The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-05 00:00:00

PATENT TOOTH DRAWER.

AT T 011%•GA RD Ex.-A publican, named Cull, residing in
Cow-cross, was brought up on Saturday by Lce, the officer, on
a charge which very seriously affects the interests of modern
dentists, but which, if once brought into general practice, would
be conducive of'the most essential benefit to such of the human
race as are fated to feel the torturing agony and sleepless suffer-
ings produced by a " raging tooth." The complainant in this
case was an elderly man, named Rooth, and his complaint was
to this effect: —A few nights back he went, it seems, to Mr.
Cull's house, for the express purpose of employing his teeth
(of which he flattered himself, at that ume, no man of
his years could , boast a more powerful set), on a very ex-
cellent tender rump steak, to which, by the way, he did
ample justice; after diluting it with some copious draughts
of stout, he went to the bar to settle the shot ; but, in so doing,
a dispute arose betwixt him and his host, whrn the latter
struck him a violent blow in the mouth, which sent two of his
Very best friends to the " tomb of all the Capulets,'" in a word,
the front teeth of his upper jaw went clean down his throat, and
ever since he had been " quite chop fallen," Evidence was
produced in confirmation of the assault, though the witness who
proved it could not speak with any thing like certainty as to the
extraction of the teeth. . . . •

The defendant said, he was prepared to admit a blow having
been given, but then it was of so very gentle weight.; that It could
not possibly have disturbed a tooth in a much more antiquated
jaw. However, as evidence was, at all times better than bare as.,
sumption, he was ready to prove that those two identical teeth,
which the complainant now so pathetically sighed after, had de-
serted their residence full twenty years before. A professional
gentleman, well known as a surgeon-defitist it the neighbour-
hood of (ow-cross, then came forward, and placing what the-
Smithfield horse-dealers call a " grin" on the nether lip of the
beast, the gentleman, qfter attentively examining the vacant
cavities, gave it as his firm opinion that the former occupants'
had been a long time absent • from home. Teske, a'
chiropedist, who has also a very extensive practice in the way
of cuppingkbleeding, and tooth-drawing, stated that he had a
short time since professionally operated on Mr. Rooth, the com-
plainant ; that then the front teeth were perfectly sound and firm'
as a rock ; indeed, it would have required a very great muscular
effort to extract them, even with the aid of the regular instru-;
ment ; but what rendered the loss of still greater moment was,
that one of those valuable articles happened to be what is learn-i
edly styled the dens sapientia, or tooth of wisdom, without:
which a man is no better than a fool. For the Ilagistrate's'sa-
tisfaction, the complainant's mouth was then drawn to its•ut.;
_most expansion, and so far as our visual perception served us,
we certainly agreed in the opinion of our friend the surgeon-
dentist, that many of the cells had been long tenantless, and that
all those teeth remaining had seen active service, and suffered
great dilapit:ation. The Magistrate said that in some respects, he
saw great difficulty in fairly deciding on the merits of such a case.
The evidence of •the professional gentlemen being at variance 4
he should draw a line of demarcation betwixt surgery sad
justice; in the former nothing had been proved, but in the
latter there bad, because an assault was sworn to. 'That the
teeth were even unbroken there ppeared• to be some doubt ; hut
that the peace was broken there could be none whatever. The
defendant was therefore ordered to find • •

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 3.—Mr. K EAN sailed from
hencehaving in the fiveCanada,ermht
Newnights at
a
t ourY T York,
Theatre, andnaThuni one a
day.,last,t
,'Manchester, to houses tolerably well filled. In both places
Kean was called for by, the audience at the end of •the per.
formances, and made speeches to his admirerr stating ,lnrn-
self to be the victim of a corrupt Press, and driven from his
nalive land .by the conduct of his oppressors,. whom he was
pleased to call " Scoundrels and ruffians." His health seemed
to be touch impaired, and his spirits considerably subdued.