Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-08-25
Ln,mo6ihty Of the Ja,o.-A correspondent o.
the Portland Advertiser says:


the Portland Advertiser says:
While on an excursion in the country north
of Portland. had an opportunity of witnessing
the effects of most singular surgical operation
performed by DIR. J. w. Mighels, Of Mnot. The
patient operated on. now about twenty years Of
age had, at the age of ten, his jaws SO complete
~ closed as to be unable to separate or move
them either perpendicularly or laterally, but IN
the slightest degree. He had literally worn
away considerable part of his fore teeth BY
forcing between them minute pieces of solid food.
CDR. Mighels found, on examination. that
nearly the whole inside surface of the cheek ad.
heredi to the jaws; circumstance occasioned
by neglected liberation Of the cheek at the age
above mentioned. After separating the cheek
from the jaws, the thin or bevelled ends of two
steel levers were with difficulty introduced be-
tween the double teeth; and those levers, with
great ingenuity of continuance, were simulta-
ncously forced apart by means of single screw.
was informed, that at the moment, when the
jaws were forced open, the noise produced was
similar to that which would attend the breaking
OF theJaws Spectators of the operation thought
them actually broken.
The operator expressed his full belief that
the resistance presented to the instrument was
equal TO the power Of one hundred weight or
even more. The patient now enjoys in common
with others, the pleasures and advantages of all
the various organs and machinery of the mouth.
The invention of the instrument used in the
above described operation and the honor of COM
plete success in its first APPLICATION. belong to the
ingenious DR.. Valentine Mott. of New-York.
who in the last number ofthe Medical Journal.
made report of similar case, accompanied by
drawing or figure OF the instrument, from
which Dr. Mighels took the hiut, and has the
honor OF Its second successful application"
AASS
The Sealing Business. persons except
those concerned, are aware of the large amount
of capital nav employed in this branch of our
commerce. 1t is cheering fac, that we can emu.
merate ten sealing vessels which are all owned
and mostly navigated by individuals belonging to
this place; and that they brought into the port,
the past year, skins amounting to the round sum
of one hundred MOusad dollars. The schr. Harri-
ct, Capt G. Davidson, Breakwater, Capt. d. Ca
rev, the new and elegant schooner William. Capt.
p Wilbur, and Free-gift, Capt. Hall, sailed from
our harbor the past week, bound to the South Seas
and their return will probably increase our in
come in much larger ratio. They are com
niandcd by fine men, taken from the bosom Of
our society, and all of them manned by young
men Of intelligence and activity.
&onington Phenir.
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| "Very like a Whaler'-We happened on Nam
tasket beach on Friday last, and there saw larg-
err shoal of Porpoises than we remember ever to
have seen before-it appeared to extend the whole
distance from the Light House to Black Rock! I!
AS the fish rose above and sunk beneath the
waves, their appearance Resembling certain pro
fuberances that we have heard and read much of
was truey beautiful, and we only regretted that
we had not left our spectaces at home, that our
near-sightedness like that of certain dons from
the city, who were there ON the same day might
have been an excuse for our conceiving them to
be the far-famed SEA SEKrENT-or rather that
we were So shockingly devoid of taste and imag-
nation, as not Immediately to have taken it for
granted, that his snakeship had at last gracously
pleased to favor US with view of his noble person
for then We night have made our humble paper
once at least, the medium of commu' cating to
the world truely marvellous tfsh-story-though
to be sure had this been the case the four or FIVE
miles through which the shoal dragged '.its slow
winding length along" would have dwindled to
| tn paItry 100 feet "-InphaDa Gdz.