by Patrick Cutter | Oct 25, 2024
“In the course of the action a New York volunteer named Wm. Holmes, from Ontario county, received a musket ball in his mouth which shattered several of his teeth.” Brown, Samuel R., An Authentic History of the Second War for Independence, 1815, p. 200 Tunis, Edwin....
by Patrick Cutter | Oct 25, 2024
“We remember numbers who went to the Mexican war with sound and beautiful teeth, and returned within a year or two with most of them destroyed, and in some cases entirely so, and almost all much diseased.” Taft, Johnathan, The Influence of Camp Life Upon the Teeth in...
by Patrick Cutter | Oct 25, 2024
“The innumerable quantity of broken teeth and fractured jaws, produced by bungling instruments and unfamiliar hands, along with stories of rheumatic and neuralgic suffering, caused by exposed pulps and diseased teeth, which we were obliged to listen to during the...
by Patrick Cutter | Oct 25, 2024
“Of the organs frequently affected among the returning soldiers were the teeth. Patients suffering from carious aching teeth were numerous. In most instances they presented evidence of serious malnutrition following disease and exposure, suppurative alveolitis was...
by Patrick Cutter | Oct 25, 2024
“They have a regular “tooth-brush” drill every morning…It was true and sure a great sight to see 150 men in line with cup, tooth-brush, and paste or powder in hands ‘cleaning up’ in a way that had been entirely unknown to most of them a few months ago, for by a...
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