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Show he -lost his patient most abruptly. Shi fell while climbing- a flight of marble steps and her glasses were shattered. She Insisted that they must be replaced without delay, and went to consult ait oculist, who fitted her with glasses, and, asdf by magic, the violent, pains tn the head- disappeared, her , nervousness dropped from her and she. became as calm and even-tempered as her anxious , traveling- companion. ? Remarkable - recoveries occur- and wonderful cures are sometimes effected in ways unsuspected by medical science and Its students, says the New York HefaldA A littbur" man standlhg high In steel and Iron Industries has recently undertone a' marvelous cure fof Cancer. For some years what physicians phy-sicians and surgeons pronounced a can-cerous can-cerous . growth . had been slowly but surely eating, away part of his right cheek close td the nose. ' He bad consulted con-sulted eminent surgeons In this country coun-try and Europe, he had visited Innumerable Innu-merable baths famous for the cure of blood diseases, and at last had been given up to die slowly but surely of the dread disease. During a recent visit to New York he consulted a young but promising dentist regarding .a tooth which had been bothering him. The troublesome molar' was located In the lower, jaw; and the pain was soon stopped, but the young dentist begged permission to' examine-his new patient's mouth thoroughly, and was especially Interested In the man's calm resignation resigna-tion to death from cancer. At the con elusion of the operation he offered Ss his diagnosis that the disease Wat no cancer, but trouble with a molar In the Upper Jaw. At first the Pittsburger was inclined to be skeptical, but the dentist Urged that the loss of one molar was small compared with the risk of other operations through which he had passed, and finally the sufferer consented consent-ed end was placed under the influence of ether. The operation was tar from simple, lasting more than an hour, but the result Justified the dentist's predictions, predic-tions, With the tooth came away a tiny Wade of steel which had been driven up ' into the Jaw by a careless dentist years .before. It had festered and the pus had forced a passage out through the cheek; giving the appearance appear-ance of a cancerous growth. After weeks of treatment the cavity healed up perfectly, andthe Pittsburger has decided that a cancerous death is no longer stating him in the face. ' A New Yorker who had recently lost hir father from cancer of the throat seemed suddenly afflicted with the same disease. HIS throat bothered him incessantly, his speech became almost unintelligible and he grew haggard and thin from anxiety and pain. Most of all he missed his cigars, for his physician physi-cian at once cut off all smoking. One day he met an old college friend who had developed Into a successful dentist. In the course of their first conversation the patient mentioned that he had been having sore trouble with the plate attached at-tached to an upper set of false teeth. - A larg and complicated bridge was" finally Innerted and the plate discarded. discard-ed. V To the patient's amazements the throat trouble disappeared along with the plate. " X Philadelphia business woman of more than local repute broke down with nervous prostration. Her most unfortunate unfor-tunate form of affliction was intense pains in the head, which prevented her sleeping night or day.. Her physician recommended an ocean voyage, but she landed in London in worse condition than when she left America, She finally confided ts a friend traveling with her that she believed she was going insane. During the trip across the continent to Berlin, where a famous nerve specialist special-ist was to be Consulted, the Phlladel-phlan Phlladel-phlan became melancholy and showed every tyn-rtom of mental aberration. The sieciallst studied- the caee thoroughly, tho-roughly, but before rendering a decision |
