Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — Decay of the Teeth. [ARTICLE]

Decay of the Teeth.

Dr. Stephen Wickes, in his “History of’ Medicine in New Jersey,” says: “Kalm, a Swedish traveler, 1747-49, noticed that Europeans in North America, whether born in Sweden, England, Germany or Holland, or in America of European parents, always lost their teeth sooner than common. This was especially true of women. The Indians, as he had observed, always had fine teeth. It did not therefore arise from climate. He ascribed it to the use of tea and to the custom of eating and drinking everything hot. The same effect was produced upon Indian women after they had become addicted to the use of tea.—Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly.