Perry's Treatise on the prevention and cure of the tooth-ache : with directions for preserving the teeth and gums from disease and discolouration to the latest period of life : also, instructions to mothers on the management and cutting of teeth in children.

Perry, Mr.

Date:: 1827

Credit: Perry's Treatise on the prevention and cure of the tooth-ache : with directions for preserving the teeth and gums from disease and discolouration to the latest period of life : also, instructions to mothers on the management and cutting of teeth in children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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$i\\e gums, ,\y,ith ^, brush ; which, if steadily persevered in, I ^eve^ kfl^vy tQ failin producing a healthy appearance, and restoring th^H&H^''^-^^ ^'j^^ir fornix soundness. ^^ .^^ ^^.^ j^ Testimpuials almost.innumerable to the same effect could be pi:qduce:d, having, during the space of seven years^ made a;pre- sent of the Essence to every person who applied for it, in order to ascertain the real virtues of the Medicine, before I would be prevailed upon^-aJ]Qw^it.to4ie publicly sold : ,^otwithstanding my Father had for fifty years previous distributed it gratis, and thpug^ .assured by/a German physician, who left him the recipe, that lie; had effectually cured many thousands, and that it was a d«ty , owing to the public not to deprive the suffering world of so .yaluabk a medic in je*uyiU ymori .dTtUB'j % nuovi uhb tiuiije**.. • The Astringents generally ttiade use df M^ii li^shh'df Red' Rose Leaves, Bark, Borax, or Rhatany, the last of which I have found to be decidedly the best, and may be procured genuine of Messrs. Butler, 4, Cheapside; or Dr. Reece,171, Piccadilly. The Argentum Nitratum in solution, applied with a camel's- hair pencil, is frequently attended with beneficial efiects; but great caution should accompany the application, and the pro- portion should not exceed one grain to an ounce of water. PRETERNATTCJRAL GROWTH OF THE GUMS. Carious stumps of teeth are sometimes sunk so deeply in the gums, as to be nearly covered by them, and as the stumps are mostly ragged, they cause considerable soreness tmd inflammation, which give rise to troublesome excrescenci^^j that increase to a considerable size,■a^'fl^ to render the speech unintelligible; and at last the sufferer is compelled to submit to the removal of them, either by ligature or (Bxcision. Excrescences of^ this description are predisposed to bleed on the slightest pressure, and being mistaken for cancerous affep- tio'ns, they are improperly treated: and sometimes the life the patient is endangered. Y l i '■jrta'?'i| •>'»? !iv -tir-.h' <«• ' ' •<•••••;•' The gumsi of some persons, at the age of between 40 and ■!■ Jy>-'i<U ' '^-t ij ! •, ' , • • < 50, recede from the socke^ts ,; the teeth consequently grow loose, and in a short time fallout. By the daily application of the il&ssence,' 1 hav^ Itnown numerous cases where the tectji have$