Excerpt from The Fountain of Youth, or Personal Appearance and Personal HygieneIn order that the various methods and recom mendations should have value, the author besides drawing on her own experience has consulted a great many books in French, German, and English, has read numerous articles and monographs, has availed herself of suggestions and the results of ex periments of friends, patients and physicians. In making the illustrations she has always had present an expert who would be able to detect anything false or impracticable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.