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Show IIJKBI ; Bl POM TEETH A statement issued by several local dentists and physicians to the effect that o. H. Cooper, recently committed to tho state mental hospital, did not probably become insane as the result of having his teeth extracted has been made public, to avert possible unfavorable unfa-vorable comment. Cooper was examined exam-ined recently and found to be insane and committed to the state mental hospital. It was announced that his condition resulted from having teeth extracted. The statement says that Cooper had his teeth pulled sometime last summer, after, a physician and a dentist had consulted and found that the operation would be safe,. and that the man had fully recovered and had been working in the Southern Pacific " shops severa.1 months in n sane condition. condi-tion. He was just taken ill recently, it says, with the mental malady. Tho physicians who examined him as to his sanity stated, the doctors claim, that it was their opinion he did not go insane in-sane from this cause. |