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The operator for the teeth shewing how to preserve the teeth and gums from all the accidents they are subject to : with particular directions for childrens teeth : as also the description and use of the polican, never published before / by Charles Allen.
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Allen, Charles.
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1686
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Wing A1022; ESTC R24170
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besides that the Gums are more sinewy and membranous about them than any where else and therefore much more difficult to penetrate That part of the Jaw-bone that contains them is likewise much thicker and stronger than any other and consequently harder to be divided by the included Teeth which being incapable of making their way through it are forced to stay therein till such time that Nature having perfected our growth the bloud becomes hotter stronger and its energy more powerful by the firmness of the Heart which is the Sun of our Microcosm or little-world and other principal parts and increase of those particles that were wont to be imployed in making up and augmenting the body most of which remain then in the mass of the Bloud whereby the said bloud being able to surmount the resistance of the Jaw and Gums forces the said Teeth to come out of their cells and grow up To the efficacy of this new strength of the Bloud upon the arrival of Nature to its highest Period may be attributed the causes of those alterations that usually happen in mens bodies about that time many looking pale and being troubled with divers infirmities till then of which they are afterwards delivered But leaving off Digressions let us return to our Subject We have already observed that the Novel-Teeth in Children and Dentes Supientiae in Men cou'd not arrive to their perfection nor therefore become serviceable to us without a long time and a great Effort of Nature It remains now that pursuant to our design as we have declar'd it at the beginning of this Section we indeavor to find out some means whereby we may remedy those defects in facilitating Nature's work and rendring those tardy Teeth above-mentioned serviceable to us as soon as we can And as I find none more proper and expeditious than the Rarifaction and Dilatation of the Gums so that they may lose their greatest stubbornness and become more yielding to the Teeth I conclude that all the difficulty lies in knowing how such an effect can be produced which after a due consideration I think may be performed after this manner In the first place there is need of an Instrument made of Gold or Silver about a foot long as big as a Tobacco-pipe and like a Syringe being so bored that a perfectly Cilindrical embolus or sucker may fill exactly nine inches of its Cavity the rest being made a good deal smaller and bow'd like the Blowing-pipe of Watch-makers which ought to end into an head resembling the cup of an Acorn and so contriv'd that it may imbrace the Gums exactly Your Instrument being ready if you have a mind to perform the Operation you must in the next place concerning the Dentes Sapientiae tie all the Teeth together which may be done without any trouble so that the two foremost of them may draw the last of all towards the fore-part of the mouth By this the included Teeth will be freed from being compressed between the others and the extremity of the Jaw-bone And then the Gums being prepar'd by Emollients and relaxing things apply the end of your Syringe close upon the Gums under which the imperfect Tooth lies and then draw the Embolus and the top of the Gums will follow and rise within the little Acorn-cup-like end of the Pipe as the flesh usually doth under Cupping-Glasses Keep it a while so and then take away the Syringe and scarifie that part of the Gums that was drawn within the Pipe in several places reiterating the same Operation twice a day for about a fortnight omitting only the Scarification which is to be used the first time only By this means it appears probable to me that the Gums yielding the force of the Blood will compel the fibres or minute parts of the imperfect Tooth to advance according to their natural order and situation and so cause the said Tooth to grow As to the Novel-Teeth you shall follow the same method and use the same means in facilitating their coming out that you have done to the others omitting only the tying of the Teeth which would be superfluous here Note that every thing is not capable of the same perfection and that as there is no rule without some exception so when I have asserted such and such things to be improvable to such a degree it is to be understood for the most part and in general not denying but that it may happen otherwise in some particular cases but I shall always deal candidly with every body never undertaking any thing but what I shall be able to do according to agreement And if any one will be pleased to come to my Chamber he may have my Advice concerning any thing that belongs to my Profession gratis at any time ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READERS GENTLEMEN ALthough I have offered nothing in this Paper but what is according to my own Experience and the best of my knowledge yet I will not say but that I have been deficient in many things and have committed a great many Errors in the management of my Subject but if you consider that I am the first as far as I know that ever wrote any thing of this nature and withal what is to be expected from one in my Circumstances I hope you will be the more ready to excuse my faults However if what I have done be acceptable to you I intend in a second Impression of this small Treatise to Correct Illustrate and augment it to its full proportion In the mean while I would advise you to make use of what is here presented you by Your very Humble Servant CHARLES ALLEN Printed in the Year 1686. A Physical Discourse WHEREIN The Reasons of the Beating of the PULSE or Pulsation of the Arteries Together with those of the Circulation of the Bloud are Mechanically Explain'd Which was never done before THe Beating of the Pulse being one of those Phenomena that deserve mans consideration the best it has excited the most Learned in all Ages to search out what might be the cause of it The best Physitians and greatest Philosophers of former times being ignorant of the Circulation of the Bloud did ascribe it to their occult qualities and unknown powers Galen an Eminent Physitian searching the natural cause of the Beating of the Pulse thought upon the making of that famous Experiment of his by which having put a Quill into an Artery and tied the Artery upon it he found that the said Artery ceased from beating betwixt the ligature and the extremity tho it continued still beating betwixt the same ligature and the heart And then seeing also that the Artery being untied from about the Quill the Pulse would immediately pass beyond the place where the ligature had been made and beat all along the Artery altho the capacity of the Quill remained still the same he concluded that the Pulse was caused by a Pulsisick faculty residing in the coats of the Artery Gassendus a Modern and most Learned
