The Duchess de la Valliere's Mouth Water

Take:

• 2 ounces Cinnamon
• 6 drachms  Cloves, 
• Water Cress
• 1 1/2 ounces fresh Lemon Peel
• 1 ounce Red Rose Leaves
• 1/2 pound Scurvy Grass, 
• 3 pints Spirit of Wine

Bruise the Spices, cut the Water Cress and Scurvy Grass small, and macerate the whole in Spirit of Wine, in a bottle well corked, during twenty-four hours ; then distill to dryness in a vapour-bath, and afterwards rectify the distilled Water by repeating the fame process.

This Water strengthens the gums, prevents the scurvy, and cures asthma, or little ulcerations in the mouth.  It is used to gargle the mouth with, either by itself,  or diluted with water, as occasion may require. 

American Dentifrice

Take:

• Carbonate of magnesia……………………..4 oz
• Precipitated chalk………………………….8 oz
• Orris root (powdered)……………………..4 oz
• Cuttle fish bone (powdered)……………….3 oz
• Oil of wintergreen………………………….2 drms
• Extract of musk……………………………2 drms

Cherry Tooth Paste

Take:

• Otto of roses………………………10 drops
• Oil of cassia………………………..1/2 drm
• Oil of cloves………………………..1 drm
• Orris root, in powder……………….4 oz
• Cuttle fish…………………………..4 oz
• Precipitated chalk…………………..4 oz
• Prepared chalk, in powder…………1 pound
• Glycerine of borax………………….A sufficiency
• Liquid cochineal…………………….A sufficiency

 Mix well.

Areca Nut Tooth Paste

Take:

• 8 oz Precipitated chalk
• 4 oz Powdered areca nut
• 2 oz White castile soap
• 4 oz Powdered orris root
• 1/2 oz Bole Armenian (finely levigated)
• 2 ½ fl oz Glycerine
• 2 ½ fl oz Rose water
• 4 minims Otto of roses
• 5 minims Oil of cloves
• 5 minims Oil of pimento

12th Century Tooth Powder

The teeth are whitened thus. Take burnt white marble and burnt date pits and white natron, a red tile, salt, and pumice. From all of these make a powder in which damp wool has been wrapped in a fine linen cloth. Rub the teeth inside and out.