tooth, which removed the most obstinate pains; but the prima viæ were always previously cleansed.

The roots of the yellow iris are also said to be wonderfully efficacious in stopping the tooth-ache immediately, either if they be chewed, or their juice be rubbed on the ailing tooth.

M. Tissot, by boiling wild tansy in water, made a lotion which, when held in the mouth, frequently allays the aching of hollow teeth, and which may be constantly used by persons who are liable to tooth-ache, as it can do no harm, is of benefit to the gums, and is not so disgusting as the practice recommended by some French physicians, to wash the mouth every morning with warm urine, from which such patients are said to be sure of deriving benefit who have many hollow teeth at once, that are liable to ache on the slightest occasion.

When tooth-ache is prolonged by worms which fix themselves in the cavity, tobacco of every kind may be used with advantage, as the smoke, even with those who are unaccustomed to it, deadens the sensibility and gives ease, if the pain be not attended with inflammation and fever. Ettmüller directed a decoction of savine to be held in the mouth for the purpose of expelling worms; and Crato prescribed decoction of nettle-root, which also relieves the pain.

When the nerve has been destroyed or deprived of sensibility by any of the above means, and the hollow of the tooth is cleaned out, it may be filled with lead, which prevents the air and food from affecting it and the neighbouring parts so easily, and exciting it to ache afresh. To this end a bit of wax is introduced into the hollow of the tooth, and this, when taken out, serves as a model for forming a piece of lead, which is then inserted and pressed in firmly by the opposite tooth.

Some years ago considerable expectations were entertained of the efficacy of the magnet in tooth-ache, from some experiments made by a learned physician of Gottingen. When applied to the aching tooth it was said to afford speedy relief. I have frequently tried it, and it cannot be denied that the magnet has some effect on the complaint. After a sensation of coldness in the tooth, the pain subsides in a short time, but it generally returns in as short a space in another. Sometimes, indeed, the magnet fails of affording even this temporary relief, and then recourse must be had to other means of more certain operation. The means to which I allude are those that remove pain, which is nothing but a very lively sensation, by exciting either another violent pain, or a number of slighter ones, the sum total of which is sufficient to overpower the first. Accidental circumstances, too, sometimes effect such cures as a physician, with all his study and experience, would fail to accomplish. A violent blow on the shin has frequently been known to stop instantaneously the most raging tooth-ache. Sudden fright often drives it away, or the fear which those experience who set out for a dentist's for the purpose of having a tooth drawn, but on reaching his door find themselves at once relieved from their pain. A sound box on the ear has been known to dispel tooth-ache, owing to the joint effect produced on body and mind. Let us now endeavour to purify this mode of cure of its grossness.

By placing medicines that produce pain on sensitive parts of the skin, and enduring them as long as possible, you may frequently dis

pel the most vehement tooth-ache, which may not return for a considerable time. Garlic is a suitable matter for producing this effect, but those who cannot bear the smell of it may use scraped horse-radish in its stead. It is to be applied to the interior of the elbow joint on the side affected, and I have often witnessed effects from it which have surpassed the most sanguine expectations. If applied to the contrary side, it is said that the pain shifts to that side, and is not to be removed from it again by this treatment. The pain caused by these applications is severe; but whoever has suffered, for any time, the torments of tooth-ache, which are frequently excruciating, would find it the easier of the two to bear. Any sort of damp salt applied to the temples produces, by its excitement, a similar effect. A slice of turnip toasted, and placed behind the ear, is recommended for the same purpose. Such as prefer a less simple remedy, may make a paste with fermented dough, vinegar, and mustard, and apply it to the soles of the feet, to the hips, or to the bend of the knees or elbows. Tissot assures us that he cured violent tooth-ache in the lower jaw with a plaster made of flour, white of egg, aqua vitæ, and mastix, and applied either to the temple or behind the ear. On the temple it is particularly serviceable in head-ache. All these remedies, in fact, operate in the same way; for whatever excites lively sensations in another part overpowers and dispels tooth-ache, and hence this effect is frequently produced by cathartics of such a nature as to occasion violent pains in the intestines.

As, after any violent pain, there is a determination of the juices to the seat of it, and as even garlic, horse-radish, salt, and mustard plasters, affect the skin and raise blisters which give out a watery fluid, this effect has led most physicians to consider it as the principle of the cure of the pain, and to give to all these remedies the general epithet of drawing. If this notion be correct, the remedies of this kind are suitable only for those sorts of tooth-ache arising from colds, since they draw from the nerves of the teeth the acrid catarrhal humour which causes them to ache. But it would appear that on this point practitioners are often mistaken, because the operation of the remedies that cause pain is frequently so rapid, and the quantity of the humours drawn off by them so inconsiderable, that it is doubtful whether they do not operate rather in a psychological way, if I may so express it, by obtunding the feelings, than physically by drawing. Indeed, it is evident, from the operation of the affections of the mind, that such cures are practicable without drawing; and in catarrhal tooth-aches, drawing remedies, which act without so much pain as those mentioned above, but draw off more water-for instance, blister-plaster, cathartics, and cupping-are comparatively much slower in their operation, in all kinds of tooth-ache, than those which give pain, when they succeed.

Respecting the latter, I must observe generally that it is better to apply them to the limbs or to the nape of the neck, than to the temples or behind the ears. It is true that on the last-mentioned places their operation is sometimes more speedy; but I have remarked that on the temples large sores, which are very unsightly, are occasionally produced by such applications; and that the frequent use of drawing remedies behind and in the ears causes a ringing in them, and even hardness of hearing, which cannot be too carefully guarded against,

I shall add one more general observation, which is, that the aching of hollow teeth is at the same time, in many cases, catarrhal or inflammatory, or is liable to become so in the course of the complaint. Those remedies which otherwise allay the pain immediately when applied to the tooth, then fail of producing their usual effect, and even opium only makes it worse. Having recently observed this in a person who had frequently employed opium with the best success, and perceiving at the same time some inflammation, I directed her to lose blood, which immediately produced the desired effect.

