Trench Mouth Routed

Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases.

Last week two doctors claimed that they have developed speedy remedies for trench mouth:

> In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Major C. S. Linton wrote that he had used sulfathiazole tablets on four patients with Vincent's infection of the tonsils. After two days, during which each patient sucked a small sulfathiazole tablet every two hours, all "reported definite improvement within 24 hours . . . complete clinical recovery in 72 hours."

> In the American.. Journal of Surgery, Dr. S. L. Goldberg urges chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of plants, for trench mouth. Of 122 cases with severe gum infection, 98 were cured (usually in three or four days) and 24 were improved by using chlorophyll sprays twice a day plus frequent eye-dropper injections of chlorophyll between the teeth.

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