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 and publish it in the streets of Aschalon; the remedy is infallible.”

It was as he predicted. On the introduction of the mixed alum and salt, I experienced a sensation of coldness, which gradually subsided, and with it the torment of the toothache.

Though I thus learnt something from my sufferings, and entertain a hope that what I learnt, being thus published, will bobe [sic] of servicoservice [sic] to my fellow-creatures, I am far from believing that any catholicon or universal remedy has yet been discovered for this afflicting malady. It would almost appear, indeed, that, instead of there being any general curocure [sic] for the toothache, every body would require to have his own cure; for though certain preparations have been found effectual in certain cases, nothing is so common as to find thcscthese [sic] fail when applied to others. Probably there is onoone [sic] particular cure for every man on earth, if hohe [sic] only could discover what it is. Till that be done, I am afraid that the disease must be looked upon as a pin loose in nature, and just endured, when a remedy cannot bobe [sic] hit upon, as an avoidable evil.