468 DENTIFRICE. 



(See directions under the head of " Water-boots.") 

 I have now, I believe, mentioned all the articles of 

 my pharmacy, and next to them must come the 



DENTIFRICE. 



Brush your teeth every morning, with Spanish Sabilia snuff 

 (which may be had in perfection, from Fribourg and Treyer, 

 34, Haymarket, or Hudson, 132, Oxford Street), and every night 

 with a little arquebusade, or brandy ; and keep, in the bottle con- 

 taining it, a small piece of camphor. This will not only make it a 

 tenfold greater preservative, but will prevent the vassals of the place 

 from drinking it. 



Never put cold water to your teeth, but always use it lukewarm. 



If any thing will prevent or cure a tooth-ache, except 

 aperient medicines, to reduce the inflammation, or the 

 sovereign remedy of the new patent instrument, it will, 

 I have reason to think, be that which has been here 

 mentioned. At all events, some of the first dentists in 

 London and Paris admit, that this remedy is a most 

 excellent preservative. I, therefore, do not hesitate to 

 say, that for a sportsman, and particularly for a wild- 

 fowl-shooter, it may be worthy of insertion. 



I was told by a friend who rarely errs in his pre- 

 scriptions, that the best cure for a tooth-ache is 



One tablespoonful of rum, 

 Another of vinegar, 

 And a teaspoonful of salt, 



mixed together, and then held in the mouth. " But, of 

 this I have never had occasion to make a trial. 



But if the foregoing directions, as a, preventive, are 

 attended to, we are not very likely to require prescriptions 

 for a cure. 



I shall now conclude with the following little hints : 



