. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . Fig. 250.—Uncared for Teeth. Under-mining and Breaking Down of theEnamel Walls, Exposing LargeCavity Which has been Forming,Unsuspected, for Months. (DentalSummary.) Fig. 251.—Uncared for Teeth. Deathof Dental Pulp or Nerve. Forma-tion of Pus and Gas in Pulp Cham-ber. (Dental Summary.) The finger of probability is pointing toward bacteria as the cause of rheu-matism. There are as many kinds of rheumatism as there are kinds ofcatarrh. Two of them seem to be due to infections through the mouth—or-dinary acute inflammatory rheumatism and some forms of rheumatoidar
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . Fig. 250.—Uncared for Teeth. Under-mining and Breaking Down of theEnamel Walls, Exposing LargeCavity Which has been Forming,Unsuspected, for Months. (DentalSummary.) Fig. 251.—Uncared for Teeth. Deathof Dental Pulp or Nerve. Forma-tion of Pus and Gas in Pulp Cham-ber. (Dental Summary.) The finger of probability is pointing toward bacteria as the cause of rheu-matism. There are as many kinds of rheumatism as there are kinds ofcatarrh. Two of them seem to be due to infections through the mouth—or-dinary acute inflammatory rheumatism and some forms of rheumatoidarthritis. It is especially in rheumatoid arthritis that the indications pointto the teeth as the route of infection. Nobody has been able to say just why teeth decay. We know that theydecay in youth rather than in maturity; that young people lose their teethfrom decay, old people from pyorrhea; that decay is more liable to start oncertain surfaces than on others, in certain teeth than in others. A few factslike these are kn
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