From the CARLISLE PATRIOT, Saturday, November 18, 1843 posted with permission of the transcriber, Barb. Baker. Geo. CARLISLE PATRIOT, Saturday, November 18, 1843 / ROYAL TOOTHACHE The frivolous pretence of plots against QUEEN ELIZABETH's life by sorcery had recently been revived. There were found at Islington, concealed in the house of a catholic priest, three waxen images of the queen, and two of her chief councillors, which, it was said, were intended to be operated upon in a diabolical manner for her destruction. Much at the same time, her majesty was attacked with such grievous toothache, that nothing could mitigate the torture she endured, and she obtained no rest either by night or day. Some persons attributed these sufferings to the malign magic that had been employed against her. Her physicians held a consultation on the royal malady, and instead of devising a remedy for her relief, fell to disputing among themselves on the cause of her indisposition, and the medicines most advisable to use. The lords of the council then took the matter in hand, and decided on sending for an "outlandish physician, of the name of JOHN ANTHONY FENATUS", who was celebrated for curing this agonizing pain; but, as it was a perilous thing to intrust the sacred person of a sovereign, so suspicious of plots against her life by poison, as Elizabeth, to the discretion of a foreign practioner, "who might possibly be a Jew, or even a papist", they would not permit him to see her majesty, but required him to write his prescription. FENATUS composed a long and elaborate letter in reply; declaring, in the first place, his unworthiness to come after such great physicians, and then prescribing divers remedies, but with the intimation, "that, if the tooth were hollow, when all was said and done, it was best to have it drawn, though at the cost of some short pain. If, however, her majesty could not bring herself to submit to the use of chirurgical instruments, (of which, it seems, he had heard something of her abhorrence), then, he advised, that the juice of chelidonius major might be put into the tooth, and so stopped with wax, that none of it might touch the sound parts, which would so loosen the tooth, that, in a short time, it might be pulled out with the fingers; or, the root of the said plant might be rubbed upon the tooth, which would produce the same effect; but concluded, by declaring, that drawing the tooth was by all esteemed, the safest and best way ." The courage of the lion-hearted Elizabeth failed her on this occasion, and she expressed so much repugnance to the loss of her tooth, combined with terror of the pain that might attend the operation, that the eloquence of her whole cabinet could not prevail upon her to undergo it. AYLMER, Bishop of London, who was present at this grave debate, then stood forth; and, after assuring her Majesty, that the pain was less than she apprehended, told her, "that although he was an old man, and had not many teeth to spare, she should see a practical experiment of it on himself" ; and thereupon, bade the surgeon, who was in attendance, extract one of his teeth in her majesty's presence, which encouraged the queen to submit to the like operation. ..... "The Queens of England".