The female's medical guide and married woman's adviser : containing a description of the causes, symptoms and cure of diseases peculiar to females, whether married or single, from early childhood to old age, such as retention, suppression and cessation of the menses - difficult and irregular menstruation - pregnancy, its indications and attendant diseases - miscarriage or abortion - midwifery, the turn of life -causes and cure of barrennness, and female complaints generally. The whole adapted to the private use of families / by H. B. Skinner.

  • Skinner, Henry Burchstead, active 1849.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The female's medical guide and married woman's adviser : containing a description of the causes, symptoms and cure of diseases peculiar to females, whether married or single, from early childhood to old age, such as retention, suppression and cessation of the menses - difficult and irregular menstruation - pregnancy, its indications and attendant diseases - miscarriage or abortion - midwifery, the turn of life -causes and cure of barrennness, and female complaints generally. The whole adapted to the private use of families / by H. B. Skinner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    can assure thera they will never put this article aside as useless, or sell it for less than cost. I certainly would not p ut with mine for ten times its cost, if another could not be procured. Tepid or warm water will be best for persons in delicate health. CHAPTER XXV. EFFECT OF THE TEETH ON THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE. The expression and general appearance of the face depend much upon the condition of the teeth. ]f they are perfect, regular, pure, and clean, they contribute more to beauty than any of the other fe'.- tures ; but if neglected, dises^ed, or incrusted with an offensive accumulation, they excite in the be- holder both pity and disgust. To illustrate this fact, the following picture is drawn by Mr. Pleasants, in a work written by him : If the sculptor, the painter, or the poet, says Mr. Pleasants, would invest the production of his genius with those forms of horror at which humanity shudders and recoils, he perfectly comprehends the art of giving to his allegorical personages an array of teeth, black with tartar, mutilated with gangrene, broken by violence, or wrested by distortion. Should Envy present herself in the group, ber parted lips would disclose but a single fang. Should Malice approach to persecute his victim, his teeth would be turned away as if by the violence of his passion. Thus the wrinkled witch, the smoky £ipsy, the for- tune-teiling hag, and the freebooter of the seas would lose the proper expression of their distinctive char