The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-30
BLEED TO DEATH FROM HIS TOOTH.
A Young Blacksmith whose Blood
Lacked Coagulative Substance.

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From. the Net0 York Sun
Thomas DUNCAN, a stalwart young
blacksmith, 20 years old, came to New York
from Long Branch on Friday last, and had
the right lower second molar extracted at
dentists in Fourteenth street, near Sixth
avenue. The usual hemorrhage Of blood
did not lessen after he went to his fathers
home at 1888 East Slxty-fourth street. DR..
Joseph O'Dwyer of $50 Lexington avenue
was called, but the flow Of blood did not
cease, and DUNCAN was taken to the Pres
bYterlan hospital on Wednesday where he
charge of the case at the hospital, said:
''Dunigans was a very sad case. He
seems to have been a strong man. There
was nothing in the condition of the jaw to
show that the dentist who extracted the
tooth did not know his business. The tooth
had been neatly extracted, but where or by
whom none Of the family knows. DR..
O'Dwyer's treatment of the case, too, was
all that could be demanded. DR.. ODwyer
had plugged the cavity with cork wound
with cotton. The side of Dungan'S face
and the neck were much swollen, probably
from the Infection from the wound in the
jaw when he was admitted to the hospital.
"When DUNCAN was brought here he
was nearly insensible from septlCOBia
blood poisoning, aud the hemorrhage was
continuous. We suspected at once that
Dunigan's trouble arose from hemorrhagic
dlathess, arising f ON a lack of coagulative
substance in the blood. In healthy per-
son, when a wound is made, the blood CO.
agulates in the severed blood vessels, and
this stops the flow of blood DUNCAN was
one of those odd cases where the blood
would not coagul to-
I'VE first tried to stop the flow of blood
~ Of 1.
styptic solution was crowded into the tooth
cavity. DUNCAN had already lost perhaps
ten ounces of blood every day for six days.
He was dellriOus, and his hands had to be
tied to keep him from taking out the plug
of cotton, and his Jaws were tightly bound
together. Still his life blood ebbed away.
ION Wednesday evening ether was ad-
mlnistered, and platinum rod heated to a
dull red heat was inserted to the bottom of
the tooth socket Three times the operation
was repeated IN order that the surface of
the wouud might he SCARED and the flow of
blood stopped. Under ordinary circum-
STAGES arteries near the seat of operation
are tied, but it was not advisable to do that
i'll Dunigans case because, to get at the
artery supplying blood to the jaw, cutting
would have been necessary, and that would
have resulted in more shedding of blood
and Dunigan's blood was not III a condition
to enable him to endure the loss After the
cautery the wound was packed with persul-
phate Of iron.
After all had been done the blood CON
tinued to ooze from the wound. He was
unconscious from s o'clock p. III. on Wednes-
day to O'Clock a. m. to-day. Then the
blood stopped. DUNCAN was dead.
y, 1t is impossible to know when persons
blood is in the condition Dunigan's was H."
added DR.. Sharpe. IF we could know it
the best remedy probably would be eating
beefsteak"
Dunigan's body was removed yesterday
to lis East Sixty fourth street.