The house-keepers' guide and Indian doctor : containing the very best directions for making all kinds of ice creams, preserves, jellies, perfumery, and essences, fancy and plain soaps, and an excellent system on the treatment of the hair : the best method of cleaning brass, marble, mahogany furniture, cutlery, carpets, &c. &c. : also, a complete system of genuine Indian doctoring, to which is added directions for letter writing under various circumstances : the book closes with the celebrated chemical washing recipe.

Date:
1855
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Credit: The house-keepers' guide and Indian doctor : containing the very best directions for making all kinds of ice creams, preserves, jellies, perfumery, and essences, fancy and plain soaps, and an excellent system on the treatment of the hair : the best method of cleaning brass, marble, mahogany furniture, cutlery, carpets, &c. &c. : also, a complete system of genuine Indian doctoring, to which is added directions for letter writing under various circumstances : the book closes with the celebrated chemical washing recipe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    and dignity of soul, that elevates them ahove the worthless vanity of which I have been speaking. Such a woman, I am persuaded, may always convert a lover, if she cannot give him her affections, into a warm and steady friend, provided he is a man of sense, resolution and candor. If she explains herself to him with a generous openness and freedom, he must feel the stroke as a man; but he will likewise bear it as a man; what he suffers he will suffer in silence. Every sen- timent of esteem will remain ; but love, though it re- quires very little food, and is easily surfeited with too much, yet it requires some. He will view her in the light of a married woman ; and though passion sub- sides, yet a man of a candid and generous heart always retains a tenderness for a woman he has once loved, and who has used him well, beyond what he feels for any other of her sex. If he has not confided his secret to any body, he has an undoubted title to ask you not to divulge it. If a woman chooses to trust any of her companions with her own unfortunate attachments, she may, as it is her affair alone; but, if she has any generosity or gra- titude, she will not betray a secret which does not belong to her. , I am, &c. From the same to the same, on Marriage. Dear Daughters : I could never pretend to ad- vise whom you should marry; but I can with confidence advise whom you should not marry. Avoid a companion who may entail any hereditary disease on your posterity; particularly that most dreadful of all human calamities, madness. It is the height of imprudence to run into such danger; and, in my opinion, highly criminal. Do not marry a fool; he is the most unfcractable of all animals ; he is led by his passions and caprices, and is incapable of hearing the voice of reason. It may probably, too, hurt your vanity to have husbands for whom you have reason to blush and tremble every time they open their lips in company. But the worst cir-