Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1879 — A Decayed Tooth Causes Death. [ARTICLE]

A Decayed Tooth Causes Death.

That it is not safe to neglect badlydecayed teeth has just been illustrated by the death of Mrs. W. J. Lyon, of Palo Alto county, lowa, who died from gangrene caused by the stump of a rotten tooth.