Lucia De Frenza (Author)
Atti e Memorie, Rivista di Storia della Farmacia
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 57-67
From the second half of the Nineteenth century, restorative drugs had a wide use for the treatment of female anaemias. The pale complexion and the thinness, admired in the heroines of Romanticism, lost their aesthetic appeal at the end of the nineteenth century; however, many high society ladies did not immediately abandon this ideal of beauty. The hygienic medicine tried to counter this trend, because it compromised the good health of women. A new model of beauty was suggested: beauty as health, as inner strength, “rich and pure blood”. Furthermore, the pursuit of beauty was no longer identified only with the care of external elements (face and clothing), but also with the good functionality of the internal organs, especially the digestive system. Female beauty evolved towards a model of a healthy woman.
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