Excerpt from The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 115: February, 1903 It is well known that modern hygiene sets but little value on tooth-powders or tooth-pastes as teeth cleansers - these preparations being serviceable only in scouring the outward and visible surface of the teeth in a mechanical way, whereas the cavities and fissures, the very Seat of decay in the teeth, are more often filled up than cleansed by the process, the cause in itself of the injurious effects that so frequently ensue from the use of the tooth-powders and pastes known to the trade. In the case of tooth-soaps and pastes especially, the presence of alkalies, to be detected even in the best soaps, is particularly prejudicial to the teeth. To arrive, then at a rational method of preserving the teeth, as the epoch making experiments of Miller have already demonstrated, can only be done by the use of some antiseptic lotion; the decomposing and fermenting processes perpetually going on in the mouth cavity, and which is the cause of destruction in teeth, can only be neutralised by such means. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.