Title: Dr. Chase's Recipes; or, Information for Everybody...
Author: Chase, Alvin Wood
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan: Chase
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Entered according to Act of Congress, A, D., 1863, by A. W. Chase, M, D., in the Office of the District Court of the U. S. at Detroit, Mich.
[Illustration: A landscape showing several large buildings set among expansive and well-landscaped lawns and connected by a series of small roads.]
> UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR.
In this perspective view, from the North-West, drawn by D. Wood, Professor of Civil Engineering, we have an accurate representation of the University Buildings, in 1863. The center one is occupied by the Law Department and Library; the two on the right, by the Literary, Chapel, Museum, &c.; the first on the left, is the Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, and the last, by the Medical Department. The number of Students for the session of 1862-3, notwithstanding the War, reached 662. An entrance fee of only $10, with $5 yearly, pays for a full Literary, Law, Medical, or Civil Engineering Course; the first, requiring four, the two next, two, and the last, three years. No distinction is made between students, resident in Michigan, and those from other States or Kingdoms.
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DR. CHASE'S RECIPES;
OR,
INFORMATION FOR EVERYBODY:
AN INVALUABLE COLLECTION OF
ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED
PRACTICAL RECIPES,
FOR
Merchants, Grocers, Saloon-Keepers, Physicians, Druggists, Tanners,
Shoe Makers, Harness Makers, Painters, Jewelers, Blacksmiths,
Tinners, Gunsmiths, Farriers, Barbers, Bakers, Dyers,
Renovaters, Farmers, and Families Generally,
TO WHICH HAVE BEEN ADDED
A Rational Treatment of Pleurisy, Inflammation of the Lungs,
and other Inflammatory Diseases, and also for General
Female Debility and Irregularities:
All arranged in their Appropriate Departments.
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BY A. W. CHASE, M. D.,
PRACTICAL THERAPEUTIST.
STEREOTYPED
CAREFULLY REVISED, ILLUSTRATED, AND MUCH ENLARGED,
WITH REMARKS AND FULL EXPLANATIONS.
We Learn to Live, by Living to Learn.
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> CHANGE IN PRICE.
Paper having gone up from 11 to 20 cents per pound, cloth, used for covers, from 8 to 22 dollars per roll, pasteboard from 80 to 225 dollars per ton, labor, &c., in proportion, I am compelled to advance the price of the Book, in cloth, to $1.25--but that those who wish the Book for the sake of its contents, without regard to the binding, I put some in pamphlet, or paper covers, at the old price, $1.00.
Should any one allow the Work to go by them without purchasing, on account of the advance, they will entirely lose the opportunity of getting one at all, for agents cannot go over the ground a second time. Forty-fifth thousand, eighteenth edition.
Having just received the following Certificate, and there being so many troubled with "enlarged neck," I deem it important to give it a place, even on this page.
FORT GRATIOT, Mich., July 13, '64.
DR. A. W. CHASE--SIR--I have got one of your Books, and they are well liked here; can I obtain ten or twelve for sale, and at what price, &c. * * Before closing this, I think it is my duty to return you our hearty thanks for the benefit received from the Book. My wife was troubled with "enlarged neck;" she followed the directions of the Book; and I am happy to inform you it has made a perfect cure. I have tried a great many other of the "Recipes" with the same result. I would not be without the Book for fifty dollars.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1863, by
A. W. CHASE, M. D.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Michigan, at Detroit.
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PREFACE
TO THE TENTH EDITION.
IN bringing a permanent work, or one that is designed so to be, before the public, it is expected of the Author that he give his reasons for such publication. If the reasons are founded in truth, the people consequently seeing its necessity, will appreciate its advantages, and encourage the Author by quick and extensive purchases, they alone being the judges. Then:
FIRST.--Much of the information contained in "Dr. Chase's Receipes; or Information for Everybody," has never before been published, and is adapted to every day use.
SECOND.--The Author, after having carried on the Drug and Grocery business for a number of years, read Medicine, after being thirty-eight years of age, and graduated as a Physician to qualify himself for the work he was undertaking; for, having been familiar with some of the Recipes, adapted to these branches of trade, more than twenty years, he began in "Fifty-six," seven years ago, to publish them in a Pamphlet of only a few pages, since which time he has been traveling between New York and Iowa, selling the work and Prescribing, so that up to this time, "Sixty-three," over twenty-three thousand copies have been sold. His travels have brought him in contact with all classes of Professional and Business men, Mechanics, Farriers, and Farmers, thus enabling him to obtain from them, many additional items, always having had his note book with him, and whenever a prescription has been given before him, or a remark made, that would have a practical bearing, it has been noted, and at the first opportunity tested, then if good, written out in plain language expressly for the next edition of
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this work. In this way this mass of information has been collected, and ought to take away an objection which some persons have raised: "It is too much for one man to know!" because they did not realize that the work had been made up from others as well as the Author's actual every day experience, instead of from untried books. Yet from the nature of some of the Recipes, one has occasionally found its way into some of the earlier editions, which have needed revision, or to be entirely dropped. This, with a desire to add to the various Departments, at every edition, has kept us from having it Stereotyped until the present, tenth edition.
But now, all being what we desire; and the size of the work being such that we cannot add to it without increasing the price above One Dollar, which we will never do, unless in extra binding, we have it Stereotyped, and send it out, just what we expect, and are willing it should remain.
