The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-11-10

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suppsss that . gang Of thisvss hid
themselves. at the gateway of . city
and poisinsd al the food going in BY
the gate. suppsss agsin that the sity
grew Ill and was weakened 20 that it,
enemies prevailed against it.
You have pictured to yourself the
] state Of the man with bad teeth-or
rather, the millions of mon and women
In this country who are hurrying to
early graves because they do not take
tho trouble to think. The thieves at
the gate take everything soonyr or
later. At first they take good looks,
then they take good temper, and at the
last good health.
Not half, but much more than half
of the Indigestion, the anaemia, the
rheumatism, the heart trouble which
spoil useful and happy lives are due to
teeth. 1t is the poison from the roots
of the teeth which day by day corrupts
the whole system.
The reason is simple enough. A
bad tooth 10 a tooth which has lost the
battle that every single scrap Of our
body is always fighting against the
germs Of disease. In other words, II
j. piece of ground which the enemy
has taken.
The "poison gas" in this case is a
fluid which doctors speak Of n =
"toxin." 1t il . subtle essence,
enormously poisonous, which is not
very unlike the venom snakes inject
from their fangs into their victims.
Its first effects arc on the brain and
nerves. ..-.lr-
| Some Of it comes directly into. the
mouth and mixes with the food. Some
more Of it goes into the blood ~ it
flows round the tooth socket. Thus, a
kind Of blood poisoning is started. But
it is all 80 gentle, so much ON the sys-
tenn Of "little by little" that the
person being poisoned doesn T notice
what is happening to him. He says
cheerfully: 81 have . bad tooth.
wish had the courage to 20 and get
it out"
If he really understood what he was
talking about he would say: 81 am
taking . small dose of poison every
day. And am foolhardy enough not
to care"
Because the poison, sooner or later,
will break him up. He will lose his
color, he will get nervous, he will have
palpitation of the heart. Then he will
60 to specialists in great anxiety and
imagine that he had the misfortune to
fall victim" to disease. He has no.
fallen victim. He has simply reaped
what he sowed.
Few people know it, but the fact is
that every consulting room or doctor q
office il full Of mon and women whose
serious diseases can be traced right
back to their bad teeth. II they had
been warned in time; il they had tax
en- just . little care ten or fifteen
years earlier, they would have escaped
the fate that has overtaken them.
The beginning OF bad teeth is bad
or, rather, wrong food. It is curl
Gus fact that native races have, as Z
rule good teeth. They eat naturally
Our children, on the contrary, are Civ
en- bread bleached white, and 20 robbed
Of its most nourishing part, the husk
In the husk is the life, the thinl
called vitamine, without which bonel
are soft and teeth weak.
And our children are given sugal
and sweets. These lodge between ii,
teeth and .,ferment, producing acids
Tho acids rot the surface Of the teeth
the dslisats enamel, ~ It IL called
which 10 tie first line Of trsachs
against the germs. h-zil 1 =
Once holes have bssn made in tn
enamel the battle 10 lost. Tho germ
get in and begin their poisonous work
, Very soon the whole tooth viii breal
, down
We must, If We have sound teeth
give them a chance. We must fee
: our teeth or they will stop feeding u,
They need the food which 10 containe
, in brown bread and they need to
saved against the acids which arc 8
7 fatal to them.
Brushing is not enough. The orus
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