The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson
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The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson
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Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
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London :: Printed by Th: Cotes and R. Young,
anno 1634.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XXVIII. Of cleansing the Teeth.
PEices of meat in eating sometimes sticke between the teeth, and becom∣ming corrupt by long staying there, doe also hurt the teeth themselves, * 1.1 and spoile the sweetnesse of the breath. Hee that would eschew this, ought presently after meate to wash his mouth with wine mixed with water, or oxycrate, and well to clense his teeth that no slimy matter ad∣here to them. Many folkes teeth by their owne default gather an earthy filth of a yellowish collour, which eates into them by little and little, as rust eates into iron. This rusty filthinesse, or as it were mouldiness of the teeth, doth also oft times grow
by the omitting of their proper duty, that is, of chawing. Whence soever this sli∣my * 1.2 filth proceeds, wee must get Dentifrices to fetch it off withall, and then the teeth must be presently rubbed with aqua fortis and aqua vitae mixed together, that if there be any thing that hath scaped the Dentifrices, it may bee all fetched off; yet such a∣cride washings are hurtfull to the sound teeth, for that they by little and little con∣sume * 1.3 and waste the flesh of the gums.
Dentifrices shall be made of the roote of marsh mallowes boiled in white wine & Alume; and as when the teeth are loose wee must abstaine from such things as are hard to be eaten and chawed, but much more from breaking of such things as are of a bony consistence, also here we must shunne all things that by their toughnesse stick to the teeth. Many for the cleansing of the teeth, commend a powder made of scut∣tle bones, purple shells, pumice stone, burnt alume, and harts horne, and a little ci∣namon, which is a singular remedy for the teeth howsoever affected. Many other are content with bread only tosted & beaten; but this following water is very effectuall to whiten the teeth. ℞. sal. ammon. & gemmei, an. ℥i. alum. roch. ℥ss. aquae ros. quod* 1.4sufficit, destillentur. And let the teeth be cleansed with this distilled liquor.