New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-23
a VerY.Torlgh Story

The following story is told by the renowned wag,
John Phoenix, Of the California Pioneer The reader
will see that it records the verdict of coroners
inquest, and in other particulars bears strong re-
sembance to some of tile tough stories which polit
clans have circulated against their political opponents
in Eastern States: &s 5$&5 s#5 as5g&
sician or surgeon, but he possessed, naturally, q
strong mechanical genius, and fine appetite; and
finding his teeth great service in CRAFTY the at-
ter propensity, he concluded that be could do
good in the world and create more real happiness
therein, by putting the teeth of the inhabitants in
good order than any other way, so be became den
tist. t%
He was the man who first invented the method Of
placing small cog wheels in the back teeth, for the
perfect mastication of food: and he claimed to
be the original discoverer Of the method Of filling
cavities with kind of putty, which, becoming hard
directly, the tooth to ache SO gievousy that
it has to be pulled thereby giving thedentst two
cessive fees for the same job. Nj
Tushinaker was one day seated in his Office, in the
city of Boston, Mass, when stout old fellow named
Byles presented himself to have back tooth
The dentist seated his patient in the chair of torture
and opening his mouth discovered there an enormous
tooth in the right hand side about as large. as he
forwards expressed it, small Poyglot Bible II
shall have trouble with this tooth thought Tushmaker.
but he clapped on his heaviest orceps and pulled It,
didn't come. The he tried the turnscreW, eXerting
his utmost strength, hut the tooth wouldn't stir.
Go away from here, said Tushmaker to Byles, and
return in a week and will draw that tooth out, OF
know the reason why. #5.t59 lE58s ~.
and departed.
The dentist went to work, and in three days helm
vented an instrument which he was confident would
pull anything. It was q combination of the lever,
pulley wheel and axle inclined plane wedge and screw
The castings were made and the machine put up in
the office iron chair, rendered perfectly sta
tonary by iron rods going down into the foundations
of the granite building.
In a week old Byles returned. He was cIapped
into the iron chair, the foreeps connected with the
| machine firmly attached to the tooth, and Tush-
maker stationlng himself IN the rear, look hold OF
| lever four feet long. IN
He turned it slightly-old Byles gave a groan, and
lifted up his left leg. Another trn-anotler grean,
and hig higher went old Byles right leg ga again
"What do you raise your leg for q asked the doc
tor.
II can't help it, said the patient. 81
"Well,H said Tushmaker, "the tooth is s. bound to
| come nOW.'
He turned the lever clear round with sudden
jerk aud snapped old Byles head clean and clear
from his shoulders, leaving spaceof four inches be-
tween the several parts! s5 ss 81
the tooth were found extending down the right side
through the right leg, and turned up in two prcngs
directly in the sole of the right foot.
No wonder,n said Tush, g that he raised his Leg
The jury thought so, too but they found the roots
much decayed, and five surgeons swearing that morti-
fcation would have ensned in few months, Tnsh-
maker was cleared on verdict OF :" lustlable homl-
eide" s$e 5,s45. 5s95S ya,gs
He was little shy of that instrument afterWard;
but one day, an old lady, very feeble AND ffaceitt.
came in to have tooth pulled, and thinking it would
come out very easy, TGshnlaker concluded just by
i way of variety, to try the machine.
He did So and at the very first turn drew the old
adys skeleton completely and entirely from her body,
leaving her mass of quivering jelly in the chair.
Tushmaker took her home in pillow case she
lived several years after that and they called her the
, India Rubber Woman She had suffered terribly
with the rheumatism, but after this occurrence, never
had pain in her bones. The dentist kept them IN d
: glass case.
After this the machine sold to the contractor Of
: the Boston Custom House, and it was found that
child three years of age could by single turn OF the
screw, raise stone weighing twenty-five tons
: Smaller made on the same principle, and
sold to keepers of hotels and restaurants. They were
, advanta geously used for honing turkeys
There is no moral at all to this story, and it is pos.
sible that the circumstances may have become slightly
exaggerated. OF course, there can De no doubt the
. truth of the main incidents.