THIRD.--Many of the Recipe books published are very large, containing much useless matter, only to increase the number, consequently costing too much--this one contains only about eight hundred recipes, upon only about four hundred different subjects, all of which are valuable in daily, practical life, and at a very reasonable price--many of them are without arrangement--this one is arranged in regular Departments, all of a class being together--many of them are without remark, or explanation--this one is fully explained, and accompanied with remarks upon the various subjects introduced by the Recipes under consideration--those remarks, explanations, and suggestions accompanying the Recipes, are a special feature of this work, making it worth double its cost as a reading book, even if there was not a prescription in it.
FOURTH.--The remarks and explanations are in large type, whilst the prescriptive and descriptive parts are in a little smaller type, which enables any one to see at a glance just what they wish to find.
FIFTH.--It is a well known fact that many unprincipled persons go around "gulling" the people by selling single Recipes for exorbitant prices. The Author found a thing, calling himself
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a man, in Battle Creek, Mich., selling a Washing-Fluid Recipe for two dollars, which he obtained of some; but if he could not obtain that, he would take two shillings, or any other sum between them. A merchant gave a horse for the "White Cement" Recipe. The late Mr. Andrews, of Detroit, Mich., gave three hundred dollars for a Recipe, now improved and in this work, to cure a bone spavin upon a race mare of his. He removed the spavin with it and won the anticipated wager with her. The Author has, himself, paid from twenty-five to fifty, and seventy-five cents, and one to two, three five, and eight dollars for single items, or Recipes, hoping thereby to improve his work; but often finding that he had much better ideas already embodied therein.
The amount paid for information in this work, and for testing by experiment, together with traveling expenses, and cuts used in illustrating it, have reached over two thousand dollars, and all for the purpose of making a book worthy to be found in "Everybody's" library, and to prevent such extortions in the price of Recipes. Yet any single Recipe in the work which a person may wish to use, will often be found worth many times the price of the book, perhaps the lives of those you dearly love, by having at hand the necessary information enabling you to immediately apply the means within your reach, instead of giving time for disease to strengthen, whilst sending, perhaps miles, for a physician. Much pain and suffering, also, will often be saved or avoided, besides the satisfaction of knowing how many things are made which you are constantly using, and also being able to avoid many things which you certainly would avoid, if you knew how they were made.
SIXTH.--It will be observed that we have introduced a number of Recipes upon some of the subjects; this adapts the work to all circumstances and places; the reason for it is this; we have become acquainted with them in our practice and journeyings, and know that when the articles cannot be obtained for one way, they may be for some other way; as also that one prescription is better for some than for other persons; therefore, we give the variety that all may be benefitted as much as possible.
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For instance, there are twenty different prescriptions for different diseases, and conditions of the eye; there are also a dozen different liniments, &c., &c.; yet the Author feels well assured that the most perfect satisfaction will be experienced in them as a whole. And although it could not be expected that special advantages of particular Recipes could be pointed out to any great extent, yet the Author must be indulged in referring to a few, in the various Departments. All, or nearly all, Merchants and Grocers, as also most Families, will be more or less benefited by the directions for making or preserving butter, preserving eggs, or fruit, computing interest, making vinegar, and keeping cider palatable, &c. In ague sections of country, none should be without the information on this subject; and in fact, there is not a medical subject introduced but what will be found more or less valuable to every one; even Physicians will be more than compensated in its perusal; whilst Consumptive, Dyspeptic, Rheumatic, and Fever patients ought, by all means, to avail themselves of the advantages here pointed out. The treatment in Female Debility, and the observations on the Changes in female life are such that every one of them over thirteen or fourteen years of age should not be without this work. The directions in Pleurisy and other Inflammatory diseases cannot fail to benefit every family into whose hands the book shall fall.
The Good Samaritan Liniment, we do not believe, has its equal in the world, for common uses, whilst there are a number of other liniments equally well adapted to particular cases. And we would not undertake to raise a family of children without our Whooping Cough Syrup and Croup Remedies, knowing their value as we do, if it cost a hundred dollars to obtain them. Tanners and Shoemakers, Painters and Blacksmiths, Tinners and Gunsmiths, Cabinet Makers, Barbers, and Bakers will find in their various Departments more than enough, in single recipes, to compensate them for the expense of the work; and Farriers and Farmers who deal in horses and cattle, will often find that Department to save a hundred times its cost in single cases of disease.
A gentleman recently called at my house for one of the books,
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saying: "I have come ten miles out of my way to get it, for I staid over night with a farmer, who had one, and had been benefitted more than $20, in curing a horse by its directions." A gentleman near this city says he had paid out dollars after dollars to cure a horse of spavin, without benefit, as directed by other books, of recipes; but a few shillings, as directed by this, cured the horse. Another gentleman recently said to me: "Your Eye Water is worth more than $20." I could fill pages of similar statements which have come to my knowledge since I commenced the publication of this work, but must be content by asking all to look over our References, which have been voluntarily accumulating during the seven years in which the work has been in growing up to its present size and perfection; and the position in society, of most of the persons making these statements is such, many of which are entire strangers to the Author and to each other, that any person can see that no possible complicity could exist between us, even if we desired it.
Families will find in the Baking, Cooking, Coloring and Miscellaneous Departments, all they will need, without the aid of any other "Cook Book;" and the Washing-Fluid, which we have used at every washing except two for nearly eight years, is worth to every family of eight or ten persons, ten times the cost of the book, yearly, saving both in labor and wear of clothes.
SEVENTH.--Many of the articles can be gathered from garden, field or woods, and the others will always be found with Druggists, and most of the preparations will cost only from one-half to as low as one-sixteenth as much as to purchase them already made; and the only certainty, now-a-days, of having a good article, is to make it yourself.
