Musick helps not the tooth-ach.
If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least.
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.
An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.
Music helps not the toothache.
