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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47169	The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.	T. K., Doctor in physick.	1680 (1680)	Wing K20; ESTC R18406	50,933	148

of water and let it boil four and twenty hours then take the glass out of the water and put the seed before 't is cold into a little linnen bag and then press out the Oyl This pain is also helped with the Roots of Thousand-leaf or of Agrimony being held between the Teeth and the same operation has the Root of Bertram Pyretrum Likewise against the Tooth-ach you may boil the Root of Henbane or of Mulberries in vineger and Rose-water and hold the water in the Mouth or take a head of Garlick let it roast in the hot ashes then bruise it and put it as hot as ●ver is possible to the Teeth and put some of it into the Ear on the side where the ●ain is nearest Some bruise a head of Garlick and put it upon the Artery or great Vein of the Arm on the painful side Or take Bertram bruised one quarter ●f an ounce Rosemary Sage of each ●ne handful large Figs to the number of ●hree let these boil in half a pint of wine until the Wine is all consumed then lay ●ne of these Figs upon the painful Tooth ●s hot as you can bear it Or put very hot upon the Temples of ●he Head a plaister of Pitch beaten Gal●●uts and Allum it is good also to lay upon the Teeth the juyce of Garlick Rue Tansie Matricaria or any hot Oyl as of Sage which is excellent on this occasion or wash and rinse oftentimes your Teeth with a Decoction of Pennyroyal boiled in Wine till two third parts are consumed Some hold for a secret that a Tooth of a Man wrapt up in Taffeta or a Bean with a hole in which a Louse is ●hut up being hanged about the neck ●nd that these driveth away the greatest Tooth-ach that can be Great care has always been taken to drive away heavy and intollerable Tooth-ach and to preserve the Teeth because of the necessity of their service for which two things the most choicest means have been searcht for insomuch that if the Proverb be made true in this point that Necessity is the Mother of Arts I have amongst many innumerable means or remedies which are found for the Teeth brought forth a small number as being the choicest and most approved and when all these Remedies will not help you and that there is not any more hope of being delivered from the pain then you must draw them Sometimes the Teeth are spoiled because of the putrefaction but you must not inconsiderately begin this but first consult about it well and then employ thereto a man that has skill therein for fear of the many dangerous Symptomes which are many times occasioned thereby when by a mischance the good Tooth is taken for the bad or that it is drawn out with too great force whereby the blood runs out in abundance insomuch that the Patient runneth the hazard of his life it were rather to be wisht that the corrupted Tooth might fall out through any other means than by force but the difficulty lyes in the finding out of those things which have such a property and vertue Some have used to put into the holes and hollowness of the Teeth the ashes of earth-worms or mice-turd or of the Tooth of a Hart and these ashes shall cause the Tooth to fall out immediately or they put thereupon Mulberry-kernels or put a soaking fifteen days in strong Wine-vinegar beaten Mulberry-Roots after the soaking the same being dryed in the Sun they make a Powder thereof to put it on the Tooth or put thereon the brains of a Partridge or the juyce of Cherry-leaves or put into the hollowness of the Tooth the juyce of the Herb Salandine and strong-water 60. Of Teeth set an edge The Teeth grow blunt by sharp or sowr victuals especially such as are of a bad quality viz. green sowr and unripe fruit whose roots are full of sowr and tart juyce as well as because of vapours which climb out of the stomach unto the Teeth for to be rid of this trouble it is good to eat old and strong Cheese or Nuts or Almonds or to rub the Teeth with the like or also by holding of Purslain or a Decoction of it in the Mouth or to hold in the Mouth the Milk of an Ass or by rubbing the Mouth with Wine after that you have rubbed the Teeth with Salt and Sage 61. A Cure for a stinking Breath For to cure a stinking breath from what cause soever it proceed it is good to wash the Mouth with vineger of Sea-onion or with the Decoction of the leaves of Mint the Herb Baulm Sow-thistle Roots of Flower-de-luce of wild Galiga Annis-seed Fenickle-seed and Paradise-corn to gnaw Nutmegs Flower-de-luce Roots Clove-Gilliflowers or to hold in the Mouth a little Pill which is made after this manner Take Gum-dragant one ounce Dragons blood half an ounce let it soak two days in Rose-water and then add thereto in a little stone-morter Sugar an ounce and a quarter Cinnamon three eight parts of an ounce Musk one scruple this being pounded with a Pestle in Rose-water and it being dryed make it for use to small Pills The bad sent occasioned by the eating of Garlick Onion or Leeks goes away by gnawing fresh Nuts or leaves of Rue of Fenickle or Parsley For to make the breath smell sweet when it sents not it will be necessary to rinse the mouth the Morning before with Cinnamon-water and to hold the same a little while in the mouth or with the water called Aqua Imperialis or with Treacle-water or to use the Roots of Master-wort or of Flower-de-luce or of Angelica or Mastick 62. A Cure for the Squinancy Against Squinancies make a Poultis of a whole Swallow-nest boiled in White-Wine and then mingle it with Oyl of Cammomile and sweet Almonds and put it outwardly upon the Throat or drink immediately water of Carduus Benedictus with one eighth part of an ounce of the powder of a Boars tooth or anoint the place with a Salve of Lint-seed-oyl and the fore-going Powder or put thereupon a Pultis of the Turd of a young sound youth or strippling who has been nourished for three days together onely with Bread of Lupinum which is well baked and kneaded with Salt and leaven and who has drunk nothing but red Wine adding thereto as much Honey 63. Against Hoarsness Forasmuch as the Speech is of a great moment the want and necessity of which causes us to seek for means which may take away all hindrances and assist the same amongst one of the most troublesome is Hoarsness which makes men speak softly and with great difficulty This will be cured by the following means by which the Voice shall become clearer and more perceptible The Patient shall take at night going to bed two ounces or four or five thin small spoonsful of Wine in which good Figs and Raisons have been boyl'd for two hours together with Sugar Cinnamon and Cloves Also water wherein red Coleworts have been boyl'd