George Washington's TeethScholastic, 2005 - Diaries A rollicking rhyme portrays George Washington's lifelong struggle with bad teeth. A timeline taken from diary entries and other nonfiction sources follows. |
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aches American Revolutionary American Revolutionary War Baker base British carved from hippopotamus caused Charles Willson Peale cheek coated with flesh-tinted coiled gold wire COLE Colonel COMORA cotton cried deal of pain Delaware dental dentist dentures are held Diary entry dinner drawer false teeth fasten favorite flesh-tinted sealing wax full set gasped George hoped George is elected George lost George sends George suffers George Washington George's last give Greenwood gums held in place hippopotamus ivory human teeth infections jars last tooth Le Meyeur Letter to Dr lips look lower denture lower right Martha Meyeur moaned Mount Vernon mouth muscles myrrh night old root fragments old set paints palate pickled tripe plaster of Paris portrait President remaining teeth right first molar Riveted rotten tooth scrapers screw sends a letter set of dentures set of false seven teeth sheet of gold sore springs sunken swaged upper wears writes yank