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...eyed, hothearted little man of 45, Portinari was hard at work last week on a mural celebrating the life of Tiradentes ("the Tooth-Puller"), a Brazilian dentist who used to carry a copy of the Constitution of the U.S. in his pocket and read it to all who would listen. Tiradentes was hanged and quartered by Portuguese colonial authorities in 1792, and parts of his body were exhibited in the various provinces of Brazil as a bloody lesson...
...sentence to track down some low characters who are smuggling rifles and firewater to the Indians. When three of these gimlet-eyed fellows trap her in a bath house (where she keeps her guns slung to her garters), she plugs them and larrups away with a hunt-and-peck dentist, Dr. Painless Peter Potter (Hope). She marries Painless for the sake of appearances, then gets rather fond of him. Whenever he gets in a jam, Calamity stands patiently behind him and plugs his enemies. In time, this leads to a scene that Hope plays with all the zest...
...created its own legends. A puzzle still unsolved by the Ministry of Health: the case of the dentist who pulled two of his own teeth, and sent in a claim for payment to himself. Last week* a butcher in Dudley, Worcestershire, asked for three pairs of eyeglasses: one for reading, one for looking at far-off things, one for chopping meat. He got them. In Cambridge, an elderly woman, bald since the age of six, asked for a wig. Ruled S. W. Davis, the pensions officer: "She will be provided with two wigs, as one occasionally has to be cleaned...
...Some dentists can't see the patient for his teeth. Occasionally, says Dr. (D.D.S.) Harold G. Ray of Northwestern University, the dentist ought to forget about molars and bicuspids and take a good look at the surrounding territory. In his preoccupation with cavities, the dentist may be overlooking other points of interest (such as signs of early syphilis) that the patient ought to know about...
...encourage this inquiring spirit, Dr. Ray joined with 56 "intellectually curious dentists" last week at Baileys Harbor, Wis., for a seminar on dental medicine above the grind-and-fill level. The main idea, says Dr. Ray, is that dentists examine a lot of people who think that (except for tooth troubles) they are perfectly well. But the mouth is lined with delicate mucous membrane which often shows signs of deeper-lying ailments. If the dentist is alert and informed, he can spot hints of syphilis, leukemia, Addison's disease, many other ills. He is thus in a position...