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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    present is very frequently constitutional, and produced by a variety of causes. Some tartar may be deposited on the teeth while this malady is going- on, but still it is not the exciting cause. The predisposing causes are a scrofulous or debilitated constitution, use of mercurial medicines, inflammation of the lungs and bowels, sedentary occupations. The vegetable tooth powder should bo applied on a soft brush where there is much tenderness of the gums, or acute pain, but on a hard one, when they have got into a thick, insensible state. Friction is an excellent counter-irritant; it discharges in this case the superfluous blood from the parts, and prepares them for the tonic effects of the dentifrice. Quinine con.stringes and invigorates, while the hyoscyamus allays pain, and mollifies the effects of friction. Diluted solution of sulphate of zinc, used often, will be found a good adjuvant to the powder. In this case stimu- lating applications must not be used. When the affection depends on the constitution, D 3