Show bare tooth troubles of earliest americans washing ton it milecent becent discoveries of very ancient indians in new mexico not only indicate that tile the early red men lived as long as 1500 D B 1 0 I but bill show that their teeth in the baroff far off time had suffered the same ravages as aa we endure bodny cartes caries or cavities en vl flea pyor pyorrhea rhen and alveolar abscesses the causes for the development ol of these diseases in such on an early race are hard to determine their food was meat and grains us as we use to day carious cavities of huge dimensions developed devo loped in unworn teeth so we cannot ascribe caries to the wear ing down of the teeth hy by coarse food pyorrhea was rampant and resulted after the age of forty five or fairly either in total toss loss of the teeth or their serious impair newl abscesses are infrequent and never seem so huge as la Is often in the pre peruvians alveolar fistula have not yet been seen A single ense cose of irn ira pact lon out of alft four skeletons was found |