f rrnf n a tt -r irtTTj-axintn rn-nT wrm i n t'rmFS 10 rniLADELrniA, Saturday, December is, isgo. xxxxj xjjxxj x v sun xx vx x xjxjxjxj:x r DENTkSTRV,) DENTISTRY. DENTISTRY. DENTISTRY. DENTISTR 31! MILES LONG. LONCJ. LONG. LONG. LONG LONG. LONG. LONG. 2 M1LE8 IN MILES IN 23X MILES IN MILES IN 5Bf MILES IN 2X MILES IN MILES IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. 9 MILES IN 9 MILES IN 9 MILES IN 9 MILES EN 9 MILES IN 9 MILES IN 9 MILES IN PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA. A. Cwi'ecit Result. Ht bk the attention of tbc publie to tbc fol lowing brief statement of fact: It is well known that in June, 1803, Dr. Colton introduced ibe nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas," for the rainless extraction of teeth, and established the Oolton Dental Association. On the 4th of Ffib raary following (1804) we commenced to ask ar patients to sign a scroll, certifying that the gas was pleasant to inhale, and that we bad drawn their teeth without pain. (Our scroll was opened in Philadelphia, October 12, 1865.) That ire might know the exact number who should eign this paper, we numbered every name on the margin. Wben we bad reached one thou sand (lOOO), and without an accident, we thought it a great triumph. WE HAVE THIS DAY, DE CEMBER 4, 18C9, REACHED THE NUMBER Of FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND (55,000) PA TIENTS! AND WE HAVE SEVER YET HID ONE accident with the gas ! Can any stronger proof be presented that the gas is a safe anxs tbtic, and that we know how to use it ? Here are FIFTY-FIVE FULL REGIMENTS of pa tients, and if they were marching in siugle file, allowing three feet for each, the line would be MORE THAN 31 MILES LONG! , We make she gas every day, and, for the past two years, Lave used from two to three hundred gallous per day. A large part of our business comes from the leading dentists of the city (we do nothing but extract teeth), who know that by long and on tan t practice we have acquired great skill in the business. Skill perfected by practice Overcomes almost all difficulties. To most per sons the gas produces very pleasaut sensations, while to a few it Is a pleasure to have teeth ex tracted by it. We prefeii to give the gas to Wealthy people, but have given it to hundreds suffering from all sorts of disease, and with no ill effects. We can ordinarily draw from ten to if teen and sometimes twenty teeth or stumps with one dose of gas. The safeti of th e i-a-tibnt is the first consideration, the next is to extract the teeth carefully, and not injure the ume or alveolar process. We strive to do the work in the very best manner. Price, $2 for first tooth, and $1 for each subsequent tooth drawn at the same sitting. Office hours from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. To avoid a crowd, come in the forenoon, or call and secure an appoint ment. Colton Dental Association, M. 737 WALNUT STREET, THILAUA. NOT ONE ACCIDENT HOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT "NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT NOT ONE ACCIDENT ft thH COM DENTAL ASSOCIATION. Ho. 737 WALMUT Street, .l:KLOW EIGHTH. 3; MILKS 3J MILKS 31X M1LE8 3ti MILES 31!$ MILES 3J) MILES From tbc FbilJMielpliia Vrcmm ! Dee. 1648. WITHOUT PAIN. This oity contains nearly a million of peo ple, all of whom at one time or other must have teeth drawn. With most this is far more than directly painful it causes weeks and months of apprehension, of delay, of suffering from toothache. The fear of the pain to be caused by the extraction of one tooth often leads to the loss of a dozen or more. The patient is afraid to go, and therefore watts, using in the meantime palliatives. Uis breath becomes foul, he is a constant nuisance to all who converse with him, and the wearing pain of the tooth causes nervousness and fret fulness. Yet all this might be avoided, for dental operations are performed every day cot merely without pain, but in such a manner that the agent employed to soothe the nerves is a cause of real pleasure. This is done by means of nitrous oxide or laughing gas, which, when inhaled, causes a total insensi bility to pain, and does not in any way injure the health. We ean guarantee its efficiency, having known many persons who have been thus treated while under its effects; among others, one of the attaches of this office, who fully guarantees by experience the excellence of the method. It is, moreover, no vco thing. It is now over a qiarter of a century since Dr. G. Q. Colton first experimented with nitrous oxide as an antithetic agent; and his books show that since he commenced practice, in 1KG3, he has drawn teeth for more than one hundred thousand patients, without a single accident or a complaint of injury from the gas. Their scroll at Phila- J dclphia contains the names of 15,000 patients who testify that, having had teeth extracted i by the Colton process, they found the effect of the gas pleasant and the operation satis- factory. Important Notice. Formerly, when the use of our preparation was an experiment, we published the names of a few well-known persons who had expe rienced its advantages as an anaesthetic agent at our office, to convice the public of the entire harmlessness of the gas when pure and properly administered. Many of these names were