San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-28
DISL0CATED JAWS.
A COMMON AND EASILY ACQUIRED
MISHAP.
Laughing, Yawnlng or Eating An
Apple May Do It-Interesting
Chat With Doctors on
the Subject.

one physician asked OF cOlleague
abiding to patient who at that
moment emerged from the consult
ing room in Kalteyer's drug store
otis a case of jaws. Yes sir, that
man can't laugh or yawn heartily,
without dislocating his jaws. And
it produces an eXcruciating pain in
his face every time it accidentally
happens"
"Isn't it peculiar how easily a
mans jaw is dislocated?" observed
a third doctor. "Some people can't
eat an apple by biting into it with
out causing this accident, and some
women dislocate their jaws by talk
ing too much, and the most ridicu.
lous case / ever saw happened to
an old German living on Garden
street. He and George Schmitt
and DR.. Braunnagel were standing
in the front door of the drug store
one day while DR.. Braunnagel was
telling good story. The DIR.
laughed most heartily while he
told 1T; George Schmitt had tears
in his eyes caused from laughter
and the old German was laughing
most uproariously. All of a sud.
den he backed up against the wall
with a groan. His face was pale
as death and his lower jaw was
nearly an inch farther back than
his upper one-he had dislocated
his Jaw. The old man was fright
ened, for he thought he had broken
his neck, while George Schmitt
thought that the fellow had sud-
denly turned maniac. DR.. Braun
nagel, however, saw in a minute
what was up. So Braunnagel
and Schmitt assisted the
frightened and suffering old
man into the consulting room
where they set the jaw in itslprop-
er position again. The old fellow
did not want to hear the story fin
ished, but jumped into his wagon
on recovering from the shock and
rapidly drove home. If Braunna-
gel had not refused to accept fee
for the service OF putting the jaw
back in place, the fellow would
have thought to this day that doc
tors tell funny stories in order to
get fees for setting broken jaws"
81 had a case OF dislocated jaw,
once" said another physician,
"that 1 never shall forget. l had
finished my first year at school
and was coming home from. New
York on a Mallory steamer, when
l was aroused out of my berth one
night by a sailor, and asked to
come on deck where a man had
dislocated jaw. / was only what
you call 'one yearer,' but L
thought / could handle the case.
There was fellow passenger on
board, a homeopath, who had
finished two years at school, and
/ had him come to assist
me. When l got to the
man,--he was a fireman and had
his jaw dislocated by laughing. L
inserted my thumbs in his mouth
and gave the down, backward and
upward pressure, as i had been
taught, but it didn't set. Instead
of that / found my two thumbs
pressed between his teeth, until
they were chewed almost to the
bone. / yelled at the fellow and
commanded him to let 60, but he
didn't, and | danced around like
wild, until the homeopath came to
my rescue. We worked at that
dislocated jaw for several minutes
before we finally got it in place,
and you can bet / have never put
my unprotected fingers in a fell
lows mouth since. l suppose that
| would have done the job at the
first attempt myself If the man
had not had the jaw dislocated for
two days before he came for help,
which made it all the harder work
to set it,"
The conversation then drifted to
the feat of Billy Kersands, the
negro minstrel, who claims that
he can dislocate his jaw at will,
and does so two or three times
during each nights performance.
"That's all right about Billy
Kersands dislocating his jaw at
will, two or three times a night"
observed one of the medicos. ale
ought to get pretty good salary
for the performance. Billy Ker-
sands does not dislocate his jaw,
he merely controls the Taxation of
the ligaments that hold them in
place. When you see case of dis
located jaw, the lower jaw is be-
hind the upper jaw, but Kersands
merely drops his lips, relaxes