East Saginaw courier., 1865-10-04
One OF John Phonix's stories.
N From ,be california Pioneer. july. 1855.

F From the California Pioneer, July, 1855.
| DIR. Tushmaker was never regularly bred as a
physician, or surgeon, but he possessed naturally
strong mechanical genius and fine appetite !
and finding bis teeth of great service in gratify-
ing the latter prol cnsity, he concluded that he
real happiness therein by putting the teeth Of the
inhabtants in good order, than in any other way
so Tushuiaker became a dentist lie was the man
that hrst invented the method Of placing small
cogwheels in the back teeth for the more perfect
mastication of food and he claimed 10 be the or
iginai discoverer Of that method Of filing cavi
ties with a kind Of putty, which, becoming hard
directly, causes the tooth 10 ache previously
that II has TO be pulled. thereby giving the dem
fist two successive fees for the aame job. Tush-
maker was one day seated in his Office, in the city
Of Boston, Massachusetts, when stout old fellow
named Bylcs presented bimsclf TO have back
tooth drawn. The dentist seated bis patient in
the chair Of torture, and opening his mouth, dis
covered there AN enormous tooth, ON the right
hand side. about as large as he afterwards ex-
pressed it, AS small Polygiot Bible shall
hive trouble with this tooth, thought Tushnaker,
but he clapped on his heaviest forbcps, and pull
ed II didn't come. Then he tried the turn
screw, exertng his utmost strength, but the tooth
wouldn't stir. "Go away from here" said Tush
tmaker TO Byles, and return In a week, and III
draw that tooth for you or know the reason Why"
Byles got up, clapped handkerchief 10 his jaw,
and in three days he invented an instrument
which he was confident would pull anything. 1t
was a combination of the lever, pulley, wheel
and axle, inclined plane, wedge and screw. The
castings were made, and the machine put up in
Office, over an iron chair rendered perfectly sta
tionary by iron rods going down into the founda-
tions Of the granite building. In week Old
Byles returned; he was clapped into the iron
| chair the forceps connected with the machine at
tached firmly 20 to the tooth, and Tusbmaker sta
| tioning himself in The rear, took hold of a level
four feet In length. He turned II slightly. Old
| Byles gave groan, and lifted bis right leg
Another turn another groan, and up went the
| leg again. ''Wbat do you raise your leg for r.
asked the doctor l can't help it." said the pa
| tient. "Well, !" rejoined Tushmaker, that tooth
is bound 10 come now" lie turned the lever
clear around with sudden jerk. aud snapped
old Bylos head clean and clear from his shou-
ders, leaving a space of tour inches between the
severed parts They had post mortem exam
naton--the roots of the tooth were found extend
ing down the right side through the right leg,
turning up IN two prongs under the sole OF the
right foot " No wonder" said 1usmaker " he
raised bis right leg" The Jury thought so too,
but they found the roots much dccayed and five
surgeons swearing that modification would nave
ensued in n few months, Tushmaker was clear
ed on a verdict Of "justifable homicide" lie
was little shy Of that instrument for sometime
sfterward but one day an old lady, feeble and
haccid, came to have n tooth drawn, and thinking
II would come out very easy, Tushnaker conelu-
ded, just by way Of variety, TO try the machine
lie did So and ut the first turn drew the old ladys
skeleton completely and entirely from her body,
leaving her mass Of quverng jelly in the
chair Tushmaker took her home in a pillow
case. She lived seven years after that, aud 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 glass case
After this, the machine sold TO the contractor
of the Boston Custom House, and il was found
that a child Of three years Of age could, by
single turn Of the screw, raise stone weighing
| twenty three tons. Smaller ones were made
he same principle, and sold to the keepers Of ho
tells and restaurants. They were used for boning
turkeys There is no moral to this story what
ever, aud IL is possible that the circumstances
may have become slightly exaggerated. OF
course, there can be no doubt of the truth Of the
main incidents.