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

  • Cameron, D. A
Date:
1838
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    CLASSIFICATION OF TOOTH I'OWDKIIS. 4) Our arrangement would be, therefore, into Mixed, Vegetable, and Mineral, Tooth Pow- der ; which we adopt, because we should be regulated by their relative importance, which we consider to be in proportion to tbe number of cases requiring them. MIXED TOOTH POAVDEIt. The best composition of this kind is the following. Suppose the principal ingredients to consist of twelve parts : Fine powder of Prepared Chalk, 4 Parts. Pure Starch, 4 — Alyrrh 3 — Ginger, 1 — 12 — Flowers of Lavender, and of Refined Sugar, at pleasure. Mix them well together. Here the ginger and myrrh are in such quantity a.s to be merely perceptible to the taste. The starch, which is the fine farina of wheat, subdivides the chalk, that feehs clayey when alone. The