FINALLY.--There is one or two things fact about this book; It is the biggest humbug of the day; or it is the best work of the kind, published in the English language. If a careful perusal does not satisfy all that it is not the first, but that it is the last, then will the Author be willing to acknowledge that Testing, Experimenting, Labor, Travel and Study, to be of no account in qualifying a man for such a work, especially when that work has been the long cherished object of his life, for a lasting benefit
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to his fellow creatures, saving them from extortion, in buying single recipes, and also giving them a reliable work, for every emergency, more than for his own pecuniary benefit. Were it not so, I should have kept the work smaller as heretofore, for the eighth edition of two hundred and twenty four pages when handsomely bound sold for One Dollar, as now; but in this edition you get a Dollar's worth of book, even if common reading matter, besides the most reliable practical information, by which you will often save, not only dollars and cents, but relieve suffering and prolong life. It is, in fact, a perfect mass of the most valuable methods of accomplishing the things spoken of, an Encyclopedia upon the various branches of Science and Art, treated of in the work, which no family can afford to do without; indeed, young and old, "Everybody's" book. And the "Taxes" nor "Times" should be, for a moment, argued against the purchase of so valuable a work, especially when we assure you that the book is sold only by Traveling Agents, that all may have a chance to purchase; for if left at the Book Stores, or by Advertisement only, not One in Fifty would ever see it.
Some persons object to buying a book of Recipes, as they are constantly receiving so many in the newspapers of the day; but if they had all that this book contains, scattered through a number of years of accumulated papers, it would be worth more than the price of this work to have them gathered together, carefully arranged in their appropriate departments, with an alphabetical index, and handsomely bound; besides the advantage of their having passed under the Author's carefully pruning and grafting hand.
"To uproot error and do good should be the first and highest aspiration of every intelligent being. He who labors to promote the physical perfection of his race--he who strives to make mankind intelligent, healthy, and happy--cannot fail to have reflected on his own soul the benign smiles of those whom he has been the instrument of benefitting." The Author has received too many expressions of gratitude, thankfulness, and favor, in regard to the value of "Dr. Chase's Recipes; or Information for Everybody," to doubt in the least, the truth of the foregoing quotation; and trusts that the following quotation
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may not be set down to "Egotism" or "Bigotry," when he gives it as the governing reason for the continued and permanent publication of the work:
"I live to learn their story, who suffered for my sake;
To emulate their glory, and follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages, and noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crown History's pages, and Time's great volume make.
"I live for those who love me, for those who know me true,
For the heaven that smiles above me, and awaits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance, and the good that I can do."
May these reasons speedily become the governing principles throughout the world, especially with all those who have taken upon themselves the vows of our "Holy Religion;" knowing that it is to those only who begin to love God, and right actions, here, with whom the glories of Heaven shall ever begin. Were they thus heeded, we should no longer need corobating testimony to our statments. Now, however, we are obliged to array every point before the people, as a Mirror, that they may judge understandingly, even in matters of the most vital importance to themselves; consequently we must be excused for this lengthy Preface, Explanatory Index, and extended References following it. Yet, that there are some who will let the work go by them as one of the "Humbugs of the day," notwithstanding all that has or might be said, we have no doubt; but we beg to refer such to the statement amongst our References, of the Rev. C. P. Nash, of Muskegon, Mich., who, although he allowed it thus to pass him, could not rest satisfied when he saw the reliability of the work purchased by his less incredulous neighbors; then if you will, let it go by; but it is hoped that all purchasers may have sufficient confidence in the work not to allow it to lay idle; for, that the designed and greatest possible amount of good shall be accomplished by it, it is only necessary that it should be generally introduced, and daily used, is the positive knowledge of the
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> INDEX.
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Baking Powders, Without Drugs, . . . . . 50
