The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-04-12
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8 A correspondent Of the Eew XsEs
Eyeoing Post. referring to a letter pub.
lished Il one OF the daily papers Of this
citS. some few years since. on the cause
of decayed teelhS thus sums up the cen.
eiusi0ue arrived AT ia ei 4
Ist. Nothing batacids decay the teeth,
2l. They do so because those organ
do not contain sufficient phosphate 81
| lime. s-lf 9tsa1 .ssi' aa 1a9A+
a Eromithess soaclusioDs he pFccsed DIS 10
the following practical manner: Sc 35.i
What shall BE- done 70 give the teeth
the prop eF proportion of lime? The sim
pie answer, is eat 81; becsase We know OF
no other process By which Il can be In
tFodhced Into ,iks. blood, and uuless Is is
toaHH SOS hst S. q 81 tigs q s. svse
get into the structure Of the teeth iHas-
mnch as they, like the rest of the body,
are composed of materials which are
brought into the blood through the di4
gestiVa organs. 80 ass-7a.se s1ss A-f =
In order to 'sest il, /" one must eat GER
tain kinds of food which are coming now
into general use. in cities, and Rhish con
tain in themselves large Quantities Of il
such as gFits, oatmeal, Graham bread.
one fourth of an inch of the surface of
potatoes. zsa.eo -fsa sIs sro E. )
The reasons, furtheTmorme. may be
found 10 the following: The bone of a
tooth is composed Of phosphate of lime
70 the extent OF sixty Two per cent. The.
enamel has in it about eighty five per cent,
of this phosphate, and if less than this
amount is found 10 proportion to the
whole tooth, its structure is very easily
dissolved away by the acids which form
in Weymouth, from particles of food in
process of decomposition, from colfec-
tionery and other sweet things which in
the mouth rapidly acidify,
Some of lhs above named articles Of
food should constitute part of the daily
diet from the time of the first evidence
OF q child's existence to the fourteenth
year of the same, al which time the char
ter o! the teeth may be eonsidseed finally
settled, they will be found of q good
shade, hard, with an excellent enamel
covering, without deep seams crossing
each other on the surface, and Liable to
decay, but the enamel caps will be found
perfectly tOrmed-a covering to the bone,
which will save The patient an immensity
OF lear, pain and expe SO. sve.
The wonder is Vsry often expressed
that the teeIh.o of people of the present day
are 50 trail. while ia past generations
they have been SO much more generally
souad II would mol be lar from correct
TO reply that the art of refining -four has
now SO much more perfectly robbed it'of
the bran OF the heat, that we get from
ouE white bread just so much less phos-
plate of lime; also adyspepdcs, and those
who dread dyspepsia, knowing they ate.
potato skins when young, blindly say
they 6ud such trying food injured their
stomachs, and hence neither themselves
nor their children are allowed TO eat them;
and 1t appears, to sum it up, that the
children Of the last two generations
throughout the civilized part of the world
have happened TO be deprived OF just the
sources OF the supply of phosphate of
lime In their food which have robbed
their blood of the WheTeWith to make good
teeth and bones, SO our teeth aud general
bOny framework but lily compare win
those OF the backWoods settlers VINO per
sonated our grandfathers. and lived more
Independently of ine boiling cloths, and
ate up the entire potato, relishing rye and
Indian bread, all to our present mystIi
cation and the blessing OF their own ply
zeal happiness.