A Japanese Dentist
The Japanese dentist does not frighten his patient with an array of $teel instruments. All his operations in tooth drawing are performed by the thumb and forefinger of one hand. ; ; The skill necessary to do this is only acquired after long practice, but once ■it is obtained the operator is able to eitract half a dozen teeth in about 30 seconds without one removing his fingers from the patient's mouth. The dentist's education commences with the pulling out of pegs which have been pressed into soft wood ; it ends with the drawing of hard pegs which have been driven into an oak plant with a mallet. A write in the Union Merchantile says that no human jaw can. resist the delicate but poweirfui manipulation of the Japanese dentist.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 9, 3 July 1886, Page 3
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131A Japanese Dentist Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 9, 3 July 1886, Page 3
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