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Norman William Kingsley was born on October 26, 1829 in Stockholm, New York, United States.
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Excerpt from Woman: An Oration, Delivered Before the American Academy of Dental Science, Boston, November 7, 1883 Two days journey from Boston, half a century ago, the traveler would have found among the Green Mountains of Vermont a charming little village, situated upon a plateau, with a background Of mountains, and a valley bounding it on three sides. Across the valley other mountain peaks arose in every direction, breaking and beautifying the horizon line around the entire circle. The evening sunlight, and the morning sun as well, developed a landscape which for picturesque beauty can nowhere be excelled. The meadows and the pastures, the groves of pine, of beech and of maple, the quiet river, and the laughing, dashing brooks, the little cascades and the larger waterfalls, formed a scene which in certain conditions of the atmosphere became surpassingly enchanting. In the spring-time, when the river was swollen by freshets, the roar of a cataract higher than Niagara was heard for miles, and the meadows became a vast inland lake. NO gorgeous sunsets ever exalted an enthusiast more than those which at times illuminated the ravines and faded away upon the mountain peaks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Cleft Palate: Read Before the Connecticut Valley Dental Association, June, 1894 Dr. Stearn (for he was a graduate of medicine) had made for him self would benefit his daughter more than the obturator which I had made. The father then arranged with Dr. Stearn to make for his daughter an artificial velum in conjunction with my prosthesis, as before described. This was my introduction to artificial vela, and was in the winter of 1859 and 1860. Dr. Stearn' s velum was constructed by his taking small impressions of the various parts of the cleft, in white wax, upon the end of a stick, and then combining those forms and making a copy by carving in wood. He was thus able to produce, and did produce, a mold made of wood, in which he subsequently vulcanized his artificial velum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from A Treatise on Oral Deformities as a Branch of Mechanical Surgery In the department of Irregularities, a number of illustra tions have been introduced which the superficial reader may regard as excessive or confusing, but each was found to pos sess some valuable principle, or was introduced to contrast its complexity with simpler methods, and prevent a waste ful expenditure of time in the contrivance of useless appa ratus. A critical reader may detect here and there repetitions, but I regarded the knowledge of so much importance in another connection as to justify an occasional reiteration. When I began practice in certain specialties herein treated, there was almost no literature upon the subject, and I was obliged to invent nearly every process which I used. The appliances and the methods of treatment are therefore to a large extent original with me; nevertheless, I have not hesitated to adopt, from any source at my command, any and all different methods which had anything in them to com mend them. Hamilton very truly says, It is not in the discovery and multiplication of mechanical expedients that the surgeon of this day declares his superiority, so much as in the skillful and judicious employment of those which are already invented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Dentistry Not a Specialty in Medicine: An Address Delivered Before the New England Dental Society at the Annual Meeting, Boston, October 7th, 1886 When I received the invitation from your committee to be present on this occasion, I said, involuntarily, from a force of habit-no. But the compliment paid me in the invitation, together with the flattering reception accorded me in Boston on a former occasion, made me hesitate in sending a negative reply. When I have something to say a little out of the ordinary prac tical and scientific talk of dental societies, I like to come to Boston with it. The old fancy that wisdom was born in the East and Spreads from that point of the compass, induces me to seek this locality and take advantage of the myth. As my professional audi ence, other than that now before me, lies to the west of us, my words may possibly gain a factitious importance by being delivered in Boston. I realize in advance that some things I am about to say will not be accepted, and are liable to be severely criticized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Norman William Kingsley was born on October 26, 1829 in Stockholm, New York, United States.
Kingsley received his early education in the public school of Poultney, Vermont, and at an academy in Troy, New York. After serving as a clerk in several stores in Elmira and Troy, in 1848 he paid for a course of instruction in dentistry with his uncle, Dr. A. W. Kingsley, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, who stipulated that the then secret process of making porcelain teeth was not to be included in the course; but young Kingsley soon mastered the process without assistance and otherwise demonstrated his native mechanical and artistic abilities.
In 1850 Kingsley began the practice of dentistry with B. C. Leffler in Owego, New York, where he shortly established an independent office. In 1852 he removed to New York City, practiced about a year in partnership with Solyman Brown and Samuel Lockwood, and then established himself independently at 858 Broadway. In 1858 he published the first of his many articles on the correction of irregularities of the teeth and thenceforth specialized largely in oral deformities.
Beginning in 1860, he perfected the gold obturator and artificial velum of soft rubber for cleft palate cases. His first articles on artificial vela and obturators appeared in 1863 and 1864. Kingsley visited Europe in 1864 and was cordially received by the medical and dental societies of Great Britain and France. Shortly afterward he invented and patented the first portable gas blowpipe for dentists' use. He was one of the founders of the New York College of Dentistry and served as its first dean and first professor of dental art and mechanism from 1866 to 1869. He originated several ingenious methods and appliances for regulating teeth and in 1880 published A Treatise on Oral Deformities as a Branch of Mechanical Surgery, in which he gave a comprehensive review of the scattered knowledge of the subject, together with descriptions of his own improvements. A German version was published at Leipzig in 1881. Kingsley wrote the long article on "Surgery of the Teeth and Adjacent Parts" in The International Encyclopaedia of Surgery, edited by John Ashhurst.
He had considerable reputation as a modeler of portrait-busts in clay, and he also worked in other media of art. In his youth, while a clerk at Elmira and Troy he was known locally as a clever engraver on copper and wood, and he did some creditable paintings in oil. When he removed to New York in 1852, he tried his hand at sculpture. In 1861 he modeled an idealized female head, called the "Evening Star. " His finest work in this line is a bust of Christ, made in 1868, a steel engraving of which appears as the frontispiece of Howard Crosby's Jesus, His Life and Work (1871). Kingsley's best-known portrait-bust was that of Whitelaw Reid, presented to the Lotos Club. He finally became interested in pyrography, in which art heated iron instruments were then employed; but he substituted a modification of the dentists' blowpipe, which he had invented, and used it successfully in making his "flame-paintings" on wood, including numerous copies of Rembrandt's portraits.
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Kingsley was an honorary member in dental and medical societies at home and abroad. In 1886 and 1887 he was president of the New York State Dental Society.
Kingsley was married, in 1850, to Alma W. Shepard. They had two daughters.