Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mussolini's teeth, all his own, are strong and healthy. To keep them so he sees his dentist every month or two. Said Dr. Piperno last week: "I call ... at eight o'clock in the morning, just after he has had his half-hour at riding or fencing. He often brings with him something to read while I am attending him. He cannot endure a moment of idleness. I say very little to him for I do not wish to disturb his thoughts. In fact, it is a very serious half-hour I spend with His Excellency...
...Years of dental history were sketched colorfully by Yale's Physiologist Howard Wilcox Haggard, able popularizer. The first dentists were mountebanks who probably snatched purses on the side. All they knew was how to pull teeth, open gumboils. For extractions they used a fearsome instrument called "the pelican," precursor of the Stillson wrench. It always got the offending tooth usually accompanied by one on each side and one above. To keep teeth healthy the 16th Century dentist advised eating a mouse once a month, fumigating the mouth with smoke from onion seeds...
Last week Dr. Black, 62, declared: "Millions of teeth were pulled a generation ago. . . . Our objective today is to save these millions of teeth. . . . There has been no spectacular innovation in dentistry in the last few years, but there have been outstanding developments in our understanding of the effects of childhood care on the adult mouth. . . . With proper care starting in early childhood, before the first molars appear, there is no reason why every person should not have most of his teeth at the age of three-score-&-ten." In the past 50 years, said Dr. Black...
...experiment at Mooseheart (Ill.) Orphanage. He found that large amounts of orange juice (at least eight ounces per day) tended to decrease tooth decay by one half. Dr. Henry Aria Honoroff reported that orphans in Chicago's Marks Nathan Home with institutional diet & care and periodic examinations, had teeth 85% healthier than those of public school children...
...medals on his expanding chest one student took to shells and determined to be the hero of the regatta. Of course, there was a woman in it. With patience that would have given early Christians martyrs nervous breakdowns he retired at 10, ate raw beefsteak with much champing of teeth and eschewed cigarettes. Yes, he picked the most popular race and came in last in his qualifying heat...