160 years ago today - Mar 25, 1862

President B. Young had four teeth extracted by Secretary Frank Fuller who is a dentist as well as Secretary. In the evening he told the Pres. D. H. Wells and Briant Stringham and Albert Carrington being in the office that some years ago he while in Office with the Prophet Joseph a Dentist endeavored to extract a tooth the pain being very severe he fainted and dreamt he was in hell and saw the Devils. -- Salt Lake City

[Brigham Young Office Journals, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]

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