A Powder to clean the Teeth

Historical preparation record

This formula was extracted from a rights-cleared historical primary source and is preserved as an archival record. Historical terminology, identity, strength and safety require modern interpretation.

Source: The domestic pharmacopoeia, or, complete medical guide for families. Containing an alphabetical arrangement, in the form of a dictionary, of all the diseases to which the human frame is liable, with the symptoms attendant on each, and the most simple and rational modes of treatment, drawn from high and approved Authorities. The whole preceded by Directions for preserving health, and attaining long life, together with Rules for nursing sick persons, and terminated by an appendix ... of favorite a (1805), paragraph-1572.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• dragon’s blood and cinnamon, of each one ounce and an half, burnt alum, or cream of tar- | tar, one ounce
• Beat all together into a very fine powder, and rub a little on the teeth every other Another. ‘Take of cream of tartar, three-quarters of an ounce, choice myrrh three drachms, dragon’s blood one drachm
• pumice-ftone prepared, fealed earth, and red coral prepared, of each an ounce, dragon’s- blood half an ounce, cream of tartar an ounce and an half, cinnamon a quarter of an ounce, and cloves a {cruple
• Viper Broths Take a middle-fized viper freed from the head, fkin, and bowels, and two pints of water, boil them to

Method as extracted

1. Take dragon’s blood and cinnamon, of each one ounce and an half, burnt alum, or cream of tar- | tar, one ounce.
2. Beat all together into a very fine powder, and rub a little on the teeth every other Another. ‘Take of cream of tartar, three-quarters of an ounce, choice myrrh three drachms, dragon’s blood one drachm.
3. Mix them for a powder.
4. Take pumice-ftone prepared, fealed earth, and red coral prepared, of each an ounce, dragon’s- blood half an ounce, cream of tartar an ounce and an half, cinnamon a quarter of an ounce, and cloves a {cruple.
5. Beat the whole together into a powder.

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