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We will onely prescribe here To∣picks made of the Elder. Raymund Minder, in his Military Medicine, cap. 10. commends much the decoction of the roots in Wine and Vinegar, used to gargarise with, and protests that no one Medicine sooner easeth this great pain.
For Example,
mouth, which is oft to be spit out, and renewed.
Or,
Boyl them likewise in a sufficient quantity of Vinegar and Wine, and use it. Where there is a suspicion of worms in the hollow tooth, the hol∣lowness is to be filled with the spongi∣ola of the Elder; at last it is to be held hard betwixt the teeth: Like∣wise the vapor of the former decocti∣on may be received through a funnel at the mouth.
They make Tooth-pickers, and Spoons of Elder, to which they attri∣bute much in preserving from this pain. The common people take these tooth-pickers, being bloudy with pricking and picking the tooth, and glew them to the Trunk of an Elder, which is irradiated with the morning Sun beams; they pull away the bark, and cover the place with rosin of the
Pine: and thus they cure all tooth∣aches.
'Tis not apparent by what vertue this is done; when, may be, that is attributed to the incision, which ought to be attributed to the blood∣ing, or time of continuance, wherein most diseases are eased. But we leave every man to his judgement, Scal. Exerc. 183. sect. 11.
If from a defluction, the gums and cheeks do swel, anoynt them with the oyl of the infusion of the flowers of the Elder, and put the dregs or crassa∣ment of them to it, for they will di∣gest and resolve it.