Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
:Science Is Baffled in Try.
ing to Explain the Dental
Miracle" That Has Keen
Interest .
BY WARD GREENE

known Atlanta dentists who con-
Quoted the test, that seven-months-
old Eva Catherine Lee either has a
eold tooth or a tooth crowned
with some other metal
Reluctanly-for men of science re-
fuse to believe in the unbelievable
they discard the theory that the
tooth is diseased. This explanation
doesn't stand up in the face of the
X-ray negative.
The X-ray shows Enthusiastically
that the substance on Eva Gather
ines tooth is harder than the tooth
structure itself. II the bright yell
low was diseased dentine, it would
appear black On the X-ray negative
Instead. it appears white, Just as
the gold on all X-ray negatives of
teeth appears.
Then. if Ut is not diseased tooth.
declare the dentists, the crown is
either gold Or metal. And, if it is
gold or metal, how did it get there?
The dentists refuse to say; they
fash.
Eva GATHERINGS father J. T. Lee,
q weaver at the Atlanta Wooden
Mills, has his explanation. 1t is
very simple.
God put it there" he said Satur-
day, while he held Eva Catherine in
| the dentists chair. How else could
It be there? You see, 1 watched it
come, I watched it grow out from
first saw it. there was just a CLINT
Of gold in the red gum. 1t didn't
come from the outside, it came from
within. Every day we watched it,
every day it grew out little bigger
from the gum, every day little
more golden. And now it's there,
where God put it,"
And that, to Mr.. Lee, is sufficient
Nor have the dentists any better ex-
PLANTATION. men of science though
they are.
Soon to Lose Gold Tooth
The X-ray developed something
else about Eva GATHERINGS gold
TOOTH" She is going to lose it. Be-
hind the tooth, the X-ray shows new
teeth sprouting. They are pushing
Cp. 1t will only be three or four
weeks, state the dentists, before the
4 sg0ld tooth will fall out
Will the, tooth that replaces it
\ be gold?
That's something to wait for!
In any event, when the tooth falls.
4 the solution of the question will be
found. AS it is now, Mr.. Leland
the dentists say they don't blame him
will rot allow the prodding and
the scraping of Eva GATHERINGS tooth
that might serve to establish the
quality of the metal.
But when the tooth falls out, an
essay will be possible.
Four Atlanta dentists and two At
4 lanta physicians examined Eva Cath
crimes tooth Saturday IN the office
Of DR.. j., G. Mizell. on the eighth
floor of the Gambler building, where
the Lees took their child.
They were DR.. Mizel1, DR.. c. c.
Howard, DR.. NJ. D. Huff and DR..
K. R. Armstrong, all well-known dem
NJ. G. Campbell, medical ispecialists.
All have offices in the building.
Then went in to look at Eva Cath
crime skeptical They came out grin
ming and saying. well, by George!
what do you think about it, doc
tor?" each was asked.
And each replied, We'll, by George,
don't know what to think.
That was before the A-ray was
taken.
Eva Catherine was quite the hap
81 piest person you ever saw In a DEN
lists chair. Poor kid, she little real
was being introduced to what to
most neople is one of the ordeals of
No. She laughed, actually laughed.
her laugh even mare merilly at
= what? The sound the buzZer made.
81 What's the Answer
Il When she began to get frettul' Or.
a Mizell turned it on. Strong men
shuddered.f Eva Katherine cro"eu'
She sat in her mothers lap, while
the X-ray machine was being prepar-
ed and various strange men came III
and peered down her throat.
Apparently, she is getting USED 10
this, for she was quite tractable.
Then they stuck a plate over her
mouth. held her firmly, started the
Juice and, presto, the thing was zone
1t didn't hurt. Eva catherine
didn't SILVER or make peep. pc rns
the arms of the chair, nor let out
howl. nor had any fanciful notions
that the X-ray was an ingenious Ge-
vice to tear out her nerve centers py
the roots. She simply gurgled once
land let it go at that 49,,
We waited expectantly for the
plate to be developed When 1t was
brought, dripping IF from the strong one light
everybody took look. .oo+h
Tfere was Eva Gatherings tootn,
a small, gray object, smaller than
pea. surrounded by queer.look.hln at
white, black and gray mountains etat
were gums, more teeth, bone, "hat
not. But the significant thins, the
White IN the end of Eva GATHERINGS
tooth. That, they said, couldn't be
a decayed spot, it would nave nave b bee i
black in such case. 1T must De-
gold shall we say, or what?
You tell us the answer doclie