The Veedee and how to use it for various complaints, etc : with special chapters relating to its uses for the toilet / [By J. E. Garratt].

  • Garratt, J.E.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The Veedee and how to use it for various complaints, etc : with special chapters relating to its uses for the toilet / [By J. E. Garratt]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    DOUBLE CHIN. There is no single thing that can absolutely ruin the good looks of an other- wise pretty woman so much as a double chin. From, say, 35 years old, it is a growing terror with hundreds of thousands of women, and yet in the Veedee there is an absolutely certain means of doing away with double chin, and that naturally and safely. To achieve this end how many women before now have taken drug preparations, tablets, etc., etc. ? These things, in practically every case, are extremely dangerous, in that, even if they do reduce the double chin, they at the same time practically shrivel up and do away with every one of the lymphatics in the body, thus upsetting the entire physical economy, and often irretrievably ruining the constitution of the unfortunate and misguided user of such things. Look, on the other hand, at the natural, common-sense way in which the Veedee cures double chin. Take a Veedee, and put into it a No. 3 attachment prefer- ably with a bent stem, as specially made by us for this purpose (see illustration). The lady rests her chin lightly and loosely in the curve of the attachment, with the Veedee set at No. 1, and then quickly turns the handle. The action of the Veedee Vibration in this connection is to just exercise away the double chin, thus not only removing the superfluous fat, but giving firmness and tone to the muscles of the chin and jaw on which so much of the beauty of that part of the face depends. There is not a lady alive who fears double chin, and who could put her hands on the money, who would not instantly purchase a Veedee and use it as above, if she only knew the simple truth about its splendid use and efficacy for this particular purpose. WRINKLES. The almost universal cause of Wrinkles (apart from frowning) is the shrinking of the muscles below the skin, which comes on at a certain time of life. If you can only strengthen and plump out those underlying muscles, you will naturally straighten out the wrinkles in the overlying skin. If you take a plump, rosy apple, fresh from the tree, its skin is as smooth as you wish yours to be. Set that apple on a shelf for a month, and its skin is all wrinkled, because of the drying-up, and so shrinkage, of the underlying pulp. You cannot plump out the apple again, and so smooth its skin, but you can plump out your own muscles, and so remove your wrinkles, and the Veedee can do it for you. Put into the Veedee the cup-and-ball (No. 4) attachment, or, better, the spongy rubber (No. 20) attachment, set the disc of the Veedee at No. 1, and turn the handle of the machine quickly, passing the attachment slowly across the line of the
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