Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

HomeMedical Receipts › Paste for Toothache

Paste for Toothache

Take of root-bark of pellitory, 1 drachm; muriate of morphia, 5 grains; triturate until reduced to fine powder, then add, finest honey, 3 drachms; oil of cloves (or of cajeput), 20 drops; concentrated tincture of pellitory, a sufficient quantity to form the whole into a smooth paste. Very effective.

← To Cure ToothacheCure for Toothache →