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Show on I ASSAUtT ON AMERICAN ' TOOTH CARPENTERS. Tho world has been woefully misled for many years regarding American dentistry, In the opinion of the illustrious illus-trious pathologist to the London Charing Char-ing Cross hospital, Dr. William Hunter. Hun-ter. It Is his matured conviction that dentistry as practiced In this country is a curse to the world, tho fruitful source of one of the most terrible -Gcourgos afflicting the physical frame of man sepsis. In other words dentistry, den-tistry, as practiced by even the ablest mon in tho American profession, Is spreading deadly maladies not only among the moderately well off, but j among the very rich. Indeed the rich I are the worst sufferers bocause tboy , J cau nfford the -high price of the most ! skilled work. An Illustration of Dr. Hunter's meaning Is given by himself In the London Lancet One of the worst cases of sepsis he ever -saw was brought him by a doctor who staid that tho patient's mouth hnd been "carefully seen to and was in good order." The patient was a tall, hand-Bomo hand-Bomo man In the prime of life. His case was the severest pernicious ldl- ' opathic anemia Imaginable 'His : II mouth was to all appearances clean, R for it was one solid mass of gold jfl caps, bridges, crowns, fillings, falso Ijl teeth and the like, so Ingeniously ill . built up that one could hardly tell J 1 1 what waa falso and what was real To mm free that man from his poisoned state fjfl Involved in consequence what was I really equivalent to a major operation I I in surgery Tho condition of necrosis, I! I sepsis and the like revealed on re- ij I moval of the goldon architecture of ' S H his mouth was perfectly appalling. 1 1 Current Literature Tl |