. The Dental cosmos. HOWE.—CARIES AND THE ORAL SECRETIONS. 567 THE ACCELERATING AND INHIBITING AGENTS IN THE ORAL SECRETIONS. By PERCY R. HOWE, , Boston, Mass. ASTUDY of the oral secretions withan aim to discover some effectivemeans of inhibiting dental cariesgrows naturally out of the facts that arepresented by bacteriology. It has beenvery fully demonstrated that the micro-organisms concerned in tooth destruc-tion are a class of fermentative flora,acting in carbohydrate media, and de-structive to the substance of the teeththrough the agency of the lactic acidthat is produced by such a
. The Dental cosmos. HOWE.—CARIES AND THE ORAL SECRETIONS. 567 THE ACCELERATING AND INHIBITING AGENTS IN THE ORAL SECRETIONS. By PERCY R. HOWE, , Boston, Mass. ASTUDY of the oral secretions withan aim to discover some effectivemeans of inhibiting dental cariesgrows naturally out of the facts that arepresented by bacteriology. It has beenvery fully demonstrated that the micro-organisms concerned in tooth destruc-tion are a class of fermentative flora,acting in carbohydrate media, and de-structive to the substance of the teeththrough the agency of the lactic acidthat is produced by such a process. Thisis held to be the primary step, at least. ANTISEPTICS AND ORAL BACTERIA. The attempt to check this pathologicalcondition through the destruction of thebacteria themselves has disclosed thefact that whatever will destroy the micro-organisms will at the same time destroythe living cells. In a work on bacteria ingeneral which I have chosen at random,an author says: It is now known thatthe activity of thes
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