PERSONAL BEAUTY: HOW TO CULTIVATE AND PRESERVE IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF HEALTH BY D. G. BRINTON, M.D., ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER, LATE SURGEON MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, ETC. AND GEO. H. NAPHEYS, M.D., ONE OF THE EDITORS OF THE HALF-YEARLY COMPENDIUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, PONDING MEMBER OF THE GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MODERN THERAPEUTICS," ETC. ETC. "Discite quæ faciem commendat cura, puellæ, Et quo sit forma tuenda modo."-Ovidius Naso. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.: W. J. HOLLAND. 396,3 B85p Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by D. G. BRINTON, AND GEO. H. NAPHEYS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. SAMUEL BOWLES & CO., PREFACE. SINCE the publication, now thirty odd years ago, of the excellent little book of Dr. John Bell, we do not know of any work in this country on Personal Beauty, written from the physician's point of view. In Europe, on the other hand, the subject has occupied some of the best writers in the profession; and in view of the vast increase in cosmetic arts within the past few years, it must be regarded as one of great public and professional, as well as personal interest. We have endeavored in the present volume to furnish such an abundance of simple and harmless, yet efficient aids for the toilet, that the dependence on secret and injurious nostrums may be dispensed with, and the beauty of the body cultivated more in accordance with the principles of correct taste and sound health than is now the case. THE AUTHORS. 155 NORTH NINTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 17 The power of Beauty, 9. The nature of Beauty, 13. Cosme- Its correct proportions, 21. How to perfect the figure, 23. Defects in stature; too tall or too short, 25. Want of sym- metry of the body, 27. Relaxed and stooping figures, 30. Superfluous and defective members, 35. On Corpulence and |