5870. To Cure Toothache

5870.  To Cure Toothache. To 1 drachm flexible collodion add 2 drachms carbolic acid. A gelatinous mass is precipitated, a small portion of which inserted into the cavity of an aching tooth invariably gives immediate relief.

5871. Chlorate of Potassa as a Cure for Toothache

5871.    Chlorate of Potassa as a Cure for Toothache. According to the experience of eminent dentists, chlorate of potassa affords quick relief in toothache. If the hollow tooth is in the lower jaw, a small crystal of this salt may be put in the cavity; but perhaps it is more advisable to use a solution of 1 part of the potassa in 20 of water.

5872. Paste for Toothache

5872.    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.

5873. Cure for Toothache

5873.      Cure for Toothache. Take equal parts of burnt alum and salt. Saturate a piece of cotton, cover with the mixture, and put in the tooth. Or saturate a small bit of clean cotton wool with a strong solution of ammonia, and apply it immediately to the affected tooth. Immediate relief will be experienced.

5874. Perry's Essence for the Toothache

5874.    Perry's Essence for the Toothache. A concentrated tincture of pellitory made with about equal parts of ether and rectified spirit largely charged with camphor. Though a nostrum, it is an excellent preparation. (See No. 4532 (Compound Tincture of Pellitory).)

5875. Pieste's Toothache Essence

5875.     Pieste's Toothache Essence. This is laudanum mixed with about twice its volume of liquor of ammonia specific gravity .930. Applied on lint, like other toothache drops, it often rapidly relieves the pain.

5876. Cottereau's Odontalgic Essence

5876.      Cottereau's Odontalgic Essence. A nearly saturated ethereal solution of camphor, mixed with 1/10 to 1/12 its volume of liquor of ammonia (specific gravity .880 to 882). A very useful preparation.

5877. To Kill the Nerve of a Hollow Tooth

5877.    To Kill the Nerve of a Hollow Tooth. Take 1/2 drachm white oxide of arsenic; 1 drachm sulphate of morphia; mix with a little creosote, and apply to the cavity of the tooth, previously cleansed.

5878. Tooth Cements

5878.    Tooth Cements. These are preparations for filling up cavities, cracks, etc., in defective teeth, the object being either to restore or preserve them, or to cure or prevent toothache. (See Nos. 3549 (Evans' Tooth Amalgam), etc..)

5879. Diamond Tooth Cement

5879.        Diamond Tooth Cement. Take of anhydrous phosphoric acid in fine powder, 12 grains; pure caustic lime, fresh burnt, and in fine powder, 13 grains; mix them rapidly, by trituration, in a porcelain or wedgwood-ware mortar, and apply the powder, in the dry state, as quickly as possible, as it soon becomes moist. The powder, after being well pressed in the crack or cavity of the tooth, is smoothed off with the finger moistened with a drop of water. It soon acquires great hardness, is white, very durable, and does not become discolored by age.

The compound that results from the combination of the ingredients almost exactly resembles the natural earthy matter of the teeth, and is, therefore, unobjectionable. Its color closely resembles, and will soon become that of the teeth to which it is applied, provided they possess ordinary whiteness. To cause it at once to imitate the color of the teeth, the mixture may bo rendered slightly grey by adding to it a mere trace of carbon. This may be done by holding the pestle, used to mix the powders, over the flame of a candle or lamp, for an instant. A faint yellowish shade may be given to it by a trace of sulphuret of cadmium or a little yellow ochre; and a faint shade of red or flesh-color by a trace of jeweler's rouge or peroxide of iron, or a very little light-red (burnt yellow-ochre). This stopping, from its composition and other qualities, is, perhaps, superior to all others; but, except in the case of hollow teeth, its use requires some degree of skill and expert-ness, which is, however, readily acquired.