Show Toothache e Try Ty Sitting on a Stove Or Solicit Your You Nei Neighbors Neighbor's Opinion Ancients and Moderns Too Offer Deluge of Panaceas Ranging from Garlic to Acorns Even Shakespeare Talked About It I IThe The next time you have a toothache heres here's what not to do Place a snip of garlic ground with oil and salt on the thumbnail on the ailing side and apply the concoction to the gums surrounding the aching tooth Be very careful however how how- ever to surround the garlic with dough to protect the flesh from Tom leprosy If that doesn't work work and and it wont won't wont won't-here's here's heres another pre pro that's just as useless use use- i less ess Gather a number of earthworms earthworms earthworms earth earth- worms and place them in a adish adish adish dish filled with moist sand Strew over it the minced yolk of one egg The earthworms shall eat it After some time they are cleaned put putina in a pot which should be covered well placed In a hot oven and dried About two egg ega shells full of this powder are rubbed t to form a salve with bloodstone and red sandal two ounces each unadulterated musk two scruples lard obtained from a bear he lard from a boar five ounces each Smearing Is la Helpful If It you wish to use the remedy you should first scratch the tooth JT x In havana toothache sufferers were sometimes sometime advised to 0 chase a II cat ca' over a plowed field until the animal perspired perspire I After catching it the he aching molar was teas to 10 be rubbed leih perspiration from the he cat cal I with a splinter of aspen wood and then smear the salve on it If It the tooth still aches and aches and it will dont don't bother t to try this An A eel ed 1 a piny back True indeed indeed True Tru in ill tooth sooth oh in sooth You must tat eat the head 0 0 l said laid spiny piny back tack To rate ease the he achin aching tooth This Thil whole business may sound silly and of course it is Is but up until untila a hundred bundred years ago in most parts of the world and even in some remote remote remote re re- re- re mote corners today toothache remedies rem rem- edles edies such as DI these noted above were and are prescribed conscientiously conscientiously for the relief of dental pa Looking into the history of aching molars and remedies there is no evidence available that Adam ever had a toothache nor Is there any case history on the dental health of Eve but it Is II a safe assumption that there have been sore teeth ever since the time of our common ancestors ancestors ancestors an an- and It Is almost as certain that there have been as many remedies remedies reme reme- dies as there have been toothaches Dentists in Abundance One time history relates a fellow was asked to name the most widespread wide spread pread profession With little hesitation heal hesi tation he replied there are more dentists in the world than representatives of any other field When called upon to prove his statement 4 q 1 f I a CHINESE CURE Garlic I and saltpetre ai petre should be applied applied ap ap- plied in the de left lef ear to 0 ease an ache in the dIe right side of 0 the he j JalC ale and vice rice versa reTia So runs run an ancient anden Chinese Chinee toothache cure ture he tied a handkerchief around his jaw and sat himself in front of a achurch achurch church on a great holida holiday moanIng moaning moan moan- Ing and groaning with feigned pain Almost everyone who ho entered the church stopped topped to prescribe for his hll distress practically distress practically everybody who h entered the church was a dentist He lie proved that everyone Is a dentist and what's more he be showed that there are as many recipes recipes rec ipes for toothache relief relict as there are dental advisers Since time immemorial there has been Indeed a legion of medicines a host bost of and a startling multiplicity of procedures intended intend ed to cure the evil of toothache AU All three kingdoms of nature- nature plants plant animals and Inorganic substances sub stances have been called upon to stop dental pain But Cut before we learn more about the weird remedies of magic superstition superstition super super- and Ignorance it is fitting perhaps to find out just what a toothache Is and how hw to cure It Any member of the American Dental association as as- will tell you that toothache tooth ache Is not a disease In Itself Itself rath rath rather er It Is ii a symptom of disease the I most common of all human ailments all ail ments tooth decay I Only One ODe Way Vay to Stop P Pain Pala ln Decay results because there Is a break In the hardest substance Inthe In Inthe inthe the human body tooth enamel When decay exposes the nerve of the tooth pain results Medicaments will give temporary relief but modem modera modern mod mod- era ern thought Is II that the best way to stop a tooth from aching Is to relieve relieve re reo re- re lieve Its nerve from exposure Of course ancient people knew little little little lit lit- tle of the whys and wherefores of toothache and even today many people people peo pea pIe know little of the pathology of If I a. a the teeth with the result that many of the ancient recipes based on