TO PREVENT THE TOOTH-ACHE.
Rub well the teeth and gums with a hard tooth-brush, using the flowers of sulphur as a tooth powder, every night on going to bed; and if it is done after dinner it will be best: this is an excellent preservative to the teeth, and void of any unpleasant smell.
A RADICAL CURE FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE.
Use as a tooth powder the Spanish snuff called Sabella, and it will clean the teeth as well as any other powder, and totally prevent the tooth-ache; and make a regular practice of washing behind the ears with cold water every morning; the remedy is infallible.
REMEDY FOR BAD BREATH.
Take from five to ten drops of muriatic acid, in
an ale glassful of barley-water, and add
a little lemon juice and lemon peel to flavour.
Mix for a draught, to be taken three times a day, for a month or six weeks at least, and, if effectual, it may be continued occasionally.
Another medicine of this kind, which has often proved beneficial when the stomach has been wrong, and the bowels costive, is, the
DRAUGHT FOR BAD BREATH WITH COSTIVENESS.
Take one dram of sulphate of magnesia,
two drams of tincture of calumba,
an ounce and a half of infusion of roses.