Every Woman Her Own House Keeper, or the Ladies' Library: Containing the Cheapest and Most Extensive System of Cookery Ever Offered to the Public; ... Many of Them Original

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Excerpt from Every Woman Her Own House Keeper, or the Ladies' Containing the Cheapest and Most Extensive System of Cookery Ever Offered to the Public; With Receipts for Above One Thousand Necessary and Elegant Dishes; Many of Them OriginalAir that is too hot, diflipates the watery part of the blood, and occafions bilious and inflammatory fevers very cold air obltrué'ts perfpiration; occafions rheu ma til'ms, coughs, and my dil'eafes of the bresil and throat while air that 15 too molli difpofes the body to dropfies, agues, and intermittent fevers. Wherever air fiagnates long, it becomes unwholefome; and the various methods which luxury has invented to make houfes clofe and warm, has nor contributed a little to render them unhealthy for no houle can be wholefome unlefs the air has a free pafl'age through it. Particular care therefore lhould be taken to open every window of a houle as early as polli ble in a morning, to admit the light and a current of free air; and beds lhould not be made up as foon as peo ple rife from them, but ought to be turned down, and expofed to the frclh air from the Open windows through the day. Small bed-chambers are a very imprudent choice; they ought efpecially to be well aired, as being only occupied when all the doors and windows are lhut and fires are a very dangerous companion in a fmall apartment. If frelh air be neceffary for thol'e in health, it is yet more lo for the lick, into whofe Chambers it ought always to be admitted, gradually indeed, and, if po flible, by opening the windows of fome other apart ment.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.