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directly into the blood stream and set up septic or other 

 mischief. 



It is scarcely necessary here to enter into the different 

 forms of septic tooth disease or to consider the points at 

 which the different kinds of poison may enter, but it should 

 be mentioned in the interests both of antiseptic purity and 

 suffering humanity that a good stout tooth brush, plenty of 

 water and some antiseptic dentrifice applied morning and 

 night afford a greater safeguard against many diseases than 

 most people are aware. 



Literature. 



The following works may be consulted : 



Abbot. — Dental Cosmos. 1879. 



BioNDi. — Breslauer arztliche Zeitschr, No. 18, Sept. 1887. 



David. — Les Microbes de la Bouche. Paris, i8go. 



FRAENKEL.-r-Verhandl. d. 3. Congr. f. inner Med. 1884. 



Galippe et Vignal. — L'Odontologie. March, 1889. 



HuEPPE. — Mitth. a. d. k. Gesundheitsamt, Bd. 11., p. 309, 

 1884. 



Kirk. — Dental Cosmos. 1887.' 



Klein. — Centralbl. f. Med. Wissensch, No. 30, p. 529, 1884. 



Leeuwenhoek. — Opera omnia sive arcana nature ope micros- 

 copiorum exactissimorum detecta. 1722. 



*MiLLER. — Micro-organisms of the Human Mouth. Phila- 

 delphia, 1890. 



Sternberg. — Bull, of the Nat. Board of Health. April 30, 

 1881. 



Vignal. — Arch, de Physiol, norm. et. patholog., No. 8, 1886. 

 * Very full lists of literature given. 



