1310. Peruvian Bark Tooth Paste

1310.    Peruvian Bark Tooth Paste. This paste is made by adding 11/2 or 2 drachms of Peruvian bark, in very line powder, to the last receipt. It is a useful tonic in sponginess, foulness, and scurvy of the gums. (See No. 1318 (Peruvian Tooth Paste).)

1311. Soap Tooth Paste

1311.    Soap Tooth Paste. Take of Castile soap (air-dried, in fine powder), and cuttlefish bone, of each 2 ounces; honey, 4 or 5 ounces; aromatics or perfume at will, with or without the addition of a little rectified spirit. A very excellent preparation, superior to all the other pastes for cleaning the teeth and removing tartar and animalculae from them, but inferior in blanching and preservative qualities to areca nut charcoal paste. A pink or rose color may be given it by adding 1 drachm of finely powdered cochineal, or a fluid drachm or two of the tincture. It is commonly ordered in books to be made with honey of roses, but the alkali of the soap spoils the color of this article. The above preparation is also known under the names of Spanish Dentifrice, and Castilian Tooth Cream.

1312. Violet Tooth Paste

1312.    Violet Tooth Paste. Take of prepared chalk, 3 ounces; cuttle-fish bone and white sugar (powdered), of each, 2 ounces; orri3 root (powdered), 1 ounce; smalts, 2 to 3 drachms; mix with sufficient syrup of violets to make a paste. A fashionable tooth-paste, highly esteemed for its power of cleaning the teeth, and its delicate color and odor.

1313. Odontine

1313.     Odontine. There are several dentifrices advertised under this name, two or three of which have acquired a very large sale in the fashionable world. That of an eminent perfumery house appears to have the following composition: - Cuttle-fish bone, Castile soap and red coral, equal parts; color with tincture of cochineal and mix with honey sufficient to make a paste, and essential oils to aromatize, a sufficient quantity of each.

1314. Pellitier's Odontine

1314.    Pellitier's Odontine is said to consist of pulverized sepia-bone (cuttle-fish bone), with a little butter of cacao, beaten up with honey and aromatized or scented with essential oils.

1315. Magic Tooth Paste

1315.    Magic Tooth Paste. Take of white marble-dust, 2 ounces; pumice-stone in impalpable powdei-, 11/2 ounces; rose-pink, 1/2 ounce; attar of roses, 7 or 8 drops; mix as before with sufficient honey to make a paste. A favorite nostrum for rapidly cleaning and whitening the teeth, but one not adapted for free or frequent use.

1316. Charcoal Tooth Paste

1316.    Charcoal Tooth Paste. Take of chlorate of potassa in very fine powder, 1 drachm; finely powdered charcoal, 2 ounces; honey (best raw, cold), 11/2 ounces; sufficient mint water to flavor; form a paste as before. A rather unchemical mixture, esteemed, particularly by smokers, for deodorising the teeth and breath.

1317. To Prepare Charcoal as a Dentifrice

1317.    To Prepare Charcoal as a Dentifrice. To prepare charcoal of the highest quality, as a dentifrice, requires considerable skill and care. The substance, whether wood or nut, should not be in larger than one inch pieces; the carbonization should be effected in covered crucibles, at a low red heat - in no case exceeding a dull cherry red,- and the whole should be cooled out of contact with the air. On opening the crucible, only those pieces should be selected for use which are properly burnt, and have a uniform dark color and a dull surface. If the heat employed be much higher than that named, the charcoal acquires a brilliant surface, and is greatly deteriorated in quality. The pieces selected should be kept in close vessels for further use or operation; any exposure to the air weakens its power of absorption.

1318. Peruvian Tooth Paste

1318.    Peruvian Tooth Paste. This is formed by adding about l1/2 to 2 drachms of Peruvian bark, in very fine powder, to every ounce of the dry ingredients of any simple tooth paste, before beating them up with honey or syrup. A useful tonic for tender, spongy, foul, or scorbutic gums, and said to fix loose teeth. A little powdered myrrh is sometimes added.

1319. Quinine Toothpaste

1319.    Quinine Toothpaste. Take red coral, 3 ounces; cuttle-fish bone, 1 ounce; disulphate of quinine, 1/2 drachm; mix, triturate to very fine powder, add honey (white), 4 ounces; and a few drops attar of roses, or neroli, dissolved in rectified spirit, 3 fluid drachms; and beat the whole to a paste. A little powdered myrrh (1 to 3 drachms) is sometimes added. A very fashionable and popular article. Use, etc., the same as Peruvian paste.

1320. Opiate Tooth Paste

1320.    Opiate Tooth Paste. Honey, powdered orris, and precipitated chalk (see No. 1291 (Precipitated Chalk)), each 1/2 pound; rose pink, 2 drachms. Rub into paste with simple syrup, and perfume with oils of cloves, nutmeg, and rose, each 1/2 ounce.

1321. Patey's Orris Tooth Paste

1321. Patey's Orris Tooth Paste. Take 1 pound Paris white, h pound rose pink, 3 ounces orris root; alum, 1/2 ounce ; oil cloves and nutmegs, each 1 drachm. Use honey enough to form a paste.

1322. Dr

1322. Dr. King's Tooth Paste. Prepared chalk (see No. 1292 (To make Prepared Chalk)), 1 part; powdered Peruvian bark, 1 part; powdered old "Windsor soap, 1 part. Mix with equal parts of the tinctures of rhatany and myrrh; oil of check-erberry to flavor. This paste is a fine preparation for soft, spongy gums and loose teeth.