IMAGINARY PAIN.
A strange esse has just occurred at Porthca-a-i __*>v.-i__: tho. effect of tiio imagination in causing oiscasc and cur« (.-ays the ''Daily Mail"). A professional man on a visit there took ont his four false teeth while shaving, hut forgetting the fact, and failing to find thfin later, suddenly concluded that lie inns: have swallowed tlieui aecielontaliy. At once he began to suffer pain.;, a doctor was _c:tt for, to wiit-.u he de--.cribt-d his agonies, emetics were administered but in vain, and the tenures made him twist l_-> body convui-iveiy. T'aeu a maid bi-ought the teeth, v.hioh had dropped bt«hind the drc_sing-table, aii-.i ii_,cantiy the pains ceased.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 9
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109IMAGINARY PAIN. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 9
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