The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-15
A TOOthache Story.

A man named Holland, living out on
the Goss farm, was attacked with severe
toothache the other evening, and he
thought his head would. split open. He
would sit down for moment, holding
his face in one of his hands, and groan.
Then he would jump up and pace the
floor, and kick at something that happen.
ed to lie in his course, and then sit down
and groan some more. 1t was bad case.
Everybody in the house was made miser-
able by the mans sufferings and lamen-
tations. He tried holding alum and salt
in his mouth, and binding horse-radish
leaves on the outside of his jaw, but they
did no good. Finally somebody came
across copy of Dr. Chase's Receipt Book,
and therein was balm for every i'll. In
two minutes q recipe was selected and q
courier dispatched with it to drug
store in the city to have it "put up." He
returned in due time, and dose of the
compound, which contained among other
ingredients liberal quantities of ether and
cbloroform, was administered. Present.
ly the toothache was relieved and the pa
tient felt himself gradually being over
powered by sleep. The suspicion all at
once crossed his mind that he had been
poisoned. He became greatly alarmed,
and appealed to those present, in frenzy
of desperation, to save him from his im-
pending fate. A doctor was Immediately
sent for, and while the messenger was
gone the alarm was communicated to the
neiphbors. One of the men seized pail
and rushed out into the pasture, where
he woke up cow, MIXED about quart
and hurried back to the house. This the
dying man drank, and had just finished
when another neighbor came in and said
that there was nothing so sure an anti
dote for all kinds of poison as raw eggs.
Seven or eight raw eggs were given the
suffering man, and he had just intimated
that it wasn't possible for him to swallow
another, when two more neighbors ar
rived simultaneously-one bearing a can
of lard and the other tea,saucer full of
coffee. The lady with the lard said that
they must help her to get some of it down
him right away-there wasn't minute
to lose-and the one with the coffee set
about preparing cup of that beverage
for the dying man, which, she said, must
be strong enough to hold up an iron
wedge. The unfortunate man he'd got
down tea-cupful of lard when the cof-
fee was ready, and he unbuttoned his
waistcoat and swallowed it. There SEEM
ed to be just room enough left for it
Another neighbor came in, and insisted
that what the patient needed was an
emetic to throw the poison out of the
stomach. He said the quicker they did
something of that kind the better it
would be for him and that itwas danger
GUS to delay the matter moment longer.
They had prepared quart bowl of strong
salt and water, and were urging Holland
to take some of it when the doctor ar
rived. He examined the contents of the
bottle carefully, tasted it, and then said:
"This is all right; very good remedy
for toothache end neuralgia-gives the
patient rest for time from his pain"
"And amt it poison 2" gurgled the man,
who was so full of new milk, raw eggs,
lard, coffee, and salt water, that he could
scarcely articulate, "ain't it poison, doc
tori" :"Well, no; not exactly; and yet
a quart or two of it might kill manor
it might MOTT would depend good
deal on his condition. A man of your
health and constitution could easily get
away with churn full of it."-End du
Lac Commonwealth.