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Post 18 Medical Incidents
Similar instruments used in those days for tooth extractions Unless there was a doctor doing his time of national military service with the army, it was not usual to have any trained medical help in the town. Just a few months after going to San Joaquin I developed an abscess on a large molar, and Jim had to rise to the occasion and extract the tooth. This was the second time he had come to my help. In Totora the local chemist/dentist had snapped off a molar at gum level
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Apr 153 min read
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