published at the suggestion of the patients themselves. They were so delighted to have found a way of escape from the old style torture of tooth drawing, that they felt it their duty to the public to let the facts be known. But as there is no longer any necessity for such a course we shall publish no names in the future. Our scroll of Fifteen Thousand names can be seen at the office, and we con sider that sufficient evidence. Moreover, our patients themselves are con tinually doing us the favor to "tell every man his neighbor," and the fact that we are doing a larger business at present than ever before at this season of the year, is the best proof not only that we endeavor to do our work in the best possible manner, but that the public appreciate our endeavors. N. B. We do no other dental if&rk, neither is any such work done in our office or build ing, notwithstanding the fact that another party claims to be "the only one in the city where the other Branches of Dentistry are entirely excluded." The nameB of patients from every State and Territory in the Union are represented upon our scroll. BOIL IT DOWN. Whatever you have to say, my friend, Whether witty, or grave, or gay, Condense as much as ever you can, And say in the readiest way, And whether you write of rural affairs, Or particular things in town, Just takes a word of friendly advice Moil it down. For If you go spluttering over a page, When a couple of lines would do, Your butter is spread so much, you see. That the bread looks plainly through. So when you have a story to tell, And would like a little renown, To make quite sure of your wish, my frienJ. Boil It down. When writing au article for the pres. Whether prote or verse, just try To utter your thoughts In the fewest words, And let them be crisp and dry: And when it Is finished, and you supports It Is done exactly brown, Just look It over again, and then Boil U down. For editors do not like to print An article lazily long, And a general reader does not cait For a couple of yards of song. So gather your wits In the smallest space, If you'd win the author's crown, And every time yon write, my friend, Boll it down. A LETTER FROM Dr. CoMcn to bis Patients, AND ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCKIIN. A CORRECTION OF FALSE REPRESEN TATIONS. In November, I8C8, a former employe ef ear Association opened an Office near by us, and bung out a sign with the words "COLTON DENTAL ROOMS" In large letters upon it. Judge Allison granted an injunction restraining him from using such a sign, upon the ground that it was "inUiukd to deceit Vie pulUc." Subsequently a circular was distributed throughout the city intended to convey the impression: 1. That Dr. G. Q. Colton did not introduce the Nitrons Oxide Gas as an anesthetic agent in Dentistry. 2. That he did not establish a branch office in Philadelphia. 3. That he has not had any connection with the Association doing business under that name at 737 Walnut street. 4. That "another party," and not Dr. Col ton, has had charge of this office, and 5. That he, and not Dr. Colton, was the principal person represented at that establish ment. All the above representations are false. Dr. G. Q. Colton has now and always has had an interest in this Association. Dr. J. J. Colton (a nephew), a College Graduate, for 8 years a Teacher of Chemistry, and a Graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, was placed in charge of this office when first established in October, 18Gf, and Btill has the entire charge. As regards the introduction of the Nitrous Oxide Gas in Dentistry, if Dr. Colton is not that person, who is the individual? It bad eertainly not been vsed for 20 years, and then, only enough to prove its impractica bility, when Dr. Colton, by his persistent ef forts, and against the most violent opposi tion, proved its entire safety, and made it a success. This tame man now advertises him self as our "Late Operator." lie has also, for months past, claimed to be the only one in Philadelphia who makes a specialty of the use of the Gas for extracting Teeth, intend ing thereby to prejudice the Dental profes sion against us. We have nothing to say derogatory to his character, any further than to correct these false representations conveyed to the public by his advertisements. We know that whatever reputation be has acquired in Philadelphia was obtained at our office and through our instrumentality, and the ordinary courtesy of society ought, at least, to have prevented him from using such deefptivns as were intended to injure us. OUR WHOLE ATTENTION Is at present, as it has been for the past 4 years, devoted exclusively to the use of NI TROUS OXIDE GAS, for the PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH, and we perform such operations not only without pain, but with greater care and success than ever be fore. Respectfully, JOHN J. COLTON. N. B. No other Dental work done at our office, or in our building. now hot to do it, REASON WHY. A lady called at our office yesterday, who told us she had taken the gas four different times, and had succeeded in getting but two teeth extracted. She had nine more she wished out, and after being assured that, with our experience in the use of the gas, we should probably be able to remove them all at one sitting, she sat down, inhaled