Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-03-28
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE


uncommon one in France for this class Of artists.
He drove into the middle Of the press in hand
some open carriage. with servant behind, alter.
nately blowing trumpet beating drum, and
enchanting. g Room for the celebrated doctor!D
The horse was then dismissed, the carriage con.
verted at once into stage and shop. and the
great man commenced his harangue. He expa
tated on the grandeur and importance of the art
of tooth.dra wing-on his own unrivalled skill,
renowned throughout all Europe-of the infatua-
ton Of those unhappy beings who delayed even
for a single instant to take advantage of an Op.
portunity thus offered to them by Providence
Ne fourished his iron instrument in the air. COM
pairing it to the rod Of Aaron: he likened the
listeners themselves to crowd Of infdels of old,
gathering about an apostle, and struggling sinful
ly not only against his word, but in spite Of their
own teeth.
"Alas! my friends" said he. " when shall
have turned my back. you will repent in dust
and ashes; but repentance will then be too late.
You fancy you have got the toothacbe! Poor
creatures! my bosom bleeds for you'll In your
eulpable ignorance you believe that none ia un-
well who is not in agony okpain. You ina
CINE that PAIN is the disease, whereas it is only
one Of the symptoms; and yet see by the face
of many of you-l may say most Of you-that you
have not only the tooth-ache, but the symphonic.
tic tw,nge. This is the case with you, and you,
and you, and more than you. Tell me, am
not corrects Only think of your gums! Do you
not feel sensation Of tickling, as 1t were, at the
root Of your teeth, as of coitrss at tie top, as
if the ali vas already penetrating through the
breaches Of line or diseasel This is the tooth
ache This sensation will increase, till it ends
in torture and despair. Then you will inquire
for the DOCTOR but the doctor will not hear the
you will entrp,t the operation to some miserable
quack, ~ho will break your jaws in pieces; or, if
you endure IN slleuce, the paia will produce fe-
ver-fever will brngDn madneSs-and madness
terminate in death!' His eioquence was ire
sisrible: in len minutes every soul of US had the
touthache. Several sufe,y rs rushed forward at
the same instant to crave relief One OF them
a fine looking Young fellow. gained The race; but
not till he had broken from the arms of peas
ant Girl. who, ha wing either less faith or mnre
philosophy, imploreJ him to consider in the first
place whether he had really The tonhache.
Grizzly smiled the Doctor when the head Of the
patient was fairly between his knees; and ruefully
did the latter gaze up from the helpless position
into his execulioner's lace. We all looked with
open mouths and in dead silence upon the scene,
all except the young s'r', who, With aVerted head,
awaited, pale, trembling. and in tears. the event.
The doctor examined the unfortunate mouth. and
adjusted his instrument to the tooth which It wa.
his pleasure to extract. The crowd set their
teeth grnning horribly, and awaited the wrench;
but the operator, Withdrawing his hand, recon
menced the lecture with greater JUNCTION than
ever. A second time was this unmerciul reprleve
granted. and then third time, and the condemn.
ed groaned aloud We could stand no more;
we were already in a paroxysm of the touthache
feeling a strange fascination creeping over US as
we looked upon the gltterng steel, we fairly
took to our heels and fled from the spot.-ha
chie's Wanderings on The Loire