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mouth with a tea fpoonful of Lavender- 

 Water mixed with an equal quantity of 

 warm or cold water, whichever yovi like 

 beft, to diminilli its a6livity. This fimple 

 and innocent remedy is a certain preferva- 

 tive, the fuccefs of which has been- con- 

 firmed by long experleuce, 



25. yf Method to make the feeth leautifuUj 



white. 



Take Gum Tragacanth, one ounce j^ 

 Pumice-flone, two drachms ; Gum Arabic,, 

 half an ounce ^ and Cryftals of Tartar,, 

 finely powdered, one ounce; diflblve the 

 Gums in Rofe-water, and adding to it the 

 powder, form the whole into little flick^s 

 which are to be dried flowly in the fliade^ 

 and afterwards kept for ufe. 



S^. Or, 

 Take dried Leaves of HyiTop, Wild 

 Thyme, and Mint, of each half an ounce j, 



Roch* 



