Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1889 — He Wants a New Jaw. [ARTICLE]

He Wants a New Jaw.

New York Sun. Captain John N. Sloan, of Pontatoe, Miss., had his left jaw torn away by a shell at the battle of Chickamauga, a quarter of a century ago. He entered Bellevue Hospital next week Surgeon Bryant well attempt to furnish the sixty-year-old veteran with a new jaw. The Captain now takes all his food from a tin cup always fastened to the lapel of his coat. He is six feet tall, in good health and wears a mask over the lost jaw. The surgeon will cut away the ends of the fracture and let nature restore a new jaw. Some years ago a similar operation was performed bv the late Dr. Jas. R. Wood. . ,A coroner’s jury in Cheshire, England, returned a verdict of insanity in the case of a schoolmaster who had hanged himself. The poor man had married a widow with sixteen children, and ? as the coroner justly observed, they wanted no better proof that he had lost his senses.