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Wash to Beautify the Teeth
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Dissolve 2 ounces borax in 3 pounds boiling 1339. Perfumers' Fumigating Paswater, and before it is cold add 1 tea-spoonful tils. Take of gum benzoin, 2 ounces (avoirspirits of camphor, and bottle for use. A dupois); olibanum (in tears), 1½ ounces; table-spoonful of this mixture, mixed with an storax (in tears), 1 ounce; cascarilla and gum. equal quantity of tepid water, and applied tragacanth, of each ounce; nitre, 2 ounces; daily with a soft brush, preserves and beauti- charcoal, 14 pounds; mix, and beat them up fies the teeth, extirpates all tartarous adhe- with water or rose water. sion, arrests decay, induces a healthy action 1340. Piesse's Fumigating Pastils. in the gums, and makes the teeth pearly Dissolve ounce nitre in pint rose water; white. mix this with 1/2 pound willow charcoal, and