Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-16
Mlistellameuns &eadiug.
GETTING WISDOM TEETH.

Mtsfellanenns 8ead1a9.
GETTING WISDOM TEETH.
Il DENTIST GIVES SOME POINTS OF IN
TEREST.
81 have noticed that more people are in
terested in the condition of their mouths
and teeth since the widespread report of
General Grants peculiar disease and the va
rious causes ascribed for it," remarked a
dentist to the Chicago NeUs. "The MAORI
ty of persons have been prone to give little
heed to any disarrangement of the mouth,
dental or otherwise, and to pass it over even
for years, as something merely uncomfort--
able and not important to the general
health" Concerning teeth-cutting, he said t:
"The upper wisdom teeth are usually
lower jaw often occasion considerable con-
stitutonal disturbance, and are frequently,
especially with males, the reason of various
obscure nervous affections. Crowding is the
cause of the most trouble with these teeth,
which are known as the third molars,' the
space between the second molars and the
upright portions of the jaw being insutti-
cient to permit the tooth to come through
readily. The inflammation which ensues
frequently causes lump to form at the
place where the jaw reaches the throat.
This is called fungus excrescence,' and
usually has to be cut out. Sometimes sim
ply lancing the gum and letting out the
blood will give relief. The record of the
troubles caused by the attempt of a wisdom
tooth to push itself out into the society OF an
already crowded arch is manifold. They
are sometimes very slow in accomplishing
inh lypnu,n
men who were not in good health for two
or three years from no other cause than
cutting their wisdom teeth. In the cases
of some exceptionally susceptible and sensi--
tive individuals, they have occasioned
DEATH"
"What is the average age of cutting wis
dom teeth ?"
"Any period between sixteen and forty
five. The most critical periods are usually
at the ages of six, twelve and about seven
teen, although few persons cut wisdom teeth
till over twenty. People suffer more in
later years from the stupidity of their par
ents and the lack Of attention they give to
their teeth from the ages of six to seven
teen than from any other cause. Now, the
six-year old molars are the largest teeth in
the mouth, and are very important. They
should never be allowed to decay if it is
possible to prevent it. Even if they cannot
be permanently saved, they should by all
means be retained till the child is between
ten and twelve years old. But if they can
not be kept there are reasons why they
should be extracted at this particular peri
cd. The want of proper appreciation and
proper treatment Of these siX-year-old mo-
lars is one of the principal causes which oc-
casion most people to lose part or all OF their
teeth before they are forty. Why? Oh,
the effects of their removal are so many that
can't give them in detail. Their removal
robs the arch of support, Just as taking q
barrel stave from the barrel would, and
therefore it must collapse sooner or later.
If people haven't good teeth they can't
masticate their food sufficiently. Many per-
sons don't do so who have teeth. Indiges-
ton, is, of course, the result. Indigestion is
our prevailing malady, and it has its origin
eight times out of ten in some trouble with
the teeth, either nervous or owing to the
decay of the dental apparatus. The pressure
exerted upon teeth during masticatiOn is
essential to their healthy condition. They
are strengthened, the same as any other
organ by exercise"
"What is the most common disease of the
teeth ?"
"Tarter deposit. 1t resembles cream Of
tarter, which gathers from time to time and
adheres to the teeth as that does to the sides
of the casks. 1t occasions heap Of mis-
chief. The only treatment for it is its
thorough removal. 1t is very destructive
frequently eating burrows across the teeth
just below the margin of the gum. 1t &C.
cumulates the most rapidly at night, for as
the mouth is then at rest there is nothing
to interfere with it's attachment as there is
when the fluids are in motion. The acids
of the mouth are more active at night, too.
Therefore the teeth should always be clean
ed before retiring. If they are brushed at
no other time-and it is not necessary un-
less convenient to brush them oftener than
once day-it should be done before sleep
ing. Teeth should not be scrubbed like a
the upper ones down and the lower ones up.
There. are nice little tooth-brushes and den.
tritices manufactured especially now for chill
dren's use, and their little teeth should be
cleaned the same as older persons"
A TRAITORS BRIDE.-The Quaker City
has not been famed for the beauty of its
women in this day only. The pages OF its
sedate history are bright with faces of pref
ty maidens and stately matrons. Among
the beauties of the Revolutionary days
none was more charming than gay, ill-star-
red Margaret Shippen. Her family at that
province, and it has continued to give to
Philadelphia a succession of sturdy, high
minded men and women, though her own
age was clouded by suspicious Of disloyalty.
She married Benedict when she was eigh-
teen. She first met him in Philadelphia on
his return from Canada, loaded with honors,
and her girlish fancy was captivated by his
dashing manners and the splendor Of his
career. Her family was opposed to the
union, but she insisted on tand would have
become his wife in spite Of all opposition,
but the barriers were at last removed. She
had been married about year and just be-
come mother, when her husband commit
ted the traitor0us deed that will make his
name despised through all time. She was
once taken into custody and given into the
charge of General Hamilton and Aaron
Burr to be conveyed to Philadelphia. She
was not permitted to remain in peace, how
ever, even at the house of her father. The
Indignation of the populace was at fever
heat, and the traitors young bride was Or
dered by the Provincial Counsel, then the
governing body, to leave the colonies. In
vain her father, afterwards Chief Justice,
pleaded for mercy. He offered the largest
security for her conduct; promised that she
should receive no communications of any
kind from any one through any but the
public channels and under the closest scru-
tiny. 1t was in vain. The council would
not modify it's decree. The young wife
left for England, met her husband there,
and lived with him to a good old age.
Some of their descendants have done dis
tinguished service in the English army and
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