Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1912 — “Big Seller” of 1758. [ARTICLE]

“Big Seller” of 1758.

In more hardy days than these snuff wae used as an eye, liniment "The Compleat Housewife, or Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion,” which had run into 16 editions by. 1758, extolr its virtues. Accomplished gentlewom en who find their sight failing with ad vancing years are advised to rub “the right sort of Portugal snuff Into \ the eyeß night and morning, and take it also through the nose.” This treatment, it is asserted, “cured Sir Edward Seymour, Sir John Houblon and Judge Ayres, so that they could read without spectacles after they had used them for many years." Some people would prefer spectacles.