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Slimming Tips From The Past
The manual advises women to use goose grease on sagging breasts and warns against yielding too quickly to men.
"The Ladies' Dictionary: being a General Entertainment for the Fair Sex," published in 1694, is expected to bring about 2,000 pounds at Bonhams, the London auction house.
Described as the Cosmopolitan magazine of its day, its pages include tips on dating, make-up, diet and expanding the mind. However, a large portion of the text gives advice on weight loss, with a further warning that women shouldn't become "too thin and scragged."
To shed those extra pounds quickly, 'The Ladies' Dictionary' advises bathing in claret wine infused with "wormwood, calamint, chamomile, sage and squinath."
Those who wish to work upon particular flabby or sagging areas were told to brew up a foul mixture of chicken and goose grease, pine, rosin, pitch and turpentine in an earthenware pot. This was then mixed with wax, cooled, applied "to the place that Languishes, or does not equally Thrive", and allowed to set into a plaster.
The advice on wearing make-up is equally firm with the book saying, "A painted face is enough to destroy the Reputation of her that uses it."
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