All, I would like to make a clarification on a recent blog post. I had incorrectly identified the author and work where the recipe for tooth water was from. I have a collection containing several period works, and believed it part of John Russell’s Boke of Nurture, when, in fact, it is part of William Vaughan’s Naturall & Artificial Directions for health. The collection of works is available through Google Books. The link to the collection is: https://books.google.com/books?id=sTMJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

I tried using the tooth water/paste I made and posted about previously.  I made my husband record a video of me doing it so we could record my initial responses. The video can be found on YouTube at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhU4Uxcqm0E It has been about a half hour since I tried it, and my breath still feels fresh, and my teeth feel very clean. I’m encouraged to keep working on this project, and trying additional dentifrices.

Last night, I experimented with the “tooth water” listed in the Boke of Nurture by John Russell.  It has a very interesting smell and texture. The excerpt from the manual is below: I will aduertise you by foure rules of importance how to keepe your teeth white and vncorruyt (mc), and also to haue a sweete breath. First, wash well your mouth when you haue eaten your meat : secondly, sleepe with your mouth somewhat open. Thirdly, spit out in the morning that which is gathered together that night in the throate : then take a linnen cloth, and rub your teeth well within and without, to take away the fumositie of…