The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-09-30
BABY CUTS GOLD TOOTH.
The Doctors Declare Atlanta Baby
Has Priceless MOlar.


bids fair to upset long-established
scientific theories and furnish means
for pathological discussions that may
develop factions in medical circles
throughout the country and establish
her standing as the worlds latest and
greatest wonder, says the Georgian
American.
Already three doctors have seen
and declared the glistening molar IN
the upper left jaw of the 7months-old
child of Mrs Nora Lee, at III Oc-
mulgee street, to be gold. Several
others have branded the claims OF
these three as impossible. But the
striking fact stands forth that only
one of the scoffers has examined the
tooth. and he is not a dentist.
Interest in Eva Ca.ner;n's tocth
heightened Saturday when Dr.. Marion
S. Tribble, D. NJ. D., professor Of den-
tai HISTOLOGY at the Atlanta South
ern Dental College, made an expert
examination of the molar and imme-
diately pronounced it to be gold. DR..
Tribble. who is one of the leading
women experts in dental science in
the south, made her test with the aid
of magnifers and scientifls appli-
ances.
Declares Tooth is Gold.
''The tooth is positively gold!'' she
exclaimed Immediately after she had
made her first preliminary examina-
ton.
A second test caused her to reiter-
ate her statement.
There is absolutely no doubt in
my mind but this tooth contains
gold,'' the said. ''The great question
now is to determine how it came to
contain gold. The child is too nerV-
Gus and fretful for me to use dental
explorers at this time, SO can not
determine if the gold is part of the
tooth's composition or merely partl-
cles of the metal stuck to the sur
face.
She then questioned the child's
mother as to whether or not she had
been allowed to bite while teething on
any gold article, such as ring or
bracelet. No such incident could be
recalled by Mrs. Lee.
"The tooth is not normal molar,
and appears to be without a normal
formation" continued Dr.. TribDle. Il
intend to see the child again in few
days, as soon as it has recovered from
the nervous shock of having It's
mouth opened so often for persons to
gaze on it's contents, to ascertain II
the tooth has normal surface OF
enamel or is a chaii:y structure CT
soft dentine found SC often in badly
developed teeth. Then | can say pos
itively whether or not the gold grew
there or stuck just after it, cut
through the gum by the child biting |
some gold object. -. .s,t
-~~ Suggestions Absurd.
ctStatements that the child may |
have developed this gold tooth by
some gold object when |
very young is absurd. Any foreign |
substance of metal swallowed IN tina.
way would pass out through the
bowels in a normal way, and intact.
The human body is not 4 machine tc
manufacture metals into useful or
artistic objects.
'sIt would also have been lmpos-
sfble for the tooth to have come as
result of the mother swallowing a
particle of pold during pregnancy
when she had dental work done. The
body of the mother would no more
be able to direct the metal into the
developing form of an infant than
the body of the infant itself.
DR.. N. O. Tribble, NJ. D., husband
of the dentist and himself professor
of bacteriology at the Atlanta South
ern Dental College, was also present
and. while he did not make a close
examination of Eva Catherine
mouth. he vouschafed the ipnlon
that no emotional strain had ever
been known by medical science to
have resulted in such a development
as a birthmark in child. he also
said any admission of metallic par
ticles into the mother during, or be-
fore pregc ncy or to the body OF the
infant, resulting in similar develop
ment, was likewise unknown.
The first declaration that the tooth
contains gold was made by DR.. J. y.
Brantley, who examined it with
magnifying glass and with his fin
gers and advanced the theory that