Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-09-15

Ut HOuiSut tHiuh hOW huOh IL WOulu
sweeten the intercourse of society, how
much it would add to the pleasing inhu-
ences of beauty, TO see the fair rows,
white as monumental alabaster, contrast
ing with the rosy hue of the lips, and in
dicating that external purity, in itself a
virtue, which is almost type of good
qualities within.
1t has been frequent remark that in
this country much less care is taken of
the teeth than in England and some 9TH
er parts of Europe and that the females
particularly in England, surpass the Anne
rican ladies in whiteness and excellence
of teeth. Indeed, in general, we are not
a very neat people, though we are becom-
ing more so every day and it should be
Notifying to us in national point of
view to be less particular in this respect.
As a general rule, neatness, and we in
clude cleanliness therein, increases with
the increasing refnements of a county
not artificial, but real refinement.
But to the teeth. The following is ia
ken from the Gazette of Health; and will
inform our gentle, and, if we have any
such, ungentle readers, of simple pro-
cess by which they can remove tartar from
the teeth. All nature is full of living
things, and so is the tartar. This un.
seemly substance, it appears, is like coral,
filled with animacule, that insinuate
themselves between the teeth and the
gums, occasioning offensive disease to
both. For this discovery We are indebt-
ed to the power of the microscope. The
tartar may be easily removed by brushing
the teeth with vinegar, diluted with wa
ter roT e-water is recommended, and then
by usi1g dentifrice. This will be effect
ual in few days.
HE TARTAR OF THE TEETH. It is said to I
have been lately ascertained, by microscope
lex examination, that the tartar upon the |
teeth IS produced in the same manner as CO.
raj by anmalcul@ resembling medrepora SOU
tata. After the tartar, which like coral, is
a mere indus, adheres firmly to the teeth,
and by insnuating themselves between the !
teeth and the gums, occasions disease to
both but the secretion from them is often
so offensive as to contaminate the BREATH
M. La Beaume has made numerous expert
ments with different mineral, vegetable and
animal acid, and with alcohol, to ascertain
their effect on the animalcul@ and on their
habitation, and it is a curious fact, that of
all the articles he has employed, the true [
vinegar acid, mot the pyroligneous acid
which is now generally sold for it) almost
instantaneously killed the animalculm, and |
acted powerfully to decompose the concre-
lions, so that they were easily removed by
a brush. The more powerful acids in the (
same state of dilution, and alcohol, seemed
to have little effect on the animalcul@. In |
order to destroy the animalcul@ and other |
eggs, and to decompose the production !
which protects them, M. La Beaume, rec (
ommends the teeth to be brushed every |
morning with the vinegar acid, (acidum ace
ticum veru,n) diluted with rose-water, and
Immediately afterwards to make use If the !
levigated area nut charcoal and the tincture
of reatany. The use of the dilute acetic a.
cid every morning will in the course of
few days, entirely remove the tartar, and
the regular employment of the areca of
charcoal and tincture of reatany, every, or
every other morning, will effectually pre-
vent the generation of the animalcue; but
if there be strong disposition to their pro-
duction, he advises the dilute acetic acid, to
be used once week. Dentists in general !
oppose the use of an acid, on the superstition
that it is capable of decomposing the enam-
ell. "This opposition" observes Dr. Good,
"arises from an ignorance of the gradations
of chemical afinities !" all of them, howev-
er, very freely use the most potent mineral
acids 70 facilitate the removal of the tartar
in the operation termed scaling. The true
vinegar acid is incapable of acting chemic-
ally on the enamel of the teeth.
MAINE ELECTION. The election of
Governour of the State of Maine took (