Advertising in Heroic Couplets: Laughing Gas by Dentist W.J.A. DeLancey
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Gerorge S. Bause [1]
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[1] Museum of Anesthesiology Schaumberg
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- Localización: Journal of the history of dentistry: Official publication of the American Academy of the History of Dentistry, ISSN 1089-6287, Vol. 63, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 42-53
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Dr. WiHiam J.A. DeLancey moved to Illinois from New England in 1858 to practice dentistry. Renowned for his good humor and amiable personality, DeLancey penned a seven-stanza poem in heroic couplets titled "Dental Surgery." These mock-heroic verses were published in about half of the Centralia Sentinel weekiy newspapers issued in 1864. Inventor of a tooth powder and an electric dental motor, DeLancey became a statewide leader of Freemasonry.
Unfortunately, both his vocational dental library and his avocational Masonic one were incinerated by a house fire in 1892. As a lifelong professional dentist, DeLancey was widely regarded as a true pillar of the communities and of the Masonic Temples in which he had served—first in Illinois (Galesburg and then Centralia) and finally in Williamsport, Indiana.
