Professor Tonry on Ladies' Toiletries

[Susan Higginbotham]

Professor William P. Tonry, Anna Surratt's husband, delivered a lecture in 1875 on the chemical makeup of women's toiletries. I wonder if he used the contents of Anna's dressing table? If he did, I hope she left off using the items in question after hearing what went into these concoctions!

[HerbS]

Very interesting and suspect that she was his"testing model".

[Gene C]

Actually these were his two testing models

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[BettyO]

Facilitating! And yes, Anna's toiletries were probably used in this experiment -

I know that the "Roseate Bloom" was one of Mrs. Demorest's products and advertised quite frequently in her magazine; while "Laird's Bloom of Youth"supposedly contained arsenic!

   

   

[HerbS]

GeneC-Great models to test on?