From Colour vision : being the Tyndall lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institute (1895).
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From The nature-printed British sea-weeds : a history, accompanied by figures and dissections of the algae of the British Isles, volume II (1860).
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Digital Highlights: What’s Your Daily Want?
The two volumes of the 1858 Dictionary of Daily Wants aim to do for the nineteenth century family what Google does today: answer any possible question on any possible topic.
Want to know what you should always have in the house in case of accidents? Turn to page four and the list starts with “A piece of adhesive plaster.” Need a quick batch of almond cakes? That’s page 19. How about how to catch a bird? Page 141 through 144 for that. Planning your garden for next year and want to know about kale? Volume Two, page 587 has everything you need to know.
Flip through the volumes of the Dictionary of Daily Wants below or follow this link to Volume One and this link to Volume Two.
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From Cups and their customs (1863).
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From Edward Coleman’s Observations on the structure, œconomy, and diseases of the foot of the horse, and on the principles and practice of shoeing. (1798)
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From Thomas J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery : Biographical memoirs of the most celebrated physicians, surgeons, etc., etc., who have contributed to the advancement of medical science (1839).
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From John Marshall and J.S. Cuthbert’s Anatomy for artists (1883).
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Digital Highlights: Tea with Mrs. Quantock
Any fan of E.F. Benson’s Lucia series will remember Daisy Quantock, Lucia’s next-door neighbor in the village of Riseholme. Benson describes Daisy as being a middle-aged woman in perfect health and therefore devoted to whatever diet or exercise fad comes her way. In the opening chapters of Queen Lucia, the first novel in the series, Daisy is a firm believer in cleansing, particularly in cleansing uric acid from her system. Her husband is quite impatient with the system since it means a longer reign of a bad cook hired when Daisy was under the sway of Christian Science and endless lectures from his wife on the dangers to his system of the foods he craves.
Perhaps Daisy and her cook would have pored over something like The Apsley cookery book (1905), a collection of 448 recipes for those on the uric-acid-free diet. The authors provide recipes for everything from soup to nuts, quite literally, along with introductory chapters extolling the virtues of the diet, suggesting proper cookware, and a table of “food values.”
Flip through the pages below or follow this link to read The Apsley cookery book.
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Digital Highlights: Who Wants to be a Mesmerist?
Who doesn’t want to finish up the summer with a new skill? Why not try mesmerism! Thomas Welton is here to help with his 1884 Mental Magic: “The public again, after a lapse of 20 years, being much interested in the above subject, and having no clear explanation given to them on it or how to produce for themselves far higher Phenomena of the same class, I venture to hope that this work will not be unwelcome…”
Welton not only offers step-by-step instructions on how to mesmerise, but also instructions on using the planchette, a divination tool popular among spiritualists. The planchette was something like a wheeled Ouija board, the idea being that the spiritual power would transfer through the medium and into the board through touch and then make itself known by writing on a sheet of paper laid below.
Flip through the pages below or follow this link to read Mental magic: a rationale of thought reading, and its attendant phenomena and their application to the discovery of new medicines, obscure diseases, correct delineations of character, lost persons and property, mines and prings of water, and all hidden and secret things.