Word: pyorrhea
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Many an employe, going about his tasks in a manufactory where mercury heating is in process, has found himself suffering unaccustomed ailments. His eyes glaze with fever. Dysentery sets in. The dentist cautions him against pyorrhea, for his teeth are loosening. Finally the doctor orders him to give up work for a long vacation in the country and he recovers. What has occurred in such cases is an insidious mercurial poisoning, the result of inhaling mercury vapors escaped from leaking seams in the apparatus. The illness may be a long time coming or a short time. Mercury is cumulative...
...Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints of cerebro-spinal meningitis...
...Only 1 in every 20 has pyorrhea...
...these antithetical declarations of rival tooth cleanser manufacturers, Dentist Leo M. Lubliner of Brooklyn added another last week: "About 60% of our population over 40 years of age suffers from pyorrhea...
Dentist Lubliner has been peering into mouths, sometimes fetid ones, for 17 years and has seen many a case of pyorrhea. But, like other dentists, he has not known the cause. Nor does he know yet, although, he said last week, he has developed a treatment which has seemed to cure more than 200 cases. Just what the scientific basis of his treatment is he planned to tell first to the Clinical Society of Unity Hospital, Brooklyn, where he is the attending dentist...