Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
The TOPICAL TALKER.
Some Anecdotes From Life About the
Dentists PaFl0F and Aching Teeth.


Some Anecdotes From Life About the
Dentists Parlor and Aching Teeth.
IT is rather queer thing, but you've noticed
it, no doubt, that when you are suffering from
come affiiction, physical or otherwise. numbers
of your friends and acquaintance will come
forward with analogous cases from their own
experience.
For instance couple Of weeks Of: toothache
in one form and another have brought down
upon me simply overwhelming mass OF in
formation about aching teeth, dentistry and
circumstantial matters relative thereto. The
full history of score of decayed teeth in the
mouths now or at one time Of so many worthy
men and women has been pounded into my
ears If it were profitable. to writer or reader,
could compile an interesting treatise upon
human teeth, their cussedness and their cure,
merely from the data accumulated in the last
month Such a treatise might be enlivened
with several veracious anecdotes pertinent to
the theme. Just as you sometimes t1nd
thoughtful dentist sets upon his waiting room
table comic caricatures of his profession.
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'.YoU must not talk of toothache to me,
sir" said a sturdy, rubescent newspaper man
the other day to me. My experience in that
direction had tragic incident not long ago.
As was going home one morning from my
work stopped to gossip with friend on the
street. and caught cold By the time reached
home one side of my jaw was aching like the
mischief. 1 went to bed; couldn't sleep; got
ND again and told my wife must have that
tooth out at once. So went out at in the
morning to find dentist 1 tried three or four
offices before could rouse a dentist from his
slumbers At last 1 walked one, and by the
light of an oil lamp-with me in plain parior
chair-I showed him the double tooth 1 be-
lieved was giving me the pain. He said 1t was
a good tooth, newly filled; but insisted II
should come out, and out 1t came. Ihen L
went home again. No sooner was there than
the toothache began again. worse tnan ever
The wrong tooth must have been pulled,
thought L l was desperate; the agony made
me SO. So 1 went back to the dentist and got
him to pull the next tooth to the gap leIt Dy
the extraction of the previous one. He did it,
and tainted. A drink of whisky brought me
to. 1t was o'clock when 1 reached my bed,
poorer by two teeth in two hours"
So
THE first time took gas" said an artist of
this CITY, 'Imade it rather a costly experiment
for the dentist. You know l am naturally
quiet and averse to smashing furniture. but
when had taken about two gulps OF the gas
got into my head that was being murdered.
was about Is, and baseball playing had given
me good share of muscle. Besides, when l
swung around my right arm l caught the
dentist unawares under the chin. He reeled
and fell over a chair, which seized and threw
at the chandelier. The chair carromed of into
a mirror, and fed out of the room and to the
street. Two squares away was captured, and
at the same moment regained my wandering
senses, though had no idea what had done.
NY father paid for the damage done, but the
dentist has since told me that his experience
with me deprived him of his nerve in the use of
gas. He is always expecting the patient to as
sault him, and, naturally, he cannot operate
with the assurance desirable"
Ax#
''WoMKN are generally braver than men in
my chair" said dentist who has practiced
long while here, they stand pain better and
are less distrustful of the dentists ability to
deal with refractory teeth. 1t was not very
long ago that lady came to me to have
double tooth, a molar set very deep in the gum,
extracted. l tried my best to get that tooth
out but it would not bulge. The lady stood
the torture bravely, though she was small,
delicat e-featured woman whose courage had
mistrusted was afraid of fracturing the jaw,
and told her so.
"'Well, then, DOCTOR she said to me, let me
have that forceps till see what 1 can do.'
II gave her the instrument, and the plucky
little woman grasped the tooth that had defied
me- and with one tremendous tug had 1t out.
She was proud of the achievement, and I told
her she had cause to be, for she was the only
patient had ever had who had come to my Of
fee to pull her own TOOTH"