Page:Personal beauty how to cultivate and preserve it in accordance with the laws of health (1870).djvu/154

 If it is the teeth that are at fault, they should be put under the care of an approved dentist to extract, fill, or treat in what manner their condition demands. When the cause is in the stomach, usually some form of dyspepsia is present; water and gases rise to the mouth, the body is constipated, and a general sense of unpleasantness is felt in body and mind. This condition requires the enlightened care of the physician, whose duty it becomes to define to himself the precise character of the dyspepsia, to seek its origin, and to address to its cure those remedies which a mature experience has placed at his command. There are, we may add for the benefit of sufferers, comparatively few instances where, with a hearty and intelligent co-operation on their part, any failure will take place in treating these cases.

We cannot speak such cheering words to those who owe their offensive breath to the condition of the lungs. With them a grave malady is threatening, or is actually in progress. Their battle is no longer for good looks; it is for dear life. By timely and judicious provisions they may forestall the foe who is insidiously stealing upon them. They may escape him by a flight to the sunny shores of Florida, or the dry plains of the north-west. But their welfare is too imminently endangered to permit them to trifle or to experiment. *