Tojo’s Teeth: Remember Pearl Harbor November 16, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
There is a post to be written and perhaps, when his file is big enough, Beach will attempt it of puerile acts of revenge carried out against defeated nations. Limiting ourselves here to the Second World War there is, for example, Hitler’s insistence that France’s surrender be signed in the same railway car, where German […]
In Search of Chinese Tooth Worms October 22, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
Last month Beach took some time to look up, while recovering from toothache agony, traditional tooth cures. He was particularly impressed by the widespread belief in tooth worms, the little parasites which apparently cause toothaches. These non-existent parasites were believed in throughout Euro-Asia-Africa and can be traced back to Babylonian times: it is always a […]
Fried Mice and Urine Mouth Rinses: Traditional Toothache Cures September 28, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beach has been living toothache hell for the last two weeks. A wisdom tooth had to be extracted and that was just fine: a bit of anesthetic and POW. But then the jawbone became infected and said bone had to be scraped with little in the way of laughing gas. Painkiller, antiobiotics were rushed in […]
Agony at the Dentists October 7, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
Beachcombing went to the dentist this morning and had the inside of one of his teeth removed: apparently too many peanut, honey and banana sandwiches are bad for you… But, in the inevitable passing-the-time-of-day conversation between scoops of tooth, something interesting came up – pain control. Beach had noticed in his last trips that dentists […]
