Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-10
A Touch Story.

~ courlh SUnuy nttc.
A Tough Story.
The following is told by that renowned wag,
John Phnnix, of the California Pioncer.-
The reader will sec that it records the vcr-
dict of coroncr's inquest" and in other
particulars bears strong resemblance to
some of the tough stories which have been
circulated in this State aud geucrally believed /:
Dr. Tushmaker was never regularly bred Il
physician or surgeon but possessed natural.
ply strong mechanical genius and fine ap.
petite, and finding his teeth of great service
in gratifying the latter propensity, he con-
cluded, that he could do more good in the
world and create more real happiness therein
by putting the teeth Of the inhabitants in
good order than any other way; 50 he became
dentist
He was the man who first invented the
method of placing small cog wheels in the
back teeth for the more perfect mastcation
OF food, and he claimed to be the original dis
covcrtr of that method Of filling cavitics with
kind of putty, which by becoming hard d-
rectly!, causes the tooth to ache so gricvously
that it has to be pulled, thereby giving the
dentist two successive fees for the Same lob.
Tuslmakcr was one day seated in his Office
stout old fellow named ByIes, presented him
self to have a back tooth drawn
The dentist seated his patient in the chair
OF torture, and opening hismouth, discovered
an enormous touth on the right hand side.
about as long, as he afterwards expressed it.
" as small Polygot Bible" "I Shall have
trouble with this tooth" Thought ,Tushmakor.
but he clapped on his heaviest furccps and
NIL lpI La ii
turnscrcw, exerting his utmost strength, but
the tooth wouldn't como
"Go away from here" said Tushmakcr to
l}ylcs, "and return in a week, and [ will
draw that tooth for you, or you will know the
reason why"
Bylcs got up, clapped a handkerchief to his
jaw, and went forth
The dentist went to work, and in tlmcc
days invented an instrument which he was
confident would pull anything 1t was cont
blnaton OF the lever, pulley, wheel and axle,
inclined plane, wedge and screw The cast
ing was made'and the machine put up in the
Office, over an iron chair, rendered perfectly
stationary by iron rods going downsi into the
foundation of the granite building.
In week old Bycs rcturned ,ho was
clampcd in the iron chair, the forceps con
"'N'N" W'' .'.c "i'cllhc atldclleu hrnIy 10
me tooth' ana luShmaEcr, statloned himself
in the rear took hold Of lever four feet
long.
lie turned 1T slightly-old Byles gave
groan aud lifted up his right leg. Another
turn another groan, the higher went old
l'yl'S ,eg agam.
hat DO you raise your right leg tor!''
ASKED inc doctor.
can hciP u, SAD the patient
wen, Said IuShmaker, tooth is bound
10 come now,
ne 'urhco the lever clear around, with a
SuUue'' JerE' ana snapped ola l5yics' head
otern c'c"' 'ro'i' ms shoulders leaving space
oi ~, r"ut 'nchcS between the several parts.
my ,',u P|S' ""'oc" cNahihation--the
.po's ., ''e 'oo'n were io"ha EXTENDED down
."o ,'S''V ,os' anu ',''hro up IN TWO PronSS di-
10y "rNcI '"c So'' "' .he r'Snt ioot
ID 40 %; W1puGI' Saiu I"S'il'"Acf' " tiat lie
f''SSu ;T, ms 'es;
a. nv iu'S .,'o"gu' So' 'oo' put 'hey 1ouhd
''o ';'o'S nu'n uVcIyeu, ana hSe surgeons
S"'I':uS .."V noi'''Ha''Un 81 wou'a nave en-,
-. :" ~" i'o;'''s was cleared
Oh "a verdict o! ]"S'nanIe homicide"
terward, but one day, an old lady, feeble and
tlaccid, came in to have tooth drawn, aud,
thinking it would come out very easy, Tush-
maker concluded Just by way of variety, to
try the machine.
He did so, and at the first turn, drew the
old lady's skeleton, leaving her a mass of
quverlrg Jelly in her chair!
Tushmaker took her home in pillow case.