Butter; to Preserve any Length of Time--Butter Making; Directions for Dairymen--Butter; Storing; the Illinois Prairie Farmer's Method, . . . . . 40-41
Burning Fluid, . . . . . 44
Counterfeit Money; Seven Rules for Detecting, . . . . . 46-47
Eggs; to Preserve for Winter Use--English Patented Method--J. W. Cooper, M. D.'s Method of Keeping and Shipping Game Eggs, . . . . . 42-44
Fruits; to Keep Without Loss of Color or Flavor, . . . . . 41
Honey; Domestic--Cuba Honey--Excellent Honey--Premium Honey . . . . . 49-50
Interest; Computing by one Multiplication and one Division, at any Rate Per Cent--Method of Computing by a Single Multiplication, . . . . . 45-46
Inks; Black Copying or Writing Fluid--Common Black--Red; The Very Best--Blue--Indellible--Ink Powder; Black, . . . . . 47-48
Jellies, Without Fruit, . . . . . 50
Mouth Glue, for Torn Paper, Notes, &c., . . . . . 50
Vinegar, in Three Weeks--in Barrels without Trouble--From Sugar, Drippings from Sugar Hogsheads, &c.,--From Acetic Acid and Molasses--From Apple Cider--In Three Days, Without Drugs--Quick Process by Standing upon Shavings, . . . . . 33-40
Apple Cider; to Keep Sweet with but Trifling Expense--To Prepare for Medicine--Artificial Cider, or CiderWithout Apples; to Make in Kegs or to Bottle, or in Barrels, for Long Keeping, with Directions About Shipping . . . . . 51-54
Action of Sugar or Candy on the Teeth, . . . . . 59
Ale; Home Brewed, How it is Made, . . . . . 63
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Beers; Root--Spruce, or Aromatic Beer--Lemon--Ginger--Philadelphia--Patent Gas--Corn; without Yeast--Strong Beer; English, improved, . . . . . 61-63
Coloring for Wines, . . . . . 74
Cream Soda; using Cow's Cream for Fountains--Cream Soda; with a Fountain, . . . . . 57
Cream Nectar; Imperial, . . . . . 64
Ginger Pop, . . . . . 65
Ice Cream--Ice Cream; very Cheap, . . . . . 66-67
Lawton Blackberry; its Cultivation, . . . . . 72
Lemonade; to carry in the Pocket, . . . . . 60
Molasses Candy and Pop Corn Balls, . . . . . 58-59
Oyster Soup, . . . . . 58
Persian Sherbet, . . . . . 60
Porter, Ale or Wine; to prevent Flatness in parts of bottles, for the Invalid, . . . . . 64
Stomach Bitters; equal to Hostetters, for one-fourth its cost, and Schiedam Schnapps Exposed, . . . . . 74
Sham Champagne; a purely Temperance Drink, . . . . . 65
Spanish Gingerette, . . . . . 65
Soda Water; without a Machine for Bottling, . . . . . 57
Syrups; to make the various Colors--Syrups Artificial; various Flavors, as Raspberry, Strawberry, Pine-Apple, Sarsaparilla, &c.--Lemon Syrup; Common--Lemon Syrup; to save the loss of Lemons--Soda Syrup; with or without Fountains, . . . . . 54-57
Tripe; to prepare and Pickle, . . . . . 58
Wines; Currant, Cherry, Elderberry, and other Berry Wines--Rhubarb, or English Patent Wine--Tomato Wine--Wine from white Currants--Ginger Wine,--Blackberry Wine--Port Wine--Cider Wine--Grape Wine, . . . . . 67-74
Yeasts; Hop Yeast--Bakers' Yeast--Jug Yeast; without Yeast to start with--Yeast Cake, . . . . . 65-66
Alcohol in Medicine, preferable to Brandy, Rum or Gin, of the present day, connected with Spiritual Facts, . . . . . 75-77
Ague Medicines; Dr. Krider's Ague Pills--Ague Bitters--Ague Powder--Ague Mixture, without Quinine--Ague Cured for a Penny--Ague Anodyne--Tonic Wine Tincture, a positive cure for Ague without Quinine, . . . . . 139
Asthma; Remedies, . . . . . 139
Alterative Syrup, or Blood Purifier--Alterative; very strong--Alterative Cathartic, powder--Alterative for Diseases of the Skin--Alterative, Tonic and Cathartic, Bitters, . . . . . 142-143
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Artificial Skin, for Burns, Bruises, Abrasions, &c., Proof against Water, . . . . . 191
Adhesive Plaster, or Salve, for Deep Wounds, Cuts, &c., in place of Stitches, . . . . . 163
A Cure for Drunkenness, . . . . . 140
Anodyne Pills, . . . . . 149
Bread-Tea, used in taking Emetics, . . . . . 106
Bateman's Pectoral Drops, . . . . . 134
Balsams; Dr. R. W. Hutchin's Indian Healing, formerly, Peckham's Cough Balsam--Dr. Mitchel's Balsam; for Cuts, Bruises, &c., . . . . . 190-191
Bleedings; Internal and External Remedies--Styptic Balsam, for Internal Hemorrhages--Styptic Tincture, External Application, . . . . . 192-194
Bronchocele, (Enlarged Neck), to Cure, . . . . . 194
Burns; Salve for Burns, Frost-Bites, Cracked Nipples, &c.; very successful,--Dr. Downer's Salve for Burns,--Poultice for Burns and Frozen Flesh,--Salve from the Garden and Kitchen, for Burns, eight preparations, . . . . . 110-111
Camphor and other Medicated Waters, . . . . . 302
Cancers, to cure, Methods of Dr. Landolfi (Surgeon General to the Neapolitan Army,)--Dr. H. G. Judkins'--L. S. Hodgkins'--Rev. C. C. Cuylers'--Great English Remedy--American, Red Oak Bark, Salve from the Ashes--Prof. R. S. Newton's--Prof. Calkins' &c., altogether fourteen prescriptions, with Cautions against the use of the Knife, showing when the Treatment should commence, &c., . . . . . 96-100
Costiveness, Common, or very Obstinate Cases, . . . . . 101-102
Chronic Gout, to cure,--Gout Tincture, . . . . . 102-103
