The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-05

es. The decayed teeth ulcerate and
Shiny yellow pus or matter Is thrown
OFF and contaminates every mouthful
of food he swallows.
Over twenty varieties of harmful
germs have been found in the human
mouth. Tim doesn't have them all.
but he has a sufficient number to keen
him miserable. The pus secreted not
only communicates his food, but alters
his gastric juices and makes them
useless for the purpose for which they
were intended. He becomes puny; his
vitality is lowered, and while a body
In health can consume a great num-
Der of harmful germs, Tim, with his
lowered physical condition, is a prey
to them all, and has one thing after
another
CHAPTER III.
A clean mouth is a safeguard against
disease. A clean mouth turneth away
trouble is as good a proverb as "a
soft answer turneth away wrath"
Tins poor little mouth has been
neglected and he has dozen or more
cavities In as many teeth. His ton
sils are swollen and enlarged. AS one
of the results of dirty mouth,
adenoids make their appearance, they
are a growth in the back of the throat
and he finds it impossible to breathe
through his nose and must of neces-
sity keep his mouth open to breathe;
his blood is impoverished, he isn't get
ting his supply of oxygen to keep it
pure and it is further contaminated
with every breath he inhales through
his unclean mouth.
At this trying period he has that
most dreadful of childish diseases,
diphtheria; with a mouth diseased,
enlarged tonsils, adenoids and low
cred physical condition and no teeth
worthy of the name, his chance of re-
covery are one in a hundred. He is
hurried to the hospital and thanks to
strong constitution he has inherited,
he manages to pull through For
long time he is little better than an
invalid The doctor who comes every
other day, examines his tongue and
pulse, shakes his head and talks about
country air and nourishing food; it
never occurs to him to look at Tins
teeth and mouth as a cause of his
troubles, but he prescribes ''tonics"
galore.
His natural defences are weakened
and his hearing becomes impaired, as
the result of the adenoid growths
shutting off the supply of air to the
ear passages; the faulty digestion re-
fleets on the sensory nerves and his
eyesight is impaired. He becomes
peevish, cross; fights his playmates
and is a general nuisance to himself
and the family, who despair of ever
rearing him.
/ Tins parents do not know that
these adenoid growths can be re-
moved by comparatively simple OPP
Grafton and his face soon takes on an
idiotic stare, with mouth continually
open. Did you ever try breathing
through your mouth for ten minutes?
/ Try it and see how Tim was suffering.
His nose, intended to warm the air
and prepare it for the delicate struc-
/ ture of the lungs, becomes a useless
ornament. The nose has a still more
important function, it is meant to
screen the dust and catch the germs
contained in the air so they shall not
.snter the lungs. He is without this
natural defense also.
Ninety per cent of the diseases flesh
is heir to are introduced through the
mouth and he is lacking in any de-
Tense through his disregard of the
simple rules of Mouth Hygiene.
CHAPTER ".
AS a result of his inability to chew,
Tim loses the use of his muscles of
mastication and his jaws cease to de-
velop and grow. When his permanent
teeth appear they find baby jaw and
no room for a mans teeth and crowd
themselves in as well as they can.
The baby teeth being decayed, the
roots are not absorbed and they are
allowed to remain or are painfully re-
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