The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-24
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teal work of the college which the dis
pensary gives to the medical student.
The work is carefully examined by one
of the professional men in charge after
it is completed, and the student marked
accordingly If it should happen that
it was at all carelessly done, he must
do it over again. If in six months
filling drops out the tooth is treated
again free of charge. For extracting
a tooth with gas fifty cents is charged;
when it is extracted without gas the
price is ten cents. Teeth are cleaned
without charge. 1t is intended that the
infrmary shall pay for itself. AS
matter of fact it never does, but, still,
no one who needs work done here is
turned away if he or she is not able to
pay anything; probably eight-tenths of
the people who come pay. The col
lege is without endowment or outside
support.
SOME REMARKS ABOUT TEETH.
Eyes, we have some pretty bad cases
here sometimes said one of the doc
tors. in answer to a question. People
come to US who have never before in
their lives given their teeth any care.
The women of the poorer classes after
they are married and begin to have
children have no money to spend on
themselves; everything must go for
the husband and little ones. They
wait until their teeth are nearly gone
and then come for a new set. We can
make new teeth for them very cheaply,
while if we were to fill their old ones it
would cost perhaps S25 or $50, even at
our prices. 1t is not so good for them;
it is poor economy and perhaps they
know it, but there is nothing else for
them to do.
But foreign women have better
teeth than American women. The lat
ter eat too much sweet stuff, cakes and
things of that kind. Take the black
bread that is eaten by the foreigners,
and it requires work to eat it after it
is a little old. Teeth are like any
other part of the body. If they are
not used they weaken / can tell the
minute 1 see a persons mouth on
which side they eat.
Here is an interesting case to illus
trate that" turning to patient, whose
teeth were being examined. Here are
two cavities. One came on one side
first, and then all the eating was done
on the other side. Then a second cav
ity came on the other side, and the pain
of the first was forgotten in the new
one. 1t is necessary to have good
teeth. If the teeth are not good the
food cannot be properly masticated,
and it is not possible even to drink a
cup of coffee hot enough to do any
good.
People seem to have an idea" said
another doctor, that teeth have not
an organic structure, which is a great
mistake. They think that the only
nerve is the one nerve which they al
ways speak Of as the nerve while, as
a matter of fact, the teeth are full of
small nerves. 1t is not always a sign
that the teeth are poor because they
are sensitive to cutting. That may
mean that they are very good, very
much alive in every part of the struc-
ture. That is not when they are SEN
sitive to hot or cold water when put
in the mouth
THE ONE WOMAN GRADUATE.
The one woman who is distinguished
at the college as its only woman student
is Russian woman belonging to the
nobility. She had married Count who
ran through her property and left her
with child dependent upon her. She
was talented and cultivated woman, a
daughter of a Russian physician. She
took up the study of dentistry in Berlin.
and then came to New York to enter
the college. The college was not open to