New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-01
HOW THE TEETH ARE DESTROYED
BANEFUL EFFECTS OF s4LERATUS AND
CREAM OF TARTAR

mnncst;on. First, Will give an extract from Mrs.
a. B. Stoves ate work 90 Eng aud abb uo,,-. She
ssys tpsges2l and ~;
How come. il thA. maria ladies' d~nae fae .us grow
tntk.. tl.r ircre 70 shErpI-ss the eb
aIy jas, the time ofe when bir Iaud rornt
o.. rto abe and becoming flnss. Ad
.ea-ra Why hrn am AFRAID ,AA W Sl.h
then. ... - o, ..A
srs Of the uos ssuthi siris in the world pces
fw h+sia, women HAY" net our clo> hes'-d ovrrsu-
hins do with sS. 10, tn inu.n.e Of no;
h.ru,, bot AID otr couround up
err I'd roi.oa Of sssraiH' 'omsthins TO do with ~
Extract from an article in The Boston Traaser,R:
Cram q and carbonate Inferior u
mon wat FOR making heslty bread More
bIs Of and ssrs,us us.d Boston making bread
en,ire we Of these oyts thar Of young pea
yong O~ts h,sg decased tstt ID Franc IN IN. arse
hence the GoyInntnt ye'y ;trct in it. law. reaiins he
ke.p strict them. end using bavius n
her bskeri. ammonia saeraus cSboEa'e # oa they
then bos. Of who paonze the bakers would lind the s,as of
If much better support than II j."
The welknown DR.. Alcott, in letter to TIE
TRIpUsE, says:
bsb.pts OF the United every year and they ras all
ihst been written on the "bct wilkins few ts; i'll
ben Tor the effects OF salsra;us'
He further says:
"In 1855 lady in Wiiamown took about fifteen bosIder--
he mot osey b se oa ws
generally preferred. She had heard Of aud that by
many n5 S.ty n..d H. The warm e; Ssrr 50 f
only to give them yellow or burnt aPParanee bn, also 70
filed with it in like In endesvoring TO make light
Pdns be used much OF the article a. to make them amos
The called The pudding, by the OF specih;
gravity when they wished for slice would ask 20 be helped
10 some specific gravity After the lapse Of few months
dis BROKE the students that many be
ed contagious OF the whole number thirteen were con
hp. long tiueihe fourteenth slightly affected Tor few
Tie house became known Is the pest Two OF te
ain drd and another hardly ESCAPED DEATH Eleven finally
recovered
To which is added, that the attending physicians,
Dr. Sabin and DR.. smith, never had any DOUBT ina
To the above il would be easy 10 add many more
cases but let hese suffice for the present: They may
be called extreme cases. and admit II. So Is derum
tremens an extreme OF drunkenness, aud so go
more strongly 10 prove the hor!id and destructive evil
But the more particular object Of this communication
is to awaken the attention of the community to the
evils or effect ofcream Of tartar saeraus and carso-
nate Of coda on the teeth: Having now ior aoout a
quarter of a century had opportunity to witness
their effect on there important organs, think can
speak with some experience.
One of the most common questions asked OF the den
TIT is, "why do peoples teeth decay more row tasn
declaration tina. my father mother or grand parents
used TO have good teeth and they cay there were no
dentists in their day" end they might have added,
neither of the article above referred To was much IN
use at the time.
1t now about fifty years since salers.us was intro
duced 10 the community. Al that time there was out
one dentist in Boston, and may say IN New England
be was spfcieLt for ACCIDENTS &c and did email br-
snesa There are pri,sby at his time five hundred
individuals in the business, and | should not be sur
priced taking average that each does more ousi-
ness than he did, Now, why this grea. addition = tie
professiOnl Ii il not by some great and general cause
of the decay Of the teeth am aware tla: variety
of answers might he made to this question, but too
numerous to introduce here. think If there was
soap introduced into the community lunder the plea
that it was more conveniently that should destroy tho
fingers and the community still persist IN using II, we
should have another profession, called fagerS, th8t
would rise up if loudly called for.
/ may be answered that the population has in
creased. This is true; but not five hundred times
Again, | may be answered that people have more
done to their teeth than they used to. Very good
they have 1t done because they need 1t done-out
when they had sound teeth they did not want 1t.
Again 1t is said there inventions to preserve
and supply teeth. Very we'll Inventions do not
come forth till the mother Of invention calls for them.
Children come into dentists Office from two years
old and upward, with seis of decsyed and often hor
rby painful and offensive teeth. Certainly age can
not have much to DO with the alarming evil. Some
thing else IS the cause. On going on board emgrant
vessek, have generally observed the people nave
good teeth. After being here come time, they 80 TO
lave their teeth extracted aud they often say that
my tee tn did not decay before came to this coun-
try On askiDg them If they used saleratus or cream
Of tartar 10 their country their answer has been inva-
rablv &" No. never used it till came here" l have
three skulls that came from Paris, all of which have
sound teeth 1t would be difficult to obtain the like
here as to teeth
Apologies often say that but little saeratus,
while one open hearted toothess woman observed II
used to get in boz, but hsd to send 80 often
now get it in a frkm'
do not think it is generally known how much Of
the article il used in the community To sstsfy my
SELF took the trouble TO ask each OF the grocers in
Portsmouth how much saleratus and cream OF tartar
they cold in year. and the amount Of ali was-sae-
rnfns 50 los lbs. cream II tdrkdr, ii, 100 lbs Ihus
over twenty-five tuns Of the former ard more then
seven Of Il Z latter probably used IN Portsmouth
ard vicinity in veal Portsmouth has III, 600 nhsb
itants.
Isubected handful OF teeth to q strong and warm
solution of sserstHs for about fourteen days; The
conseque wss, they became as brittle as burnt
bones. The sane time subjected some to sohtion
of OF tartar the consequence was not the same
but equally if not more Injurious. Ihis also may DO
called an extreme case, but suoJecuog them 70 COM
no effect on them The saerstus removes tue gelatin
the cream Of tartar the lime, the two prnc
pal ingredients Of the teeth and between the two evils
the teeth staId poor chance, and hence tue result
Some patients have observed that they have besn re-
commended to put lump Of pesrlssh or saeratus IN
hollow or decayed tooth for the tOothecne; and on
asking them the result, "Why, it for time cured
81 the pain but in few dsys the crown OF tue tooth
crumbed away" II would appear that TINS one
crcum, lance is sufficient 10 convince any one that Ia
the article there is principle mcet deadly 10 the is
Of TIE teeth when i. well known tina. the crown OF
epamel Of tooth is by far the hardest OF any bone In
the body for after the other bones have returned 10
dust, this part has been found apparently sound.
Let the importance of the subject be the spoogy tor
Offering few words, as they may D. prch.sole
TO your readers. You will well remeLber our !ate
venerable citizen John McClintock, hale end nearly
a, ever nirety asked hGl ii he, ia bis family used
salerstus or cream of tartar His reply was 40
THLY ARE BOTH Poison All the physIc ans Of the
plsce whom have converstd with, and among tueni
he late DR. CIeeyer have agreed in saying that !,
was bad stutf" One gentleman in town, HAVING
had regular medical educs ion, informed me ina :,
the tine be attended the lectures, the professors aha
stud, Its welt into course Of experime ats 70 MORN
Themselves and tina, the result was that they were