Dentistry in eighteenth-century Paris was so horribly barbaric that, one day after having several teeth pulled by an overzealous dentist, King Louis XIV drank some soup -- and had it cascade out of his nose!
[In the 18th century, many elegant gentlemen wore "plumpers" (cork pads) in their cheeks to disguise the hollows left by rotten teeth.]
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M. Driscoll, ed., 5087 Trivia Questions & Answers
