Document Type
Article
Publication Title
ADA Presidents Album
Abstract
Doctor Darby, of Philadelphia, was elected twenty-third president of the Association at the 1883 meeting in Niagara Falls. In his presidential address the following year, Doctor Darby reviewed developments in the profession since the Association was organized in 1859: the number of dentists increased from less than 4,000 to more than 12,000; the number of dental colleges, including dental departments of universities, increased from three to twenty; the number of states with laws regulating the practice of dentistry was twenty in 1884 compared to none in 1859. Doctor Darby was elected president of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society in 1875. In private practice in Philadelphia, he was also a professor of operative dentistry, dental histology and pathology from 1876 until 1920. He was a frequent contributor to the dental literature. He was born in New York in 1845 and died in 1929.
Publication Date
1977
Recommended Citation
American Dental Association, "ADA President 1883-1884: Edwin Tyler Darby" (1977). ADA Presidents. 29.
https://commons.ada.org/presidents/29
Included in
Dentistry Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Nonprofit Administration and Management Commons
Comments
Content comprises text (a brief biography and historical highlights), facsimile of autograph and a photographic portrait for each ADA President from 1860 to 1977.