Judge — January 18, 1930 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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emma a The Origin of the Dentist Drilling by Gurney Williams Filling by George Lichtenstein s you read this in some dentist's office in the year 1935, 4% ‘Vou may perhaps be interested to know the origin of the profession which has gained such a foothold on the mouth of our complex civili I was look- ing over some dental files the other day, with a view of winding up my twelve years of work on the sub- ject, but the files were pretty well worn out nd my work remains unwound, The facts that follow were found lying on the pavement —conerete facts, they are—and brightened up for me one night b ghost writer when I wasn't feeling well. (I am sometimes re ferred to as a ghost writer be- cause I weigh only 130 pounds, How the “teasing” ring is used. but that’s only de- The original dentist, it appe the name of Donald K. Bridge. At an early showed an inventive turn of mind, one of his first devices being a ring with which he teased babies who were cutting teeth. Donald lisped a little and referred to his invention as a “teathing ring,” but you see what I'm trying > to put across to you. Brought up to be a li one day shocked his parents by announcing that he intended to follow what we now term the dentistr A graduate of on, Dr. Bridge ob- served that a lot of dental difficulties came from Eton, and he decided to spend the rest of his life trying to correct them. There was a crying need for a specialist in this, and Donald filled it nicely. He hit upon the idea of denting in his patient's teeth with a small ham- mer, and he soon became known as a “denter.” He did not relish the c k-driver, Donald “Oh, I gas not! JUDGE “Doctor, you'll be the teeth of me.” 15 Doctor Bridge gets an idea for his office equipment. nomen, howeve ing the court three crowns. (Three crowns in American money represents plenty, too, brother.) Id was of course the inventor of the bridge, or we know it today, and people for miles around | became aware of the famous Bridge work that was being und had it changed to “dentist” by performed in London. | For many years Dr. Bridge perfected his technique and became a respected member of London's citizenry. Then he married an ex- tra ant girl, and in order to increase his income Dr. Bridge was forced to work night and day extracting a filling teeth, and every- ae body in London soon knew that his wife had driven him | to extraction, It wasn't long, though, before the years began to tell on Dr. Bridge, and then some wag wrote a song about him — ‘‘London Bridge is Fall- ing Down’'—and the poor doctor re- tired in Embarrass- ment, which is lo- cated in southern Yes, dentists have a hard drill and find it pretty difficult to chisel out a living. comicbooks.com