Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1879 — Death from a Decayed Tooth. [ARTICLE]

Death from a Decayed Tooth.

D. W. Clark, of Dixon, Cal., died recently of pyemia, or blood poison, resulting from an abscess in the jaw. It originated from caries, or ulceration of a decayed tooth, and had been coming on for five months. He was canvassing Yolo county for a patent flat-iron, and returned from there less than two weeks ago. The abscess was lanced, and discharged a large quantity of foul matter, but death resulted from the cause mentioned above. Had the tooth, which created the abscess, been extracted at the proper time, he need not have lost his fife.