A treatise on the formation of the skin, with directions for preserving it in a state of health, : illustrative of the salutary properties of Rowland's Kalydor.

Date:
[1839?]
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Credit: A treatise on the formation of the skin, with directions for preserving it in a state of health, : illustrative of the salutary properties of Rowland's Kalydor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    merits of which, strengthened as they ai'e by the experience of nearly half a centiuy, need only to be particularized to ensure universal favour and approval. ROWLAND’S KALYDOR Is the fortunate discovery of a titled Enghsh lady, who obtained the know¬ ledge of its preparation while travelling in Asia Minor. This invaluable secret was purchased by the firm of ROWLAND, who, by unremitting endeavours to enrich and improve it ])y fresh additions and new experiments, have brought it to that state of perfection which has ensured its reception as the indispensable and universal aid to the toilet at the. extreme ends of the earth— from the sultry climes of India, and the drarving-rooms of Calcutta and Madras, to the frozen realms of the Czar and the salons of St. Petersburg and Moscow, To enumerate all the instances in which this invaluable pre¬ paration may be recommended as an unfailing specific, would far exceed the limits of our treatise; suffice it to state, that among the most important are its power to improve a harsh, pallid, bronzed, or other^vise repulsive com¬ plexion, and to substitute the fascination of a fair and radiant white, alter¬ nating with a roseate bloom. Its efficacy is alike recognized in counteracting the injurious effects arising from exposure to the weather and change of climate—whether the bleak deserts of the north or the arid plains of tropic climes; as also those produced by sea-bathing, or a sea-voyage and long ex¬ posure to a saline atmosphere. In short, from its admirable quafities as a cosmetic, no lady or gentleman residing in our native isles should be -with¬ out this indispensable appendage to the toilet; while none should leave our shores on foreign travel without an ample stock of so admirable and effica¬ cious a protection against the ^dcissitudes of sea and land, of climate and the weather. THE SEASONS. ‘‘ Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping clond, While music wakes around, veil’d in a show’r Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.” i Tlie changes of the year are each, in turn, productive of very tiydng effects on the state of the skin. During all these ricissitudes, ROWLAND’S KALY- DOR will be found equally efficacious whether for prevention or cure. Let us pass them in reriew. SPRING. Thus sings the Bard of the Seasons—yet we cannot but be aware that this genial time brings in its train a host of influences extremely hurtful to the