Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-19
How the geeth are DESTROYED.
Banalul Effects Of sa5,rattss and Cream Of Tarto1
From the Chicago Press Of Ju No >.

From the Chicago Press Of u no 2.
Asa subject interesting and important
to the public, l venture to offer some
views Of my own and others in regard to
the articles mentioned at the head OF this
First, | will give an extract from Mrs.
III. B. Stoves late work on England Eu
rope. She says, Up. q and 22.)
How comes it that our married ladies
dwindle fade and grow thin ?--that their
noses incline to sharpness, aud their elbows
to apgulality just at the tine Of life when
their Island sisters round out into a COM
Portable and becoming fuIlpesa2 fit is
the fog and sea coal, why, then I am
fraid we never shall come up with them.
But perhaps here may be other causes
why county which starts some of the
most beautiful girls in the world, produces
SO few beautiful women. Have not our
close heated stove rooms something TO do
with it? Have not the immense amount
of hot biscuits, hot corn cfkes, and other
compounds, got up with the acrjd poison
q sa5erat,ss, something to do With it9
Extract from in article in The Boston
Transcript:
Cream Of tartar and carbonate Of soda
are lar inferior to common yeast for ma
king healthy bread. More cream Of tartar
carbonateof soda and saleratus. are used in
Boston in making bread, in one day, than are
used in all Europe in,one year It is the
exclusive use Of these articles chat is the
cause of our young men and women hay
ing decayed teeth. In France, in the
large cities, no one makes what we, in this
country call family bread, hence, the Gov
ernment Is very strict in lis laws reguia-
Ting the manufacture Of bread ~ the ba
ker. Officers are appointed to keep strict
watch over them, and if detected il using
Or having in their bakeries, ammonia, sal
gratus, or carbonate Of soda, they are sub.
jet 10 a heavy fine. We should have
such laws in this city; then those Of Us
who patronze the bakers, would fad the
staff Of life much better support than it
is.
The wel-known DR.. Alcott, in letter
to thes ITriJane says:
''Your readers know perhaps, that we
lose about 100000 inhabitants of the Uni
ted States every year; if they read all
that has been written on the subject with
in few years, that, in my opinion, not -
few Of these might have survived had 1t hot
been for the effects Of aaleratus."
lie father says:
"In 1858, lady in WILLIAMSON took a
bout fifteen boarders-chietly # net Who'll
" Young men attending College at that
place. She was ignorant Of fashionable
cookery, but knew rich food was generally
preferred. She had heard Of saleratus,
and that by many cooks it was freely used.
According, she procured quantity and
freely used it. The warm biscuit were 30
tuIl Of it, as not only to give them q yell
low or burnt appearance, bat also to render
them bitter Of nauseous to the taste M
NJ other articles were filed with il ID like
nannor In endeavoring to make light
buildings, she used 50 much Of the Article
as to made them almost as heavy as lead !.
"The students called the pnddings BY
the name Of specific gravity; and when
they wished for Slice would ask for spec
tic gravity. After the lapse of few
months, a disease broke out among the
students so severe that many believed it
contagious. Of the whole number thir-
teen were confined for a long time-tho
fourteenth slightly affected for few days,
The house became knownas The pest-house.
Two Of the patients died, aud another
hardly escaped death, Eleven finally re-
covered
To which is added, that the attending
physician, DR.. Sabin and Dir. Smith, never
had any doubt that the whole was caused
bv sa7erat&s.