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<center>''From the "New York News"''</center> | <center>''From the "New York News"''</center> | ||
... | {{Style S-Small capitals| On}} Tuesday last Dr. Fisher, at the New York Hospital, was called upon to render his professional services in what has proven to be a most remarkable case. At noon on the day named, a lady called at the hospital and avowed that she had swallowed a full set of teeth. She requested the physician to examine her for traces of them, and said she was Mrs. Cora S. Nourse, aged 47, an artist, who contributed sketches and articles to ''The Floral Cabinet. ''She resided at No. 36, West Ninth-street, with her two daughters, and on Tuesday last visited some relatives at Irving-ton, on the Hudson. | ||
When making up her toilet on Tuesday morning, she missed her teeth, and being unable to find them about her room, she came to the conclusion that during her sleep she had swallowed them, as she remembered distinctly their presence in her mouth when retiring. A tickling sensation in her throat seemed to corroborate this belief. Dressing in haste she hurried off to a resident physician, who examined her for traces of the lost molars, but he failed to find them. He advised her to search for them again, assuring her that if she felt no distress in her stomach, it was not possible that they were located as she supposed. | |||
She inquired as to the result in case her fears proved true, and was informed that if she had swallowed them'' ''the result would certainly prove fatal. Alarmed at this, the unfortunate lady hastened to her apartment,'' ''but being unable to find her teeth, immediately boarded a train for this city, and sought for relief at the New York Hospital. She was in a considerable state of trepidation, and appeared to suffer great mental anxiety. After a thorough examination Dr. Fisher declared that she could not possibly have swallowed the teeth, and suggested to her the possibility of having laid them somewhere out of the way. She then became convinced that such must have been the case, and started for her home in Ninth-street. She had scarcely left the hospital when she suddenly dropped in the street. Some gentlemen sprang to her assistance, and carried her back to the hospital insensible. Dr. Fisher was proceeding to examine her, when she turned on her side and expired. A female attendant was called to undress the poor lady, in order that an investigation as to the cause of her death might be made. As the attendant was removing the dead lady’s clothing, the missing teeth were discovered lodged in her undergarments. A postmortem examination revealed the curious fact that her death had resulted from no other cause than a complete exhaustion of her mental faculties, brought about by the force of imagination. | |||
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{{Style S-Small capitals| The}} last number of ''Psychic Studies ''(Leipzig), the most intellectual Spiritualist publication on the Continent, contains some extraordinarily high eulogiums of ''The Spiritualist, ''for the “disinterested manner” in which for ten years it has advocated Spiritualism. | |||
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