What Will Make Good Teeth?
It is an old and common saying that bread is the staff of life. The maxim must have originated many generations back, when bolting mills were unknown, and sieves but little used, when bread was made with all the ingredients of the grain included. Such bread is the staff of life. The bread of our time is, most of it, the handmaid of disease. If there is in it any staff, it is weak and brittle, which will soon let a man down. Wheat, more than any other grain, perhaps, contains all the elements needful for the nutrition of the system. To have this affect, however, all its properties must enter the bread made of it; none must be bolted or sifted out, nor must the stone grind it too fine. . . . It is our duty to be instructors to the heads of families, who, with their children, are our patients, in relation to the matters herein treated. When we discover children's teeth defective and decaying, we ought most earnestly to exhibit both the cause and the remedy, and urge instant and continued attention to our counsels and instructions. We are bound to recommend the use of proper food, such as oatmeal, barley, unbolted wheat, peas, beans, and other food designed to make strong bone, good teeth, and healthy bodies.—Dental Register.