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HEALTH AND BEAUTY.
CHAPTER I.
OF HEALTH AND BEAUTY IN WOMAN.
"A woman in the pride of beauty's bloom."
Homer.
"For her own person
It beggar'd all description; she did lie
In a pavilion, cloth of gold and tissue,
O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature."
Shakspeare.
IT is scarcely necessary, for the purpose for which this chapter is written, to give anything like an anatomical and physiological description of the human body. We must, however, assume, that since there is no beauty without health, so, also, that without a good general knowledge of the conditions under which health may be preserved, there will always be a vast amount of sickness and deformity in the community. This, then, we may take for
