TOOTH DRAWING BY MACHINERY

Dunstan Times, Issue 638, 10 July 1874, Page 3

TOOTH DRAWING BY MACHINERY

—0 A country ’paper contains an account of a machine fur plugging teeth which reminds us of the invention patented by Dr Slugg. It was a tooth puller. Slugg had :si enormous business, and concluded to economise his strength by pulling teeth by machinery. Ho constructed a series of cranks and lovers, iixed to a moveable stand, and operating a pair of forceps by means of a leathern belt which was connected with an engine. The Doctor experimented with it several times on nails firmly inserted in a board, and it worked splendidly. The first patient lie tried it on was a judge who called in to have an aching molar removed. When the forceps had been clamped upon the judge's tooth, Dr Slugg geared the machine and opened the valve AVe believe it was never known with any degree of exactness at what rate of power the steam engine was working. But, in the twinkling of aiiJcyo, the judge was twisted out of the chair, and the moveable stand began to execute the most surprising manoeuvres around the room. It would jerk him high into the air, and souse him down in an apalliug manner. Then it would jerk him up against the chandelier three or four times, and across the room ; it dr-ve the judge's head through the oil portrait of Slugg’s father over the mantelpiece. After bumping him against all the ancestors, it (lung the judge around among the crockery on the wash-stand, and danced him up and down in an excited manner ; finally the machine dashed violently against Dr Slugg, who seized the judge s legs with the forceps, and out came the tooth. When they carried the judge home, he seemed inordinately glad his tooth was out.