{"id":5009,"date":"2014-09-18T14:54:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2014-09-18T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:54:53","slug":"before-there-was-botox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2014\/09\/18\/before-there-was-botox\/","title":{"rendered":"Before there was Botox"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Before botox, plastic surgery, and aestheticians, \u00a0L’horreur!<\/em>, women were forced to combat aging and maintain beauty the old fashioned way- with tips and remedies from publications such as\u00a0Comment se\u00a0gu\u00e9rir<\/em>? \u00a0This French publication by the mysterious Dr. Druah loosely translates into How to Cure?<\/em>\u00a0and in addition to advice about common medical maladies it gives\u00a0women all the latest advice and products for common beauty dilemmas. \u00a0Including as we can see from the above images how to give a good facial massage.<\/p>\n

Worried about a flushed or reddish face? \u00a0The advice is that this condition stems from poor blood circulation and offers up various products to help. Infusing a cloth with elderflower and wearing it over ones’s face is one suggestion. \u00a0Don’t worry ladies it looks totally normal!<\/p>\n

\"KIC_Image_0008\"<\/a>\u00a0This volume was\u00a0an edition of popular science works called “Edition de vulgarisation scientifique” and it was most likely published by a pharmaceutical company that sold some of these remedies.<\/p>\n

Comment se gu\u00e9rir? \/ par le docteur Druah. Paris : Institut “Paris-Londres”, [between 1890 and 1910?] RC81 .D79<\/a>. can be f<\/span>ound at the\u00a0Countway Library<\/a>\u00a0at the Harvard Medical School in Longwood.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager and Joan Thomas, Rare Book Cataloger at Countway for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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