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"Interesting But Useless Facts"
John "Doc" Holliday left his dental practice in Virginia to travel west seeking a cure for his tuberculosis. What he found was gunslinging, guzzling, gambling and a prominent place in the lore of the West when he joined the Earp brothers in a little gunplay at the O.K. Corral.
Apparently, it wasn't all fun and games. The Doc placed this ad in a Dodge City newspaper in June of 1878:
In his medical treatise written in 1613, Thomas Vicary, a surgeon, had a remedy for the "stinking of the mouth." His advice: " Wash the mouth with water and vinegar. Chew mastic (a tree resin used as an astringent). Then wash mouth with a decoction of annis seeds, mints and cloves soaked in wine."
I cannot say that I recommend this regimen for today's "stinking mouth!"
Ever wonder where the term "indentured servent" came from? The story goes that when debtors were shipped from Europe to America to work as servants in colonial days, the indigent immigrants sealed their agreement by leaving their dental imprint in wax instead of signing a contract.
Remember the Alamo? Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator who soundly whupped Davy Crockett and his brave band of Texas defenders, is also responsible for introducing modern day chewing gum to our country. Santa Anna's choice of "chaw" was chicle, the latex sap of the sapodilla tree. In the capable hands of American inventor Thomas Adams, chicle became the base for commercially produced chewing gums. Maybe that's where they got the name for "chicklets."
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