Tooth and Mouth Washes. These are used to rinse the mouth, and particularly the teeth and gums, a few drops, more or less, of them being added to about a wine-glassful of water for the purpose. In some cases their action is promoted by the use of the tooth-brush.

1324. Eau Botot

1324.    Eau Botot. Tincture of cedar wood, 1 pint; tincture of myrrh and rhatany, each 4 ounces; oil of peppermint and rose, each 10 drops. Mix.

1325. Violet Mouth Wash

1325.    Violet Mouth Wash. Tincture of orris, essence of rose, and alcohol, each 1/2 pint; oil of almonds, 5 drops. Mix.

1326. Mexican Tooth Wash

1326.    Mexican Tooth Wash. Take of pulverized orris root, 1 ounce; tonqua beans, 1 ounce ; Peruvian bark, 1/2 ounce; oak bark, 1/2 ounce; alcohol, 1 pint; water, 1 pint; lot the above stand for 12 days, and filter; color with alkanet root. An elegant tooth wash.

1327. Balm of Thousand Flowers

1327.    Balm of Thousand Flowers. Take of white Castile soap, 2 ounces; honey, 4 ounces; water, 12 ounces; alcohol, 4 ounces; melt the Castile soap and honey in the alcohol and water with a gentle heat. Flavor with oil of rose and wintergreen. Used as a dentifrice.

1328. Wash to Harden the Gums

1328.    Wash to Harden the Gums. Take 1/2 pint of Jamaica spirits, 1/2 tea-spoonful each powdered alum and saltpetre pulverized, and 1 ounce of pulverized myrrh. Mix.

1329. Cologne Tooth Wash

1329.    Cologne Tooth Wash. Eau de Cologne, 1 quart; tincture of myrrh, 4 ounces. Mix.

1330. Sozodont

1330.    Sozodont. Take of salts of tartar (carbonate of potassa), 1/2 ounce; honey, 4 ounces; alcohol, 2 ounces; water, 10 ounces; oil wintergreen and oil rose, sufficient to flavor. An elegant dentifrice.

1331. Cleveland's Tooth Wash

1331.   Cleveland's Tooth Wash. Tinctures of myrrh, Peruvian bark, and gentian root, each 1 fluid ounce; aqua ammonia, 1 drachm; pure water, 1/2 pint; tincture of wintergreen, or any flavor to suit; mix. This is a fine wash for the mouth, gums, and teeth.

1332. Myrrh Tooth Wash; Kirk-land's Tooth Lotion

1332.     Myrrh Tooth Wash; Kirk-land's Tooth Lotion. Take of tincture of myrrh, 1 ounce; water, 2 ounces; mucilage, 1/2 ounce; agitate them well together, and again each time before use. As a wash in rotten and loose teeth, foul, spongy, and ulcerated gums, fetid breath, etc., it is often very serviceable where there is a scorbutic taint.

1333. Myrrh and Borax Mouth Wash

1333.       Myrrh and Borax Mouth Wash. Rub well together in a mortar, 1 ounce each of borax and honey ; then gradually add 1 quart spirit of wine (not above proof), and add 1 ounce each of gum myrrh and red saunders wood. Macerate for 14 days, and filter. This is an excellent wash for the gums and mouth.

1334. To Cleanse the Spaces Between the Teeth

1334. To Cleanse the Spaces Between the Teeth. Some dentists recommend silk floss for cleaning the spaces between teeth, but we know from experience, that No. 8 gum rings are superior. They are much more convenient in every respect.

1335. Wash to Beautify the Teeth

1335.    Wash to Beautify the Teeth. Dissolve 2 ounces borax in 3 pounds boiling water, and before it is cold add 1 tea-spoonful spirits of camphor, and bottle for use. A table-spoonful of this mixture, mixed with an equal quantity of tepid water, and applied daily with a soft brush, preserves and beautifies the teeth, extirpates all tartarous adhesion, arrests decay, induces a healthy action in the gums, and makes the teeth pearly white.

1336. Cachou Aromatise

1336.      Cachou Aromatise. These popular pastilles for perfuming the breath are thus made: Dissolve 31/2 ounces extract of liquorice in 4 ounces water, by the heat of a water bath, and add pulverized gum-arabic, 1/2 ounce; and Bengal catechu in powder, 1 ounce. Evaporate to the consistence of an extract, and then mix in thoroughly, pow dered mastic, charcoal, cascarilla, and orris root, each 1/2 drachm. When the mass has been reduced to the proper consistence, it is to be removed from the fire, treated with attar of peppermint, 30 drops; tinctures of ambergris and musk, 5 drops; and then poured out upon an oiled slab, and rolled to a very thin sheet. After cooling, blotting paper is pressed upon it to absorb any adhering oil, and the surfaces are moistened with water, and covered with silver leaf. When dry it is to be divided into small bits of the size of a lentil.