Excerpt from On the Discovery of Vulcanized Caoutchouc and the Priority of Its Application to Dental Purposes

In 1804, I made a voyage to the United Stales, my native country, which at that period was desolated by civil war. There, upon the very scene of those important events which were Inking place beneath my personal observation, I studied carefully the organisation of the military hospitals, and especially that of the Sanitary Commission, the history of which I proposed to myself to write in order to call the attention of the people of Europe to this admirable institution, so full of great and useful examples.

Entirely devoted to these studies, undertaken with a philanthropic aim, it did not at first occur to me how great was the importance of a comm union I ion made me by Professor J. D. White, of Philadelphia, one of those men who, by their talent, have helped greatly lo advance I he science of dentistry in that country.

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