Volume 1

The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies / [Hugh Smith].

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789
Date:
[between 1770 and 1779]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It may be given on any emergency; when taken for a con- ftancy, the proper hours are the fame as for elixir of vitriol, which fee. The dofe is from one or two tea-fpoonfuls to a table-fpoonful, in any liquor. TOOTH POWDER for the SCURVY in the GUMS. j\ This powder cleanfes and prelerves the teeth and gums, takes • oft' fcales and all kind of filth without injuring the enamel, which gritty powders are apt to do. It fhould be ufed with a piece of fpunge or a very foft brufh, every thing which is hard or rough being prejudicial, as they deftroy the enamel, when the teeth muft necelfarily decay *. All compofitions which have gums in them, fuch as myrrh, and the like, are, in my opinion, very pernicious, as they tend to flop up the glands by which the fpittle comes into the mouth, and thereby occafion the breath to become often five, which is alfo the fore-runner of the fcurvv. i TURNER’S CERATE Is commonly ufed for burns, cuts, fcalds, bruifes, chilblains,* and other little complaints where the fkin is worn off*, and is fo well known I need not be more particular. * This is a piece of advice worthy the attention of my readers, particularly the fair ones, who frequently deftroy their teeth by ufing bole armoniac, fcuttle- bone, and many other gritty powders, which rub off the polifh:—thofe of a very acid nature are alfo hurtful, as their frequent ufe certainly deftroys the enamel.— The tooth powder here mentioned, I will ftake my credit, is prepared with every caution laid down, and I am ftrenuous in recommending it to the world j for, in however trifling a light Stoicks may hold a powder for preferving the teeth, every man, who has fenfibility enough to be pleafed with a fine face, muft thank me for endeavouring to preferve fo material a part of female beauty. F VALERIAN