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A report has gone the rounds to the effect that a certain lady...

From the August 1891 issue of The Christian Science Journal

From the Scientific American


A report has gone the rounds to the effect that a certain lady residing in Bridgeport, Conn., called her physician in mortal agony because she had, as she supposed, swallowed her false teeth. She could feel them far down in her throat and was actually choking to death. Eminent doctors consulted and agreed to resort to tracheotomy, to which they were about to proceed when one of them happened to step on some object under the edge of the bed, which on examination proved to be the missing molars. As soon as they were exhibited to the patient her convulsions ceased, and she recovered her normal condition.—From the Scientific American

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