Plocacosmos: or, the whole art of hairdressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair ... with a history of the hair and headdress ... also complete rules for the management of children ... and ... for the preservation of the health and happiness of age / By James Stewart.

  • James Stewart
Date:
1782
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plocacosmos: or, the whole art of hairdressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair ... with a history of the hair and headdress ... also complete rules for the management of children ... and ... for the preservation of the health and happiness of age / By James Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ‘6 ] water may be as well difpenfed with; and, in fafft, amongft many different people, their children are taken immediately after their birth, and bathed in the river or fea without further ceremony. But our’s, enervated before they are born, by effemi- nate habits of their parents, bring into the world with them conflitutions already fpoiled, and which will not bear to be fubmitted immediately to thofe experiments, which are neceffary to eftablifh them. It is by degrees only, they are to be reftored to their native vigor: follow then, at firft, the efta- blifhed cuftom, and depart from it by degrees. Children fhould be frequently wafhed; their un- avoidable uncleanlinefs fufficiently indicates the neceflity of it: but as they gain ftrength, diminifh by degrees the warmth of the water, till you come at length to wafh them, winter and fummer, with it quite cold, or even freezing. As, in order not to expofe them to danger, this diminution mull be flow, gradual, and infenfible; a thermometer may be made ufe of, to meafure the degree of heat or cold exaflly. The cuftom of bathing, once begun, ought never to be left off, but to be continued during life. I confider it not only in refpefl to cleanli- nefs and prefent health, but alfo as a falutary pre- caution, rendering the texture of the fibres more pliant, and apt to yield, without effort or danger, to the impreffions of the various degrees of heat and
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