The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-29
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT TEETH


To be made to remove It.
Damp weather blooms t,e dentist bust
ness.
The first false teeth were made on lead
plates
Miss Abee +. Ireland, of New York, was
the first woman dentist.
People of the United States have the
worst teeth OF any nation.
Baltimore is known as the cradle of
dentistry and has eight colleges
iippocrates, 400 Is. c., was the first
dentist of whom there is any record
Gold Titled teeth are found in laws of
skeletons cNhumcd at Pompeii
y child i said tn inherit the teeth of its
father and the jaws of Its mother
Facial neuralgia * sometimes due To II
dead tooth, and may he cured by den
fist
Big teeth and square jaws are always
found with low foreheads and small era
NUNS.
The substitution of porcelain filling for
gold or amalgam is the dream of the den
tai scientist.
y Montana dentists outfit consisted of
stout twine, perforated bullets and sin
gle barrelled pistol
Netting tooth brush and dipping it
in salt will I've found very effective in the
removal of tartar.
The implantation of teeth is not yet IL
success. Not over one tooth in fifteen
takes root and fourishes
Imperfect teeth are Il sure sign of civil
ization. Perfect teeth are found. as a
rule, only among savagcs.
George Washington wore false teeth.
and two sets of them are owned in Balti-
more rs valuable heirooms.
The Talmud allowed Jewish women To
90 nD-Oau on the SDbbutb wi "a tbair foI -.
golden or silver teeth.
Dental science was utterly lost To the
world for 900 years, or during the dark
ages, and only revived in 1900.
Or. Younger, of san Francisco, was the
hrst dentist to successfully plant a
human tooth into Il patients Jaw
Homer says that Aesculapius in 1900
Is. c., used narcotic when performing
such painful operations as tooth drawing
Out of 100 teeth of adults that twenty
five years ago would have been ruthlesslv
extracted: ninety nine are now saved by
science.
Women dentists have ceased To attract
attention as novelty, there being how
over 400 Of the sex engaged in the profes-
sion.
The Talmudical folk lore says If
man dreams that his false teeth have inl
len out It Is an omen that his children
will soon die
Modern dentists can REMEDY crooked or
projecting jaws by special appliances that
gradually train the jaws into their nor
NAL position.
In China, while the dentist pulls the
tooth an assistant stands by and browns
the lamentation OF the victim in the noise
OF large gong.
The American and European belle must
have aer teeth rs whit" as pearls The
pearls of the orient stain their molars
deep black with the betcl nut.
The famous Mastral, who lived in the
first century b. c., speaks Of Il Roman
dentist. Calculus, as lin the habit of
fastening as well "a extracting teeth"
The ancient Greeks used false teeth of
sycamore wood fastened to the adjacent
sound teeth by ligatlIres of silver or gold
in like manner TO the bridge work of to-
day.
Filled teeth, crown and bridge work
eXhumed in "arious parts of Italy Greece
and Egypt with ancient Instruments,
were shown i'll large numbers at the Col
! umhian exposition.
Women detectives or ''spotters,'' with
/ dccaycd teeth, were several wears ago en-
! ployed in New York to make cases against
tooth drawing BARRIERS, who were practic-
ing dentistry against the law
/ Cnder the Mosaic regime. the law Of an
eye far AN eve, Il tooth for q tooth. was
| literally enforced. and the lord high exc
cutiomcr numbered the forccps among his
official Instruments
y New York dentist. who puts cold
/ fringcs to the molars of the four hundred
follows his wealthy clients To Newport
during the season, where he opens parlors
and l. prepared to fill or extract teeth
| while his patrons wait.
! Electricity in motor form has robbed
teeth filling Of its former terror. The
! work l. dom i'll onc-fOurth of the time.
! The mallct driven ut IL high rate of speed
Is comparatively painless when compared
To the old hand and foot trcadle process
In ancient Egypt the art and practice
of medicine and surgery were confined TO
the priesthood. Each priest adopted n
speciality. Evidences of ancient dentistry
! revealed III the opened tombS indicate
that high proficiency had been attained
| III at least one branch of dental art.
kRCPP THE RICHEST PRI-SSIAN.
The Berlin correspondent of the stand
ard says that the statistics show that for
1879 81 the richest Prussian subject is
krupp, of Essen. For the current wear
he pays Sil,25O, having declared his in
come at 81, 1873, 100
1t may be remembered. for the sake of
comparison. that the emperor rs kino, of