Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1913 — Pulled Wrong Tooth. [ARTICLE]

Pulled Wrong Tooth.

Philadelphia, Pa.—Accusing Dr. Wesley R. Roe of malpractice In pulling the wrong tooth and then replacing it while she was under the influence of an anesthetic, Miss Mary W. Humes filed suit against the doctor, asking $5,000 damages. She says she suffered bo much from tbe experience in Roe’s offloe that she was under the care of a neurologist Roe does not deny that he pulled the wrong tooth, but he declares It Is the girl’s fault that he did so snfi that her nervous trouMe antedatss tbe tooth-pulling episode by months.