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Finally, the good part: Manual de mugeres (16th century, Spain)

Remedy for earache
Juice of ivy or vereda terrestre put in the ear which hurts. It will hurt later more than before, and after that it will stop.
>ivy contains falcarinol which can induce contact dermatitis

Powder for the teeth
Five ounces of alabaster, and four ounces of porcelain, and six ounces of fine sugar, and one ounce of white coral, and another one (ounce) of cinnamon, and a half (ounce of) pearl, and a half (ounce of) musk. Grind it all together. Clean the teeth with the powder and rinse the mouth with tepid white wine.

Remedy for the molars
Take seeds from a small onion, and fat and yellow wax: of all these things equal parts. Mix them well and make little balls of (the mixture). And take a small-mouthed jar, and take off the bottom, and make a hole in it, and put it on top of anescudillaor a vessel of water. Put it over a small fire and put inside it one of the little balls. And the mouth to the mouth of the jar, so that you will receive all that smoke. And receive the smoke of three or four balls. And the pain will stop and will remove the worms if there are any.

Lotion for the hands
An orange roasted in the embers and then set to rest in anescudillaof white wine. Wash the hands at night with this, when you go to lay down, and in the morning, with such wine cooked in black figs, and the feathers of a black hen and the white excrement of a dog.

Manual de mugeres (16th century, Spain)

Remedy for earache
Juice of ivy or vereda terrestre put in the ear which hurts. It will hurt later more than before, and after that it will stop.
>ivy contains falcarinol which can induce contact dermatitis

Powder for the teeth
Five ounces of alabaster, and four ounces of porcelain, and six ounces of fine sugar, and one ounce of white coral, and another one (ounce) of cinnamon, and a half (ounce of) pearl, and a half (ounce of) musk. Grind it all together. Clean the teeth with the powder and rinse the mouth with tepid white wine.

Remedy for the molars
Take seeds from a small onion, and fat and yellow wax: of all these things equal parts. Mix them well and make little balls of (the mixture). And take a small-mouthed jar, and take off the bottom, and make a hole in it, and put it on top of anescudillaor a vessel of water. Put it over a small fire and put inside it one of the little balls. And the mouth to the mouth of the jar, so that you will receive all that smoke. And receive the smoke of three or four balls. And the pain will stop and will remove the worms if there are any.

Lotion for the hands
An orange roasted in the embers and then set to rest in anescudillaof white wine. Wash the hands at night with this, when you go to lay down, and in the morning, with such wine cooked in black figs, and the feathers of a black hen and the white excrement of a dog.