Year: 1876

The Fond du Lac (Wis.) Common
aDealb says: A man named Holland,
living out on the Goss farm, was attack
ed with q severe toothaehe the other
evening, and thought his head wauld
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.
It 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 horseradish leaves on the out
side of his jaw, but they did no good.
Finally somebody came across recipe
book, and therein was balm for every
Ill. In two minutes recipe was select
ed and courier dispatched with it to q
drug store in the city to have it "put
up" He returned in due time, and a
dose of the compound, which contained
among other ingredients liberal quanti-
ties Of ether and chloroform, was ad-
ministered. Presently the toothache
was relieved and the patient felt him
self gradually being overpowered by
sleep. The suspicion all at once crossed
his mind that he had been poisoned.
He became greatly alarmed, and appeal
ed to those present, in frenzy of des-
peration, to save him from his impend-
ing fate. A doctor was Immediately
sent for, and while the messenger was
gone the alarm was communicated to
the neighbors. One of the men seized
a pail and rushed out into the pasture,
where he woke up COW, MIXED about
a quart, and hurried back to the house.
This the dying man drank, and had Just
finished when another neighbor came in
and said there was nothing so sure an
antidote for all kinds of poisons as raw
eggs. Seven or eight raw eggs we're
given the suffering man, and he had
lust intimated that it wasn't possible
for him to swallow another, when two
more neighbors arrived simultaneously
one bearing can of lard and the
other tea-saucerful of coffee. The
lady with the lard said that they must
help her to get some of it down him
right away-there wasn't q moment to
lose-and the one with the coffee set
about preparing cup of that beverage
for the dying man, which, she said,
must be strong enough to hold up an
iron wedge. The unfortunate man had
got down about three-quarter's of a 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 insist
ed that what the patient needed was an
emetic to throw the poison out of the
stomach. He said that the quicker
they did something of that kind the bet
terit would be for him, and that it was
dangerous to delay the matter 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. BE examined the
contents of the bottle carefully, tasted
it, and then said: "This is all right;
very good remedy for toothat he and
neuralgia-gives the patient rest for a
time from his pain" "And amt it
poison9" gurgled the man, who was so
full of new milk, raw eggs, lard, coffee,
and salt water, that he could scarcely ar.
ticulate, "a mt it poison, doctor ?"
swell, no; not exactly; and yet, a
quart or two of it might kill manor
it might MOTT would depend good
deal on his condition. A man of your
health and constitution could easily get
away with churnftl Of it,