Medicines for the Teeth. A Regiment for the Tooth ach

You must wash your Mouth before and after Meat with warm Water to cleanse the Mouth and purge the Humors from the Gums, which descend out of the Head, it is good every Morning to wash the Mouth, and to rub the Teeth with a Sage Leaf, or with Powder made of Cloves, and Nutmegs. You must forbear Lettice, and raw fruits, all tart things, and the chewing of hard things: also all Meats of evill digestion, an d vomiting, and straining of your self.