Tooth Pastes; Tooth Electuaries; Pates pour les Dents. These may consist of any of the substances ordinarily used as dentifrices, reduced to the state of inpalpable powder, and beaten up with sufficient honey (liquefied by a gentle heat), syrup, or capillaire, to give them the form of a smooth and moderately stiff paste or electuary, a sufficient quantity of aromatics being usually added, as it were, to "embalm and perfume the mouth." Honey of roses is often, and conserve of roses sometimes, used for those in which their odor and color are suitable. A little rectified spirit is a useful addition, as tending to preserve them, and promote their action. A little eau de Cologne or lavender water is often employed, with the same intention. They are usually put up in porcelain or ornamental glazed earthenware pots, furnished with closely fitting covers, to preserve their contents from the air. The mixed powders should be passed through a very fine gauze-sieve, before adding the honey, and the paste should not be potted until the day following that on which it is made. (See No. 1288.)

1306. Ward's Tooth Paste

1306.    Ward's Tooth Paste. Take of prepared chalk (see No. 1292 (To make Prepared Chalk)), 2 ounces: myrrh, rhatany root, and cuttle-fish bone, each, 1/2 ounce; orris root, 1/4 ounce; honey, 3 ounces. A very useful dentifrice in foul, spongy, and scorbutic gums, loose and rotten • teeth, etc.. This is also known as Zeiter's Antiscorbutic Dentifrice.

1307. Areca Nut Charcoal Tooth Paste

1307.      Areca Nut Charcoal Tooth Paste. Areca nut charcoal (recent, in fine powder), beaten up with pure honey or capillaire. Aromatics, though commonly added, do not improve its efficacy. (Sec No. 1302.)

1308. Areca Nut Tooth Paste

1308.    Areca Nut Tooth Paste. Take of recently burnt areca-nut charcoal, in fine powder (see No. 1302 (Areca Nut Charcoal)), 5 parts; raw or un-burnt arecanuts, 1 part; honey, liquefied by a gentle heat, and allowed to cool, sufficient to make them into a stiff paste, adding gradually, for each ounce of the mixture, about 1 fluid drachm rectified spirit, holding in solution oil of cassia and oil of cloves, of each 10 or 12 drops. The next day beat up the mass again, adding, if necessary a few drops of proof spirit, or of eau de rose or orange-flower water, to give it a proper consistence, and at once put it into pots. A very excellent preparation.

1309. Vanilla Tooth Paste

1309.    Vanilla Tooth Paste. Take of the finest vanilla, 1 drachm; cloves, 1/2 drachm; lump sugar and cuttle-fish bone, of each 1/2 ounce ; white marble-dust, 1 ounce ; mix, triturate them to an inpalpable powder, and then beat them to a paste with about 2 ounces syrup of saffron. The product is much esteemed for rapidly whitening the teeth and deodorizing the breath. 5 or 6 drops of essence of ambergris or musk, dissolved in 1 fluid drachm of rectified spirit, are often added, and improve it.