The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-10

make Graham biscuits or Gems with IL
mstra,ions Teeth among different Nations =
disease and its Treatments" Popular Ply.
sology;" " Flatulence and Heartburn -
Health Of Ncchanics;' Diet and Charac-
tC.;' Mineral Food for Nam" American
scyxQs Chinese Medicine" These, with the
information contained in answers to CORES
Ipondcn,s, ana other valuable notes, make up
| a good number of this excellent Magazine
which should find its way into every family.
| This is the way the writer on Teeth
Among Dittcren, Nations" pitches into
American Teeth:
! 1t is said by those who have taken pains to
inform themselves on the sub cct, that there
! is no country in the world, civilized or saw
age, where bad teeth are so generally the rule,
and good ones so rare an exception, as the
United States And there is probably no 9th.
er nation who so generally swallow tea and
coffee, hot enough TO scald the throat, and
then COol.oHn by an immediate draught of
ice-wa;cr. An Englishman would regard
such q habit as absolutely suicidal, and he
| is amazed that selsst6lc Americans should so
recklessy jeopardze health and life. At
English h0teLs people can, OF course, have
whatever they demand and pay for, rs at pun
! iic houses elsewhere; but in private families
in England even the wealthy, the use of ice
is only moderate and occasional-not by any
means, the constant, everyday, excessive affair
| il is with us; and there ii is never taken in,
medtdttly after hot drinks as at breakfast and
supper among Americans, neither do English
people eat irregularly, and at all hours be
tween meals, as do SO many of our country
men-a practice by which the digestive or
gans must become impaired and the general
health suffer, even if the teeth did not. An
other deleterious practice, common in our
large cities especially, is the excessive use of
cc-cream and soda-Vater Nothing is more
common on Summer evenings than for young
men to swallow at their boarding houses, II
cup or Two Of coffee boiling hot, and as rapid
" as if they were drinking for Il wager; and
then To rush out for an ice.cream or glass of
soda. "to cool off with"-the "frutSyrups"
OF the saltwater often containing fusl oil
and other poisons, apart from the deleterious
effects on the teeth of these extremes of heat
and cold following each other in quick sue
CessiOn.
4 distinguished dentist told me recently,
that il was difficult 10 conceive of anything
mare absolutely destructive to the teeth than tie
simultaneous use IF cOid and hot drinks. And
he added that he had known some scores of
Europeans, who came 10 the United States,
with teeth that, with the habits of living to
which they had been accustomed, at home,
would probably have lasted to extreme old
age-glad, in less than five years after they
came among us, to avail themselves of the
services Of dentist to manufacture an artiti-
cial set"
Surely soDiehtag may be done to avert this
widespread curse Of tooth,ache, and discol-
ored uncomely teeth, or the only alternative
that remains Of wearing those not to the
manor born" so that Americans Of future
generations, at least, may cease to enjoy the
unenviable distinction Of belonging TO a
t0OthIess HdttOH