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Hy Dr. H. Benjafieltl, Moonah, Hobart, Tasmania 



FRUIT such as the apple, pear, 

 orange, etc., is so essential to our 

 well being that it is a great mistake to 

 look upon it as a luxury to be used only 

 on special occasions. It is of all foods 

 one of the most essential. It is not 

 only a food itself, but it assists in the 

 digestion and assimilation of all other 

 food.s. I will try to explain some of its 

 actions as it goes through the body. 



As food cannot be digested or assimi- 

 lated unless it is well broken into fine 

 particles, the teeth have been provided 

 by nature for I he purpose, and the 

 health of the whole body very largely 

 depends on the efliciency of this grind- 

 ing mill. .\nd it has lately been proved 

 Ihat fruit eating provides the teeth with 

 food and prevents their decay; so that 

 in a prize essay of the Royal College 

 of .Surgeons, England, Professor Pick- 

 erill, who is the professor of dentistry 

 in the University of Otago, writes under 

 (hile 1912 the results of experiments 

 extending over several years, all of 

 which go to prove in his own words 

 that "children's teeth, in whom caries 

 was connnencing, not only have no 

 more carious cavities, but those that 

 were present have passed into a state 

 of ariested caries, and the surface be- 

 comes quite hard." And this he proves 

 resulted from giving the children fruit, 

 say, an apple or an orange (the apple 

 proved best) after each meal. He 

 found that the acid in the fruit in- 

 creased the flow of saliva, and Ihe 

 phosphate of lime, when liciuefled in 

 this acid, passed into the child's tooth, 

 and hardened the enamel and prevented 

 caries. He says: "It is of the very 

 liigliest ini|)ortance that particular care 

 and attention should be paid to the 

 picservation of the tirst teeth, as decay 

 in these produces defects in the enamel 

 of Ihe permanent teeth. The enamel 

 is first soft and hardens after cutting 

 by the passing of lime salts out of the 

 saliva into them, and enamel of the 

 highest resistance should be cultivated 

 in children." How, then, are we to 

 produce good teeth in our children and 

 pidtecl them during life? He has pub- 

 a large book on "Dei.tal Caries," from 

 which 1 will give a few extracts: "In 

 saliva is piovided a perfect mouth 



wash; all its constituents are of value 

 and importance in protecting the teeth, 

 and natural organic acids (such as are 

 found in fruit) are the stinuilants 

 which excite the greatest amount of 

 these protective substances." The ma- 

 terial most destructive to teeth is fine 

 flour in a cooked state. In an experi- 

 ment white bread in one week made 

 the enamel of a tooth quite soft, but 

 when, after eating such bread, it was 

 followed by eating an apple the mouth 

 was quite clean. Thus straches and 

 sugars should on no account be eaten 

 alone, but should in all cases be eaten 

 with, or should be followed by, fruit. 



as the juice of the fruit gets over 

 the teeth and between them, prevent- 

 ing fermentation of these starches and 

 the formation of lactic acid, which is 

 the great cause of dental decay. ' * * 

 Chocolates produced a large amount of 

 this destructive acid, but when the 

 chocolate was followed by an apple the 

 mouth was neutral." "Fresh fruit and 

 salads should be used as much as pos- 

 sible at every meal and all meals should 

 end with some acid food." 



.Saliva is a very complicated fluid, 

 which Hows into the mouth in ever- 

 varying <|uantities, and has much more 

 to do with our comfort and health than 

 is generally supposed. Starch, as found 

 in bread, is our principal food, and the 

 saliva digests it by converting it into 

 sugar before it passes into the stomach. 



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