well, we start with a doctor, frederick ritter. he was war one veteran. he was very scarred by that. after the war, he went to work in a berlin hydrotherapy therapeutic institute where they actually had some progressive ideas the healing powers, powers of water, raw food, diet. but he took his ideas to an extreme. he believed that gums become -- enough to substitute for teeth. didn't think he needed teeth. he decided was going to live to be 150 years old. probably not surprisingly, he was a big devotee of frederick beecher, and he did not civilization. he wanted to abandon and go somewhere and sort of hone his philosophical ideas and become a world renowned philosopher and. before he did this, of course, he extracted all of his teeth and, had them replaced with a set of steel dentures which which you is kind of i want to see do go on a steel ventures but you know in a sign of all the adversaries to come he did not account for the fact that his gums were going to shrink and the steel dentures wouldn't stay in any way at hospital he meets dorie starch. who