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acting upon, destroy them. My intention is only to remark,
that immediately after having smoked, they should not be ex-
posed in the mouth to any sudden impressions of cold.
"A dentist of this city, and a great enemy to tobacco, was
not willing that it should be used by the nose, pretending
it
was pernicious to the teeth. It were to be wished that it
might be moderately used ; but even used to excess, I do not
believe it has the power to do any hurt to the teeth. The
use of it might be useful to persons subject to defluxions.
Tobacco determines the humours to run off by the nose, and
diverts, and prevents them from falling on the teeth, which
is no small advantage.".
*"Smoking tobacco is also wrong, and is what makes them
black and ugly, for they being heated by it in the mouth, and
a cold air coming immediately in contact with the teeth,
these two extremes might give occasion to some humour,
either to the tooth or gums, which might cause pains, consid-
erable fluxions, which are very inconvenient, and caries also,
which, of all accidents, is the most mischievous, and for
"
which the fewest remedies are to be found
f
Longbothom, in his treatise or Dentistry, remarks :
" The smoking or chewing of this herb is frequently intro-
duced from the vehement pain of the tooth-ache, and with
most constitutions paves the way to a far more dangerous
disease than it is intended to remove, by its acrid and inter-
nally violent qualities, in the act of fumigation being inhaled
and the chemical oil which it leaves within the hollow of the
teeth, disposes them to blackness and premature decay;
which, though less obnoxious for the present, proves a last-
ing enemy to the mouth and stomach."
* Le Dentiste Observateur, par Courtois, pages 50 and 51, Paris, 1776.
t Longbothom's Treatise on Dentistry page 30.
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acting upon, destroy them. My intention is only to remark,
that immediately after having smoked, they should not be ex-
posed in the mouth to any sudden impressions of cold.
"A dentist of this city, and a great enemy to tobacco, was
not willing that it should be used by the nose, pretending
it
was pernicious to the teeth. It were to be wished that it
might be moderately used ; but even used to excess, I do not
believe it has the power to do any hurt to the teeth. The
use of it might be useful to persons subject to defluxions.
Tobacco determines the humours to run off by the nose, and
diverts, and prevents them from falling on the teeth, which
is no small advantage.".
*"Smoking tobacco is also wrong, and is what makes them
black and ugly, for they being heated by it in the mouth, and
a cold air coming immediately in contact with the teeth,
these two extremes might give occasion to some humour,
either to the tooth or gums, which might cause pains, consid-
erable fluxions, which are very inconvenient, and caries also,
which, of all accidents, is the most mischievous, and for
"
which the fewest remedies are to be found
f
Longbothom, in his treatise or Dentistry, remarks :
" The smoking or chewing of this herb is frequently intro-
duced from the vehement pain of the tooth-ache, and with
most constitutions paves the way to a far more dangerous
disease than it is intended to remove, by its acrid and inter-
nally violent qualities, in the act of fumigation being inhaled
and the chemical oil which it leaves within the hollow of the
teeth, disposes them to blackness and premature decay;
which, though less obnoxious for the present, proves a last-
ing enemy to the mouth and stomach."
* Le Dentiste Observateur, par Courtois, pages 50 and 51, Paris, 1776.
t Longbothom's Treatise on Dentistry page 30.
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