Cathartic Syrup, . . . . . 106
Catarrh Snuff, . . . . . 96
Camphor-Ice, for Chapped Hands and Lips, . . . . . 109
Chilblains, to cure, published by order of the Government of Wirtemburg, . . . . . 112
Cod Liver Oil, made Palatable and more Digestible, . . . . . 119
Consumptive Syrup, very successful, with directions about Travel--Remarks on the Use of Fat Meats as Preventive of Consumption, &c.,--Chlorate of Potash in Consumption, new remedy--Rational Treatment for Consumption, claimed to be the best in the world . . . . . 119-125
Composition Powder, Thompson's, . . . . . 140
Croup, Simple but Effectual Remedy--Dutch Remedy--Croup Ointment, . . . . . 149-150
Cough Lozenges, two preparations--Pulmonic Wafers for Coughs--Coughs from Recent Colds, remedy--Cough Mixture for Recent Colds--Cough Candy--Cough Syrup--Cough Tincture--Cough Pill, . . . . . 170-173
Cholera Tincture--Isthmus Cholera Tincture--Cholera
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Preventive--Cholera Cordial--German Cholera, Tincture--Egyptian Cure for Cholera--India Prescription for Cholera--Nature's Cholera Medicine, . . . . . 178-180
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Cholic, and Cholera-Morbus; Treatment, . . . . . 180-181
Carminatives, for Children, . . . . . 182
Dyspepsia; Treatment from Personal Experience, with Cautions about Eating between Meals, especially against Constant Nibbling; also Father Pinkney's Experience of Ninety Years, . . . . . 87-92
Dyspeptic's Biscuit and Coffee; very valuable, . . . . . 292
Dyspeptic Tea, . . . . . 140
Delirium Tremens; to obtain Sleep--Stimulating Anodyne for Delirium, . . . . . 107
Disinfectant for Rooms, Meat or Fish--Coffee as a Disinfectant for Sick-rooms . . . . . 108
Deafness, if recent, to Cure, if not, to Relieve, . . . . . 113
Diuretic Pill--Drops, Decoction and Tincture . . . . . 143-144
Dropsy Syrup and Pills; very effectual, . . . . . 144-145
Diarrhea Cordial--Injection for Chronic Diarrhea--Diarrhea Tincture, Drops and Syrup; also for Flux and Chronic Diarrhea in Adults and Children, when accompanied with Canker, . . . . . 176-178
Dentrifice, which removes Tartareous adhesions from the Teeth, arrests decay, and induces a healthy action of the Gums, . . . . . 188
Discutients, to Scatter Swellings--Common Swellings to Reduce, . . . . . 191-192
Diptheria; Dr. Phinney's Treatment, of Boston, . . . . . 183
Enlarged Tonsils, to Cure, . . . . . 104
Eclectic Emetic, . . . . . 105
Eye Water--often acknowledged to be worth more than Twenty Dollars--India Prescription for Sore Eyes--Dr. Cook's Eye Water--Preparation for excessive Inflammation of the Eyes--Sailor's Eye Preparation--Father Pickney's Preparation for very bad Sore Eyes--Indian Eye Water--Poultices for the Eye--Films, to remove from the Eye--Eye Salve--Sore Eyes, to remove the Granulations--Altogether, twenty-two Prescriptions, for different conditions of the Diseased Eye, . . . . . 154-159
Essences; very Strong, . . . . . 189
Febrifuge Wine, (to drive away Fever), . . . . . 79
Fevers; General improved Treatment, for Bilious, Typhoid and Scarlet Fevers, Congestive Chills, &c.; also valuable in arresting Diarrhea, Summer Complaint, Cholera-Infantum and all forms of Fever in Children--Lemonade, nourishing for Fever Patients--Prof. Hufeland's Drink for Fever Patients, or for excessive Thirst, . . . . . 80-87
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Felon, if recent, to cure in Six Hours--Poultices for Felons--Felon Ointment and Salve, . . . . . 112
Fever-Sore Plaster or Black Salve; has saved two different Hands that two different physicians, in each case, said must be cut off--Red Salve for Fever-Sores--Indian Cure for Fever Sores--Kitridge's Salve for Fever--Sores--Fever-Sore Poultices, Ointments, and Salve for Fever-Sores, Abscesses, Broken Breasts, &c., eleven preparations, . . . . . 159-162
Female Debility and Irregularities, Explanations and Treatment--Female Laxative Pills--Female Laxative and Anodyne Pills--Pills for Painful Menstruation--Injection for Female Complaints--Emmenagogue Tincture, (aiding menstruation)--Powder for excessive Flooding, also full explanations of the natural Turn with young females, in such plain and delicate language, that every Girl over thirteen years of age, ought to have the book, . . . . . 208-214
Uterine Hemorrhages, Prof. Platt's Treatment, twenty years without a Failure, . . . . . 88
Gravel and Kidney Complaints; Imperial Drop, . . . . . 109
Godfrey's Cordial, . . . . . 134
Hoffman's Anodyne or Golden Tincture, . . . . . 133
Hydrophobia, to prevent--Saxon Remedy--Grecian Remedy--Quaker Remedy; fifty years successful . . . . . 151-153
Inflammation of the Throat, (Laryngitis)--Gargle for Sore Throat--Sore Throat Liniment, with a Synopsis, general view), of Dr. Fitch's Treatment of Throat Diseases, . . . . . 92-95
Inflammation of the Lungs--Inflammation of the Pleura, (pleurisy), with such full explanations of general Inflammations that no difficulty will be experienced in Treating the Disease in any of its forms, . . . . . 195-208
