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160 A Fetid Breath,
OF A FETID BREATH.
la healthy persons, a fetid breath, (with which we so often
meet, and which is so offensive to the person of nice feelings,)
is generally caused by the state of the mouth, as tartar and
other foreign matter, diseased teeth, gums and sockets, and
the decomposition of food lodged in the interstices of the teeth.
Decomposing artificial teeth render the breath exceedingly
offensive.*
That the above observations are correct, and that an offen-
sive breath does not depend on the lungs or stomacb, as is too
often supposed, is proved by the following circumstances.
Healthy iufauts have a sweet breath, and so do old per-
sons who have lost all their teeth. The breath of persons who
have sound teeth and keep them clean is seldom offensive
;
on the contrary, the breath of those, whose teeth and mouth
are diseased, or who neglect them, is generally more or lest
fetid. Let a person who has a fetid breath, cleanse his mouth
with a detergent wash, or breathe through his nose, and it is
no longer offensive.
* " Fetid breath is entirely occasioned by the state of the mouth.'"—
S. S. Parmh/'s lectures, page 24.
' When the disgusting- effects of a foul mouth are considered, it would
appear impossible, that any persuasion could be necessary, to induce
persons to obviate so great a nuisance, even on their own account ; or, if
they ars too debased to procure their own comfort and cleanliness, at the
expense of a very little care and trouble, they surely have no light to
shock the senses of others, who posse63 more propriety and delicacy of
feelings than themselves. Yet so it is, and the sight and the smell are
alike constantly outraged by the filihiness of people, who seem to ob-
trude their faces the closer in proportion to the disgust which they occa-
sion."— Thomas Bell, page 192.
Bruserade once said of a young lady whom he heard sing, and who
had a strong breath, " that is a charming voice; the words are very fine,
but the air is not agreeable." Gerbeaux, page 33.
" A foul mouth, according to the testimony of Leuwenhoeck, is the
habitation of numerous animalculte ; his communications on this subject
are very curious, and are published in the philosophical transactions;
Vol. 16, No. 159, page 563, and Vol. 17, No. 197, page 646."—Murphy,
page 69.
160 A Fetid Breath,
OF A FETID BREATH.
la healthy persons, a fetid breath, (with which we so often
meet, and which is so offensive to the person of nice feelings,)
is generally caused by the state of the mouth, as tartar and
other foreign matter, diseased teeth, gums and sockets, and
the decomposition of food lodged in the interstices of the teeth.
Decomposing artificial teeth render the breath exceedingly
offensive.*
That the above observations are correct, and that an offen-
sive breath does not depend on the lungs or stomacb, as is too
often supposed, is proved by the following circumstances.
Healthy iufauts have a sweet breath, and so do old per-
sons who have lost all their teeth. The breath of persons who
have sound teeth and keep them clean is seldom offensive
;
on the contrary, the breath of those, whose teeth and mouth
are diseased, or who neglect them, is generally more or lest
fetid. Let a person who has a fetid breath, cleanse his mouth
with a detergent wash, or breathe through his nose, and it is
no longer offensive.
* " Fetid breath is entirely occasioned by the state of the mouth.'"—
S. S. Parmh/'s lectures, page 24.
' When the disgusting- effects of a foul mouth are considered, it would
appear impossible, that any persuasion could be necessary, to induce
persons to obviate so great a nuisance, even on their own account ; or, if
they ars too debased to procure their own comfort and cleanliness, at the
expense of a very little care and trouble, they surely have no light to
shock the senses of others, who posse63 more propriety and delicacy of
feelings than themselves. Yet so it is, and the sight and the smell are
alike constantly outraged by the filihiness of people, who seem to ob-
trude their faces the closer in proportion to the disgust which they occa-
sion."— Thomas Bell, page 192.
Bruserade once said of a young lady whom he heard sing, and who
had a strong breath, " that is a charming voice; the words are very fine,
but the air is not agreeable." Gerbeaux, page 33.
" A foul mouth, according to the testimony of Leuwenhoeck, is the
habitation of numerous animalculte ; his communications on this subject
are very curious, and are published in the philosophical transactions;
Vol. 16, No. 159, page 563, and Vol. 17, No. 197, page 646."—Murphy,
page 69.
