee (annual) | $45.00 |
| Laboratory and Clinical Room Fee | $3.00 |
| Diploma Fee | $10.00 |
| Instruments for Operating | $125.00 |
| Books | $12.00 |
| $195.00 |
TOTAL EXPENSES.—The average total expenses of a student of Dentistry including University fees, board, books, etc., are from three hundred dollars and upward for the college year of nine months, depending on the habits and tastes of individuals. The costs of instruments and tools necessary for the entire course of three years will be about one hundred and fifty dollars. By distinguishing this amount over three years fifty dollars will be added to this estimate for each year, but this cannot be properly considered a college expense, as the tools are not perishable and are necessary for practice.
To avoid embarrassment, freshmen students, not residents of Michigan, MUST come prepared to spend during the first week for college, fees, books, and tools, $150; Michigan students will require $125. In addition, at least the first month’s board should be provided, estimated at from four to six dollars per week. Traveling and incidental expenses should not be included in the above.
Dentistry facilities in 1900
The following description of the Dentistry Program is taken from the School of Dentistry's "Announcement" of 1900-1901, pp. 20-21. This document describes the library and museum facilities which distinguished the University of Michigan. (See photo of the library reading room at this time)
The Dental Museum is supplied with a large number of anatomical, physiological, pathological, and histological preparations, including a series illustrating dentition from infancy to the completion of the process in the adult, and the normal changes through life to old age, and also illustrative of the dental and osseous tissues. Preparations, natural and artificial, greatly facilitate the study of the nervous and vascular systems. The design is to make every practicable appliance in this direction available.
The library of dental science, containing almost every known work on this specialty, including a nearly complete file of every Dental Journal published , is shelved in the dental building, where it is accessible to all students. A finely appointed reading room is an important feature connected with the library. Twenty-four dental journals are regularly received.
Dentistry admission requirements in 1900
Dentistry curriculum in 1900 (4-year program)
The following description of the Dentistry Program is taken from the School of Dentistry's "Announcement" of 1900-1901, pp. 9-10. This four-year program had just been designed as an alternative to the standard three-year program.
| Subjects | Hours |
| Lecture course in General Osteology and Anatomy, | 100 |
| Lecture course in General Inorganic Chemistry, | 85 |
| Lecture course in Organic Chemistry, | 51 |
| Lecture course in Embryology and Histology, | 100 |
SECOND YEAR
| Subject | Hours |
| Lecture course in Bacteriology, | 85 |
| Laboratory course in Bacteriology, | 180 |
| Lecture course in Physiology, | 136 |
| Lecture course in General and Electrical Physics, | 100 |
| Demonstration course in Prosthetic Technics, | 100 |
| Laboratory work in Prosthetic Technics, | 600 |
THIRD YEAR
| Subject | Hours |
| Lecture course in Dental Materia Medica, | 70 |
| Lecture course in Dental Operative Principles, | 34 |
| Lecture course in Dental Anatomy and Operative Technics, | 50 |
| Laboratory course in Dental Anatomy and Operative Technics, | 180 |
| Lecture course in General and Histological Pathology, | 50 |
| Laboratory course in Histological Pathology, | 180 |
| Lecture course in Regional Anatomy and Surgical Principles, | 34 |
| Laboratory course in Regional Anatomy and Operative Surgery, | 180 |
| Lecture course in Dental Metallurgy, | 34 |
| Laboratory course in Dental Metallurgy, | 180 |
| Lecture course in Orthodontia, | 34 |
| Laboratory course in Orthodontia Technics, | 180 |
FOURTH YEAR
| Subject | Hours |
| Lecture course in Operative Dentistry, | 34 |
| Clinical course in Operative Dentistry, | 500 |
| Lecture course in Prosthetic Dentistry, | 34 |
| Clinical course in Prosthetic Dentistry, | 300 |
| Clinical lecture course in Oral Surgery, | 68 |
| Lecture course in Dental Pathology and Surgery, | 75 |
| Lecture course in Dental Therapeutics, | 34 |
Dentistry curriculum in 1900
The following description of the Dentistry Program is taken from the School of Dentistry's "Announcement" of 1900-1901, pp. 12-14. This program was designed to take three years of study, but a new four-year program was announced that same year.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION
In the arrangement of the course of study it is the aim to make it such as will meet the requirements of the student and the expectation of the profession, and secure the greatest benefit to the public. To accomplish these objects and to accommodate and benefit those students who desire a thorough dental education, the course of instruction is made to cover three college years of nine months each. The course thus affords time for the teaching and study of subjects not generally taught; and especially does it give time for thorough work in the laboratories. In the arrangement of the work a graded course of study is combined with the repetition of such lecturers only as will avoid the confusion incident to the presentation of too many parts of the general subject to the mind of the student, at one time. No subject is dismissed before its relations to other parts can be seen and appreciated.
