Chaplin has a stand-off with a tall man in front of the pharmacy while the dentist tends to his patient. Chaplin chases after a suspicious woman and accidentally tears off her skirt. This angers the tall man and in defense Chaplin throws a brick at him, while the woman runs away. The dentist's wife, in her home, faints onto a chair. Her maid phones the dentist. "Hurry home, your wife has met with an accident." Meanwhile, the suffering patient suddenly snaps out of it, and his bad tooth becomes magically healed. The patient walks out of the office, and when the dentist finishes his phone call, he heads out to find his patient missing.