3Kf aturaU Hiliory: 



have a kind of Marrow diffufed, which caufeth the Senfe, and Paine; But it 

 is rather Sinnew; V or Marrow hath no Senfe; No more then Bloud. Horn 

 isalike throughout^ and fo is the Naile. 



None othe^r of the Hard Subftances have but the Teeth-.and the T^ffe 



have&«/<? 3 not only of .Paine, but oiCold. 



But we will leave the Enquiries of other Hard Subftances, unto their fever d 

 Places-, and now enquire only of the Teeth. 



The Teeth are,in Men^oi three Kinds : as the fore-Teeth 5 Broad as 



the Back-Teeth , which we call the Molar-Teeth , or Grinder's '• and Pointed- 

 Teeth, or Canine, which are between both. But there have been fome 

 that have hadtheir Teeth un-div?ded,as of one whole £oK^with fome little 

 Marke in the place of the Divilionjas Pyrrhm^had. Some Creatures have 

 Over-!ong,or Out-growing Teeth,which we call FangS,or T uskes&s Boares,Pikes, 

 Salmons j and Dogs, though lefle. Some Living Creatures have TV^againft 

 Teeth, as Men, and H or fes- y and fome have Tee th , efpecially their Maps 

 Teeth, indenred one within another j like Saves; as Lions $ andfoagaine 

 have Dogs, Some Fifks have divers Rowes of Teeth in the Roof es of their 

 Mouthes; as Pikes-, S-dmo/.s, Trcuts, &e. And many more in Salt-water^ 

 Snakes,and other Serpents have Venethu*Teeth;\v\\ia\ are fome times mifta- 

 ken for their Sting*. 



No that hath Horn^tyh Vpper Teeth; and no flw&that hath Tir^, 

 afceve, wanterh them below: But yet if they be of the fime bindh follow- 

 eth her, that if the Hard Matter goeth not into Upper Teeth, it will goe into 

 Horns; Nor yet ecmverfo , For Ito's, that have no Horns , have no Upper 

 Teeth. 



Horfes have,at three years old,aT<w$ put forth, which they call the Colts- 

 Tooth; and at four. years old there commetb the Mark-Tooth, which hath a 

 Me\ as big as you may lay a Peafe within its»and that weareth fhbrter and 

 fhoner , every year , till thatat eight year's old, the Tooth is £mooth,and 

 the hole., gone j and tnen they, fay ; That ike Mark is out of the Horfes 

 Mouth, . '•• V 



The teeth o£ Men breed firft , when the Child is about a year and haife 

 Old : and then they caft them, and new come about (even years old. But 

 j divers have Eac^ard-Teeth come forth at twenty, yea,fome at thirty, and 

 i forty. fgufoe of the manner of the Coming.of them forth. They tell a ta.'e 

 : of the oil CotMttftt oiDefmond V who lived till fhe was fevenjfeore yeares 

 i old, that '(he did Demire twice, or thrice; Calling her old Teetkand othefjj 

 Camming in their Place. , ' , ' ■ 



Teeth are much hurt by ' Sweetmeats, and by Painting with Mercury - and 

 by things over-hor^and by things over-cold;and by Rjjuemcs, And the pain 

 J of the feeth,h one of the fharpeft of Pains, 



Concerning T«ffr,thefe things are to be Confidered* 1 The Preferring 

 of them. 2 The Keeping of them white. 5 The Drawing of them with 

 Leaft Paine. 4 The Staging and Eafing of the Tooth-ach. 5 The Binding in of 

 ArtificialTeeth,wheveTeetbhave been ftrucken out. 6 Andlail of ail,that 

 Great One, oiRefioring Teeth in Age. The inftances that give any likeli- 

 hood otRofming Teeth in -^,are, the Late Comming of T teth in fomejand 

 the Renewing of the Beaks in Birds, which are Commaterical with Teeth, 

 Jguiere-s therefore more particularly how that Commetru And agaihj the 

 Rmewing of Horns, But yet that hath not been known to have been pro- 

 voked by art;, Therefore let trialbemade , whether Horns may be pro- 

 cured .to grow in Beafts that are not Horned y and how > And whether 



