The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-21
MAKING DENTISTS.
A Shop Where Tooth Carpen-
ters are Turned Out.
COLLEGE OF DEsTAL SURGERY
the People Who 60 1here
for Treatment.

descended ike me VOL OH tAS Aolo
upon The Chicsgoan. He is arrayed
and panoplied with forceps. coffer-dam,
Grill, tread-wheel, ard ell the modern
appliances of formidable toothsome
attack at the Chicago College of Dental
Surgery. He is here from every State
in the Union, and he is numerouF.
There is CLINT of mischief in his eye,
halo of hustle invests him, and the
way he has talked to the boarding
house keeper in the past few days has
been a caution. One hundred and
forty of these young blades are now
loose in our midst, seeking whom they
may fit to devour.
The college occupies the entire upper
floor of the building at the corner OF
Madison Street and Wabash Avenue.
The main room, an L-shaped apart
ment, is devoted solely each day from
$50 o'clock a. m. to 4 p. m. to operative
dentistry. When the Masl reporter
called. twenty five chairs were 10 opera
ton, and q number of patients were
waiting their turn at the mill. Some
were having their teeth filled by in
cipient u. D. SIS. and others were hay
ing their molars Furnished, buried, ard
dug out. preparatory to plugging. The
whlz of the little wheels was heard
everywhere, accentuated by the "tick
tick" of the automatic hammer, as it
drove home the gold foil into the aching
cavities. 1t was delicate click to the
ear of the on-looker, but felt like
twenty-fve-pound trip-hammer blow
to the patient.
Everything was quiet and serene.
Remarks were made IN whispers. The
air was becoming oppressively still
when from a little room in the north
west corner broke forth yell sufficient
to throw the inhabitants of a cemetery
into a Whirl of excitement.
'OW-oW! Lave go aV me, We haste.
Shure an vi didn't cum ap here to be
torn limb frum limb. Let me out O.
the chair, We butcher, or Ol'll hev the
law O. ye. OW-ow!"
The atmosphere soon resumed its
normal, PLACID state, and presently
plessant-faoed old lady enveloped IN a
huge black and green checked shawl
came out all niles, wrapping a three
pronged molar in q piece of paper
She had been relieved without cost.
Extracting teeth is free, except when
ap3sthetics are administered, and
then only a nominal fee is charged.
Under any circumstances, however, ii
muscular junior yanks quarter sec
ton of jaw away, no fee whatever is
asked. This is generous, certainly, and
deserves appre and commenda-
ton.
A nervous-looking you~g woman
sitting on the extreme edge of bench
outside the railing was nodded to by
Demonstration Peck as being the next
candidate for the rack. She hesitat-
insly ambled toward chair. A red
headed young man from Indiana
grabbed her by the chin and back hair.
He gave The crank few jerks, rushing
the movable seat aloft until the lady
rugged at her skirts. fearing her heels
might go higher than her head.
"Open your mouth"
She did, and he concluded to stay on
the outside. He probed among the
worries with something the patient
thought was the prongs of a hay
fork.
Nothing wrong here"
"Oh, but it aches"
Better have it out. Go to the ''strac-
ton room A piercing scream
minute later tells the story of another
individual going down to the grave
piecemeal.
A red-faced old gentleman, with
bristly mustache and snort hair stand
ing straight on the end, edged forward
as the next victim. His entire face
seemed to run into single cheek. 1t
stood out in bold relief like a boodief's
pocket book.
"I fear" said the young man who
affected spectacles, but had no use for
them On earth, that you have necrosis
of the alveolar process"
"W-h-a-t!" and the nervous old party
leaped out of the chair.
Yes" the student continued, as he
stroked downy lip and looked wise. |
1t is either that or an aneurism of the
clavlcal cord. l am almost satisfied. |
however, that it is the former"
Can anything be done for it?"
yes. Well bore you"
A urill was inserted, and driven well |
sunk in search of pus cavity. The |
sWelled up old party escaped alive.
The surgical. medical, and lecture
rooms are at the east end of the floor. |
A little 6x9 apartment is located be-
tween the dlssecting and extracting
rooms. In this there is a couch for the |
of those overcome I'M
der the forceps Or in the operating de-
partment. It's prox nifty to the cadaver
tables may be suggestive to some timid
ones, but Prof. Black assured the re-
porter that alarm was unnecessary.
Entering the room where anatomy is
demonstrated, the reporter was turned
over to a pleasant-looking gentleman
With murderous-looking, long bladed
knife. He was sharpening it and other
instruments. The dim gas
let over an inclined table, and the GEN
,ral appearance of things were not
conducive to any great degree of com
ort, nor would the gentleman's man
ler or conversation be very soothing to
/ nervous person.
'Yeu see" said he, "the season hasn't
opened up yet. II has oeen too warm.
There's neither pleasure nor comfort in
cutting up stiff in the summer. The
Les bother fellow VIII he's at work.
ind then some old ones smell trIfle.
trong. Now, in the winter time, there
s all the difference in the world. Ttis