the gas, and woke up as well as ever, with her nine teeth lying on the table. Another lady called to-day; said she had taken the gas and it made her very sick. We administered it twice, and removed quite a number ef teeth, and she soon left the office, saying she felt as well as when she came in. A young man said he had tried the gas; but he felt the pain as sensibly as if he had taken nothing. We removed his tooth without his knowledge or the slightest pain. These examples are but counterparts of the experiences which we have every day. The gas is an excellent anaesthetic, and perfectly harmless in skilful hands; but when used by the ignorant and inexperienced, it is, as many people say, "a humbug." The same remark might be made of many medicines, or even of the food we eat; if taken in improper quantities, or at improper times, they often prove injurious. THE HISTORY. Nitrous Oxide cr laughing Gas AS AN ANiESTKETIC. Sir Humphrey Davy, the great philosopher, made the following remarkable anticipation: "Nitrous Oxide may some day be used as a pain-destroying agent for surgical opera tions." Dr. Wells, of Hartford, in 18-14, besides having a tooth extracted himself, extracted others for different individuals, but failed to secure uniform results, and became discour aged with it. Dr. Colton, who was identified with Dr. Wells in his first experiments with the gas, in 1803 determined to demonstrate the value of this agent as an anaesthetic. Finding it to answer every expectation, he established the Colton Dental Association in New York in July, 18C3. In October, 1365, he established a Branch Office in Philadelphia, No. 737 Walnut street, below Eighth, since which time he has ad ministered the gas for the extraction of teeth to fifteen thousand persons in this office alone, and in his various offices to more than one hundred thousand persons, without a failure or accident. Fat on Tooth Tailing. A son of the Emerald Isle called at the Colton Dental Association recently, when the following dialogue ensued: Put. Are ye's the gintleraen I hearn tell on that pull's a poor man's tooth without paying Dr. Certainly; entirely without pain. Fat. And won't I feel it, naither? Dr. No, you won't feel it. Pat. Won't I be dead when I wake up, naither? Dr. It won't harm you at all. Pat. And ye's has no payin' at all? Dr. Not any pain at all. Pat. Och ! by the powers, ye's are the most ginerous and wondrous peoples I has iver known since St. Patrick left the earth! and he raver pretended to do the likes of this, naither. Dr. Do you want a tooth extracted? Pat. No, yer honor, I want it pulled. I've been cryin' bloody murther the whole night long, and Biddy has been burnin' me jaw with a hot flat iron, till me landlord come in for the rint, and tould me ye s would pull it out without payin'. Pat was soon seated in the chair, when his tooth was pulled, as he called it. When he awoke be declared he had been to Old Ireland, and saw Jerry O'Leary, who treated him to whisky and buttermilk to his heart's content, besides going to three wakes and funerals, and he was just going to fight Jerry O'Gonagle, to make the occasion re spectable, when the doctor woke him up. "Och! bedad," said he, "two gallons of whisky, to 6ay nothing of the buttermilk and funeral! Me tooth gone too, and all without payin'. Ah! doctor, its more than me gine rous nature can stand. Here's a couple of greenbacks for ye's, and I'll be givin' ye's some more when me pig is killed; and may the Blessed Virgin Kpare ye's life as long as ye's lives." J DENTAL A 3 SOCIATION ORIGINATOH8 OF TEE USE OF Nitrous Oxide Gas for Extracting Teeth WITHOUT PAIN. 737 WALNUT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH, PHILADELPHIA. 19 COOFER INSTITUTE. NEW YORK. 18 TEMEEHTON SQUARE, BOSTON. 1G1 ELM STREET, CORNER OF FOURTH, CINCINNATI, O. 81 WEST FAYETTE ST., BALTIMORE. 87 OLIVE STREET, ST. LOUIS. 118 S. DEARBORN ST.; CHICAGO. XJrico for 12xtractinc; $2 for the First Tooth, AND 1 FOR EACH SUBSEQUENT TOOTH, AT THE SAME SITTING. OUR EXTRACTORS. Our extracters are all practical Dentists. The propriety of the removal of a tooth is always decided by them, and their relation to the Association is such that they have no motive in extracting a single tooth that could be saved by filling. By devoting their whole attention to extracting, they acquire a dex terity and skill in removing the most difficult roots and teeth that are really surprising. Dr. F. Hasbrouck, the operator at this office, is a pioneer in the use of gas, being one of our first operators in New York city. His long experience in this business has rendered him one of the best operators in the country. Dr. Colton manufactures and administers the gas to his patients. The Editors of the Bulletin, Teucorani, Mercury, Franklin Repository, Baltimore American, and many others, have tested th operation of the gas personally, and given ns some very handsome testimonials. For short surgical operations, as well as for the extrac tion of teeth, the testimony is conclusive that there is nothing that will compare with the Nitrous Oxide as a safe and sure annrathetia. Sickness and nausea, so common with chloroform and ether, are entirely avoided, the patient awaking in a minute or two as from a natural bleep.
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