The morning times., 1896-10-11
Distressing and Unbecoming Malady That Is
Affecting DeVotees Of the Wheel
THE GRUMBLED TEETH OF NERVOUS RIDERS
Anxious Ones Overlap Their Set Teeth and A
Give Themselves Lockjaw
The LUNGS AFFECTED BY HABITUALLY OPEN MOUTH

Physicians and dentists are complaining
OF the peculiar nature Of the mouths that
neut For some time these have balfled
their efforts But the reason for the trouble
has been discovered, and hence the cure
made easier.
These mouths that have been disturbing
specialists are now known as "the bicycle
mouth Peculiar formations Of the teeth
aud lips and of the lines around them take
place as the result OF riding the wheel, and
these are so pronounced as to be niennce
TO good looks. aud In some cases menace
to health. There are differcut forms OF
.he trouble, all coming under the name Of
the bicycle mouth.
one of the most peculiar of them all is
the one that is conImonest. This Is the
bicycle open mouth The patient, when lie
or She visits the physician, has nali-open
| mouth through which the breath passes
| irregularly an with gasping feeling, "biCh
| affects the heart
The patient complains OF not being aole
| to breathe through the mouth aud oi Il
great dryness of the throat from breathing
| CONSTANT ndqucklyin theopen air. There
| is also Il sorcness OF the lips from the same
| cause.
The remedy for this is a treatment or
| the organs of respiration. The ncstrils
| must be doctured until they can allow
| full, clear breathing, and the patient must
| ride slowly until accustomed to breathe
| through the nose The cause of the trouble
| is primarily fright When first learning
| the patieut has gasping feeling, and opens
the mouth to get breath when scared at
| obstacles. Finally the breathing through
the mouth and throat becomes permanent,
| with an open-mouth effect. The habit of
breathing with the mouth open is the most
| difficult Que pb ysicians have 10 coniba.
CASE FOR A DENTIST.
Dentists come in for their sharr Of bi-
| cycle troubles. One of these had a case
come to him of woman who com
| planned of constant toOthache. Invcstisa-
| ton proved every tooth in her head TO lie
| sound Still she complained of woefui
pain in the jaws.
| The dentist, who was a very clever
| practitioner, suspected the cause. Are
you nervous?" he asked.
Yes responded the patient.
Then tie trouble is with the muscles
| and nerves of the face"
An examination brought out that the
woman had been riding the wheel with
her teeth tightly set. So rigidly lid they
| overlap each other that a pain resulted
from the compression. This continued
| until there developed muscular trouble
of the nerves of the face. hence the pain.
The remedy for this was i 1oc;oring
of the nerves and the wearing 1f some
thing hard in the mouth. The ra,ieut
resoluteiy ate hardened licorice drops.
sucked lemon DROPS and kept her teeth
apart while wheeling until cured.
- case that travels frequently to the
dentist is one of crumbled teeth. This
is the case where nervousness has caused
the teeth 10 be ground together while
cycling. The effort in the limbs has caused
a reactive effort upon the other muscles
travelling upward to the teeth, which
were ground and grtted with each re
curing muscular eXertion. The worst
cases of crumbled front teeth have IT,
suited from this. Filling and the refined
arts of dentistry are called in " make
the teeth right again. The permanent
cure is hard TO find. The chewing Of gum
is about the best thing, il the patien;
can be kept resOlutely at it. A different
texture and flavor of gum keeps the chew
ing-gum taste alive and -ouc's gum mp
petite" up
wkINKLED MOUTHS.
Specialists who keep the complexion and
face good are the ones who complain the
most bitterly OF the bicycle mouth. There
come people tc them that they would will
ingly pay to stay away These are the
cases of persons who pay beauty specialists
for their work and who hold them respons-
ible for wrinkles and defacements.
The bicycle wrinkles are the hardest
things in the world to fight. They come in
an evening and stay forever. They arr
caused by anxiety and are upon the mouths
of those who dread car tracks and stand IL
terror Of brewery wagons. The mouth Il
drawn downward us for q cry and a Httls
batch of wrinkles appear close together
) They are Worse than crows feet, whicl
come gradually, but they mark careful
rider This mouths found upon menas wei