FOOD-SUCKING BRITONS

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17320, 5 December 1921, Page 9

FOOD-SUCKING BRITONS

Dr. Harry Campbell has been lecturing at the Institute of .Hygiene on headaches and teeth (writes our London correspondent). He had some hard things 'to.say.of the British jaw. His dictum is—so long as the British Lion consumes nearly the whole of its farinaceous food in a pappy and spongy form, so long will he nave the worst jaws and teeth in the world. "I don't know any other country," he said, "which must have a pudding every day. Think of the number there are: milky, plum, batter, suet, and all the refit! I ask every mother who comes to me: 'From the point of view of nutrition, what is the difference, between suet dumpling and crusty : bread and butter?' Each consists of flour and fat. The one is 6Ucked for a moment and swallowed, tho other is ground and exercises the jaws,' causing the teeth to dance in their sockets. This stimulates saliva, which is the digestive fluid. Every Briton "over 30 has pyorrhxea; I reckon there are over 200 million sockets with pyorrhoea in Great Britain, and the chief cause is non-use of the teeth. The pieasants of Europe, on the whole, have good teeth and jaws, notably those who subsist on black bread. Only in our island do we get food-sucking people. >ve even cut off the crust off our spongy bread and give a child a pernicious bun 1 Pyorrhoea is preventable, and many other diseases, 'if diet were reformed. Did God Almighty intend men to have their stomachs ripped open and horrible operations performed? Where does appendicitis come .from? I have riot the slightest doubt that adenoids also is a dietetic disease. There are more adenoids among British children than those of any other nation. And to whatever clime a Briton takes his children they have adenoids, because he takes his diet with him. It is, perhaps,- in the nature of things --and especially in these times—>hat the scholars in such a school as ours should be anxious or compelled to start work somewhat early, states an article in the "Technical College Review,' it is a great pity so many of our number leave us in their second year, often before its completion. This is perhaps in many cases unavoidable, but it is .very unfortunate, for apart from the value of education —a value that stands so high that it cannot be estimated —it operates against the growth of that "attachment" to our College.which we should all feel. Take a .'pride in your school, mingle in Its activities, suggest new ones, live up to a high standard, be conscientious alike in work and in play. Remember what your elders tell you—thf-y have had more experience than you, and they know what they are talking ahout—school days mako up the happiest part of your lire. Let those who come back next year make up their minds to take a part in furthering this feeling of affection for our school, bo that the new-comers will catch the spirit of it and carry It through the ages. Do men with tails exist in:less known parts of. the'world? Dr. Carl LumWilltz, a distinguished American; explorer. declares that such people do exist He has jnst returned "from two years in unknown parts of Borneo, where he save, that" he found several members of "savage tribes with stumps of tajls. "These people,'' says Dr. Lumholtz, "are evidently the outcome of inter-marriage with a completely tailed race, because, according to statements by headmen of the tribe, these children'with vestiges of a tail appear from time to time. They do not con. sider their appendages exactly as a disgrace; nevertheless, they are extremely sensitive about them. That's a nasty cough I Let "JTAZOL'' tackle it. A few drops taken on lump sugar will soon relieve you. Sixty doses for Is 6d. 1