As the consideration of the treatment of tooth-ache occasioned by hollow teeth has occupied much more space than I expected, I must reserve for another paper my observations on the other sorts of that disorder.

LONDON LYRICS.

Stuge Wedlock.

FARREN, Thalia's dear delight,
Can I forget that fatal night

Of grief, unstain'd by fiction,
(Even now the recollection damps)
When Wroughton led thee to the lamps
In graceful valediction?

This Derby prize by Hymen won,
Again the God made bold to run
Beneath Thalia's steerage;

Sent forth a second Earl to woo,
And captivating Brunton too
Exalted to the peerage.

Awhile no actress sought his shrine;

When lovely Searle, in Columbine,

Each heart held " cabinn'd, eribb'd in:"

Her dark blue eye, and tresses loose,

Made the whole town dub Mother Goose
Chef-d'œuvre of Tom Dibdin.

Hail, feather'd Conjuror!" I cried,
September's dish, Saint Michael's pride,
Theatric gold collector:

I pledge thee, bird, in Circe's cup!"—
But Heathcote, ring in hand, ripp'd up
The Capitol's protector.

Thrice vanquish'd thus, on Thespian soil,
Heart-whole awhile, from Cupid's toil
I caught a fleeting furlough:
Gay's Newgate Opera charm'd me then,
But Polly sang her requiem when

Fair Bolton changed to Thurlow.

These wounds some substitute might heal;
But what bold mortal bade O'Neil
Renounce her tragic station?
Taste, talent, beauty, to trepan―
By Heaven, I wonder how the man
Escaped assassination !

I felt half bent to wing my way
With Werter, on whose table lay
Emilia Galoti :

Stunn'd, like a skaiter by a fall,
I saw with unconcern Hughes Ball
Elope with Mercandotti.

'Tis thus that, prowling round Love's fold,
Hymen, by sufferance made bold,
(Too bold for one of his age)
Presumes behind the scenes to go,
Where only Cupid used to shew
His mythologic visage.

Would these bold suitors wield the fork,
And dip, as sailors dip for pork,

Or urchins at a barrow,

First come, first take, one would not care: But pick and choose was never fair

At Eton, or at Harrow.

Gain we no safeguard from the laws?
Contains the Marriage Act no clause
To hush Saint Martin's steeple ;
To bind the Public's daughters sure,
And from stage larceny secure
Us poor play-going people?

No! Eldon, all depends on thee:
Wards of thy Court let heroines be,
Who to stage wealth have risen ;
And then, if lovers ladders climb,
Contempt of Court will be their crime,
The Fleet will be their prison.

Doctor Gall.

I SING of the organs and fibres
That ramble about in the brains;
Avaunt! ye irreverent jibers,

Or stay and be wise for your pains.
All heads were of yore on a level,

One could not tell clever from dull,
Till I, like Le Sage's lame devil,
Unroof'd with a touch every skull.
Oh, I am the mental dissector,
I fathom the wits of you all,
Then come in a crowd to the lecture
Of craniological Gall.

The passions, or active or passive,
Exposed by my magical spells,
As busy as bees in a glass hive

Are seen in their separate cells.
Old Momus, who wanted a casement
Whence all in the heart might be read,
Were he living, would stare with amazement
To find what he wants in the head.

There's an organ for strains amoroso,
Just under the edge of the wig,

An organ for writing but so so,
For driving a tilbury gig :

An organ for boxers, for stoics,
For giving booksellers a lift,
For marching in zig-zag heroics,
And editing Jonathan Swift.
I raise in match-making a rumpus,
And Cupid his flame must impart
Henceforth with a rule and a compass,
Instead of a bow and a dart.
"Dear madam, your eye-brow is horrid
And, Captain, too broad is your pate;
I see by that bump on your forehead

;

You're shockingly dull tête-à-tête."
When practice has made my book plainer
To manhood, to age, and to youth,
I'll build, like the genius Phanor,
In London a palace of truth.

Then fibs, ah, beware how you tell 'em,
Reflect how pellucid the skull,
Whose downright sincere cerebellum
Must render all flattery null.

Your friend brings a play out at Drury,
'Tis hooted and damn'd in the pit;
Your organ of friendship 's all fury,
But what says your organ of wit?
"Our laughter next time prithee stir, man,
We don't pay our money to weep;
Your play must have come from the German,
It set all the boxes asleep."

At first, all will be in a bustle;

The eye will, from ignorance, swerve,
And some will abuse the wrong muscle,
And some will adore the wrong nerve.
In love should your hearts then be sporting,
Your heads on one level to bring,
You must go in your night-caps a courting,
As if you were going to swing.

Yet some happy mortals, all virtue,
Have sentiment just as they should,
Their occiput nought can do hurt to,
Each organ 's an organ of good:
Such couples angelic, when mated,
To bid all concealment retire,
Should seek Hymen's altar bald-pated,
And throw both their wigs in his fire.
My system, from great A to Izzard,
You now, my good friends, may descry,
Not Shakspeare's Bermudean wizard
Was half so enchanting as I.
His magic a Tempest could smother,
But mine the soul's hurricane clears,

By exposing your heads to each other
And setting those heads by the ears.
Oh, I am the mental dissector,

I fathom the wits of you all;
So here is an end to the lecture
Of craniological Gall.