The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-27
IN A "PAINLEss" DENTISTS SHOP.
From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
There was tremendous excitement
shortly before noon to-day in pain
less dental shop at the corner of Full
ton street and Nostrand avenue, for
one of the patients went crazy as soon
as his tooth was drawn and tried to
get at the operator who had robbed
him of his molar painlessly. accord
ing to the man, who did not feel the
operation, by the throat. The patient
was Benjamin Killing, a sturdy man of
30, or Whereabouts whose home, as it
was afterward learned, is at 1868 Pa
cif1c street.
Mr.. King seemed to be the mildest
hammered man in the world as he
stepped into the chair but then he was
in agony from a bad tooth. s. J..
Adams, the operating dentist had no
notion of trouble, as he went about his
tooth destroying labors. for the eyes
of Mr.. King were gentle and he was
plainly in great trouble. The wrench
that landed his tooth in the prongs of
the forceDs seemed to stir up in him
all the antagonism in a we'll nourished
system.
Adams was admiring his handiwork,
as dentists will. when they have the
tooth in the air. when Mr.. Killing let
out a yell that could be heard down in
the street and which chilled the blood
of an assortment of. may be. twenty
women and men who were waiting to
have their teeth attended to. The
office is nicely partitioned with little
offices, with much glass work in the
tlimsy walls. Nobody had any no
ton, of course, of what was going on
behind the screen whence the awful
yell came. but everybody was on the
qui vive for more trouble. for there
from the inside of the office" where
the deadly thing, whatever 1t was,
was happening.
MIR. Adams the doctor who was
handling the tooth so freely and with
such 'aplomb and SAVIOR faire," as the
policeman afterward put it, was hav-
ing the time of his life. The man in
the chair did not get at the dentist S
throat, but he made a break for il that
was full of enthusiasm. He landed on
the floor. instead. and once there, be-
gan Topping around and foaming at
the mouth. He groaned a good deal
and with close stimulation of the bark
ing of a dog that the dentist had a
shocking fancy the man had hydropho-
bia.
King began banging after a while,
at the next partition, where another
of the force of dentists was working
on n patient. The work was suspend
ed, for the time being, and the other
patient was alarmed, much more so
after the mailman on the inside had
slammed his way through the parti-
ton. He was on all tours in a minute
and kept running about the offices
about corlxed comedians of the vaude-
vile play monkey. Mr.. Adams and
the other people who had their wits
about them finally caught the excited
patient and sat on him until a police
man could be summoned. The officers
were in no hurry 20 get there. but
when they came they proved 10 Mr..
King that Il was not at all necessary
10 fight any longer.
Then came the ambulance from st.
Nary's Hospital, and with n Dr. Ha-
berle. who did not know what 10 make
Of the patient. He was taken 20 the
hospital. where II came out that King
was merely suffering from a case Of
hyeferia brought on, probably, by pain.
This afternoon Killing, in the hospital,
was IN the coma that follows such an
attack 81 hYFfefia. The doctors who
had charge 81 him say this trouble Will
b. an over. when he reRaina conscious.
ness. ana be VIII be- well enough then
90 80 home But the people az the
painless sbop viii not forget iu hurs
~ ne awful experience 81 the day,