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Facsimile reprint of the 1876 edition, with a new introduction by Audrey Davis, Curator, Division of Medical Sciences, Smithsonian Institution. This graphically illustrated catalogue is the best record of the entire range of 19th century dental instruments, appliances, and supplies offered for sale by the largest manufacturer of dental instruments in the world. For three quarters of a century, the S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia was the world's largest manufacturer in the world of porcelain teeth, instruments, appliances, and supplies for dentists. The company's founder, Samuel Stockton White, introduced several new and improved dental chairs, engines, and instruments for the dental office and laboratory. This facsimile reprint of the 1876 edition represents the full line of his products and includes an index to instruments. The original edition of this catalog was printed on highly acidic paper, and the few surviving copies tend to be in very poor condition.
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Samuel Stockton White was born on June 19, 1822 at Hulmeville, Bucks County, Pa. , the eldest child of William Rose and Mary (Stockton) White. His father was a descendant of Henry White who settled in Virginia about 1649; his mother, of Richard Stockton who emigrated from England to Flushing, N. Y. , about 1656. His father died when he was eight years old (1830), and shortly afterward his mother removed with her children to her native town, Burlington, N. J.
At the age of fourteen he was indentured to his maternal uncle, Samuel W. Stockton of Philadelphia, to learn "the art and mystery of dentistry and the manufacture of incorruptible porcelain teeth. " While working with his uncle, he also studied dentistry under John De Haven White, not a relative. Upon reaching his majority (1843), he began the practice of dentistry with his uncle Stockton, and superintended the latter's manufacturing business, which had then attained considerable commercial importance. In 1844 he left his uncle, continued in the practice of dentistry for about a year, and at the same time began the manufacturing of artificial teeth, with a younger brother, James William White, also a dentist, as an assistant. In 1846 he relinquished practice and devoted himself to the manufacture of porcelain teeth, for some years in partnership with Asahel Jones and John R. McCurdy, the firm being successively Jones, White and Company (1847 - 52), Jones, White and McCurdy (1853 - 59), Jones and White (1859 - 61). James W. White was also connected intermittently with the firm. Its business was shortly expanded to include a general line of instruments and supplies for dentists, and flourished from the start. Branch houses, called "dental depots, " for the sale of its products were established in New York (1846), Boston (1850), and Chicago (1858). After the withdrawal of McCurdy and Jones, White continued the business in his own name until his death. After his death, the business was conducted under the name of Samuel S. White until 1881, when it was incorporated as the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company, of which James W. White was president until his death in 1891. For three-quarters of a century the company was the largest in the world in the production of porcelain teeth, instruments, appliances, and supplies for dentists. The Dental News Letter, established by Jones, White and Company in 1847, was succeeded in 1859 by the Dental Cosmos; the latter, James W. White personally supervised from its beginning, and served as editor from 1872 until his death. In 1872 he accepted the leadership in the legal struggle of the profession against the excessive license fees demanded by the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company for the use of vulcanized rubber in artificial dentures, on which they held patents. This involved him in numerous costly personal lawsuits, through which, after seven years of litigation, the Goodyear Company's patents were broken. In November 1879 he was stricken with congestion of the brain, probably as a result of mental strain. His physicians ordered rest in Europe, where he shortly contracted Russian influenza. He died in Paris in his fifty-eighth year, leaving an estate valued at about $1, 500, 000.
Samuel White is credited with various important improvements in porcelain teeth, which before his time were deficient in strength and appearance and in other respects. He introduced several new or improved dental chairs and engines, and numerous appliances, instruments, and materials for the dental office and laboratory. He encouraged dental inventors and was always interested in the advancement of the profession.
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He was a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Dental Surgeons, and served on the executive committee of the American Dental Convention in 1868.
He was married on March 31, 1846, to Sarah Jane Carey, by whom he had seven children.
