The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-27
NEW TEETH.
Remarkable Cases where Teeth Have
BSsn Cut In old Age.

Remarkable Cases where Teeth Have
Been Cut In Ola Age.
II is told of An old Irish woman
named Dillon that she cut an incisor
tooth when seventy-ive years old. il
being a confirmed Authorization of hers
That she mad been dead. and was re-
born, and must pass through the com.
mon infantile career. teething. collie,
etc. Another old woman, Mrs Fursell.
of Acton, cut an entire new set Of
teeth at the ripe age Of eighty after
having been many years soothlesS
During the last century . Scotch wom-
an named Margaret White cut eight
teeth in the eighty-seventh year Of her
age. And Mrs Page, an ancient dams
of Southwark. after being toothlen
from seventy 10 ninety cut several new
teeth So much for rejuvcnated teeth
ing periods of women, and the men =
whom history gives prominence foe
senile teething were less fortunate.
since Rev. Samuel Croxall, translator
of Esop's Fables from the Greek, disi
of fever occasione3 by pain of cutting
. new set of teeth ut the age of ninety
three. And Edward progers. aged
ninety-s six, died in 1913 "of the anguish
of cutting teeth. he having cut fous
new teeth, and had several ready -
cut, which 90 infamed his gums that
he died thereof" There is . story
which may be taken for what IL h
worth Of . Robert Lyon. of Glasgow,
cutting a new set of teeth at one hup>
Ord and nine and a James Heak, q
Belfast, who. during the reign oI
Queen Elizabeth and at the age of onG
hundred and twelve got a new set a
teeth which have drove out all the ola
stumps." When Peter Kahn. a SwedA
visited America about the middle Of the
last century. he observed q frequent
loss of teeth among the European set
tlerA and especially among the women.
After discussing and rejecting various
theories to account for this. he attrib-
uted the fact 70 the use Of hos bever-
ages. and came To the general conciu-
sion that hot feeders lose their teeth
more readily than cold feedera' Ac.
cording TO the opinisn of Cattin, who
wrote on the 50 6jeet the teeth Of In.
dams are better than those of whites
He explains this upon ths theory that
tho teeth require moisture 20 keep their
surface clean and free from decay, and
the red race keep their mouth. shut
while whites are Inclined 70 keep them
open Mr.. Cattip takes the entire hu-
man race 10 task for being less sensible
in this respect than the brutea evi-
IDENTITY forgetting the open mouth %
the painting dog whose teeth are ia
spite Of that sound enough To gnaw ALI
the bones il can get There are numer-,
ous charms. signs and emens relasiaR.
% teeth In soms payss Of England 10
is traai tional that ons whs puts on his
right shoe. stocking. or troussr-is9 BE-.
fore the left Will escape toothsehA snf
that - Gus the finger and tos-naila
wrap up the cuttings In paper, s.t
wear them abozt de psrsoa, OF To weas
, tooth drawn freo . skull. 90 dyinA
from . shuil tase. from . TrsvsyssaL
or 70 cue OF the paw Of mole whasl1
must previously have besa caught u q
Trap. win AL prevent possible tosoAr
ache In EsrfsIk tosshsehs-of aU
iIls,-is call 'fove-pa1AS
md the &c Hsssy In uncs1nis~rsaoAl
Then teeth have little spaces hsswssg
hem. good lsek and travel 10 il stasv
Tor thar posss.sor. Fsiss teeth preonS
big aass kssa - far ~ the Roman -
,ire. and tentsstry has s<sa prnctsonn
"a Engisna Tor .. le4St three hands~k
FearA Ben Jonson. IN HE s.sue~1
woman" publahsd IN 1907 uskes =
:ASr.c:er say. "A noss vile facet A.
10. shs sDssas forty pounds . rear ~
mercury and hogs bosea Al -
esth were made In the BlsexfSfsus
sefore the nsking Of srt.aelaI ssssn
'sssms . well Understood ART sr.so
'ere freqnesiiy opeaed for The s1rrua
'urpsse ~ stealing the teeth Of 49,
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