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Show HEALTH HINTS. (by C. F. Montgomery. M. D.) TEETHING. There has been much advice given to mothers about their children cutting cut-ting teeth. It is an old folly, especially es-pecially among the laity, that teething teeth-ing makes a child sick. Now let me ask you, why should it. any more lhan growing hair or toe ns.ls? Almost daily, some ,7ood lady comes to the off.ee and says: "Doctor, baby Is cutting teeth, and has bowel trouble. What shall we do for. It?" We prescribe a corrective for gastric gas-tric and intestional lnd'.costion. She roes on her way .is Iriiorant of thf cause of the little ones illness as when she came to us. The mother ,eoes home, continue to feed the little one on the same diet, popcorn, poar.uts an 1 sweet pastries, thinking and worrvinc: of the fact that the little one has more teeth to cut and will bo sick again. The physician who allows this is lendir.g himself to deception He is cither 1 i r i -. or It Is due to ignorance or indifference. We write. we baik about public health, and we lie slate to protect th public against bacteria, adulier-n'f adulier-n'f :l foods and harmful coloring, then we blame tha mother for the Unavoidable Un-avoidable .results (if her own indis. crc.ion In feeding and enreing for the child. Do you think it is fair thai we frionld w'hhold thi-i information from the i.i-.'ikt and t her go on in her oi n v,i. believing that 11 Is cut ".In- of the teeth that cir-os the life i. ,c to become sbk. Th mother, when the baby is de-pen de-pen !h uprn her for c.ery oinn e i-'', nrvj' 1 ,(. t. con t ' uueu to give the little one Improper food. thinking all the time that the f.iin" of the lomach and hnaol trouble is the rrowln.? teeth. Now, If Re do not tU her the cnni what ,..ir1hlv chato-e has !.e f.f prnvid,:- the proper prop-er J!t' We iti' iii l ail ar;.. ib.it the beni cure fur the ,iii asv is t roiinne the Why should th" ,,at nral (rrnu th of ta..'w: h from th1'".-.! to the third . Jvr. cn'fit.jc thri-.iph a thin ntftn- ', Ltanr w'th vry little nre, cue RMtnach complaints? The six and tweive ear ni.i.ers do nut produce any such symptoms. We could cui ' throu.'rh a foot of tii-'ue under aseptic asep-tic conditions and fret no fever. A hiid that is candully dieted and nursed will develop no diarrhea, while on the other hand, one that. is fed on popvorn and peanuts and .-.Mr! palr;es will soon develop It. If we would tell the mothers plain facis we would prevent the causes o: lM-arly All of the so calle.1 diseases thai are now laid to teclhln. If the mother would have the children consult their dentist before il is too laic they would save worrv and save the clilldrens teeth as well Too ninny mothers wait until the child has the tooth ache before con I'Ultin; tin. dentist. H is then too late. The permanent teeth hnve to be extracted at a greater expense than having a crown or bridg,. made My advise to all mothers Is io consult con-sult their dentist at least Tw ieo a year. I |