Show Swallowed His Teeth Employed on a branch of the N Y N E R R is a man of 35 or 38 years of mortal experience who can today testify that none of those years have brought to him such unprecedented surprises both painful and pleasurable as the last Inconsequence In-consequence of the absence of five prominent prom-inent teeth he had made for him a rubber plate with five artificial teeth attached and which worked quite to his satisfaction satisfac-tion On retiring late one night in November No-vember he forgot to remove them from from his mouth as was his habit and upon awaking in the morning he felt that dawning consciousness that comes upon one so gradually as one rouses from slumber slum-ber that the rubber plate containing five teeth was not in its shouldbe receptacle the tumbler of water neither was it clinging firmly to his upper jaw At the same anxious moment he experienced something of a discomfort in the region of his throat and calling his wife asked her to examine the locality which she did and to her surprise beheld the retreating form of that selfsame plate which had vainly tried to fit itself to the cavity of the throat but in so doing had lodged too low for her grasp He proceeded at once to his physician and underwent a series of attempts to extract ex-tract it which were unsuccessful He was then taken to the hospital where all efforts to extract the teeth proved also of no avail Meantime the plate worked slowly down toward the stomach The patient was confined to his house about ten days and soon recovered his I usual strength and spirits and went hisI way without experiencing further trouble from the accident Various were the opinions of the medical world in regard to what would be the final upshot of the matter One doctor said You cannot live with that in your stomach blood poisoning must follow Another said the rubber will digest the teeth thus set free you will rid yourself of and all may be well But to say the least the patients state of mind was a little eased by any diagnosis pronounced upon the case by men who thought they knew all about it However after three months the teeth emerged in as perfect condition as on the day they left the dentists hands Host on Herald |