Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-10-22
ssms Dental PecuIiaritiss..

eye focth taken from Mrs. Bayn9
|.of Brooklyn. The tooth wasz2s
inches in length, a5d . special in-
l'strument had to be made 10 re-
move it.
Damp weather. booms che dentist
business. :
The first FALSE teeth asre znads
on lead plates. 81
Miss Abee &. Ireland. Of New
York, was the first. woman dentist,
Psslds u - United States have
the worst teeth Of any nation.
Baltimore is known as the era
die of dentitsry and has eight col
leges.
Hippocrates, 450 b. c., was the
first dentist of whom there is a re-
cord.
Gold-filled teeth are found in the
jaws of skeletons exhumed at Pom
peii.
A child is said to inherit the teeth
of its father and the jaws Of its mo-
ther.
Facial neuralgia is sometimes due
to q dead tooth, and may be cured
by q dentist.
Big teeth and square jaws are al
wavs found with low foreheads and
small craniums.
The solution of porcelain filing
for gold or amalgam is the dream OF
the dentist.
A Montana dentists outfit consist
ed of stout twine, perforated bull
lets and a single-barreled pistol.
Wetting a tooth brush and dip
ping it in salt will be found very
effective in the removal of tartar.
The implantation of teeth is not
yet a success. Not one in fifteen
takes root and fiourishes.
Imperfect teeth are a sure sign OF
civilization. Perfect teeth are found,
as rule. only among savages.
George Washington wore false
teeth, aud two sets of them are
owned in Baltimore as valuable
heirlooms.
The Talmud allowed Jewish wo'
men "to 60 abroad on the Sabbath
with false golden or silver teeth. y
| Dental science was utterly lost tc
the world for 1000 years, or dur
ing the Dark Ages, and only reviv
ed in 100.
DIR. Younger, of San Francisco
was the first dentist to successful
ly implant a human tooth into ,
patients jaw.
Homer says that Aesculapius il
1900 b. C.. used a narcotic whel
performing such painful operation
as tooth drawing.
Out of 100 teeth of adults tina
25 years ago would have been ruth
. lessly extracted, 80 are now save'
by science.
Women dentists have ceased t
attract attention as a novelty, ther
being now over 400 of the sex en-
gagged in the profession.
The Talmudical lore says: al
a man dreams that his false teet
have fallen out it is an omen tha
his children will soon die."
Modern dentists can remed
, crooked or projecting jaws by spt
cial appliances that gradually trai
the jaws into their normal position
y In China, while the dentist pull
the tooth, an assistant stands b
and browns the lamentation of th
l. victim in the noise of large gons
The American aud Europea
belle must have her teeth as whit
as pearls. The "pearls of the D
lent" stain their molars q dee
, black with the betal nut.
The famous Mastral, who live
in the first century, B. c., speal
of Roman dentist, Calcellius,
i "in the habit Of fastening as we
as extracting teeth"
The ancient Greeks used fall
}, teeth of sycamore wood, fastene
to the adjacent sound teeth by Ii
atures of silver or gold in like ma
ner to the bridge work of today.
Filled teeth, crown and brid
work exhumed in various parts
Italy, Greece and Egypt, with a
cient instruments, were shown
large numbers at the Columbi'
Exposition.