The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-10-31

The cause of the inferiority of Amer
ican teeth and the means Of giving them
due strength, should occupy the atten-
tion of every parent, aud of every one
whose age has placed him beyond paren
tai care. Good Observation-Disclosures
liable. The idealists Of all ages have made
them, and wisely, too, the symbol of
health and enjoyment--of the real pos
session of life's treasure. A sane mouth
is indispensable to these; and the con-
fort Of sound teeth, in the absence sim
ply OF pain, is not to be measured. 1t
would be difficult to name torture to
which poor humanity is subject, more fc-
rocious than toothache, forbidding food
or sleep Any new truths which 60 to
secure the preservation Of the teeth
should should be hailed as national boun-
ties. Ii we mistake not, one such scintil-
| lation has been struck out at the late con-
yention in question. Some of the den
fists asserted that the main, if not the
sole cause Of defective teeth was the use
of salaratus and cream of tartar in the
manufacture of Bread and Dr. Baker full
ly agreed with the facts offered in proof,
adding the results of some experiments
made by himself. He soaked sound teeth
in solution of salaratus, and they were
destroyed in fourteen days.
We have here the opinion of those men
whose talents, time and zeal are given to
dentistry, that saleratus and cream of tar
tar in bread are 4 chief cause of ruin to
the teeth. Now, will those who know
this fact about bread, 90 on eating ali that
comes from the baker without inquiring
what it is made of That is question
which meets their consideration.
We heard an eminent dentist declare
that, notwithstanding the improvements
in dentistry, they did not keep pace with
the eincrcrsng fragility of American teeth.
This is sad confession. 1t should be
we'll pondercd. 1t tells tale of deficient
health and strength. 1t affirms the doe,
trne that the majority Of American mo-
Tiers, whose constitutions determine
those of the sons and defenders Of the
republic, are wanting in health. 1t en-,
dorses the circular lately put forth by
Mrs. Beecher Stowe and other female
hmanltarians, on the want of health o
American women. 1t calls for reform
Property is not health, nor labor saving
machinery the muscle which shows life
Our women, when not forced to work
are too much like mere dolls. They nei
ther ride Oh horseback, as they should
nor take vigorous pedestrian exercise
They do not lift weights, to give strength
to the arms nor health to the chest. w,
have relieved them of outdoor toll III tht
country; but the farmers wives have to,
much drudgery indoor; and a lady cor
respondent questions whether the tiel'
labors of the European peasant wome'
are not altogether preferable to the clos
and cramped tolls of the American wo
men.
BE that as it may, whether We take til
Incidence Of wealth OH the one hand, o
the over toll of feminine labor, it i
agreed that American women have no
the due standard of health. OF cours
then the men have not The teeth, &C
cordinrly. apart from tie rayages of ba
bread, must suffer in the same proper
; ton. Certainly it is the reverse of flat
, tering to the nation to be told that phys
icalv, as a whole, We are not equal to tn
| people of Europe, though we are bette
a fed, or, say we are, better clothed, an
c better housed.
. With such an agent of reform as OF
t cheap journalism, which pcnetrates ever
= lor-cabn, it seems the worst of shame
: that we cannot obtain the light for OF
i; physical guidance as IA nation, aud ric
J. or poor, 50 mend our ways, that teetI
= nerves and muscles, in America, M
compare fayorably with those in Europ