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faid to have had a good effect : A little 

 cotton is put at the bottom of a tobacco- 

 pipe ; the tobacco is put in upon it, and 

 lighted ; and you fmoke till it is almoft 

 burnt up. By fmoking, the oil of the to- 

 bacco gets into the cotton, which is then 

 taken out, and applied to the tooth as hot 

 as it can be fuffered. 



The chief remedy of the Iroquois, or Iro- 

 quefe, againfl the tooth-ach occafioned by 

 hollow teeth, I heard of Captain Lindfeys 

 lady, at Qfzvego ; and (he arTured me, that 

 (he knew, from her own experience, that the 

 remedy was effectual. They take the feed 

 capfules of the Virginian Anemone, as foon 

 as thefeed is ripe, and rub them in pieces. It 

 will then be rough, and look like cotton. This 

 cotton-like fubftance is dipped into ftrong 

 brandy, and then put into the hollow tooth, 

 which commonly ceafes to ache foon after. 

 The brandy is biting or (harp, and the feeds 

 of the anemone, as molf feeds of the Poly- 

 andria Polygyria clafs of plants (or fuch as 

 have many Stamina, or male flowers, and 

 many Pijlilla, or female flowers) have like- 

 wife an acrimony. They therefore, both 

 together, help to aiiuage the pain ; and this 

 remedy is much of the fame kind with the 

 former. Befides that, we have many feeds 



which 



