The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-06-20
A Fond Du Lac Tooth.

From tie FOND Du Lac cCommonwehlth.
A man named Holland, living out on
the Goss farm, was attacked with Sc
we're toothache the other evening, and |
he thought his head wonld split open. |
He would sit down for a moment, hold |
ing his face in one of his hands, and |
groan. Then he would jump mp and
pace the floor. and kick at something
that happened to lie in his course. and
then sit down and groan some more.-
| II was bad case. Everybody in the
house was made miserable. by the mans
sufferings and lamentations. He tried
holding alum and salt in his mouth,
and binding horse-raddish leaves on
the outside OF his jaw, but they did no
good. Finally somebody came across
| n COPY of DIR Chase's receipt book, and
therein was q balm for every i'll. In
| two minutes receipt was selected and
a courier dispatched with it to drug
stare 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 cloroform, Was administered.
Presently the toothache was relieved,
and the patient felt himself gradually
being overpowered by sleep. The sus-
picion all at once crossed his mind that
he had been poisoned, and that this
which he now felt coming on was but
the precursor Of that long last sleep
which knows no waking, except on the
other side Of Jordan, in the sweet
fields of Eden. He became greatly
alarmed, and appealed to those present
in a frenzy Of desperation to save HIM
l .w.nn1,n0 fatn 6nftAT
was Immediately sent for. and while
the messenger was gone the alarm was
communicated to the neighbors. One
OF the men seized pail and rushed
! out into the pasture, where he woke up
a COW, MIXED about quart, and hur-
ried 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 inti-
mated that il wasn't possible for him
!. to swallow another, when two more
= neighbors arrived neutrality-suspicious.
: bearing q can OF lard and the other
: tea saucer full OF coffee. The layd
with the lard said that they must helT
!, her get some Of il down him right away
There wasn't q moment to lose, anc
y the one with the coffee set about pre-
> pairing cup OF that beverage for the
. diving man, which, she said, must b'
strong enough to hold up an iroI
= wedge. The unfortunate man had 60
down about three-fourths OF teacup
: ful OF lard when the coffee was ready
= and he unbuttoned his waistcoat ant
/ swallowed il. There seemed 10 be JUS
y |, room enough left for il. Anothe
y neighbor came in and insisted that wha
I'd the patient needed was an emetic :
throw the poison out of the stomach
I He said the quicker they did some
u thing OF that kind the better il woul
be for him, and that il was dangerou
TO delay the matter moment longer
.n They had prepared quart bowl
" strong salt and water, and were urgin
10 Holland TO drink some Of il, when th
e.a doctor arrived. He examined the COZ
'n tents Of the bottle carefully, tasted !
y. and then said: "This is all right;
e1 very good remedy for toothache an
no neuralgia-give the patient rest for
~ time from his pain" "And aint
" poison?" gurgled the man, who was ,
a. full OF new milk. raw eggs, lard, coli,
W and salt water, that he could scarce
z articulate. "ain't il poison, doctor?'-
=, "well, no; not exactly; and yet,
re quart or two OF il might kill man
ne il might not-it would depend goo
NJ deal on his constitution. A man
no your constitution could easily get awi
on with churn full OF it,"