Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 24, 2023

That’s shocking!

Gun fighter Doc Holliday was also a dentist.

What about the drill?

A dentist? Did he execute that all by himself?

they do seem to revel in pain

You might want to consider a change if your current dentist has a sign in their office that says “Drill, Baby, Drill”.

Hey, are Wise and Aldrich anti-dentites? I bet they support dentists having their own schools.

Initially, it was a dentist’s chair designed to get patients to open wider, then, after a few mishaps, ….

And the guillotine was invented by a surgeon – not, however, by Dr. Guillotine; his name was slapped on it because of his campaign for a more humane form of execution (being a sensible man, he was actually opposed to capital punishment altogether).

In the days before Novocain? Dentist: Would you like a local antasetic – comes from the local power company

And apparently used by Edison to demonstrate the danger of AC electricity as proposed by Nikolai Tesla. Edison wanted to use DC for household electric service.

Alfred Porter Southwick (1826–1898) was a steam-boat engineer, dentist and inventor from Buffalo, New York. He is credited with inventing the electric chair as a method of legal execution.