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CELEBRATED MR. MARTIN VAN BUTCHELL. 1Q3
painted Prude, drawn by Mr. Pope, was by no means out
of nature—-the latter, when dying, directs her maid, saying,
“ And Betty give this cheek a little red,
“ One would not sure look frightful when one’s dead !”
But the former, of whom we have just been speaking,
when dying, expressly insisted that Mr. Van Butchell
only, after her decease, should actually fix and replace the
teeth in her head which he had made for her while living,
and which he performed accordingly. We cannot say,
that to obviate the stiffness that seizes the jaws, that it was
necessary for him to begin bis operations before the body
was cold; but every one should know, that it is necessary
to take an artificial set of teeth out of the mouth every
night on going to sleep, and sometimes to steep them in
water to preserve their whiteness; of course there is not
the least improbability of the removal of this lady’s teeth
during her illness, and consequently her wish to have them
handsomely restored after her decease, probably only for
the reason urged by Mr. Pope’s Lady,
“ One would not sure look frightful when one’s dead!”
After successfully figuring as a Dentist for many years,
Mr. Van Butchell became not less eminent as a maker of
trusses for ruptured persons; and in the course of this
practice his reputation had spread so far, that a person of
eminence, as a physician in Holland, having heard of his '
skill, made a voyage for the purpose of applying to him,
and was so successfully treated, that in return for the bene-
fit he had received, he taught Mr. Van Butchell the secret
of curing fistulas, which he has practised ever since with
astonishing and unrivalled success.
While Mr. Van Butchell was engaged in making
trusses, &c. he also made spring-waistcoats or a spencer, to
act instead of braces to the small clothes; but being neces-
sarily
painted Prude, drawn by Mr. Pope, was by no means out
of nature—-the latter, when dying, directs her maid, saying,
“ And Betty give this cheek a little red,
“ One would not sure look frightful when one’s dead !”
But the former, of whom we have just been speaking,
when dying, expressly insisted that Mr. Van Butchell
only, after her decease, should actually fix and replace the
teeth in her head which he had made for her while living,
and which he performed accordingly. We cannot say,
that to obviate the stiffness that seizes the jaws, that it was
necessary for him to begin bis operations before the body
was cold; but every one should know, that it is necessary
to take an artificial set of teeth out of the mouth every
night on going to sleep, and sometimes to steep them in
water to preserve their whiteness; of course there is not
the least improbability of the removal of this lady’s teeth
during her illness, and consequently her wish to have them
handsomely restored after her decease, probably only for
the reason urged by Mr. Pope’s Lady,
“ One would not sure look frightful when one’s dead!”
After successfully figuring as a Dentist for many years,
Mr. Van Butchell became not less eminent as a maker of
trusses for ruptured persons; and in the course of this
practice his reputation had spread so far, that a person of
eminence, as a physician in Holland, having heard of his '
skill, made a voyage for the purpose of applying to him,
and was so successfully treated, that in return for the bene-
fit he had received, he taught Mr. Van Butchell the secret
of curing fistulas, which he has practised ever since with
astonishing and unrivalled success.
While Mr. Van Butchell was engaged in making
trusses, &c. he also made spring-waistcoats or a spencer, to
act instead of braces to the small clothes; but being neces-
sarily