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The World Turned Upside Down, James Kendrew, 1820
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The Evening Post, New York, July 10, 1820
The Footman’s Directory and Butler’s Remembrancer, 1823
And some examples of ca. 1820 plate warmers, which, when attractive enough, were usually placed before the fire in the dining room to warm the dishes between courses, and once warm, placed on the sideboard. This could be frustrating to guests, especially in the chillier months, because it would block the fireplace’s heat from reaching them. If there wasn’t a fireplace in the dining room, or the plate warmer wasn’t so nice to look at, it would be placed before the fire in the kitchen and then carried up, full of warm plates, when needed. This could be a dangerous job for a clumsy footman!
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Medical Hints, Designed for the Use of Clergymen, and Others, in Places Where Professional Advice Cannot Be Immediately Procured, 1820
Opium is often a very great comfort to mankind from the relief it affords in many diseases which cannot be cured.
Medical Hints, Designed for the Use of Clergymen, and Others, in Places Where Professional Advice Cannot Be Immediately Procured, 1820
This disease is almost confined to females of an irritable nervous system, the single more than the married, from the age of fifteen, to thirty-five or forty.
They are readily excited in those who are subject to the, by passions of the mind, and sometimes they come on from imitation and sympathy.