This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... them taken out until we have exhausted every means to relieve "them without this alternative. A most insane practice it is whenever we have a toothache, which may be occasioned from a cold, and will hence soon pass off, or from a had state of the stomach, or by fever, or from mental and physical excitement, or from drinking coffee, or pregnancy, to rush to the doctor or dentist and lose a tooth--a loss which can never be repaired. Under such circumstances, exercise a little patience and some judgment: quiet the system, and allay.the exciting cause, and save the 100th.. Treatment: Take first two of the N0. EIGHT pellets, repeating every hour if needful. If not relieved, dissolve eiglfi pellets in a. glass half-full of water,'a1se prepare the N0. Oivn pellets in the same manner, and take them alternately every hour, or every two hours, until relieved. Sometimes the No. FIFTEEN are very sillcient, and in other cases the No. TEN M') equally so. Toothache with swelling fli the face requires the 'N0. ONE and NQ. EIGHT in alternation.. It is 0. bad practice in toothache to how. spirits, camphor, or other stimulants in flfi mouth, or to apply creosote, laudannn; oil of cloves, etc., to the teeth. These more frequently irritate than relieve. Let the diet be light, if the stomach is deranged; if there is a cold, cure that, and you will soon find relief, and save 'your teeth. If relieved after an hour or so, take no more; if it returns, try mother pill, and even repeat it after an hour or two. ' In Neumlgia, the pain is usually limited to s. small surface, or extends along the course of a branch of nerves, and is very acute, cutting, or piercing in its character. The pain has also its periods of increase and...