“ SALT AND DUST.’
A HOMELY DENTIFRICE
Speaking at the British Medical Conference at Birmingham on the evils due to bad teeth, Dr. Erskine Young said a little ragged: scholar in Liverpool told him that she cleaned her teeth every morning.. ' . ' , .. . “What with?” he asked. the child •answered, “Salt and dust; mv mother gets the dust from out of the chimbly.” He said, “You mean soot?” “Yes,’ replied the child. What better dentifrioe. asked Dr. Young, could there be than sodium chloride and charcoal?”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3324, 16 September 1911, Page 3
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83“ SALT AND DUST.’ Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3324, 16 September 1911, Page 3
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