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Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a cure for some kinds of facial neuralgia by "repositioning" the sufferer's jaws. Dr. James Bray Costen, assistant professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University Medical School, discovered that when the back teeth are extracted or wear down the mandibular joints which hinge the lower jaw to the skull are pulled askew by the powerful muscles of the face, press abnormally upon facial nerves, cause facial neuralgia, headache, earache, burning tongue. Dr. Costen cures those pains by repositioning the jaws with caps over eroded molars, false...
...Bishop's fellow churchmen who attacked him last week were Drs. Forest Johnston Prettyman of Baltimore, I. P. Martin of Abingdon, Va., Costen Jordan Harrell and J. T. Mastin of Richmond. Particularly were they excited at newspaper reports of how the Bishop courted his traveling secretary, Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, whom he married (his second wife) in London last July and took to Brazil for a honeymoon. The Ministers demanded the Church equivalent of a grand jury investigation of Bishop Cannon. Perforce Bishop William Neuman Ainsworth of Birmingham, Ala., ruling Bishop of the Church, was obliged to hold a hearing...