A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.
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A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.
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Smith, John, doctor in Physic.
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London :: Printed by J. Streater, for Simon Miller at the Star in S. Pauls Church-yard,
1656.
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"A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93373.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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TEETH, rotten and black are made so by over-hot, cold, sweet, sowre things, or paintings of Mercury.
Preservation. If after meat the Mouth be washed▪ with wine, and Cyprus, or Mastick be put into the Teeth.
The cure. If one every Morning hold a grain of Salt under his Tongue, and when it is melted rub his Teeth with it: The spirit and oyl of Vitriol mixt with water makes the Teeth very white. A Pumex stone fired, and quenched twice in white wine: and the third time fired, and so left until it be cold, then powdered and washed, makes the Teeth exceeding white: also not fired. For. l. 14.
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Some use only tosted bread, Paraeus L. 16.
Cuttle-bone, Harts-horn, Cinamon, Coral, Crabs-eys, Egg-shells, Snails shells, the Jaw-bone of a Pike Mastick; roots of Birthwort, Orris, Rosemary flowers, Lavender, Roses, white sand most fine. Some use only oyl of Vitri∣ol with Honey of Roses. The ashes of Rosemary branches. Tobacco ashes.
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