The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-07-20
A Toochache Story.

a Toochache Story
A 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 a mo,
ment, 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
bis course, and then sit down and
groan more. 1t was q bad case.-
Every in the house was made
miserable by the mans suf1eriugs
and lamentations. He tried holding
alum and salt in his mouth, and bind
ing horse radish leaves on the out
side of his jaw, but they did no good.
Finally somebody came across q
copy of DR.. Chasc's Receipt Book,
and therein was balm fer every i'll.
In two minutes receipt was select
ed and a courier dispatched with il
10 a drug store in the city to have it
>'put up" lie returned in due time,
and dose of the compound, which
contained among olhor ingredients
liberal quantities of ether and chlo-
rolorm, was administered. Presently
the toothache was relieved and tbe
patient felt himself being gradually
overpowercd by sleep. The suspi~
clon all at once CT osscd his mind thai
he had been poisoned. lie became
greatly alarmed, and appealed to
those present, in frenzy os despera
tlon, 10 save him from his impending
fate. a doctor was Immediately sent
for, AID while the messenger was
gone The alarm was communicated to
the neighbors. One OF the men seized
a pail and rushed out into The pasture
where he woke up q COW, MIXED
about a quart and hurried back to
he house. This the dying man drank,
and had just finished when another
"cighbor came in and said that there
WAS nothing SO sure an antidotc 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 foy
him to swallow another, when two
more ncighbors arrived simultane~
ously--one bearing can Of lard and
the other o tea-saucer full of coffee.
The lady with the lard said that they
must help her to get somo of it down
him right away-there wasn't min.
ute 10 lose-and the ono with the
coffee set about preparing u cup Of
that beverage for the dying man,
which she said must be strong enough
10 hold up an iron wedge. The un-
fortunate man had got down tea
cup full OF the lard when the coilco
was ready, and he unbuttoned his
waistcoat and swallowed it. There
seemed to DO just room enough left
for it. Another neighbor cano in,
and insisted that what the patient
needed was all cmetic to throw the
poison out OF tao stomach. He said
that the quicker they did something
Of that kind tho better it would be
for him, and that it was dangerous to
delay the matter moment longer.
They prepared quart bowl Of strong
salt and water, and were urging nol.
land to take some of it when the
doctor arrived. lie examined the
contents of the bottle carefully, tasted
it and then said: "This is right; q
very good remedy for toothachc and
ncnralgia-gives the paticat a rest
for a time from his pain" "And
amt it poison2" gurgIod the man,
who was 50 full Of new milk, raw
ogge, lard, coffee and salt water that
he could scarcely articuIato, "ain't it
poison, doctol~ "Well, no; not cv
actly; and yot, quart or two OF t
might kill Il manor it might lot
III would depend good deal on
his condition. A man OF your health
and constitution could easily get
away with churh full of it,"