Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-06-29
A Fond duLac Tooth.

The Fond du Lac Commonwealth says:
GA man named Holland, living out on
the Goss farm, was attacked with a 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 happened to lie in
his course, and then sit down and groan
some more. 1t was a bad case. Every
body in the house was made miserable by
the mans sufferings and lamentations.
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 a
copy of 'Dr. .Chase's Recipe Book and
therein was balm for every ill. In two
minutes recipe was selected and cour-
ier dispatched with it to drug store in
the city to have it put up He returned
in due time, and q dose of the compound,
which contained among other ingredients
liberal quantities of ether and chlorOform
was administered.
Presently the toothache was relieved,
and the patient felt himself gradually be-
| ing oYerpowered bY sleep, The suspicion
all at once crossed his mind that he had
been poisoned. He became greatly alarm
| ed and appealed to those present, in
frenzy of desperation, to save him from
his impending fate. A doctor was sent
| for, and while the messenger was gone
| the alarm was communicated to the neigh
/ bOrs. One of the men seized a pail and
rushed out into the pasture, where he
woke up cow, milked about a quart, and
| hurried back to the house. This the dy-
ing man drank, and had just finished
when another neighbor came in and said
that there was nothing 50 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 arrived
simultaneOusly-One bearing a can of lard
and the other a tea-saucer full Of coffee.
"The lady with the lard said that they
must help her to get it down him right
} away-there wasn't moment to lose
and the one with the coffee set about pre-
pairing cup of that beverage for the dy-
ing man, which she said, must be strong
enough to hold up an iron wedge. The
} unfortunate man had got down about
three-fourths of a tea-cupful of lard when
the coffee was ready, and he unbuttoned
his waistcoat and swallowed it. There
= seemed to be just room enough left for it
= Another neighbOr came in, and insisted
: that what the patient wanted was an EN-
7 etic to throw the poison out of the stom
ach. He said the quicker they did some
= thing of that kind the better it would b'
It for him, and that it was dangerous TO de-
lay the matter a moment longer. They
had prepared quart bowl of strong sal
and water, and were urging Holland t,
: take some of it, when the doctor arrived
o s'He examined the contents of the bot
g tie, carefully tested it, then said: 'Thi
= is all right very good remedy for tooth
+ ache and neuralgia-gives the patient
e rest for time from his pain.' And aim
Il it poison?' gurgled the man, who was S
s. full of new milk, raw eggs, lard, eoffe
n and salt wat er, that he could scarcely al
D. ticulate, 'Sin't it poison, dOctorP' Wei
no; not exactly; and yet, a quart or tw
might kill manor it might not
lie would depend good deal on his cond
DO tion. A man of your health and const
I'd tuition could easily get away with chur
re full of it.'''
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