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From: "Eric Peterson" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Civil War dentures
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:32:33 -0400
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Some one please tell me that its' only true in the case of those who wished
to donate their teeth. I had never heard of this before.

Eric Peterson
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From: "Sam Gant" <>
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: [SUVCW] Civil War dentures


> The following exerpt on dentures appeared in the August 2007issue of
> Smithsonian magazine:
> "....Dead men sometimes came to the rescue: in England they were called
> 'Waterloo teeth,' and during the American Civil War, the teeth of slain
> soldiers were shipped from the battlefields by the barrelful, to smile
> again in the mouths of the living...."
> Richard Conniff, "What's Behind a Smile," Smithsonian, August 2007, p. 51.
>
> Is this an accurate statement about the handling of the remains of our
> slain ancestors?
>
> Sam Gant
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