Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	half_n	ounce_n	pint_n	3,466	5	11.4571	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23630	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.	Allen, Charles.	1686 (1686)	Wing A1022; ESTC R24170	29,284	59

the Teeth in reference to adult persons and such as are past childhood we shall explain in this Section as succinctly and withal as clearly as we can what is necessary to be known touching their growth and change in children a thing of no small consequence since the life of Infants is therein so often concern'd The Child being born remains Toothless till he is about five or six Months old at which time his two foremost Teeth in each Jaw begin to appear without keeping any constant order of Precedence sometimes those above coming out first and sometimes those below After them follow all the rest successively in both Mandibles so next to these come the four other Incisores the four Canin or Dog-Teeth and the first eight Molares which are properly the double Teeth and then come the four biggest Teeth of all which may be called Quadruple Teeth as being about three times bigger than the small ones and after that the eight last Teeth do follow which in respect to the Incisores may be termed treble Teeth But these treble ones usually vary very much in time of growth for it is but rarely that they all come forth in the same year the four last of them seldom coming out before the one or two and twentieth year of our age for which reason such Teeth are called by some Teeth of Wisdom because that by that time we should have a full use of our rational Faculty though God knows how often it proves to be true The eight Incisores and the four Dog-Teeth come the first year the eight double Teeth the second year and the four Quadruples with the four first Treble ones the third During the time of their eruption and especially when the four Quadruple ones break forth out of their Sockets children are subject to Fevers and great alterations which weakens them extremely and often puts an end to their days which comes to pass most commonly for want of help to facilitate their issue out of the Gums And as I look upon the knowledge of Childrens Teeth as a subject properly belonging to my Profession so I think my self oblig'd to amend amplifie and render it as conducive to the preservation of the life and health of Children and to the preventing of all those Infirmities wherewith they are afflicted upon the account of the first coming and shedding of their Teeth as my weak indeavours can make it And therefore I will to that end deliver here in few words what reason and experience have taught me concerning the same Proceeding thus In the first place I would advise such as may be concerned in this Affair to take a special care in observing when the Child's Teeth begin to trouble him which besides his frowardness and excessive crying may be known by his salivation or drivelling as Nurses are wont to stile it and the inflammation and swelling of his Gums and as soon as you perceive it to be so you are to wash his mouth now and then with the following mixture Take seven or eight as new Figs as you can get and boyl them in a pint or more of Whey till they grow very soft and then squeeze the Whey and as much of the substance of the Figs as you can through a cloth of which liquor take half a pint of Honey of Roses and Syrup of Violets of each half an ounce and three or four spoonfuls of plantain-Plantain-water mix all together and keep it close in a Bottel The best way to use it is with a stick of Liquorish beaten at one end into small threads like a Comb-brush or little Broom with which being dipt in some of the said Liquor you shall wash and rub the Childs Gums especially where they are tumified at least five or six times a day continuing so to do till you perceive the Gums to grow white above the Tooth which is a sign of great pain in that part and that the young Tooth will in a little time break through the Gums and then take a Lancet or a very sharp Pen-knife and divide the white place cutting it down to the head of the subjacent Tooth with two Incisions crossing one another at the centre of the white spot continuing to use the mixture as is aforesaid till the Tooth appears above the Gums observing to use the same method at the coming out of every Tooth which you may know by the foregoing tokens Now the Teeth being all come out except only such as remain latent within the Jaw till about the two and twentieth year of ones age they keep firm and strong till the child is a matter of six or seven years old and then most of them grow loose and a while after are cast clear out The treble Teeth never change the Quadruples very rarely but the Incisores the Dog-Teeth and the double ones always do sometimes whole and then the second Teeth or those that are to succeed them are a long time before they grow up again but most commonly their head only comes off the other part remaining still for the making up of the next Tooth like unto the first production of a Vegetable Seed or tender Sprig of a young Plant for as the upper part of this being withered in the Winter following by the rigorous cold of that Season drops off in the next Spring by reason that its texture being yet loose and less firm the pores or sap carrying vessels are over much dilated by the great affluence of the nutritive juice and so give admittance to some indigested and grosser particles than is convenient for the nourishment of the Vegetable which particles being irregular and unactive their motion is soon stopt when-as a great cold intervening compresses a little the young Plant round about so that they are congeal'd and become fixt in their Ducts or leading pipes whereby that part being deprived of its due nourishment fades away and dries up and is succeeded by a new Sprout shooting out of the stump or remaining part So likewise the young Teeth coming into the cold air when they are yet tender and less solid those of them that are more susceptible of alteration and more exposed to the inclemency of the weather as must be those before which by reason of their smalness and situation cannot but be more subject to adventitious accidents are thereby chill'd and repressed and their parts thrust near one another and driven back towards their centre from whence the substance of the Tooth becoming closer and the intervals between its parts narrower and interrupted in several places by the irregular motion of some of the minutest of those parts which by reason of their unstableness and fluxibility being disposed to advance and obey the action of external Agents more than the others do move disorderly and spoil the structure of the rest the small Veins and Arteries therein dispersed will become so extremely compressed that the bloud they contain which in Children is most commonly gross and impure