JUMBO’S TOOTHACHE.
ELEPHANTINE DENTISTRY
Six inches of toothache is no joke. When an elephant in a circus at Prerau, Czecho-Slovakia, developed toothache, he was tied to a tree ; and stood patiently while a dentist drilled a huge cavity and filled it with silver amalgam. . Jumbo experienced some nasty twinges. But he and the dentist are firm friends now.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 69, 20 February 1931, Page 3
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58JUMBO’S TOOTHACHE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 69, 20 February 1931, Page 3
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