Show Investigation Discloses That People Pe of Stone Age Suffered From Fr m Toothache No you cant can't c nt blame bl me it all on the I Ican can opener The handy gadget called the housewife's best friend has been charged with direct re responsibility re- re responsibility for toothaches gum gumboils gumboils gumboils boils and other dental atrocities just because it opened the cans whose eat ready contents could be gulped down V without first passing through the process called c m stica tion But science has h s stepped forward and declared that the can opener and the gaudy hued huea carton are not responsible for tor all the tooth ills which have been charged against them At least le st that is the Indicated opinion of Prof Proto W. W M. M Krogman of Western Reserve university Cleve Cleve- Cleveland Cleveland i land Ohio The widespread belief said Dr i Krogman that mans man's dental dent l ills are attributable solely to modern civilization its its tion-its Its canned and mushy foods its unbalanced lanced diets and die die- dietary dietary tary t ry fads tads its frantic tempo tempo tempo-Is is not wholly correct An extensive study which in includes eludes thousands of prehistoric ear ear- early early ly historic and modern modem dentitions has h s revealed reve led that ancient man had plenty of toothaches and that prim primitive IlIve man today the nature back f r ML rr Bp I savage frequently has work for the dentist It was found that in the old Stone age over years ago the free fre frequency fre- fre frequency quency of dental de tal caries carles ranged from 5 to 20 per cent of the adult population population lation in the new Stone age years ye rs ago the frequency fr ranged from 15 to 45 per cent In the next succeeding ages the frequency gradually gr dually rose until In B. B C C. just before the dawn of ot history an early e Iranian n people showed as high as 75 to 00 90 per cent of the entire adult population af at afflicted afflicted with dental caries a caries a free fre frequency fre- fre frequency quency que cy as high as any civilized group today tod y Man is paying the price not for civilization as such but for domes domestication started thousands perhaps ps millions of years ago We can c n do and are doing a little something about it in in our vitamin mineral 1 Intake food studies but they Uley are like inadequate thumbs In a crumbling crumblin dike f t |