ways but that I may render what I have to say upon it as perspicuous and intelligible as I can I think it very convenient we should take a special notice of the vessels that come into the Tooth and of their respective Functions The first and chiefest whereof is an Artery whose Office is to bring directly from the heart that hot and spirituous blood out of which although it is not the general Opinion the Tooth is at first made as well as the rest of the whole body and ever after preserved and repaired by the supply of nourishment and vital principles it affords continually To this effect the whole Artery divides it self into an infinity of small branches which being disseminated throughout the whole substance of the Tooth distribute to each part as much of their blood as is necessary to make up the incessant loss they are subject to and the rest is returned through innumerable hair-like veins into the great ones and thence to the heart again but in two different manners for the superfluous part of that portion of the blood that is carried by the Capillary Arteries to that part of the Tooth standing above the Gums is sent back again through some Capillary veins towards the middle of the Tooth where uniting together they make but a single channel and this is it we commonly call the vein of the Tooth which we shall here take for its second vessel But the remainder of the blood that goes to the relief of that part of the Tooth that is within the Gums passing quite through the substance of the Tooth is carried by the Capillary veins to the veins of the Gums Checks and Lips and hence it is that whatever pain is at any time occasioned in any of those parts either by bruise excessive heat or cold c. comes to be soon after communicated to the Teeth The Third and Last Vessel of the Teeth is a Nerve one of the extremities whereof is expanded through the Membrane that invests the cavity of the Tooth and that that contains its Vessels and the other is rooted in the Brain from whence it takes its Origine and where the Animal Spirits being elaborated are thence sent by the Nerves to all the parts of the body to administer sense and the cause of motion to them c. although in some as the Teeth the faculty of motion is not exercised From this consideration of the Vessels of the Tooth we may gather the following reasons of its Dolour As first that if either through the too great quantity or ebulition of the blood the Artery is so dilated and swoln that it fills up the hole at the end of the stumps where it enters the Tooth and consequently so compresses the vein going out the same way that the circulation of the Blood is thereby hindred the continual flowing in of the blood will extremely puff up and distend the membrane that contains the vessels and consequently cause a great pain in the Tooth which will last till either the preternatural state of the Blood be changed or that the Arteriols which we have said to pass quite through the rooty part of the Tooth be so stretched and widened that by them the Blood may be discharged into the Gums Cheeks and Lips where it will then cause a swelling greater or lesser according to the quantity of the superfluous Blood And if at the beginning of this disorder when the Vein is first impeded in its Function the motion of the Blood is so rapid and its influx into the Tooth so impetuous that before it can make its way through the small Arterial Twigs into the Gums it does extremely extend the coats of the Artery the Interstices between their Fibres will thereby become wide enough to give passage to some of the thinnest parts of the Blood which gathering at the end of the root between the outside of the Artery and the common Coat investing all the Vessels will there putrifie and cause a great and very lasting pain in the Tooth during which if the Tooth be drawn the said gathering will appear at the end of its stump like a little Bladder You shall know this sort of Tooth-Ake by the high beating of your Pulse the fulness of the Veins and an often beating in the affected Tooth with a continual tho not very extreme pain And then for the Cure of it you must first bleed the Gums and sometimes open a Vein in the Arm also and wash your mouth with Rose-water and Vinegar of each equal quantities mixt together putting a little Cotton dipt in Oyl of Box into the Tooth if it be hollow Furthermore if that portion of the Blood which is diffused through the substance of the Brain for the production of the Animal Spirits is so depraved that all the sifting it receives through the hidden meanders and recesses of the Brain cannot clear it from its impurities and that notwithstanding all the contrivances of Nature it is deposited into the ventricles of the Brain tho under another form yet still impregnated with its ill qualities such sort of Animal Spirits being compounded of Heterogeneous parts if not timely discharged of their malignant and offensive Corpuscles through the usual Emunctories will either by their fermentation in the Ventricles of the Brain cause an Head-ake or by the oppilation of its pores cause a giddiness or else passing out of the Brain into the Nerves will by their irregular motion and preternatural extention of the coats of the Nerves and other Tunicles breed a disturbance in all the parts they go to but more particularly in the Teeth in which they always excite very great pains For discharging the peccant humour between the membrane that invests the inside of the Tooth and that that incloses its vessels it occasions a perpetual torment in them till it be expelled from thence by transpiration This second kind of Tooth-ake will be known by a disturbance in the head which precedes it most commonly a soreness in the joynts and a certain drousiness and lingring pain all over the body as if one were inclined to an Ague with a sharp and very excessive pain in the distempered Tooth which comes by fits soon ceasing and often beginning a-new As for its Cure it may be effected by Sternutation the friction of the nape of the Neck with warm clothes and the application of aperitive Remedies to open the pores of the Tooth and if it be hollow you shall put in 't a drop of Oyl of Camphire whereinto has been infused some Henbane-root These are the two general causes of the Tooth-ake all the rest proceeding from them some few excepted There is what I had a mind to say at this present concerning the Tooth-ake But you must note further that as it is not enough for one that intends to travel a Countrey over to understand the Map of that Countrey but he must also inquire often of the people he meets with as he goes