Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-06-12

pulverized silex in certain fixed proportions.
This tinted powder then goes into muers,
gigantic bowls dug from misses of rock quartz
in which iron arms knead, and stir, and mix thC
powder into well dgested paste.
Now we will 60 up stairs, where the teetl
are manufactured. In long room, lighted from
the ceiling sit fourteen young women, each will
her implements before her
The paste which we saw mixed down below
is brought up, and placed before the first damsel
Taking "a mould in her left hand, tit Is or
American invention,) she proceeds to fill each
division of il with paste, using an instrument tc
ram it home. Then, by a simple movement, the
mould is opened, and, presto, we see a dozen
teeth, moulded after nature.
A small furnace, placed upon the bench, is
next used to so harden the paste that the teeth
can be handled, and after passing through seve-
raj hands, they are placed in larger furnace
and aggutinated, platina pins having previously
been inserted. Imperfections are removed, the
shapes are perfected, and the teeth Though not
vitrihed) are in state 10 receive enamel, or, as
it is technically called, are biscuit
The enamel is applied, process which re-
quires much care. Having a quantity of the
enamel prepared, of the consistence of cream
and of the exact tint required, it is applied to
the face of the tooth with camel hair brush.
Another operator, Tor rather operatress,) then
goes over the tooth with delicate instrument
to even its surface, and give it the perfect up-
pearance of one of natures handiworks. 1t is
now ready for the furnace.
Descending to the lower floor, we find the fur
mace, which is heated by an anthracite coal fire,
famed by steam-propelled blower. The teetb'
placed on platina sides which are inserted into
platina ovens, set in the middle Of the furnace,
are there subjected to heat of the most intense
description. When sufficiently baked in this
Vesuvius, they are annealed' and then test
ed' Those which are now approved, may be
thrown from considerable height, while red
hot, into tub of water, without exploding, or
driven with hammer into pine board The
furnace is one of the most interesting depart
ments of the establishment, and is placed under
the supervision of an operative possessing groat
skill.
The perfect teeth are carried from the furnace
up stairs, and we will follow them. One of the
females examines them with care, and asserts
those destined to form sets. Another arranges
Al. 1,
and they are then taken to the counting room.
In the counting room, assortments are arrang-
ed in pasteboard boxes, and these are packed
for every part of the United States. There are
also extensive agencies in Europe, and (if we
mistake not the case at the London Exhibition
will astonish the 'tives,' In the counting-room
is gigantic safe, where the valuable moulds
and the platina wire is deposited every night
There is also department for the manufac-
ture of moulds, q workshop, turning lathe, and
other appliances, but we must leave them, to
follow the lump of quartz which we have seen
manufactured into teeth. Neither can we stop
to admire the spacious poultry-yard, well stocked
with feathered inmates Of every variety.
Now let us return to Boston, and visit Doctor
Morton's house, at No. 49, fremont Row.
Entering the reception room, we shall proba-
bly, have to wait few moments, until the Doctor
is disnegaged, and will pass the time in examin-
ing the paintings on the walls, or the dental
preparations in the glass cases. Some of these
were prepared by the Doctor himself, when in
college, and others were imported expressly fol
his use, from Paris. They develope lin ma
ture's ivory or in wax the structure and position
of the teeth, with all the adjacent nerves ant
arteries.
We are received, and then ushered into the
spacious operating room, where scores of shallow
drawers are filled with instruments, yet not one
is seen. The concealment of pain-giving en-
gines is a refined courtesy to those who COME
with their nervous system in tremor, ready t
say, with Burns:-
My curse upon thy venomed stang,
That shoots my tortured gums alang;
And through my Tugs gies mony twang,
WP gnawing vengeance;
Tearing my nerves wiz bitter pang,
/, Like racking engines.'
Many ut-hearted man, suffering thus
has felt his courage fail as he entered dentist
operating room. Nay, the old-fashioned OPERA
! ors who still cling to their exploded system:
! give as much pain, and cause as much appre
henslon as they ever did. But when DoctC
, Morton entered upon the practice of his prolet
= son-seelng ths-he diligently applied himse
: to the discovery of an efficacous agent for th
alleViation of pain. Success crowned his effort
The envious Jackson may attempt to pluck h
; laurels, and may reap some credit by tick
t me and III tickle you system in Europe an
t here. But posterlty will give the entire honC
of the Etheriat Pain .Nemraiizer 10 Doctor Mo
ton. And it is natural that the discoverer shoul
be master of its application. To show that
is. we quote the following paragraph from an a
g ucle published in the Boston Courier, by ii
1 Hon. ]. T. Buckingham.
i 1t is now more than twenty years SINCE
: having had tooth after tooth extracted, and Jaw
!, broken times without number,-we formed a n
solution that no dentist should ever again NAL
d a demonstration of his strength upon our jaws
suffer as we might with that most excruciatin
8 physical torment ever inflicted upon sinful mo
n tality-the tOOthache. Firm and constant in OF
y resolution, we have endured toothache-nOt p
t tiently-we are not quite philosophers enouq
e for that +; teeth have achcd, decayed and broke
off, leaving their misbecoming stumps and roo
z to plague their owner in return for his unshakt
= constancy, But all men have their frailte
: and the fame of DR.. Morton's successful appl
t, cation of suIphuric ether in the practice of h
+ profession of tooth-drawing at length made
d assault upon our inhexibity, and we bega
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