5859. To Cure a Disagreeable Breath

5859.  To Cure a Disagreeable Breath. This most disagreeable infliction may be alleviated or cured by one or other of the following remedies, provided that the teeth do not require a dentist's assistance. Chlorine water, as supplied by a good chemist, a table-spoonful to half a tumbler of water, to be used as a wash and gargle for the mouth; no harm will be done if a few drops are accidentally swallowed in so doing. Charcoal in teaspoonful doses of tho powder, or as charcoal biscuits, or the use of prepared chalk as a tooth-powder. A frequent cause of foul breath is a torpidity of some of tho excretory organs, such as the skin, kidneys, bowels, liver, lungs. When these cease performing their functions one of the others will be called upon to perform an extra office. In this way, when the bowels or skin become affected, the lungs, being an excretory organ, will be called upon to throw off an additional waste from the system. If so, the breath becomes tainted. Should the foul breath be depending upon tho stomach, it must be corrected by some skillful physician.

5860. Remedy for Bad Breath

5860.     Remedy for Bad Breath. Take of dry hypochlorite of lime, 3 drachms; distilled water, 2 ounces troy. Triturate the hypochlorite of lime in a glass pestle and mortar; when the hypochlorite has been thoroughly pulverized add a portion of the distilled water ; allow the mixture to rest until the liquid has become transparent; then decant; add a second portion of water, triturate and allow to rest, again decant; this process is repeated a third time. Tho three liquids which have been decanted are then mixed, and 2 troy ounces of 85 per cent, alcohol, and 4 drops oil of roses or some other essential oil are added. Tho solution thus prepared may be employed to remove the fetid odor which is given off by the gums - an odor often due to the diseased condition of tho tissues. To employ it, 1/2 tea-spoonful is poured into a tumblerful of water, and the gums are washed with the mixture, employing for tho purpose a sponge-brush. The same preparation may be employed to remove the odor of tobacco, rinsing the mouth several times with water to which has been added a tea-spoonful of the liquid. Inasmuch as the odor of tho essential oil is gradually diminished in time, said diminution taking place at the expense of the chlorine of the hypochlorite, it is suggested that this inconvenience may be obviated by preparing the solution with water and the hypochlorite of lime, and keeping it in one bottle, whilo the aromatic alcoholic solution (prepared of 2 ounces of 85 per cent, alcohol and 4 drops of essential oil) is preserved in another, both being well stoppered. When it is desired to use the liquids, a half tea-spoonful of each of the solutions is poured into a glass of water, which is then employed as described above.

5861. Remedy for Bad Breath

5861.    Remedy for Bad Breath. Take 5 to 10 drops hydrochloric acid in half a tumbler of spring water, a little lemon juice, and loaf sugar rubbed on lemon peel to flavor it to suit the palate. Let this mixture be taken 3 times a day for a month or six weeks, and, if useful, then continued occasionally. It is a pleasant refrigerant and tonic draught.