Heredity, health and personal beauty.

  • Shoemaker, John V. (John Veitch), 1852-1910.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Heredity, health and personal beauty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Che best general wear. Cotton aa anderwear. The peculiarities of silken underwear. Color in its relation to clothing. Borne thickness of underclothing Bhould be worn at all seasons of the year. The addiction of the world to going by the almanac as to the change of clothing. CHAPTER XXXIII. Ventilation with Relation to Health,. . . . 389 The value of fresh air. Neglect to have proper supply of it indwellings. A popular notion confounds cool air with pure air. Tlie two kinds of ventilation—natural and mechanical. The proper amount of air in cubic feet demanded for the well and the sick. Hom to ventilate by the natural method How to air the bedrooms. Prejudice againsl night air. ramps as enjoyable and unenjoyable. The supply oi' air for the cellar-furnace. The necessity of keeping the air of the cellar pure, as well as that of the rest of the house. Surest ion as to places on house-tops, built for the benefit of the population that is never able to go to the country. CHAPTER XXXIY. The Circulation and Digestion, 397 What constitutes respiration. The skin, as well as the lungs, respires. How the 1 1 is converted into matter lit for the renovation of the blood. The circulation of the hi 1, by which the products of diges- tion are conveyed throughout the body. The circulation of man as compared w ith that of some of the ldwer animals. The physiological .significance of the higher modes of circulation. CHAPTER XXXV. Cosmetic Treatment and Cosmetic Articles, . . . 401 A brief list of what are deemed some of the most elegant preparation- for the toilet, with mention of the names of their manufacturers. Recipe for Farina cologne. Recipe for bandoline. Prize recipe for cologne. Jelly of roses. Japanese pot-pourri. Recipes for the removal of dandruff. Hair-dyes. Recipe for preparation for the nails. Face- powders. Tea hair-tonic. Toilet-vinegar. Strawberry pomade. Three recipe- for almond-meal. Five recipes for Florida water. Four recipes for brilliantine. Protest against the practice of a close shave. CHAPTER XXXYI. List op Medicated Soaps, . 409 List of twenty-nine medicated soaps, with mention of some of the pur- poses for which they are used. CHAPTER XXXYII. Household Remedies, 411 Baldness. Bites of insects and eruptions. Blackheads of the skin. Pods. Bunions. Hums. Burns and scalds. Carbuncle. Chapped and cracked lips. Chapping of the skin. Chaps and rough skin of the