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Title: When to send for the doctor : and what to do before the doctor comes
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Lippert, Frieda E., 1867- Holmes, Arthur, 1872-
Subjects: Children First aid in illness and injury
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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lor. He will be stupid anddrowsy, because not enough red bloodis sent to his brain to keep it awake andat work. The flat-chested boy or girlis the one liable in later life to becomethe consumptive or tubercular child.It is difficult to state where the mischiefends that is produced by the trouble-some adenoids and tonsils of which onehears so much. 153 WHEN TO SEND CHAPTER XV DEFECTIVE TEETH Defective Teeth. Surely we all recognize poor teethwhen we see them. Is not the thing weneed most to recognize or realize—be-fore the trouble is made—what causespoor teeth? We have already made mention ofthe deformed jaw with its crowded,overlapping teeth, of which adenoidsare the cause. Crooked teeth may result also fromthe neglect of the first set of teeth inchildhood. If through lack of carethese first teeth decay early, they mustbe filled, or, if too far gone, removed. Iftheir roots are allowed to remain,—likeold stumps in the forest,— they blockthe way to the incoming second teeth, 154
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Crooked, carious teeth. In them danger to the whole body lurks atthe door of the body. They poison all food and drink. FOR THE DOCTOR causing all varieties of ugly jaws.These cause almost unbelievable mis-chief through the nervous irritationarising from the pressure produced bysuch wedged-in or impacted teeth.We have known boys who, because ofthis nervousness from impacted teeth,came to be problems at home andnuisances in school,—to have developedlying and stealing, ultimately reachingthe juvenile court and the house of de-tention. It has needed only the re-moval of such teeth to work entire andlasting reformation in such boys. Neglect of Tooth Brush. The neglect of the toothbrush isanother reason for poor teeth. Among2677 mouths examined in the publicschools of one city, there were found15,061 dental cavities. In 1477 of thesemouths a toothbrush had never beenused. Particles of food allowed to 155 WHEN TO SEND lodge and remain in and between theteeth ferment easily and cause bacter

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