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Health and beauty
by Roxey Ann Caplin


HEALTH AND BEAUTY:

OR,

WOMAN AND HER CLOTHING.

CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO


The Physiological Laws of the Human Body.


BY

MADAME ROXEY A. CAPLIN.

" Health is the Base and Instruction the Ornament of Education."
SPURZHEIM.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:
KENT AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.
1864.

LONDON:
SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION . . . . V

CHAPTER I.

OF HEALTH AND BEAUTY IN WOMAN . . . . 1

CHAPTER II.

DRESS: ITS USES, BEAUTIES, AND FASHIONS . . . . 17

CHAPTER III.

INFANCY AND ITS DRESSES . . . . 33

CHAPTER IV.

CLOTHING FROM THE AGE OF ONE TO TWELVE YEARS . . . . 44

CHAPTER V.

CLOTHING FROM THE AGE OF TWELVE TO EIGHTEEN YEARS . . . . 59

CHAPTER VI.

THE CORSET: ITS HISTORY, USE, AND ABUSE . . . . 81

CHAPTER VII.

ON GESTATION . . . . 99

CHAPTER VIII.

PAGE

MIDDLE LIFE . . . . 116

CHAPTER IX.

ON SPINAL DEFORMITIES . . . . 130

CHAPTER X.

OLD AGE, AND ITS REQUIREMENTS . . . . 152

CHAPTER XI.

HEALTH: DRESS, AND ITS RELATION TO TEMPERAMENTS . . . . 160

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APPENDIX . . . . 175