The art of preserving beauty: containing instructions to adorn and embellish the ladies, remove deformities, and preserve health, etc. ... / By a physician.

Date:
1789
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Credit: The art of preserving beauty: containing instructions to adorn and embellish the ladies, remove deformities, and preserve health, etc. ... / By a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    conne£b manner of treating it, that the writer hopes for approbation. Such is the natural love of mankind for the embellifhment of their perfons, that above two thoufand years ago they had begun to cultivate this art. — HeraclideSy of 'Tarentum, dedicated a treatife on Cofmetics to Antiochh^ with whom he had fallen in love. Mojhion and Mercurialis wrote on the blemifhes of the complexion. Arte- mijia^ queen of Caria^ (who, for affedtion to her hulband, will ever remain the admiration of future ages) very much cultivated this •fubjedt. Arpafta^ the beautiful Perfian lady, Avho captivated the hearts of all the neigh- bouring monarchs, has left to the fair fex a colledtion of precepts for the prefervation of health and beauty, of which we find feveral fragments in the works of Mtius. We have likewife a book on the fame fubjedl, entitled, Cleopatra Gracorum Libri^ attributed to the famous Egyptian queen, of amorous memory, from whom fucceeding writers have bor- rowed