ABSTRACT
ALTHOUGH SO much is said about influence, how little we many of us realise the effects which can be produced by it! This is t.he first thoug~t which se~ms to present itself as the wnter calls to mmd the subJect of the followjng sketch. For does it not show how much one earnest, strong life can accomplish when, as a consequence of the fact, that Frau Doctor Henrietta Hirschfeldt-Tiburtius-to give her all her style and titles-'-'has lived and practised for twenty-six years as a lady (dentist in Berlin; Germany, so far behind England in all other things appertaining to the progress of womanhood, is so far before her in the introduction of dentistry as a profession for women? Whilst at the present time there are, so far as the writer knows, only two lady dentists in the whole of England, buth of whom are in London, and one has only very recently commenced practice there, in October, 1894, when Frau Doctor Tiburtius celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of her establishment as a dentist in Berlin, she received a congratulatory address signed by no less than twenty other lady dentists who were then in practice, scattered over various parts of the German Empire. Now this difference between the two countries in this matter is the result of one woman's energy, perseverance and sympathetic helpfulness of women and the woman's cause, and more especially of that helpfulness which never forgets . that great causes can be often most effectually aided by assisting the individual to promote them, and so is as active in private as in public.