Inflammation of the Liver--Eclectic Liver Pill--Liver Pill, Improved--Liver Drops, for obstinate cases--Ointment for Ulcerated Liver, Ague Cake, &c.; very successful, . . . . . 146-147
In-Growing Toe Nail; to cure, . . . . . 174
Indian Cathartic Pills, . . . . . 184
Itching Feet from Frost Bites; to cure, . . . . . 111
Irritating Plaster, extensively used by Eclectics, . . . . . 145
Jaundice; Dr. Peabody's Cure, in its worst forms--Drink for common cases of Jaundice, . . . . . 130-131
Liniments; Good Samaritan, Improved--Liniment for Old Sores--Dr. Raymond's Liniment--German Rheumatic Liquid or Liniment--Cook's Electro-Magnetic Liniment--Liniment for Spinal Affections--Great London Liniment--Gum Liniment--Patent Liniment--Lobelia and Cayenne Liniment--Liniment, said to be St. John's &c, . . . . . 114-118
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Laudanum, . . . . . 133
Night Sweats; to relieve, . . . . . 80
Ointments for Old Sores--Mead's Salt-Rheum Ointment; has proved very successful--Judkin's--Sisson's Green Ointment--exceedingly good--Dr. Kittredge's celebrated Ointment for "Pimpled Face," "Prairie Itch," &c.,--Dr. Gibson's Ointment, for very bad Skin Diseases--Itch Ointment--Magnetic Ointment, said to be Trask's, with Stramonium Ointment and Tincture--Toad Ointment, &c., . . . . . 125-130
Oil of Spike--British Oil--Balm of Gilead Oil--Harlem Oil or Welch Medacamentum; also Black Oils, valuable for Persons or Animals, . . . . . 174-175
Opodeldoc; liquid, . . . . . 176
Paralysis; if recent, to cure, if not to relieve--Paralytic Liniment, . . . . . 103
Piles; very successful Remedy--Pile Cerate--Simple Cure for Piles, internal and external Remedies; eleven preparations, . . . . . 131-133
Paragoric, . . . . . 133
Pills to Sugar Coat--Nervous Pills, . . . . . 148-149
Pain-Killer; said to be Perry Davis', . . . . . 194
Poisons; Antidote, . . . . . 195
Rheumatic Liniment--Inflammatory Rheumatism; to cure--Dr. Kittredge's Remedy for Rheumatism and Stiffened Joints, from Rheumatism--French Remedy for Chronic Rheumatism--Bitters for Chronic Rheumatism; very successful; Green Bay Indian's Remedy for Rheumatism--New Remedy, &c.; twelve preparations, . . . . . 135-138
Sick-Headache; to cure--Periodical Headache--Headache Drops--Tincture of Blood-root for certain Headaches--Charcoal for certain Headaches, . . . . . 104-107
Sweating Drops--Sweating with burning Alcohol, . . . . . 180
Stimulant, in Low Fevers and after Uterine Hemorrhages, . . . . . 141
Sore Throat; from recent cold, Remedy, . . . . . 141
Snake Bites; Effectual Remedies, for Persons and Animals, . . . . . 153-154
Small Pox; to prevent Pitting the Face, . . . . . 191
Salves; Green Mountain Salve; exceedingly valuable--Conklin's Celebrated Salve--Also Balm of Gilead Salve and Peleg White's Old Salve . . . . . 162-163
Seidlitz Powder; cathartic, . . . . . 182
Teeth; Extracting with little or no Pain--Tooth Powder; excellent--Teeth; to remove Blackness--Tooth Cordial; Magnetic--Homeopathic Tooth Cordial--Neuralgia; internal Remedy--King of Oils, for Neuralgia and Rheumatism . . . . . 184-188
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Tinctures; to make, . . . . . 189
Tetter, Ring-Worm and Barber's Itch; to cure, . . . . . 190
Typhus Fever; to prevent Infection, . . . . . 107
Vermifuge Lozenges--Worm Tea-Worm Cake; English Remedy--Tape Worm; Simple but effectual Remedies--Vermifuge Oil; Prof. Freeman's, . . . . . 164-170
Vegetable Physic, . . . . . 184
Whooping-Cough Syrup--Daily's Whooping-Cough Syrup--Soreness or Hoarseness from Coughs; Remedy, . . . . . 173-174
Warts and Corns; to cure in Ten Minutes--Dr. Hariman's innocent and sure cure for Warts, Corns, and Chilblains; five prescriptions, . . . . . 113-114
Wens; to cure, . . . . . 192
Best Color for Boot, Shoe and Harness Edge, and Ink which cannot Freeze--Cheap Color, for Boot, Shoe and Harness Edge, . . . . . 215
Black Varnish for the Edge, . . . . . 217
Deer Skins; Tanning and Buffing for Gloves; three methods, . . . . . 218
French Patent Leather--French Finish for Leather . . . . . 221
Grain-Side Blacking, for Ten Cents a Barrel, . . . . . 221
Tanning Sheep Skins; applicable for Mittens, Door Mats, Robes, &c.,--Tanning Fur and other Skins; Fifty Dollar Recipe--Tanning Deer and Woodchuck Skins, for Whips, Strings, &c,.--Process of Tanning Calf, Kip and Harness, in from Six to Thirty Days--Canadian Process also, with Mr. Rose's modification, of Madison, O . . . . . 217-221
Sizing for Treeing-out Boots and Shoes, . . . . . 215
Varnish for Harness; the Best in Use, . . . . . 217
Water-Proof Oil Paste Blacking, . . . . . 216
Water-Proof Paste without Rubber--Neats-foot Oil Paste, . . . . . 216
Drying Oil; equal to the Patent Dryers, . . . . . 222
Door-Plates; to make, . . . . . 227-229
Etching upon Glass, for Signs, or Side Lights; easy Method, . . . . . 229-230
Frosting Glass, . . . . . 225
Fluoric Acid; to make for Etching Purposes, . . . . . 231
Glass Grinding, for Signs, Shades, &c., . . . . . 230
Japan Dryers; of the Best Quality, . . . . . 222
New Tin Roofs; Valuable Process for Painting, . . . . . 225
