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sometimes the tooth comes through the 

 next day, if near the surface ; but if not 

 so far advanced the cut heals and a scar 

 forms, which is thought by some objec- 

 tionable, as rendering the passage of the 

 tooth more difficult. This, however, is 

 untrue, for the scar will give way much 

 more easily than the uncut gum. If the 

 tooth does not come through after two or 

 three days, the lancing may be repeated ; 

 and this is more especially needed if the 

 child be very fractious, and seem in much 

 pain. Lancing the gums is further ad- 

 vantageous, because it empties the in- 

 flamed part of its blood, and so relieves 

 the pain and inflammation. The relief 

 children experience in the course of two 

 or three hours from the operation is often 

 very remarkable, as they almost immedi- 

 ately become lively and cheerful. 



TEETH AND GUMS, Wash for.— The 

 teeth should be washed night and morn- 

 ing, a moderately small and soft brush 

 being used; after the morning ablution 

 pour on a second tooth-brush, slighly 

 damped, a little of the following lotion: 

 Carbolic acid, 20 drops ; spirit of wine, 2 

 drachms; distilled water, 6 ounces. After 

 using this lotion for a short time the 

 gums become firmer and less tender, and 

 impurity of the breath (which is most 

 commonly caused by bad teeth), will be 

 removed. It is a great mistake to use 

 hard tooth-brushes, or to brush the teeth 

 until the gums bleed. 



TETTER.— After a slight feverish at- 

 tack, lasting two or three days, clusters 

 of small, transparent pimples, filled some- 

 times with a colorless, sometimes with a 

 brownish lymph, appear on the cheeks or 

 forehead, or on the extremities, and at 

 times on the body. The pimples are 

 about the size of a pea, and break after a 

 few days, when a brown or yellow crust 

 is formed over them, which falls off about 

 the tenth day, leaving the skin red and 

 irritable. The eruption is attended with 

 heat, itching, tingling, fever and restless- 

 ness, especially at night. Ringworm is a 

 curious form of tetter, in which the 

 inflamed patches assume the form of a 

 ring. 



Treatment — Should consist of light 

 diet, and gentle laxatives. If the patient 

 be advanced in life, and feeble, a tonic 

 will be desirable. For a wash, white 

 vitriol, one drachm; rose-water, three 



ounces, mixed; or an ointment made of 

 alder-flower ointment, one ounce; oxide 

 of zinc, one drachm. 



TAN, to Remove. — Tan may be re- 

 moved from the face by mixing magnesia 

 in soft water to the consistency of paste, 

 which should then be spread on the face 

 and allowed to remain a minute or two. 

 Then wash off with Castile soap suds, and 

 rinse with soft water. 



TEETH, Care of.— The mouth has a 

 temperature of 98 , warmer than is ever 

 experienced in the shade in the latitude 

 of New England. It is well known that 

 if beef, for example, be exposed in the 

 shade during the warmest of our summer 

 days, it will very soon decompose. If we 

 eat beef for dinner, the particles invari- 

 ably find their way into the spaces be- 

 tween the teeth. Now, if these particles 

 of beef are not removed, they will fre- 

 quently remain till they are softened by 

 decomposition. In most mouths this 

 process of decomposition is in constant 

 progress. Ought we to be surprised that 

 the gums and teeth against which these 

 decomposing or putrefying masses lie 

 should become subjects of disease ? 



How shall our teeth be preserved ? 

 The answer is very simple — keep them 

 clean ! How shall they be kept clean ? 

 Answer — By a toothpick, rinsing with 

 water, and the daily use of a brush. 



The toothpick should be a quill, not 

 because the metallic picks injure the 

 enamel, but because the quill pick is so 

 flexible it fits into all the irregularities be- 

 tween the teeth. 



Always after using the toothpick the 

 mouth should be thoroughly rinsed. If 

 warm water be not at hand, cold may be 

 used, although the warm is much better. 

 Closing the lips, with a motion familiar to 

 all, everything may be thoroughly rinsed 

 from the mouth. 



Every morning (on rising), and every 

 evening (on going to bed), the tooth- 

 brush should be used, and the teeth, both 

 outside and inside, thoroughly brushed. 



Much has been said, pro and^w., upoa 

 the use of soap with the tooth-brush. My 

 own experience and the experience of 

 members of my family is highly favorable 

 to the regular morning and evening use or 

 soap. Castile or other good soap will 

 answer this purpese. (Whatever is good 

 for the hands and face is good for the 



