The .97. Chapter doth shew of a mans tooth.
DEus is the latin word. In gréeke it is named Odons. In English it is named a tooth. A tooth* 1.1 is a sencible bone, the which being in a liuing mans head hath féeling, & so hath none other bone in mans body, & therefore the tooth ache is an extreme payne.
This payne doth come either by an humour discēding out of the head to ye téeth or gūmes, or it may come by coroding or eating of wormes, or it may come of corrupcion lying & being vpō & betwixt ye téeth, or it may come by drinking of hot wines, eating of hot spices, or eating of hot appls, peares, and such like, or it may come of a hote liuer or stomake.
First purge the head with pilles of Cochée, & vse gargarices. And if it doxome of any cold cause, chew in the mouth diuers times the rote of Horehound. And if it come by wormes make a candel of waxe with Henbane séedes and light it & let the perfume of the candle enter into the tooth & gape o∣uer a dish of colde water & than may you take the wormes out of the water and kill them on your naile, the worme is little greater than the worme in a mans hand. And beware of pulling out any tooth for pul out one & pull out moe. To mundifie the téeth, wash them euerie morning with colde water and a litle Roch alome.
Dia is a notable worde in Gréeke, and the Grecians hath vsed & doth vse to set this word Dia before al their notable wordes, as wel in Phisicke as musicke, as it shall appeare in the Chapter of Musicke.