ADDENDA


From the archives: waste not, want not


IMAGE COURTESY OF BDA MUSEUM


Life in a Victorian workhouse was undoubtedly hard. Entry in most cases was voluntary, an act of last resort due to extreme poverty, sickness or mental handicap. No one could leave the workhouse without permission and life was pretty much determined by the decisions of a local Board of Guardians, who could at times seem callously officious. Consider this short item published in 1898 in the British Journal of Dental Science.


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TEETH LENT. – We have read that the East Grinstead Guardians ordered a set of artificial teeth for an inmate on the understanding that the equipment should be on loan and when no longer needed should be “returned into store.” “When no longer needed” is good, distinctly good. After the fortunate one dies or has erupted the proverbial third set of teeth, the equipment should find a resting place under a glass case in the store. Perhaps, however, the Guardians meant that the inmate should not take them outside, lend them to someone else, and, returning toothless, demand a fresh equipment. Here we have the picture of the inmate torn with conflicting doubts. To stay in the House and chew, or to get work outside and mumble the bread of liberty. The cost, we see, is to be £3 10s., not a large sum, but if endentulous persons were allowed to leave with dentures there would probably be an increasing stream of entries relying upon the same treatment.


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Source: Article clipping Tweeted by Helen Nield, library manager at the BDA


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1. Complete or incomplete break in bone (8)


5. Soft tissue in tooth cavity (4)


9. Management and care of patient (9)


10. Malady (7) 11. Encephalon (5) 13. Anatomically far away (6)


15. Excessive fluid around cells (6)


19. Old name for Type II Diabetes (abr.) (5)


22. Inflammation of mucous membranes (7)


24. Malignant new growth of epithelial cells (9)


25. Common viral infection (4) 26. Simple diabetes (8)


DOWN 1. Inundated (7) 2. Swears (7) 3. Greek letter (5) 4. Decayed (6) 6. Extreme (5) 7. Infectious agent in BSE? (5)


8. Fellow countryman of Milla Jovovich or Slobodan Miloševic (4)


12. Metal bar (3) 14. Small amount (3) 16. US aviator, Amelia (7) 17. Sticks to (7) 18. Writer (6)


19. 2000s pop act featuring Justin Timberlake (1-4)


20. Transfer (5)


21. Regulates medicines in the UK (acronym) (4)


23. Twitter pest (5)


See answers online at www.mddus.com. Go to the Notice Board page under News and Events.


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Object obscura:


articulated iron mannequin


PHOTOGRAPH: SCIENCE MUSEUM/SSPL


This mannequin found in the Science Museum in London dates from 1570 to 1700 and was used for demonstrating bone setting. It may have been invented by Hieronymus Fabricius (c 1533-1619), Italy’s foremost surgeon in the late 16th century, who devised operations for tying arteries and correcting spinal deformities.


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