Given on June 28, 1933. You will please answer the questions which I will ask about this disease and its remedy. As given, pyorrhea is a disease resulting from a germ that, more often, is the result of film on the teeth and the lack of proper exercise of the gums.
Pyorrhea is one of the prices that man pays for food that is cooked or prepared in the soft state.
For, few of the American Indians showed signs of pyorrhea until at least an advanced age. Few of the Laplanders or Eskimos show signs or results of pyorrhea until an advanced age. Then, pyorrhea is one of the oldest disturbances to mankind, where quantities of cooked foods of the mush or soft nature are consumed and little or no activity given gums by tearing or rending raw foods in their original state. Foods of all characters when the atomic forces are broken by heat affect the gums, and form upon the teeth a film that is the result of the breath AND digestion of the characters broken in cooking foods. Such film makes a place of refuge for that form of bacilli germ that attacks the gums, and produces first the bleeding or irritating state.