The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-06-03
Is Candy Injurious to the Teeth.

Most certainly it is. For outward
proof of it l will refer you to any candy
making village in our country, as the vii
lage of Neponset, Mass, where the shock
ing condition of the teeth, of the youth
brought up in proximity to large candy
manufactures, shows plainly the cause.
But this is perhaps negative proof, and
we should seek for proof positive, because
other causes than those of the use of
candy may be the reason, in this instance,
of the disease.
But by far the most injurious conse-
I'quence in the use of candy is in its indi-
| rect action through the system, first by
its constituents, second by its disturbing g
action.
By long research l have discovered
that the effect of the use of cane sugar,
in small or in large quantity, is to pro-
duce a more or less constipated state of
the alimentary canal, more particularly
the refined sugar of the present day.
IT, then, the balance of intestinal ac-
tion is normally correct, the presence of
sugar always disturbs it.
There is point that may be stated
here, and that is the action of sugar on
an exposed nerve We eat bread, meat,
vegetables, and our Exposed nerve"
makes no complaint; but the moment a
little sugar is dissolved in the tooth, the
tissue sets up cry. What does it mean
Does it mean that it dislikes it-that it
is discordant to the system? Does it
mean that it is injurious to the feshy or
to the bony substances, or both? l have
as yet not solved the problem. Who
will do it? By an analogy we must con-
clude that cane sugar is injurious, and
yet there may be other reasons and other
causes for the pain produced in the tooth.
h. foI,, nj h.
dies of the present day and the coloring
matters (mostly made of tincture of coch-
meal. which is harmless) are occasionally
other material, such as pigments of green
and yellow, which are poisonous.
We have large number of essential
oils, or medicaments, every one of which
has a peculiar medical effect on the sys-
TEN, toning it up or down, binding up its
parieties or loosening them, and to these
medical effects much of the injury of the
confectionery of the present time is due.
A small catalogue of these essential
oils and fiavors may be interesting:
Group No, Peppermint, checker
berry, sassafras, lemon, Glove, anise, cas-
sia or cinnrmon, vanilla, rose, caraway,
coriander, cayenne.
Group No. 2-Jargonelle pear, straw
berry, pineapple, banana, peach, almond
Group No. 3.-Boneset, licorice, hore-
hound, ginger, cardamon, chocolate, but
ter, cocoanut. cordial brandy, gum ara
bic, acids.
In purchasing pound of mixed can
dies, you may perchaGce get all of these
havors in one lot.
Now l do not pretend to say that one
is likely to be poisoned by such com
pound, but l do say that when mother
gives a three year old child an ounce of
peppermint drops to eat, she should know
the effect of them when eaten-that she
ought to know she is giving the child
medicament as we'll as an ounce of sugar;
she ought to think and be taught that the
effect of the oil of peppermint is definite,
and that an ounce of peppermint drops |
will, if they are strong-and of course
they are supposed to be good only as
they are wrong-eontract the walls of
the stomach and the small intestines,
producing in young child sometimes a
spasm and Inflammation, shown by a
thirst for water, and a general disturb
ance of healthy action.
Such is, believe, the general action of |
the essential oils of confectionery in
group No. l. The oil of cassia or CHINA
mon is irritating. The oil of cloves is
considered by many as destructive or
poisonous As rule, the essential oils
retard digestive action in the same man
ner that they preserve from decay meats
and fruits, by retarding fermentation, or
making compounds with digestible or
decaying substances. sE
The pear and similar fayors in group
No. . are limitations they are chemical
flavors, and are decidedly unhealthy
The composition of them l have found to
be as follows:
The jargonelle pear flavor is made Of
the acetate of amylic ether, which is pre-
pared by distilling a mixture of fusil oil,
acetate of potash, and concentrated sui
phuric acid
The pineapple is made from butyric
ether dissolved in another portion of al
cohol. Butyric acid is made from decay
ing cheese grape sugar and chalk, fer
mented together.
Various mixtures of the ethers, with
addition of various agents, such as acetic
acid, camphor, orris, vanilla, the volitile
oils, etc, result in limitations of straw
berry, raspberry. apricot, currant, etc.
The tonl<a bean is used very much in
place of the vanilla pod, to initiate the
vanilla flavor
The common oil of almond (bitter) al
ways contains considerable amount of
prussic acid this oil is said to be substi-
tuted sometimes by the oil of mirbane or
nitro benzole, eight or nine drops OF
which is said to have produced death
The peach and almond Havors are also