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toothache is rendered more distressing, if more acute, by there being no commiseration  the wretchedness it oecasionsoccasions [sic]. The belief in, and a keen recollection of bodily and mental , have produced the following little narrative :—

Some years ago, a tremendous tooth, with three prongs, eonfinedconfined [sic] me to my room, and  me to a state little short of distraetiondistraction [sic]. With my head tied up in a bandana, both hands on my afflicted jaw, I sat my body to and fro, as if endeavouring to  a fractious infant; at other times I stamped  like a lunatic, or plunged about like a frog. Being at lcngthlength [sic] reduced to a state exhaustion, I was anxious to retreat from all  with the world; yet knock after  at the door continued, as if only to increase  already excessive nervous irritability. Many the persons I had no desircdesire [sic] to see, but some  those interwoven with my professional, and I was compelled to be at home. I had o account for my disconsolate appearanecappearance [sic]—to my tormenting pangs, till I was weary upon the subject. To all of my fervid, I received the eoldcold [sic] remark, and the advice, that it was only the toochach,  that I had better have it extracted. At this, the salivary glands were pouring their fluids my mouth, the gastric juices were wasting