This is quoted from Porcy and Melly's Rasputina site at http://www.members.tripod.com/~corset_strings/rasputina/sitemap.htm"Before people had pewter plates, they had trenchers - a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms got into the wood. After eating off wormytrenchers, they would get "trench mouth."
Trench mouth is actually a gum infection, that appeared in the early 1900's. It's scientific name is Vincent's Angina or Infection after the french bacteriologist Jean Hyacinthe Vincent. Vincent's Infection, which appeared around 1922 is a progressive painful disease of the mouth that is marked esp. by dirty gray ulceration of the mucous membranes, spontaneous hemorrhaging of the gums, and a foul odor to the breath and that is associated with the presence of large numbers of a bacillus and a spirochete in the lesions.
This is quoted from Porcy and Melly's Rasputina site at http://www.members.tripod.com/~corset_strings/rasputina/sitemap.htm"Before people had pewter plates, they had trenchers - a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms got into the wood. After eating off wormytrenchers, they would get "trench mouth."
Trench mouth is actually a gum infection, that appeared in the early 1900's. It's scientific name is Vincent's Angina or Infection after the french bacteriologist Jean Hyacinthe Vincent. Vincent's Infection, which appeared around 1922 is a progressive painful disease of the mouth that is marked esp. by dirty gray ulceration of the mucous membranes, spontaneous hemorrhaging of the gums, and a foul odor to the breath and that is associated with the presence of large numbers of a bacillus and a spirochete in the lesions.
Whatever that means."