Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.

The Teeth, Remedies for all their diseases.

Remedy for the Toothach.

PAain of the Teeth (as Galen saith) among other pains that are not mortal, is the most ••ruel and grievous of them all. It may come divers wayes, of a cold or hot cause; If it come of a hot cause, the Gums are red and very hot, wherefore it is very good to hold in his mouth water of Camphire, or to seethe a little Cam∣phire in Vinegar, and hold in his mouth; al∣so take Henbane roots, and seethe them in Vinegar and Rosewater, and hold in his mouth.

If it come of cold causes, since in such cas••s oft times there distilleth abundance of water into the mouth, purge it with Piulae co∣chiae, afterwards keep in your mouth warm wine wherein hath been sodden Pellitory, Mintes, and Rew.

Another.

Take the middle barke of Elder, Salt and Pepper, of each alike much, and stampe them together, and lay it to the sore teeth.

Item, Gum of Ivy with a little Lint dipped ••n Vinegar or Aqua vitae, applyed is very good.

For rotten and stinking Teeth▪

Stampe a quantity of Sage, with as mu•••• Salt, and make thereof pretty pasties, b•••• them in an Oven until ••hey wax black, a•• with the pouder thereof wash well your tee•••• both mornings and evenings.

Take the inner ri••de of Elder, and the inn•• rinde of the Withwinde, and the inner rin•••• of Woodbinde, then shred it small, and pou•••• it small, then pound into it pouder of Pep•••• and a little salt, and pound it again, then put i•• into a linnen cloth and binde it fast a piece •• bigge as a Damson, & hold it between the for•• teeth, let the moisture run out, when it do•••• stint running, then take another ball so made▪ and hold it between your teeth doing the lik•• and at the third or fourth ball it will help if •••• come of rheum, but if it come of blood, yo•• must let them bleed.

The decoction of Colocynth with s••rong Vinegar taketh away the pain of the teeth.

To draw Teeth, take the brains of an Hare▪ and seethe them in red wine, and therewith a∣noint the Teeth, that you would have ou••, and they will fall out without pain.

I••em, The Gum of Ivy tempered with wax, and put to a pained tooth, will draw it out without pain.

To draw a tooth without pain, rub it and none other with powder of the Gum of Ivy.

A water to keep the teeth from stinking.

Take long Pepper▪ Mintes▪ Purslane, Aristo∣logy ro••unda, salve green, seethe all together in wine, and use to wash thy teeth, and it will ••eep them both white and sweet.

For the Toothach.

Take a spoonful of Aqua vitae, and a spoon∣••ul of Triackle, half a spoonful of Pepper in fine powder, boil all these together upon a Chaffing-dish of coles, and then put it into a box, and put it into the Tooth where the pain is.

Fill the hollow Tooth with the gum of Ivy, it will take away the Tooth-ach.

Touch the Tooth that aketh with the root of water Crowfoot' incontinent it taketh ••∣way the pain and breaketh the tooth.

In •• vehement ach, put a little of the juice of ground Ivy in thine ear, on that side as thy ach is, it will a little grieve thee, but incon∣t••nent thy Teeth shall cease aching.

Put the powder of red Coral in the hole of thy Tooth, and it will fall out by the root.

Put Henbane seed upon coles, and receive the smoak thereof into thy teeth by holding t••y mouth over it. It killeth the worms and as••wageth the pain; this hath be••n proved.

That thy Teeth never ake, take the powder that cometh of filing of an Harts horn, and let it seethe in water in a new earthen pot, and so put it into thy mouth where thy grief is.

A medicine that the Too••hach shall never vex you mor••.

Take twenty leaves of Ivy, a little long Peppe••, and boil them with a handful of Salt in old wine, and then put the liquor when it is well boiled into your mouth on that side that

is vexed with the ach, and you shall prove that the ach shall be destroyed in sempiternum.

A most expert and true Medicine for the pain of the Teeth and presently easeth the pain.

Take Lupines dryed, let it be a little rubbed in your hands, after put it into strong Vine∣g••r, and boiled a little, then strain it, and press it out, of which wash the mouth and gums, for it is wonderful.

For a Tooth that is loose.

Take Gum of Ivy, and red Vinegard, and boil them together in a Pewter Sawcer, till they be molten together, wet therein a clou••, and put down the Tooth therewith, &c.

To help the Too••hach of any sort.

Ivy berries sodden in white wine or in Vine∣gar, this water being strained.

To fasten Teeth, and to purge the head.

The roots of Pellitory of Spain chewed in the mouth, & fiet pro certo▪

To make a Tooth ••eave aking, or to fall out.

Stampe Neppe, and put it into a cloth, and lay it on the Tooth, and it wil•• either leave ••king or fall out.