FIRST YEAR
FIRST SEMESTER
|
Subject |
Hours |
| Osteology and Anatomy (Yutzy), three lectures per week, | 51 |
| General Chemistry (Lichty), five lectures per week, | 85 |
| Prosthetic Dentistry (Dorrance), one lecture per week, | 17 |
| Dental Laboratory Work (Hoff), three demonstrations and 25 hours of laboratory practice per week, | 425 |
SECOND SEMESTER
|
Subject |
Hours |
| Organic Chemistry (Gomberg), four lectures per week, | 68 |
| Descriptive anatomy (Yutzy), threelectures per week, | 51 |
| Histology (lectures) (Huber), four lecture per week, | 68 |
| Prosthetic Dentistry (Dorrance), one lecture per week, | 17 |
| Dental Laboratory Work (Hoff), three demonstrations and 25 hours of laboratory practice per week, | 425 |
SECOND YEAR
FIRST SEMESTER
|
Subject |
Hours |
| Physiology (Lombard), five lectures per week, | 85 |
| Bacteriology (Novy), four lectures per week, | 68 |
| Prosthetic Dentistry (Dorrance), one lecture per week, | 17 |
| Operative Principles and Materials (Taft), one lecture per week, | 17 |
SECOND SEMESTER
|
Subject |
Hours |
| Dental and Comparative Anatomy (Hall), threelectures per week, | 51 |
| Physiology (Lombard), fivelectures per week, | 85 |
| Prosthetic Dentistry (Dorrance), one lecture per week, | 17 |
| Operative Principles and Materials (Taft), one lecture per week, | 17 |
The following subjects are also included in the work of the second year, making a continuous course of laboratory instruction running through the year. The time for each course must be elected at the beginning of the session, preference being allowed in the order of registration. Every afternoon during the year is fully occupied by some one of these courses:
|
Subject |
Hours |
| Regulating and Porcelain Techniques (Hoff), | 120 |
| Dissection (Yutzy), | 120 |
| Histological Laboratory (Huber), | 120 |
| Qualitative Chemistry (Hall), | 120 |
THIRD YEAR
These courses extend through the entire year.
|
Subject |
Hours |
| Dental Surgery and Pathology (Taft), three hours per week, | 75 |
| Dental Medicine (Hoff), three hours per week, | 75 |
| *Oral Surgery (Darling), two hours per week, | 68 |
| Orthodontia and Oral Deformities (Dorrance), one hour per week, | 34 |
| Operative Dentistry (Watling), one hour per week, | 34 |
| Prosthetic Clinic (Dorrance), ten hours per week, | 340 |
| Operative Clinic (Watling, Hall), twenty hours per week, | 680 |
All students of the first and second years are obliged to stand examination on the required branches of their respective courses, before leaving the college at the end of the term. These examinations are held at the close of each semester, and no student who has failed to pass two of the required branches in his course, is admitted to an advanced class during the first semester of the following year. All conditions must be removed during the semester following the one in which they were received.
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*An optional Laboratory Course in Oral Surgery, including demonstrations on the cadaver will be given this year.
Dental College Application - 1900
The application form for the College of Dental Surgery in 1900:
Dentistry Library at present
Since its founding, the Dentistry Library had always occupied the same building as the Dentistry School itself. In 2008, the Dentistry Library broke with tradition and merged with the Taubman Medical Library (renamed the Taubman Health Sciences Library in April, 2010) on East Catherine Street. The combined Taubman Health Sciences Library provides information on both contemporary and historical knowledge and practice. However, the collections emphasize the journal literature reflecting the current state of medical knowledge, and this literature is increasingly accessed online. Thus, while the Dentistry collection no longer enjoys close proximity to the Dentistry School, it remains conveniently accessible to researchers near and far.
Photo: Scott Hanley
Dentistry Library - 1971-2008
When the new Dentistry building was completed in 1971, the Dentistry Library occupied the elevated second level facing North University Street. The first level, pictured here, contained the main collection and over forty study carrels with a variety of audio-visual equipment. Toward the back, the stairway is visible that led to the mezannine level, containing more journals and study areas. When the new library opened, the collection held 23,000 items and continued to grow rapidly, remaining one of the world's most comprehensive academic libraries specializing in dentistry. Soon, electronic resources were also gaining importance: by 1980, the library provided computerized searching of over 100 bibliographic databases, available to all UM students. Four years later, a student could search 200 databases, while the print collection numbered 43,000 items.
The library remained here until 2008, when it merged with the Taubman Medical Library (as of April, 2010, the Taubman Health Sciences Library) on the Medical Campus.
Source: UM School of Dentistry "Announcement," 1971-72, p. 25; "Announcement," 1980-82, p. 35.
Photo: Patricia F. Anderson
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