The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-09
HOME HEALTH CLUB

6Edited by Dr. David Reeder, La Porte. Ind.9
 DISEASED TEETH:-A few years ago in Chicago a baby was born. It lived but a few days and yet it be- came famous. The physician who attended its mother also by reason of that misshapen bit of flesh and bones, became famous. Not only fa- nous locally but in every part of the world. Why?
 The tiny bit of humanity was not only horribly mfsshapen, deformed. but there was formed by nature no opening for the discharge of waste or refuse, fecaf matter from the body. On account of the fact that this small human being was otherwise so hideously deformed the attending doctor refused to perform a surgical operation and create an artificial opening as may be done and has been done in cases of otherwise nor nal babies.
 The importance of the lesson for us is not in the ethics of the ques- ton of prolonging the life of the child but in the fact that there are but two openings, entrance and exit, for the substance out of which our bodies are built and maintained in normal health.
 The mouth is the first and most important opening and requires the greatest amount of care and thought because upon it's condition and what passes through 1t depends the well being or health of the body. With out the mouth or opening Tor nour- ishment, the body starves and dies; without the rectum out of which the waste passes poisonous matter Is quickly developed and the body dies.
 There are seldom any teeth at birth. They are not an absolute nec- essity, but they are very useful ana so long as they are kept clean and ln order are aids to vigorous health, but when they are allowed to became foul, broken and diseased, they are almost as great a menace to health as can be found.
 Just stop and think how much care you take to have your food clean You know that some of the foods, that you consume, would, Ii taken direct, set up a parasitic dis ease in your body, and therefore you cook it thoroughly because the cook ing makes it clean and free from parasites. Now, suppose it was sug- gested to you that a tiny drop of pus or matter from fostering sore should be put into every nouthful of food that you eat, would you not be mortified even at the thought and yet that Is just what thousands or people are doing every day.
 A tiny drop of pus is squeezed out at the sides of the teeth in all cases of pyorrhea into the food during the act of chewing. A single drop of pus would do no harm but when this is kept up three times a day for months or years, the system becomes finally unable to throw off the poison and it usually settles in the joints. The most common result is called rheumatism but to this accumula- ton of poisonous pus may be traced the original or predisposfng cause of many Arrangements usually named in accordance with that part of the body which suffers the most: 1um- bago; arthritis; sciatica; neurftis; en- docarditis; disease of the kidneys gout Many other pains and dis eases are now traced to this source
 It is true that pus may come from other sources than the teeth. IT young people and children it is more likely to come from diseased tonsils but all people who have diseased filled or crowned teeth should 1ooE to them as the source.
 The average dentist, that is the on' who does not rely upon the X-Ra. diagnosis of your teeth cannot tel positively in regard to the condition of the roots of your teeth although he thinks he can.
 Now, 1t is useless for me to tel you all this unless I can give yo, at least some means of relief, so am going to tell you of Dr. Georg Starr Whites simple method of cur for pyorrhea. He says it is a req cure, but do not make the mistak of thinking it will cure an abscess a the root of a crowned or filled tootl because the only cure for that is t extract the tooth. To cure pyorrhea however, proceed as follows:
 First, lay in plentiful supply o lemons; Each morning cut a 1emo in two halves, squeeze the juice 0 one half into a small glass of col water and drink it; then turn tha half of the lemon outside in and talk 1t in the right hand with the tw first fingers up in the hollow GU of the peel; with the left hand pu out your tongue as far as you ca and rub all over it with. the pulp ( the lemon; you may have to hol your tongue with a corner of tn towel but pull 1t out far enough s you can rub the lemon away bac on it's surface. Then rub both tn inside and outside of the tooth vis orously with the lemon pulp or rin'
 Now, squeeze the juice from tt second half of the lemon into mol cold water and drink that, no suga Then put a little water into the she or rind of that and rub it up we into the pulp with your tooth brus and brush your teeth with it Yo will hardly believe the evidence your own senses after you have fo lowed these directions carefully f, a month or two. Your teeth will l white, hard and firm and the pyo rhea will gradually disappear.
 Of course, you should brush clean your teeth at noon after 1uns and at night before retiring as scho children are taught to do and u your favtorite tooth powder or pas clear water as you prefer, b do not f ail to use the lemon eve