CW Medicine Exhibition

[gary]

A lot to be said about seeing the village shamen.

BTW, at the George Rogers Clark Monument in Vicennes, IN, I met a re-enactor who played a surgeon (with French spelling) and he had all the tools including the dental tools.

I asked about one peculiar tool that had a folding hook. He explained that it was used to "snap" off the tooth. Knowing that the lower parts of the tooth would still be there, I asked about them and he showed me what looked like a gimlet (screw on the end of a T handle allen wrench) and said it was screwed into them and then yanked out.

As interesting as French-Indian, American Revolution and the Civil War eras are, I'm grateful for novacaine, pain-less dentistry and modern medicine.

BTW, the military medical college in Washington, D.C. is suppose to have the bullet that killed Lincoln on display. Have to visit it next February.

Gary,

OUCH!!

Still shuddering
tommy