Fire-Proof Paint for Roofs, &c.--Water-Proof Oil--Rubber Paint, . . . . . 225
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Oil; to prepare for Carriage, Wagon and Floor Painting, . . . . . 222
Oil Paint, to Reduce with Water, . . . . . 223
Oriental or Crystal Painting, with directions to make various Shades, or Compound Colors--Fancy Green, &c., . . . . . 226-227
Paint Skins; to save and Reduce to Oil, . . . . . 224
Porcelain Finish; very Hard and White, for Parlors, . . . . . 231
Painter's Sanding Apparatus, . . . . . 224
Sketching Paper; to prepare, . . . . . 227
Chrome Green--Chrome Yellow--Green; durable and Cheap--Paris Green; two processes--Prusain Blue; two processes--Pea Brown--Rose Pink, . . . . . 232-233
Butcher Knives; spring Temper and beautiful Edge, . . . . . 238
Cast Iron; to case harden--Cast Iron; the hardest; to Soften for Drilling, . . . . . 240
Files and Rasps, (old); to Re-cut by a chemical process, . . . . . 233
Iron; to Prevent welding, . . . . . 239
Iron or Wood; to Bronze, Representing Bell-metal, . . . . . 241
Mill Picks; to Temper; three Preparations--Mill Picks and Saw Gummers; to Temper--Mill Pick Tempering, as done by Church, of Ann Arbor, . . . . . 236-237
Poor Iron; to Improve, . . . . . 236
Rust on Iron or Steel; to Prevent, . . . . . 234
Silver Plating, for Carriage Work, . . . . . 239
Trap Springs; to Temper, . . . . . 238
Truss Springs; Directions for Blacksmith's to make; superior to the Patent Trusses, . . . . . 241
Varnishes; Transparent; for Tools, Plows, &c.--Varnish; Transparent Blue, for Steel Plows--Varnish, Seek-No-Further, for Iron or Steel--Varnish; Black, having a polish, for Iron, . . . . . 234-235
Welding Cast-Steel, without Borax, . . . . . 235
Welding a small piece of Iron upon a large one, with only a Light Heat, . . . . . 240
Writing upon Iron or Steel, Silver or Gold; not to cost the Tenth of a Cent per letter, . . . . . 236
Wrought-Iron; to Case-harden, . . . . . 240
Black Varnish; for Coal Buckets, . . . . . 242
Box Metal; to make for Machinery., . . . . . 244
Britannia; to use Old, instead of Block Tin, in Solder, . . . . . 245
Copper; to Tin for Stew Dishes or other purposes, . . . . . 244
Iron; to Tin for Soldering or other purposes, . . . . . 244
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Iron, Iron Wire or Steel; to Copper the Surface, . . . . . 244
Japans for Tin--Black, Blue, Green, Orange, Pink, Red and Yellow, . . . . . 242
Lacquer for Tin--Gold color, Transparent, Blue, Green, Purple and Rose Color--also, Lacquer for Brass, . . . . . 242-243
Liquid Glue, for Labelling upon Tin, . . . . . 245
Liquid, to clean Brass, Door Knobs, &c., . . . . . 245
Oil Cans--Size of sheet, for from One to One Hundred Gallons, . . . . . 246
Silver Powder, for Copper or worn Plated Goods, . . . . . 245
Solder for Brazing Iron, Led, Tin and Britannia, . . . . . 244-245
Tinning Flux; Improved, . . . . . 245
Tin; to Pearl, for Spittoons, Water Coolers, &c, . . . . . 245
Broken Saws; to Mend Permanently, . . . . . 247
Browning Gun Barrels; two processes--Browning for Twist Barrels, . . . . . 246-247
Case-Hardening, . . . . . 247
Tinning; superior to the Old Process, . . . . . 248
Varnish and Polish, for Stocks; German, . . . . . 248
Galvanizing Without a Battery, . . . . . 248
Galvanizing With a Shilling Battery; also, Directions to Make the Battery, . . . . . 249-250
Jewelry; Cleaning, and Polishing, . . . . . 250
Broken Limbs; Treatment, instead of inhumanly Shooting the Horse, . . . . . 260-261
Bog-Spavin and Wind-Gall Ointment; also good for Curbs, Splints, &c., . . . . . 255
Bone Spavin; French Paste; Three Hundred Dollar Recipe--Bone Spavin; Norwegian cure--Spavin Liniment; four preparations, . . . . . 254
Bots; Sure Remedy, . . . . . 251
Cholic Cure; for Horses or Persons; has not failed in more than Forty Trials, . . . . . 250
Condition Powder; exceedingly valuable; said to be St. John's--Cathartic Condition Powder; designed for Worn-down Animals, . . . . . 259-260
DeGray or Sloan's Horse Ointment, . . . . . 259
Distemper, to Distinguish and Cure, . . . . . 265
Eye Water, for Horses and Cattle, . . . . . 266
Founder, Remedy, . . . . . 266
Grease-Heel and common Scratches, to Cure, . . . . . 262-263
Heaves, Great Relief for; Six Methods for Different Conditions, . . . . . 264-265
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Hoof-Ail in Sheep, Sure Remedy, . . . . . 266
Looseness or Scouring in Horses or Cattle, Remedy in Use Over Seventy Years . . . . . 252-258
Liniment for Stiff Necks, from Poll-evils--English Stable Liniment, Very Strong--Liniment for One Shilling a Quart, Valuable in Strains, Old Swellings, &c.; and Nerve and Bone Liniment, . . . . . 260
Poll-Evil and Fistula, Positive Cure--Poll-Evil and Fistula, Norwegian Cure; Eight Methods, all of which have Cured Many Cases--Poll-Evils, to Scatter, &c.; Potash, to Make, Used in Poll-Evils, . . . . . 256-258
Physic, Ball and Liquid; for Horses and Cattle, . . . . . 266
Ring-bone and Spavin Cure, often acknowledged worth the Value of the Horse--O.B. Bangs; Method for Recent Cases--Rawson's Ring-bone and Spavin Cure, has Cured Ring-bones as Thick as the Arm--Indian Method, also, very Simple, . . . . . 251-254
