Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1887 — The Decay of Teeth. [ARTICLE]

The Decay of Teeth.

Not only are the diseases ordinarily regarded ns contagior.B or infectious, including even consumption and pneumonia, attributed to microbes, but even baldness is found to be sometimes produced by microscopic organisms, and Miller’s researches in 18’84 indicate that decay of the teeth is chiefly due to the development of one or more species. A s Trouessart states, the presence of acids introduced into the mouth, or developed by certain diseases (ulcers, thrush, etc.), which are themselves produced by microbes, appears to be the predisposing cause of the dental t aries. These acids begin by softening the dentine, deprived at some point of its superficial coating of enamel, and through this the organisms enter. Saliva can be rendered experimentally acid by mixing it for four hours, at a temperature of seventy degrees, with sugar and starch. Hence the injuriousness of confectionery, loDg and correctly supposed to be the cause of the early decay of teeth, especially in children who eat it in excess. A Norwich man advertises himself as a temperance bootmaker. It is inferred that the snakes never got into his wares. Dr. Tierce's “Pleasant Purgative Pellets” cleanse anil purify the blood and relieve the digestive organs. The tail of a fox is called a brush, but that does not make a rabbit’s tail a hair brush. When all so-called remedies fail, Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures. The earliest mention of neck-wear is that of Job’s three comforters.