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* " Persons whose teeth are in an unclean and viscid state,
though daily washed, have universally a weak stomach,
bad indigestion, and offensive breath, head-ach after meals,
generally bad health and low spirits ; if engaged in business
or stud v, they are irritable and impatient, and are often seized
with dizziness. From weakness of stomach they are natur-
ally somnolent, scarcely wakeful in the morning, and never
satisfied with sleep."
I will mention one case more out of many I have wit-
nessed in my own practice, where the stomach was affected
by the state of the teeth.
July 2d of the present year, Mrs. S -, aged about
38 years, residing in Frankfort, was sent to me by one of
our most eminent physicians, with a request that I would
examine her teeth, and perform such operations upon them
as I judged proper, to render them and the gums healthy.
The state of this lady's health was miserable ; she was har-
rassed with the most distressing symptoms of dyspepsia.
Her digestion was very imperfect, the stomach irritated,
loss of appetite, and a most melancholly depression of spirits.
When she fust called, it was necessary for her to repose her-
self for some time, before she could have her mouth exam-
ined. Upon examining her teeth and gums, I found nearly
•"Qui quotidie sordidos, viscidosque dentes habent, licet eos quotidie
abstergeant. ii ut plurimum sunt stouiticho debiles, male digerunt, ore
foetent, post prandium capite dolent, mcesti sunt, atque debiles : et si
studiis, atque negotiis eo tempore dent operam, irascuntur, impalientes
fiunt, capiplenio cum dolore conipiuntur ; ad venercm minus proclives
sunt : generaliter enim stomacho debiles, venerei non sunt, imopotius
frigidi et impotentes. Dc biles quoque stomacho, naturae sunt somnolenti
mane vis evigilant, imd nunquana somno satiarentur."
Georgii Baglivi, Opera Omnia Medico. Piactica et Anatomica, Lug-
duni, 1710.
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* " Persons whose teeth are in an unclean and viscid state,
though daily washed, have universally a weak stomach,
bad indigestion, and offensive breath, head-ach after meals,
generally bad health and low spirits ; if engaged in business
or stud v, they are irritable and impatient, and are often seized
with dizziness. From weakness of stomach they are natur-
ally somnolent, scarcely wakeful in the morning, and never
satisfied with sleep."
I will mention one case more out of many I have wit-
nessed in my own practice, where the stomach was affected
by the state of the teeth.
July 2d of the present year, Mrs. S -, aged about
38 years, residing in Frankfort, was sent to me by one of
our most eminent physicians, with a request that I would
examine her teeth, and perform such operations upon them
as I judged proper, to render them and the gums healthy.
The state of this lady's health was miserable ; she was har-
rassed with the most distressing symptoms of dyspepsia.
Her digestion was very imperfect, the stomach irritated,
loss of appetite, and a most melancholly depression of spirits.
When she fust called, it was necessary for her to repose her-
self for some time, before she could have her mouth exam-
ined. Upon examining her teeth and gums, I found nearly
•"Qui quotidie sordidos, viscidosque dentes habent, licet eos quotidie
abstergeant. ii ut plurimum sunt stouiticho debiles, male digerunt, ore
foetent, post prandium capite dolent, mcesti sunt, atque debiles : et si
studiis, atque negotiis eo tempore dent operam, irascuntur, impalientes
fiunt, capiplenio cum dolore conipiuntur ; ad venercm minus proclives
sunt : generaliter enim stomacho debiles, venerei non sunt, imopotius
frigidi et impotentes. Dc biles quoque stomacho, naturae sunt somnolenti
mane vis evigilant, imd nunquana somno satiarentur."
Georgii Baglivi, Opera Omnia Medico. Piactica et Anatomica, Lug-
duni, 1710.
