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Essays and addresses, and contained Myrrh, Capsicum and Alcohol, sometimes Camphor and Turpentine. Thomson gives an excellent and cheap dentifrice: "Bayberry or Candleberry is good as tooth powder, clenses the teeth and gums and removes the scurvy, taken as snuff it clears the head and relieves the head-ache. It may be given to advantage in a relax and all disorders of the bowels When the stomach is very foul, it will frequently operate as an emetic. For a dose take a teaspoonful (, of the roots dried and powdered) in hot water sweetened". Bayberry is Myrica cerifera. prev next |