Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.

An admirable secret to make a Tooth fall out of the Mouth without Pain.

Take a green Lizard, alive, put it into a new Earthen Pot unglas'd; stop it, and lute it well, and put it into a Furnace, and when you know 'tis dead, take the Pot out; when 'tis cold, make an hole in the Cover, the bigness of a Pease, into which pour an ounce of Aqua For∣tis, and half an ounce of Aqua Vitae, mixed together, then stop the hole with fat Earth, and put the Pot to the fire again, till the Wa∣ters be all consumed, and the Lizard reduced to Powder, then beat it in a woodden Mortar, and keep it in a dry Place, to use as followeth.

Rub the Gum of the pained Tooth, and in a moment after, it will make the Gum to part from the Tooth, and it from the Jaw-Bone; and so you may take it away without pain.