C W Saleeby

Society

A Dental Inquiry

• 23 October 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 18 June 1921 Caleb Saleeby (1878-1940) was a doctor, a Fabian and one of the best-known medical writers of his day, but at the insistence of the editor, Clifford Sharp, his many contributions to the New Statesman, including this one, appeared under the pseudonym "Lens". Sharp was apparently worried that Saleeby's name was too closely associated with particular causes he had espoused, notably eugenics. So far as teeth were concerned, however, Saleeby’s judgement appears to have been pretty sound. Selected by Brian Cathcart