fast in, and is plucked out with one pull, oft-times breaks the jaw, and brings forth the piece together therewith, whence follows a fever and a great flux of blood not easily to be staid (for blood or pus flowing out in great plenty is, in Celsus's opinion, the sign of a broken bone) and many other malign and deadly symptomes. Some have had their mouths drawn so awry, during the rest of their lives, that they could scarce gape. Besides, if the tooth be much eaten, the hole thereof must be filled either with lint, or a cork, or a piece of lead well fitted thereto, lest it be broken under your forceps, when it is twitched more straitly to be plucked out, and the root remain, ready in a short time to cause more grievous pain. But judgment must be used, and you must take special care, lest you take a sound tooth for a pained one; for oft-times the Patient cannot tell, for that the bitterness of pain by neighbourhood is equally diffused over all the jaw. Therefore for the better plucking out a tooth, observing these things which I have mentioned, the Patient shall be placed in a low seat, bending back his head between the tooth-drawers legs; then the tooth-drawer shall deeply scarifie about the tooth, separating the gums therefrom with the instruments marked with this letter A. and then if spoiled as it were of the wall of the gums, it grow loose, it must be shaken and thrust out, by forcing it with the three-pointed levatory noted with this letter B. but if it stick in too fast, and will not stir at all, then must the tooth be taken hold of with some of these toothed forcipes marked with these letters C. D. E. now one, then another, as the greatness, figure, and site shall seem to require. I would have a tooth-drawer expert and diligent in the use of such toothed mullets; for unless one know readily and cunningly how to use them, he can scarce so carrie himself, but that he will force out three teeth at once, oft-times leaving that untoucht which caused the pain.
After the tooth is drawn, let the blood flow freely, that so the part may be freed from pain, and the matter of the tumor discharged. Then let the tooth-drawer press the flesh of the gums on both sides with his fingers whereas he took out the tooth, that so the socket that was too much dilated, and oft-times torn by the violence of the pluck, may be closed again. Lastly, the mouth shall be washed with oxycrate; and if the weather be cold, the Patient shall take heed of going much in the open air, lest it cause a new defluxion upon his teeth.