[ How to Make the King of France's Teeth Powder ]
Date: 1784/01/01
Source:
Nova Scotia Calender, or an Almanack [...] by Metonicus 1784 (online), "The Treasure of Health"
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How to make the King of France's Teeth Powder, famous for mak-
ing the Teeth white, and preserving them from the Scurvy.
Take of chalk and pebble-stones burnt, of each one ounce, myrrh [,]
bole-armoniac, and dragon's-blood, of each half an ounce, of
ammoniacum and cuttle-bones, of each three drachms, and let
them be all finely powdered.
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