A modern dissertation on a certain necessary piece of household furniture.

Date:
1752
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A modern dissertation on a certain necessary piece of household furniture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 8 ) to adorn it with Quotations from celebrated Authors, who, though they have not written profeffedly upon the Subjedt, muft certainly have had it in their View ; as will appear by the Extracts I have made from them which I can affure the Reader are honeftly tranfcribed. The general Utility of thefe little Pieces of Furniture has already been hinted at; they have been obferved to be calculated for the Service of both Sexes ; they are equally the Property of the Men, ’•S' . . j ’ Propria quce maribus> as they are alfo claimed by the Women, ; Foemlneo generi tribuuntur. And we farther remark that All Perfons of both Sexes, do receive and acknowledge the Benefit of them ; ■ for