[Ads-l] Self-care

Wed May 1 21:47:30 UTC 2019

Not on topic much, but "Dandy Gemflash" struck me:
1861   Bible Class Mag. June 135/2   Dandy Gemflash thinks honourable
things of his self-care. The looking glass could tell you the same.

and it's what's was known as a "GoogleWhack"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack

If you use quotes. It's quite the story surrounding that quote in the
"Bible Class Mag":
https://books.google.com/books?id=0icEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=%22dandy+gemflash%22&source=bl&ots=PsFB3PAvx1&sig=ACfU3U2rDaavLZOz_YuQDycou9TJd4hqOQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw6dT-_vrhAhWQct8KHa2lC68Q6AEwAHoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22dandy%20gemflash%22&f=false

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:30 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The Oxford English Dictionary has a pertinent entry. Below is part of
> the entry. I am only sharing a small number of the citations (because
> of copyright). Also, the OED uses a rich font which may be scrambled
> on this mailing list.
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> self-care, n.
>
> 1. Concern or regard for oneself; self-interested behaviour. Now rare.
>
> 1567   G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. xix. f. 133v   If
> selfe care all be past [L. si tibi non parcis], yet way thy friendly
> Mate, Whose wealth and welfare doth depende vpon thy healthfull state.
>
> 1637   R. Humfrey in tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices Pref. sig. E3
> Renouncing..selfe-respect, selfe-love, selfe-care, pleasing himselfe:
> and seeking to please his neighbour in what is good to edification.
>
> 2. The activity of taking care of one's own health, appearance, or
> well-being.
>
> 1861   Bible Class Mag. June 135/2   Dandy Gemflash thinks honourable
> things of his self-care. The looking glass could tell you the same.
>
> 1864   Sanitary Comm. U.S. Army 253   The vital importance of fresh
> air, cleanliness, cheerfulness, proper food, and self-care, are daily
> becoming understood.
>
> 1906   Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Apr. Suppl. 168/2   The great majority at
> least could be improved in habits of cleanliness and self-care.
>
>   attributive. Designating a hospital unit or other facility which
> provides care for people who are able to attend to many of their own
> needs.
>
> 1958   Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 1 May 5/3   ‘Self-care units’
> where he may dress in his own clothes, and from where he may walk to
> the hospital cafeteria and do other things for himself.
> [End excerpt]
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:37 PM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Theresa Fisher asks: Hi! I'm trying to figure out when the term
> "self-care"
> > emerged. I've read a number articles that trace the history of the
> > self-care movement. But I'm having trouble finding information about the
> > origins of the term itself.   This Slate story suggests that self-care
> > emerged as a medical concept at some point before the mid-20th century,
> and
> > then acquired political meaning in the 1960s or 70s.
> > I have no idea what the political meaning of self-care might be.
> > I checked the Proquest database of American 'Historical Newspapers."
> > There were a couple of appearances of the term with reference to women
> > caring for their beauty at the beginning of the 20th century, then a
> lull.
> > In the 1930s it appeared as a beauty tip, a medical term, and in a Nazi
> > context. &c..
> > There was a great drop-off in the term appearing in headlines in the
> 2010s,
> > from the 2000s.
> >
> > Go to your library and talk to a librarian to check this and similar
> > databases, more thoroughly.
> >
> > GAT
> >
> > Let Summer Days Help You in Keeping Your Skin Lovely: Summer Can Be Big
> > Beauty Aid If You'll Let It Warm Weather Ideal Time to Care for
> > Skin.   Chicago Daily Tribune,  July, 1931 LIFE SPAN OF 70 SEEN BY MAYO
> IN
> > 25 YEARS: But 12-Year Gain Depends on Man's Self-Care Between 30 and 50,
> > Says Physician   NYTimes, October 1931
> >
> >  REICH MAKES JEWS JOIN FOR SELF-CARE: All Placed in One Organization
> > Running Schools and Relief   NYTimes, July, 1939
> >
> > --
> > George A. Thompson
> > The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> > Univ. Pr., 1998.
> >
> > But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> > your lowly tomb. . .
> > L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
> >
> > The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> > picture of his great-grandfather.)
> >
> http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851
> >
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