After being dumb since Ist July, when he was in a mine explosion "somewhere in. France," Rflran. H. Richardson, of the King's Royal Rifles, recovered his speech while having a tooth-ex-tracted- at a hospital at Loughborough, Leicestershire. Dr. Paul, one of the surgeons, instructed the dentist not to use an anaesthetic, in order to see if the shock would have good effect. Upon feeling the pain the dumb man shouted, "Oh, you'll pull my head off." Since then His power of speech hae completely returnei 4
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 8
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86Page 8 Advertisements Column 6 Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 8
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