The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-28
BY DENIS SNEIGR

be telling GLIB what KIND OF meol'
cine to take.
The following answers to those
two statements are not my 0pin
ions.
The answers are fFem HE Am.
sriean Dental Association.
Now for Gibbs assertion No.
l. that fluorine is poisonous.
The American Dental Association
says:
"This assertion is true, but the
inference that the same substance
in minute concentration in drink
ing water has the same effect as
fluorine in high concentrations is
completely incorrect.
MANY substances in common
use by human beings are benefi-
cial when used in proper amounts
but may be harmful when used
improperly"
The American Dental Association
then cites sodium chloride as an
example.
Sodium chloride is poisonous in
large amounts but not when you
sprinkle q little on your steak, il
you can afford a steak.
However, if you sit down and eat
a bucketful of table salt, you are
apt to become i'll.
While we are on the subject OF
substances that are poisons yet are
beneficial when used in the correct
amounts, we might as well cite
arsenic. <,I sse., D.. 49,
Glib cited arsenic in his faulty
reasoning on the subject Of fluoride,
He admitted fluorides help pre-
vent tooth decay. And then - and
this is where his reasoning fall.
down - he said:
"By the same token, ingrowins
toenails can be eliminated with
a good, stiff dose of arsenic >
II Is not by The same token a.
al.
Physicians sometimes prescribt
arsenic.
But in the proper amount. Ir
minute qualities in a prescription
The doctor doesn't tell the pa
tent to get a gallon jug Of arsenic
and eat it.
The same is true Of fluorides.
The State Board of HEATH
doesn't want to load the drinking
water with fluorides.
The Board merely suggests thai
a small, controlled amount be usec
- the right amount to preven'
tooth decay.
Continuing on the subject thai
huorides in drinking water are
harmful to human beings, get q
load of this quote from the Am
erican Dental Association:
"For generations over 1900.
900 people In the United States
have been living oil their lives
where The drinking water natural.
Iy contains Hvoridss In eonesn.
trafions a. high or higher Than
that recommended for dental
health"
If fluoride in drinking water was
Staying people the way Glib i'm
plies that it does, how come al
those millions Of people are alive!
In fact, there never should have
been a second generation born ir
an area where fluoride is natural
1y present in the drinking water
if it is such a terrific poison.
The first generation should have
dropped dead after a couple Of
swallows Of the water.
The only thing that happened to
all those generations Of people /.
that they have wonderful teeth.
Now let's take up Gibbs second
assertion - that if fluorides are
added to Monroe County's drink.
ing water, politicians will be tell.
ing Glib what kind Of medicine
to take.
That 10 entirely wrong.
The politicians - the county and
city commissioners - are the last
ones to have anything to say about
adding a huoride to your drinking
water.
Before the Florida State Board
of Health will okay the huoridation
of drinking water in any Florida
community, the board demands ap-
proval in writing from the follow.
ing groups:
Local medical society, local den.
tai society, local board of health,
local county health department.
At the recent meeting Of health
authorities here, representatives Of