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* FOODSTUFFS AND DENTAL CARIES.
Not Cleansing and Liable
to Induce Dental Caries.
Farinaceous and sugary food
in general without fibrous element.
Examples : — Sweet biscuits
and cake; bread and marmalade
; bread and jam ; new bread
without crust; bread soaked in
milk ; milk puddings ; porridge
and milk; stewed fruit; chocolate
and sweets of all kinds ; honey.
Liquids :—Cocoa & chocolate.
The above foods should not be
eaten except when followed by
foods of the cleansing kind.
Cleansing and Preventive
of Dental Caries.
Fibrous foods generally.
Examples : — Fish, meat,
bacon, poultry. Uncooked vegetables,
lettuce, cress, radish,
celery. Cooked vegetables are
as a rule cleansing, but in a less
degree than uncooked vegetables.
Stale bread with crust; toasted
bread of all kinds ; twice baked
bread ; pulled bread and cheese.
Savouries. Fresh fruits, especially
those requiring, mastication,
e.g., apples. Fatty foods, e.g.,
butter and margarine.
Liquids :—Tea, coffee, water,
also soups and beef tea.
•Taken from Dr. Sim Wallace's book on the Prevention of Dental Caries.
Enlarged Glands.
The glands to which attention was directed, were the submaxillary
and neck glands. Enlargement of these glands is due,
as a rule, to infection passing along the lymph ducts from some
inflamed focus, e.g., decayed teeth, enlarged tonsils, adenoids,
abscess of the gums, and so on.
Such enlargement of the glands is to be considered as an
index of a weakened condition of the system as regards the power
of the body to resist disease.
The following table gives the results of the observations
conducted on enlarged glands