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‘THE INFLUENCE OF TASTE IN DOMESTIC APPLIANCES -

Karl Leistler’s Austrian Furniture.’

The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art, vol. 1, 1852.

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Portrait of Adeline Ravoux (Half-Figure)

1890

Vincent van Gogh. 

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Famous actress Sarah Bernhardt in riding costume.

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‘The Wallflower.’

Bow Bells, 1866. 

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‘Art-Furnishing For the Dining-Room.’

 Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1881.

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“THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS - THE SENTIMENT OF FLOWERS.

Magnanimity to Mystery.”

Bow Bells, 1866. 

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Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1881.

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Diagnosis and treatment of Sciatica. 

from ‘Homeopathic Domestic Practice’, 1865.  

Today I am suffering sciatica - this how the Victorian Homeopathic practitioner would have treated it: with Wolf’s bane (Aconitum), Deadly Nightshade (Belladonna), Bryony (Bryonia), Colocynth and Pulsatilla. So while you might have started off with back pain you probably would have ended up confused, hallucinating, violently vomiting with a rapidly slowing pulse (if you haven’t already died by this point).

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Recipe for Cold Cream:

“Oil of almonds, one pound; white wax, four ounces; melt, pour into a mortar; add, by degrees, rose-water one pint. It should be light and white. Used as a mild unguent to soften the skin, prevent chaps, &c.”

Bow Bells, 1866. 

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‘The Blue Jay of America. From a drawing by Audubon.’

The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art, vol. 1, 1852.