The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-10-09

SOME DENTAL
IIEN

The LARGEST tooth ever drawn from
the Jaws of a woman wRs an eve tooth
taken from Mrs. Bayne, of Broo KY
The tooth was 2s inches in length, and
il special instrument had to be made to
remove it.
Damp weather booms the dentist
business.
The first false teeth were made on
lead plates.
Miss Abee A. f. 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 TIE cradle OF!
dentistry and has eight colleges.
Hippocrates, $50 b. c., Was the first
dentist of whom there is Il record.
Gold-flled teeth are found in the
Jaws of skeletons ehumed ut Pompeii.
A child is said to inherit the teeth
of Its father and the jaws of its
| mother.
Facial neuralgia is sometimes due
to dead tooth and may be cured by Il
dentist.
Big teeth and square jaws are always
| found with low foreheads and small
craniums.
The substitution of porcelain filling
for gold or anal gam is the dream Of
the dentists.
A Montana dentists outfit consi ted
Of stout Irvine. perforated bullets and
IA single barreled pistol.
Wetting a too h-brush and slipping
it III salt will be found very effective
in the the removal of tartar.
The implantation of teeth is not yet
| a success. Not one tooth in fifteen
takes root and Hourishes.
Imperfect teeth are snre sign Of
civilization. Perfect teeth are found,
as rule, Only among savages.
George Washington wore false tee h
and two sets of them are owned in
Baltimore as valuable heirlooms.
The Talmud allowed Jewish women
''to 60 abroad on the Sabbath with
false golden or silver teeth"
Dental science was utterly lost to
the world for 1000 years, or during
the Dark Ages, and only revived in
100.
DR.. Younger, of San Francisco, was
the first dentiet to successfully i'm
plant human tooth into patients
jaws.
Homer says that Aesculapius in
1900 B. G. used narcotic when per-
forming such painful operation as
tooth drawing.
Out Of 100 teeth of adults that rs
years ago would have been ruthlessly
extracted, 90 are now saved by
science.
Women dentists have ceased to
attract attention as a novelty, there
being now over 400 of the sex engag-
ed in the profession.
The Talmudlcial lore says: eff "a
man dreams that his false teeth have
fallen out, it is an omen that his chill
dren will soon die"
Modern dentists can remedy crook
ed or projecting jaws by special appli-
ances that gradually TAIN the jaws
ito their normal position.
In China, while the dent;ts pulls
the tooth, an assistant stands by and
browns the lamentation Of the victim
in the noise of a large gong.
The American and European belle
must have her teeth as white as pearls
The ''pearls of the Orient stain their
molars "a deep black with the betel
nut.
The famous Mastral. who lived in
the first century, B. c., speaks OF a
Roman dentist, Calcellius, as ''in the
habit of fastening as well as extracting
teeth
The ancient Greeks used false teeth
of sycamore wood, fastened to the
adjacent sound teeth by hgatures of
silver or gold in like manner to the
bridge work of to-day.
Filled teeth, crown and brid re work
exhumed in various partst of Italy,
Greece and Egypt, with ancient lnstru
ments, were shown in large numbers
at he Columbian Exposition.