Word: pyorrhea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Szent-Gyorgyi talked about Vitamin C last week, admitted that as a medicinal tool it was too new for fulsome claims. But its application was clearly not limited to scurvy, rare in modern civilization. With it he reported cures of pyorrhea, Addison's disease, such
...Larger use of the X-ray by dentistry and more definite study of dental decay and pyorrhea as manifestations of something going wrong elsewhere in the body are necessary to real progress in the profession. Dental decay and pyorrhea are both preventable diseases and successful treatment of them is dependent on the dentist's assuming a medical as well as a dental attitude in treating his patient...
...fear of radio, Rogers observed sarcastically: "If you hear any peculiar noise on the radio tonight it will be people breaking up their radios after reading a resolution adopted here today. If you really want to stop the development of radio advertising, either find a home-made cure for pyorrhea or murder Amos and Andy. Why, there will still be a radio in every home when people pay 10¢ to see what a printing press looked like! Radio is taking away your news. Television will take away your pictures. All you will have left will be the editorials...
...Problems of towering importance still stand before the dental profession for solution. Why are advanced cases of pyorrhea frequently associated with heart lesions? Why do children crippled by contracted and misplaced jaws, when relieved of these afflictions, generally put on weight and exhibit better mentality? Why does pregnancy usually interfere with the calcification balance, and why do women, particularly of the poorer classes, at this critical time often suffer severely from galloping decay'? These are a few of the many questions before the earnest investigator who never tires of asking why! There is still much to be learned about...
Millions of dollars are spent yearly by the public for dentifrices which have only the cleansing value of soap and water, no medicative value whatever. Strikingly in contrast to its rivals' advertisements have been those for Colgate which declared: ''Colgate's has never claimed to cure pyorrhea, to correct an acid condition of the mouth?things no toothpaste can do. Colgate does claim to clean teeth better...