Plain advice on the care of the teeth / [D.A. Cameron].

  • Cameron, D. A
Date:
1838
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Credit: Plain advice on the care of the teeth / [D.A. Cameron]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ri'UES Fon Till-; gi.ms. .•50 ejiiollient drinks, slightly acidulated \vitli lemon juice; by taking care of cold, and avoiding every sort of stimulant. Let this plan be followed up by using every morning a tonic and anodyne tooth powder, compounded of starch, Florentine iris, rjuinine, and a sprink- ling of hyoscyamiis; and hy softly hriishiny the gums twice a-day with a lotion made of a few drops of the four grains to the ounce solution in water of nitrate of silver, which is a standard collyrium with oculists for strengthening the eyes. The solution may be had of any apo- thecary. In all serious afl'ections of the gum.s, the shortest way to their conservation is the advice of the physician ^ dentist. OF xnr. TARTAR. Some would have us to believe that the tartar is a natural secretion of the gums; some, that it is the result of diseased action in their mucous covering; and others, that it is deposited in the mouth by insects, as coral islands are in the sea. Simple as is this »