Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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n...4.l-hL..AL..4ll'4-. ,L l ,- The Doctor and the Teeth - AY, Doc, have ye seen the fine kit o' tools the new dentist brought to town with him?l' inquired the village patriarch, as the old man turned down his coat collar and disclosed his wrinkled, pippin-like countenance. No, I haven't, and I don't want to,', he snapped, and an angry light gleamed in his watery blue eyes. Kit of tools !'l he added, contemptuonsly. Don't talk to me about kits of tools. Haven't I held for the last lifty years that only one tool was needed to pull teeth with? Haven't I actually pulled teeth with one tool for fifty years, and did you ever hear of me hooking that instrument onto a jaw that something didnlt break loose? I guess not! he concluded with decision, as his questioner, apparently cowed, shook his head in the negative. That's right, Docf' returned the patriarch meekly. Something always breaks loose, sure enough, whenever you hitch onto a man's jaw with that ol' turnkey o' Q IW ai m - Kfjtj D. yournf' I have always maintained continued the old doc- tor, in a more sprightly manner, as his brow cleared, that the old-fashioned turnkey can't be beat. All you have to do is to be sure of your holt and then give the I I I I I 1 I I I IO proper yank. I'll allow it takes experience to keep from breaking the side of the jaw, but practice makes perfect. It's wonderful, though, how afraid some people are of that old instrument of mine. Seems like a man never forgets it after he has had it used on him once. I remember a few little incidents about pulling teeth that amuses me every time I think of them, con- tinued the old doctor, visibly brightening as he struggled with his memory. When Bill Brown was a young fellow he was doing some Work for me one day when a stranger drove up and said he had the toothache. I had just hitched up to drive out in the country, and was in a hurry, so I just called Bill in and said: Excuse me, but I'm in a hurry, This is my assistant, Dr. Brown. just sit down on the halfkbushel measure there and he'll 'tend to you. Doctor, this gentleman has a toothache, just get the turnkey and yank the tooth out. Bill looked kind of helpless, but he started for the house, and just as I got up to the corner, more than two hundred yards away, I heard a most unearthly screech. I knew that Bill was wrastling with that tooth, so I just whipped up and drove along. Bill got the tooth all right, but he took half the stranger's jaw out with it, I found out when I

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In the Good Qld Winter Time. There's a time in each year. that costs us full dear, 'Tis the good old winter timeg When college commences, and living expenses Use up our last hard-earned dime g When with rank dissipation, of forced celebration, We strive toward the object sublime 5 Of practical knowledge, at Dental College, In the good old winter time. CHORUS In the good old winter time, in the good old Winter time, Climbing up the college steps thro' the spit and slime, And if you chance to slip, why that's a very good sign You've been down to Chris', in the good old winter time. On Saturday night, it is our special delight, In the good old winter time 5 With company cheerful, facetious and beerful, To wander about o'er the Rhine 3 In pleasing elation, of mild stimulation, When every Gazabo feels fine g With no one to Work us, while life is a circus, In the good old Winter time. CHORUS In the good old winter time, in the good old winter time, The only kind of medicines are Whisky, beer and wine 3 But if you stop to sass the cop, why that's a very good sign You'll spend the night in the cooler in the good old Winter time. ' D. D. GRIFFITH 104

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got back. Bill said he would never pull another tooth again as long as he lived, and I guess he never has since. U One day last summer I was playing Croquet and didn't feel like being disturbed until I had finished my game, when a fellow came along and said he wanted a tooth out. Thatls strange, I said, I just had to pull a tooth a few minutes ago. It ain't often I pull more than one in a day. It was a tough job I had, I went on. I took the man out to the barn and dragged him across the barn floor three or four times before I got it out. 4' ' Is that possible?' says the fellow. 'IVell, this doesn't ache so bad now, so I guess we'l1 let it alone for today. Very well,', I replied, so away he went and I finished my game in peace. He never showed up again, either. But the funniest thing of all happened a couple of l i mlb' years ago. I went into Johnnie Hurd's store one day, and a stranger was saying just as I got in : 'Yes I was in your town, Mr. Hurd, about fifteen years ago. I ain't likely to forget the visit, either. I had a dreadful toothache, and some one sent me down to an old doctor who tackled my jaw with a hog hook. He nearly killed me before he got the tooth out.' Why, how do you do, my friend, I said, stepping around in front of him and smiling as I offered him my hand. How do you do? I didn't recognize you at first. Iilll the doctor. Now I'1l explain about that hog hook. You see, I keep different kinds of instruments for different species of animals, and so, naturally, when a hog comes along I just use a hog hook. That's all. And with that I turned around and walked out of the store, leaving the fellow standing there gaping and speechless. ' ' WWW 0 O f -.4419 3 X may' ' ,1.-5 :-fl , -:bfi-'Vi '- gi J. .Tr --,-. I 'I 1,,gj , ,fini . tl,-tt. e ' Amy' px ' ' M I f '-f . K X ?? uh' 3.5. 11,0 L-V my ...ff ,.1,' .ff .'s','lg,fp 1 q .VW Ilyqilili' SQ' A t Rh: ' . i'I:'- il I ' W! if I A ' V sf i . if IO6