A guide to health, beauty, riches and honour / [Edited, with preface, by F. Grose].

  • Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:
1796
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to health, beauty, riches and honour / [Edited, with preface, by F. Grose]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    publick. The profeffors of the cofmetic art offer innu- merable paftes, wafhes, pommades, and perfumes, by which the ravages of time are prevented or counter- acted. Even our public fpedtacles befpeak a degree of improvement hitherto unknown; witnefs that wonder- ful wonder of all wonders, the brave foldier and learned dodlor Katterfelto, whofe courage and learn- ing are only equalled by his honefty and love for this country ; the firft evinced in his returning the 2000J. to Captain Paterfon; and the fecond, in remaining here, though unpenficned, notwithftanding the many offers from the Queen of France, the requeft of his friend and correfpondent Dr. Franklin, and the pofitive commands of the King of Pruffia. (n) Mr. Van Butchell figures in the double capaci- ty of a fkilful operator on the teeth, and a laudable inilance of conjugal affedlion; his delicacy (12) in not expofing the remains of his embalmed wife to every perfon indifcriminately, feems worthy of commendation. Highly eminent in the clafs of public exhibitors ftands the learned Dr. Graham, whofe philofophic refearches and ledtures, at the fame time they tend to improve our future progeny, and to make this king- dom the region of health and beauty, ferve alfo to deftroy that mauvaife honte, or timid bafnfulnefs, fo peculiar to the Englifh ladies: for which he, at leaft, deferves the warmeft acknowledgments from all pa- rents and hufbands. Mr. Powel the fire-eater is undoubtedly, as his motto obferves, a Angular genius. Nor are the per- formances of Meffrs. Aftley and Hughes lefs remark- able, though I am forry to be under the necefiity of making an objedtion to part of their exhibitions, as being liable to encreafe that fpirit of expence and luxury too prevalent among us. The article I allude to is, that of (hewing that one perfon may ride on feveral horfes at the fame time ; a practice that may pofiibly become fafii ion able among the vain and ex- travagant ; whereas had they introduced fome me- thod