WADE LARUE, A.B., D.D.S., Associate Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Lecturer on Ethics and Dental History. On June 1, 1925, by act of the Indiana Legislature, the school was purchased by the state and became the Indiana University School of Dentistry. The school is conducted by the University at the old location, corner of Pennsylvania and Walnut streets, in the city of Indianapolis, with all the facilities of the University Hospitals, Robert W.
Long and James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, also of Indianapolis City Hospital, available for student teaching. The Indiana University Medical Center consists of the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry, the Training School for Nurses, Robert W. The expenses of the student al Bloomington will vary according to his mode of living.
The residential part of th2 town is so close to the business district that boarding places are readily available within four or five blocks of the school. However, this is largely regulated by the individual's financial situation, and many students spend less. In the latter case, good health and considerable determination are required on the part of the student so that his school work does not suffer, but some students can do it.
It is only desirable when absolutely necessary, as schoolwork should be the first and greatest interest in the student's life.
Requirements for Admission and Graduation
In the event of a serious personal illness, duly certified, during the school year, in which the student falls to at least seventy-five percent of attendance, he may be allowed to make up ten percent of the required eighty. - at least five percent, with systematic work during vacations under competent instruction at own expense in this school. This can be remedied by an exam just before the start of the next school year or at the discretion of the instructor. Due to the inability to take the first exam to eliminate the condition, the student is graded "fail" in the course.
An insufficient grade can only be remedied by fully or partially repeating the course unit, i.e. by additional commissioned work that has been approved by the dean and the professor responsible for the subject. A student who has difficulty or failing grades, or both, in courses exceeding forty percent of the scheduled hours for the semester will be removed from his class. A student may not be promoted if he or she experiences difficulty or is unsatisfactory, or both, in courses that exceed twenty percent of the scheduled hours for the semester.
A student who fails to remove a condition or failure within twelve months from the time it arose will be automatically expelled from the School. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery must be twenty-one years of age, must be of good moral character, and must have been a student of good conduct while in school, and all the required work of the curriculum completed to the satisfaction of the Faculty.
Course of Study 1n the School of Dentistry
Description of Courses
The laboratory course also includes drawing teeth, first giving the basics of drawing, then with drawing teeth. The course in prosthetic technique, as in operative technique, has the greatest practical importance for beginners. Also, the shaking and firing of matrices, the selection of shades, the firing of inlays and other intricacies of porcelain work.
The course in these subjects includes an elaboration of the work in the materia medica course in the field of anesthesia. Chemistry, the basis of many arts and sciences, is taught didactically and in the laboratory. The student is thoroughly rooted in the principles of science and its practical usefulness.
In the chemistry laboratory, the student becomes familiar with the chemical properties of elements and their compounds through an independent demonstration and experiment; their preparation and improvement. The lectures cover general physiological principles, general and special treatment of the functioning of various body organs. The first part of the course is aimed at getting acquainted with the various terms used in the classification and description of medicines.
The pharmacology course consists of didactic and laboratory research into the action and effects of anesthetics, both general and local. Each student learns to use the microscope, the preparation of tissues, cutting with the microtome, and staining and mounting the sections on microscope slides. The dissemination of the major germs found in the oral cavity is accomplished by means of the latest form of culture ovens.
Cultures are made from various dental bones, from saliva and from shavings obtained from the mucous membrane of the mouth. The course consists of lectures and laboratory exercises on microscopic examination of dental tissues, pulp and peridental membrane. In the laboratory, the student learns the technique of grinding sections of human teeth, embedding and staining for laboratory studies; using a microscope and comparing different tissues.
The history of the growth and development of dentistry is studied and the student is familiar with the standards that comprise the ethical practice of this profession. A course in mechanical and freehand drawing designed to assist the student in his understanding of the technical procedure in operative and prosthetic dentistry.
List of Students, 1930-31
