Year: 1876

The Fond du Lac Commonwealth saws (:
"A man named Holland, living on the Goss
farm, was attacked with a severe toothache
the other evening, and he thought his head
would split open. He would sit down for
a moment, holding his face in one of his
hands, and groan. Then he would Jump
up and pace the floor, and kick at some
thing that happened to lie in his course,
and then sit down and groan some more.
1t was bad case. Everybody in the house
was made miserable by the mans s sufferings
and lamentations. He tried holding alum
and salt in his mouth, and binding horse
radish leaves on the outside of his Jaw, but
they did no good. Finally somebody came
across a copy Of DIR. Chase's Recipe Book,
and therein was balm for every ILL., In two
minutes recipe was selected, and a courier
dispatched with it to drug storein the city
to have it it put up" He rereturned in
due time, and dose of the compound, which
contained among other ingredients liberal
quantities Of ether and chloroform, was ad-
ministered. Presently the toothache was
relieved, and the patient felt himself gradual
ly being overpowered by sleep The sus-
plcon all at once crossed his mind that he
had been poisoned. He became greatly
alarmed and appealed to those present, in a
frenzy of desperation, to save him from his
impending fate. A doctor was Immediately
sent for, and while the messenger was gone
the alarm was communicated to the neigh
bors. One Of the men seized pail, and
rushed out into the pasture, where he woke
up COW, MIXED about quart, and hur-
ried back to the house. This the dying
man drank, and had just finished when
another came in and said that there was
nothing so sure an antidote for all kinds of
! poison as raw eggs. Seven or eight raw
eggs were given the suffering man, and he
had just iutimated that it wasn't possible
! for him to swallow another, when two more
neighbors arrived simultaneously bear
ing a can of lard and the other tea-saucer
full Of coffee. The lady with the lard said
that they must help her to get some of it
down right away-there wasn't a moment
to lose-and the one with the coffee set
about preparing q cup of that beverage for
the dying man, which, she said, must be
strong enough to hold up an iron wedge.
The unfortunate man got down about three
fourths of tea-cupful of lard when the
coffee was ready, and he unbuttoned his
waistcoat and swallowed it. There seemed
to be just room enough left for it. Another
neighbor came in, and insisted that what
the patient needed was an emetic to throw
the poison out Of the stomache He said
the quicker they did something of that kind
the better it would be for him, and that it
would be dangerous to delay the matter a
moment longer. They had prepared quart
bowl of strong salt and water, and were
urging Holland to take some of it, when
the doctor arrived He examined the con-
tents of the bottle carefully, tasked it, and
then said This is all right very good
remedy for toothache and neuralgia gives
the patient rest for time from his pain.


And amt it poison ?'' gurgled the man,
who was so full of new milk, raw eggs, lard
coffee, and salt water, that he could scar
cely artieuate, 'ain't it poison, doctor ?
well, no not exactly and yet, quart or
two Of it might kill 4 manor it might
mott would depend a good deal on his
condition. A man of your health and con,
dition could easily get away with a churn
full of it.