superstition are still being prescribed prescribed prescribed pre pre- scribed today The ancients did know enow however that toothache is a painful thing There is a story told of a Turk In Bosnia who upon encountering a weeping child asked Why are you crying When Then the child replied A snake bit me the Turk said nothing I thought you had hada a toothache The English of old had a proverb which pointed out that He Who Hath Aching Teeth Hath Ill III Ten Ten- ants The proverb embodies more truth than the author realized for modern dental and medical study has shown that aching and diseased dis eased teeth can upset other tenants in the human structure such as the heart icart heart eyes eye tonsils joints etc Shakespeare Was Right Shakespeare Immortalized d aching molars In Much Ado About Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- ing when he said laid For there uw never yet yel philosopher That Tha could endure the toothache patiently The majority of toothache remedies rem rem- edles edies since time unrecorded have been applied to the aching member of the dental arch but relief of pain has been sought by the application of toothache cures to cheeks nostrils nos ears and even to more distant parts of the Ule body such as the upper arms elbows forearms and wrists Folk dentistry in all parts of the world uses almost every type of plant life lite for relief from acorns to Zulu cherries The Polish Jews eat an apple which has been roasted roasted roast roast- ed with a species of palm leaf leal over overa a fire for tooth comfort East Indians inhale an infusion of bamboo The ancient Greek dentists believe believe be be- lieve it or not prescribed butter butter- cups Garlic has been the remedy of many people while others have bave used lemon the lily wheat moss parsnip tobacco and a host bost of other types of vegetation One Austrian remedy urges the patient to cook garlic in vinegar and to tie a a poultice of same orthe on or the wrist wriston on the side of 01 the aching tooth In Bavaria they peel a piece of garlic carlic and place dace it In the ear I The The The- Chinese made pills of garlic horseradish seeds saltpeter and human human hu bu hu- hu man milk which they inserted In Inthe Inthe inthe the nose In Brandenburg a dental genius discovered to th ailments could be relieved If It the sufferer ran around a church three times without without with with- out thinking of a fox The Ruthe- Ruthe placed their hopes In a concoction con conS of dog dOli tooth powder Once people were convinced that oral pain would disappear if It the teeth were picked with the nail naU from the middie middle mid mid- die dle toe of an owl Mice l and Lions Lion's ton Teeth Another Central European physician I clan cian of the Middle ages advised his patients to bite the head bead of oft a mo mouse mouse se seand and then suspended said head from the neck It was believed too that thata a youth would be free from aching teeth for tor the remainder of his life It if he wore the canine tooth o 0 of a alion alion alion lion around his neck Just as surely as plants and animals were infallible cures for toothache so were treatments with F II y s- s sS' sS S' S N r i l MOST F FANTASTIC ANT According According According Ac Ac- cording to 10 an anonymous humorist all one has haa to 0 do dois dois doit is it take ake a mouths mouthful oj of cold center and arul sit on a hot stove Iove until the he water waler boils boU The toothaches toothache's then Ihen supposed to tobe tobe 0 be gone h human an organs and secretions considered considered con con- sure-fire sure relief for example To To ease rase the he tooth you well welt might Jis Visit the graveyard loU at of midnight M Make Hake oke lure you yon dodge the he morning tun sun sun- Then bite bit the bong bone oJ of a skeleton In Prussia it was believed that I Ithe the index finger of the right hand had greater healing power than the theother theother theother other fingers so 0 the Prussians among other remedies urged that the index finger linger of a corpse be placed against the aching tooth with the plea To thee Ihle the lite deceased I 1 complain of oJ my lay pain Take my toothache from me And keep i it in lit thy grave pave The Inorganic substances used for toothache cures run from agate to zinc with demand for arsenic iron rust lead salt and water Water perhaps is Involved in the most fantastic fantastic fan fan- o of 01 tooth remedies All AU one has t to do ao according to the advice of an anonymous humorist is to fill the mouth with cold water and sit on a hot stove until the water boils And that advice is Just as 81 good for the relief of toothache as any mentioned above Modern science which has released released released re re- re- re leased the mind from the oppressing grasp of mystical bugaboos which has liberated our surroundings from the presence of spirits and ghosts of demons and devils has demonstrated that toothache is merely the symptom of a disease namely dental decay The moral of our story is that when a tooth aches the nerve is either exposed or in danger of being be ing exposed Permanent relief is assured only by relieving the nerve from exposure or losing the tooth |