This online version of the exhibit is comprised of four sections: Discussion material related to the display in the exhibit case. (This page.) A collection of 200 excerpted selections which accompanied the exhibit. The exhibit guide, as a PDF [364K], including most of the material given in the first two items of this list. Online only content: Sidebars A more complete collection of quotations given in full with full citations. [Forthcoming, late October 2002.] "The Toothless Genius" Dental Do's and Don'ts How to Enjoy the Tooth-Ache Prophylactic Items (Tuller)

How to Enjoy the Tooth-Ache

-- To enjoy this delectable pain to its fullest extent, you should have it in all its glory for a week. Let the pain permeate and insinuate into every portion of the diseased member, racing, jumping and springing around generally like rats in a corn-crib; let it ache till you can't tell whether the pain is in your mouth, on the top of your head, or in your cravat, but rather think it is all around there; let it ache until you feel like it would be a great relief to hold your head up by the ears, and shake out every molar, incisor, grinder and acher in it; let it ache until you are doubtful whether you stand in the position assigned you, or with your heels in the air; let it ache until you seriously believe every bone, nerve and muscle about your body is full of teeth, and that every tooth is aching on its own hook, and then, when you feel like you have enough pain in your individual mouth to fit out a hospital -- when you feel like kicking yourself down stairs -- when you are exceedingly anxious to break your neck -- then, we repeat, you will begin to realize the tooth-ache. -- Western Home Press.

DENTAL REGISTER OF THE WEST, APRIL 1864:18(4):182.