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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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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    and have experience on my fide, fays the fame fenfible author, who informs us, that children thus nourifhed are more fubjefit to the gripes and worms than others. Nor is this to be wondered at, fince animal fubftances, when petrified, are covered with worms, in a manner never experienced in the fub- ftance of vegetables. Now the milk, as it is pre- pared in the animal body, becomes a vegetable fubftance, as may be demonflrated by analization : it turns readily by acids; and, fo far from afford- ing the leaft appearance of a volatile alkali, as animal fubftances do, it yields like plants an efien- tial fait. , The milk of thofe women, who live chieflv on J vegetables, is more fweet and falutary, than that of carnivorous females. Formed out of fubftances of a fimilar nature, it keeps longer, as it is lefs fubjeft to putrefafition ; and, with refpefit to it’s quantity, every one knows that pulfe and vegetables increafe the quantity of blood more than meat; and why not, therefore that of the milk ? I can- not believe that a child, who is not weaned too foon, or fhould be weaned only with vegetable nutriment, and whofe nurfe alfo fhould live entirely on vegetables, would ever be fubjefil to worms. Vegetable aliment may poffibly make the milk more apt to turn four; but I am very far from regarding four milk as an unwholefome nutriment. There are people in fomc countries who ufe no other,
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