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Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Note 90 — Chapter XIII

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Tooth Ache. Picking the gums with the bill of an osprey is good for the tooth-ache. Scarifying the gums with a thorn from a dog-fish's back is also a cure.—New Englands Rarities (Josselyn), London, 1672.

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