Show Benefits from Chewing GumBY Gum BY BYDE DR EDITH EDIT B. B LOWRY LOWEY Ordinarily th the use of ot chewing lum guns gum is t. considered rather HI ill b bred and Is Ii frowned upon by those who ho have charge of ot the training of children When the habit Is Indulged in on the street or In company It certainly Is disgusting However it has been found tonne that the tabooed gum cum is Ie very useful In certain conditions condition When the typhoid fever feyer patient commences corn com to gain he is ravenously hungry but Is 18 allowed only only a scanty aunty dl diet t. t Tb The long days daYI seem Iem endless with nothing to do but count the stripes on th the nurses nurse's dress dust o or th the spots pot or squares euree on the tho counte counterpane e Gum Gam ha lies been found to be bean bean bean an allowable solace Also it is beneficial t to the patient tar for it stimulates the flow now of the digestive secretions which have become b deficient Not only this but the movement of or the tongue tends tend to keep kup th the mouth clean clen In typhoid there is I. lI liable le to bo an accumulation of cf a L brown bron de deposit deW de posit Called colled Bordes Borde on the teeth and tongue Chewing gum guru 1 lessens this de do posit posit This l Idea Idea- ea was u as advanced by Dr Young when he was wu superintendent of ot the marine hospital Gum may be given gJ to children who are confined with other diseases as s scarlet fever measles II and diphtheria Ne Needless to sa say a a. fresh piece should be supplied every time and the patient should not Dot be allowed to chew it too long at R Po It is strange that gum cum Is not used more commonly during durin Illness e especially of children for the gum serves to relieve the of the tho long hours of convalescence Recently gum rum chewing has hall been advocated cat d for an entirely different condition Some children haVe a habit of or biting the nails a habit which it seems very veo difficult to break The application of ot re ted red pepper quinine or other bitter remedies sometimes tails falls to tol have ha the de desired desired de- de sired aired effect The treatment r requires great perseverance and is complicated further further further-by by t th t fact ct that the child usually la is of an extremely nervous nervous- disposition Some Som authors have advocated th the application application cation catton of a Q device which holds the teeth apart and therefore makes chewing chew chew- ing difficult This has hall several cUnd 1 vantages an as It frequently increases the nervousness of the child and ma may h help lp to cause mouth breathing Some bright individual in- in in fn conceived the Ides idea of supplying theo thea children ren with gum un an and It was found that they c ceased to bite their nails naU It I Also alao had hOW the beneficial l effect t. t of or ing the lJ secretion of the digestive Juices which sometimes are deficient in nervous poorly nourished children Many people have found that the habit babil of chewing gum m for a few moments after afU meat meals has hu caused their In indigestion l tc vanish |