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Josiah F. Flagg was born on December 10, 1788, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Flagg, II, said to be the first native-born American dentist, and grandson of Josiah Flagg.
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Josiah F. Flagg was born on December 10, 1788, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Flagg, II, said to be the first native-born American dentist, and grandson of Josiah Flagg.
His early education was indifferent or less. Flagg was an industrious and ingenious boy who enjoyed labor on the farm or in the workshop, but who, according to a younger brother, "utterly repudiated books. "
When about sixteen Flagg was apprenticed to learn the trade of cabinetmaker; but shortly after, through "a simple stratagem of his father, " he suddenly developed a love of reading, and a desire for study which changed the course of his career.
Flagg was sent to an academy at Plainfield, Connecticut, and then entered the office of Doctor J. C. Warren as a student in medicine and surgery. While under the latter’s tutelage Flagg developed a fine skill in dissecting, and an uncommon mechanical ability in devising and making delicate instruments.
Without formal instruction but with a strong native instinct for color and form, he became a considerable artist in painting, designing, and woodengraving.
In 1813 Flagg worked with Doctor Warren in publishing a new edition of Haller’s work on the arteries under the title Anatomical Description of the Arteries of the Human Body. Flagg reproduced the copper engravings by wood-cuts of his own with such skill that he made a reputation for the book and for himself.
In 1815, Flagg graduated from the Boston Medical College.
Flagg began his career as a practising physician and surgeon in Dover, New Hampshire, and at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, then moved to Boston and took up the practise of dentistry. He soon achieved an active dental practise but his interest in general medical problems was never lost.
About 1821 Flagg devised for the treatment of long-bone fractures a special apparatus and splints which were used for years in the Massachusetts General and other hospitals, and he was the first dentist to design (1828) a set of extracting forceps to fit the necks of the various forms of human teeth.
Flagg’s chief contribution to his profession was the making of "mineral teeth, " in 1833, after laborious experiments with Doctor N. C. Keep. Prior to this time artificial teeth were carved from hippopotamus teeth or ivory — or human teeth were used — all of which were "corruptible. " The story of Flagg’s adventures with charlatans in unavailing efforts to purchase mysterious secrets regarding the baking of translucent porcelain, of his own orderly and effective experiments and researches which led to knowledge now fundamental in the manufacture of artificial teeth, is an interesting chapter in the history of dentistry and of porcelain art.
Flagg took a prominent part, in 1846, in opposing the granting of a patent on the recently discovered use of sulphuric ether as an anesthetic. Josiah Foster Flagg died on December 20, 1853.
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Josiah F. Flagg was also one of the early believers in homeopathy, and an ardent teacher of its principles.
Josiah Flagg founded the School of Design for Women, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Personally Josiah F. Flagg was attractive and approachable, but unhesitating in the expression of opinion.
On October 18, 1818, Josiah F. Flagg married Mary Wait.