 Wanted, for a family who have bad health, a sober, steady person, in the capacity of doctor, surgeon, apothecary, and man-midwife. He must occasionally act as butler, and dress hair and wigs. He will be required sometimes to read prayers, and to preach...  Comments on Corpulency: Lineaments of Leanness, Mems on Diet and Dietetics - Page 160by William Wadd - 1829 - 170 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Liber - 1809 - 372 pages
...answer, but what is the most politic one for him to give. Edward's West Indies. ADVERTI SEMENT. — Wanted for a family, who have bad health, a sober,...in the capacity of doctor, surgeon, apothecary, and man298 midwife. He must occasionally act in the capacity of butler, and dress hair and wigs. He will... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1838 - 456 pages
...combined with various lay duties, as appears by the following curious advertisement in a late paper : " Wanted, for a family who have bad health, a sober,...read prayers, and to preach a sermon every Sunday. A good salary will be given." This was certainly an economical speculation for the use of soul and... | |
 | 740 pages
...sufficiently unreasonable. This is a specimen which we copied a few years since from a newspaper : — " Wanted, for a family who have bad health, a sober,...He will be required sometimes to read prayers, and preach a sermon every Sunday." A few years since these advertisements were made the vehicle for sectarian... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 pages
...health, a saber, steady person,, in the capacity of doctor, surgeon, apothecary, and man .midwife. He must occasionally act as butler, and dress hair...read prayers, and to preach a sermon every Sunday. A good salary will be given." CHANGES OF MOUNT ETNA. Signor Maria Gemmellario has given, from a meteorological... | |
 | James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...the position of the every-day practitioner at that period : "Wanted. — In a family who have had' bad health, a sober steady person in the capacity of doctor, surgeon and man mid- wife. He must occasionally act as butler and dress hair and wigs. He will be required... | |
 | Indiana State Medical Society - 1884 - 372 pages
...classification. the capacity of doctor, Burgeon and man midwife; he must act as butler and dress hair wigs. He will be required, sometimes, to read prayers and to preach a sermon every Sunday. A moderate salary will be paid." In those early times diversity of attainments were common, and the... | |
 | Graham Everitt - 1888 - 444 pages
...Millingen, who inserted the following advertisement which we find in a paper of the time:— "ITTANTED, for a family who have bad health, a sober, steady...capacity of doctor, surgeon, apothecary, and man-midwife. H« must occasionally act aa butler, and drees hair and wigs. He will be required sometimes to read... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1894 - 712 pages
...of the London papers : certainly a most economical speculation for the use of soul and body: — " Wanted, for a family who have bad health, a sober,...occasionally act as butler, and dress hair and wigs. He will bo required sometimes to read prayers, and to preach a sermon every Sunday. A good salary will be given."... | |
 | 1900 - 812 pages
...of the position, social and otherwise, of a physician of that era : WANTED. In a family who have had bad health, a sober, steady person in the capacity of doctor, surgeon and man-midwife. He must occasionally act as butler and dress hair and wigs. He will be required sometimes... | |
 | 1903 - 454 pages
...newspaper in the eighteenth century, indicating conditions that may be compared with those of to-day : "Wanted, for a family who have bad health, a sober,...steady person, in the capacity of doctor, surgeon and apothecary. He must occasionally act in the capacity of butler, and dress hair and wigs. He will... | |
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