The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper medicines, both in physick and chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy cure of the said distempers : adorned with sculptures ... / published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.

Of Pickt-Teeth.

After dinner or Supper, you shall rinse your Teeth with Water mix'd with a little wine-vinegar, or with clear Wine. After you have cleared your Teeth of Meats which stick to them, this must be done softly, with Tooth-picks not made of any Mettal; nay, not of Gold or Silver, but of wood, which hath some virtue of draw∣ing together, and are of a good smell: as of Mastick-wood, Rose-wood, Cypress, Rosemary, Myrtle-tree, &c.

Next, rub your Teeth with Powders, which will keep them good, white, and clean: As of Myrrh, Cinnamon, burnt-Allum, burnt Pumice-stone, of each a like quantity; each being pounded small apart, and after mingled together.

Crums of bread with common Salt, is very useful to rub the Teeth therewith af∣ter Meals, and then to rinse them with clean water mix'd with a little vineger, or with Red-wine, this will fasten the Teeth in the Gums.

There are divers other things, whereof Powders may be made to cleanse the Teeth and make them white, of which some serve to comfort the Gums and make them grow when they are eaten off, for the se∣curity of the Teeth.