Splint and Spavin Liniment, . . . . . 255
Sweeny Liniment, . . . . . 256
Scours and Pin-Worms, to Cure, in Horses or Cattle, . . . . . 259
Saddle and Harness Galls, Bruises, Abrasions, &c., Remedy, . . . . . 263
Sores from Chafing of the Bits, to Cure . . . . . 263-264
Shoeing Horses for Winter Travel, . . . . . 265
Supporting Apparatus in Lameness of Animals, Explained, . . . . . 261
Taming Wild and Vicious Horses--Also, Showing Who Can Do It . . . . . 267-269
Wound Balsam, for Horses or Persons, . . . . . 262
Finishing Furniture with Only One Coat of Varnish, Not Using Glue, Paste, or Shellac; very Valuable, . . . . . 270
Jet Polish; for Wood or Leather; Black, Red and Blue, . . . . . 270
Polish; for New Furniture--Polish; for reviving Old Furniture; equal to the "Brother Jonathan," and Polish for removing Stains, Spots and Mildew from Furniture, . . . . . 269-270
Stains; Mahogany on Walnut as Natural as Nature--Rose-Wood Stain; very bright Shade, used cold--Rose-Wood Stain; light Shade, used hot--Rose-pink, Stain and Varnish; also used to imitate Rose-Wood--Black Walnut Stain-Cherry Stain, . . . . . 271-273
Varnish; Transparent; for Wood--Patent Varnish; for Wood or Canvass--Asphaltum Varnish; black, . . . . . 273-274
Balm of a Thousand Flowers, . . . . . 280
Cologne Imperial--Cologne for Family Use; Cheaper, . . . . . 278-279
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Faded and Worn Garments; to Renew the Color, . . . . . 278
Hair Dye; Reliable, . . . . . 274
Hair Restorative; equal to Wood's, for a Trifling cost; four preparations; cheap and Reliable--Hair Invigorators, two preparations; will stop Hair from Falling . . . . . 275-276
Hair Oils; New York Barber's Star Hair Oil--Macassar or Rose--Fragrant Home-made Pomade or Ox-Marrow, . . . . . 279
Shampooning Mixture, for Five Cents per Quart . . . . . 277
Renovating Mixture; for Grease Spots, Shampooning and Killing Bed Bugs--Renovating Clothes; Gentlemen's Wear, . . . . . 277-278
Razor Strop Paste; very Nice, . . . . . 280
Breads; Yankee Brown Bread--Graham Bread--London Baker's superior Loaf Bread--New French Method of making Bread--Old Bachelor's Bread, Biscuit and Pie-Crust--Baking Powders, for Biscuit, without Shortening, . . . . . 290-293
Cakes; Federal--Rough and Ready--Sponge Cake, with Sour milk--Sponge Cake, with Sweet Milk--Berwick Sponge Cake, without Milk--Surprise Cake--Sugar Cake--Ginger Cake--Tea or Cup Cake--Cake, without Eggs or Milk--Pork Cake, without Butter, Milk or Eggs--Cider Cake--Ginger Snaps--Jell Cake and, Roll Jell Cake--Cake Table, showing how to make Fifteen different kinds, as Pound, Genuine Whig, Shrewsburry, Training, Nut Cake, Short, Cymbals, Burk, and Jumbles,--Ginger Bread,--Wonders,--Cookies--York--Biscuit--Common and Loaf Cakes--Molasses Cake--Marble Cake--Silver Cake, and Gold Cake, finising with Bride and Fruit Cakes--Frosting for Cakes, &c.--Excellent Crackers--Sugar Crackers--Naples Biscuit--Buckwheat Short-cake, without Shortening, most excellent; and Yeast Cake, . . . . . 280-281
Pies; Lemon Pie, extra nice--Pie-Crust Glaze, which prevents the juices from soaking into the crust--Apple-custartd Pie, the nicest ever eaten--Paste for Tarts, . . . . . 293-295
Puddings; Biscuit Pudding, without Re-baking--Old English Christmas Plum Pudding--Indian Pudding; to Bake--Indian Pudding, to Boil--Quick Indian Pudding--Flour Pudding; to boil--Potatoe Pudding--Green Corn Pudding--Steamed Pudding--Spreading and Dip Sauces for Puddings, . . . . . 295-297
Apples; to Bake Steamboat Style, better than preserves--Apple Fritters-Apples to Fry; extra nice, . . . . . 298-299
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Apple Merange; an Excellent Substitute for Pie and Pudding, . . . . . 299
Back-Woods Presrves, . . . . . 299
Bread; to Fry, better than Toast, . . . . . 299
French Honey, . . . . . 300
Fruit Jams, Jellies, and Preserves, . . . . . 300
Fruit Extracts, . . . . . 300
Green Corn Omelet, . . . . . 298
Mock Oysters, . . . . . 300
Muffins, . . . . . 300
Toast; German Style, . . . . . 299
Rose, and Cinnamon Waters, . . . . . 302
Advice to Young Men, and Others out of Employment, . . . . . 336-341
Bed-Room Carpets, for One Shilling per Yard, . . . . . 333
Currants; to dry with Sugar, . . . . . 315
Currant Catchup, . . . . . 314
Coffee; more Healthy and better Flavored, for one-fourth the Expense of Common, . . . . . 334
Cements; Cements for China, &c., which Stands Fire and Water--Cement, Cheap and Valuable--German and Russian Cement--Cement, Water Proof, for Cloth and Belting--Cement or Furniture Glue, for House Use--White Cement and Cement to prevent Leaks about Chimneys, Roofs, &c.--Scrap Book Paste or Cement, always ready for Use, . . . . . 317-319
Canning Fruits; Peaches, Pears, Berries, Plums, Cherries, Strawberries and Tomatoes--Cement for Canning Fruits, . . . . . 313-314
Eggs; to Increase the Laying--Eggs; to Fry extra nice, . . . . . 44
Fence Posts; to Prevent Rotting, . . . . . 308
Fire Kindlers, . . . . . 329
Fish; Art of Catching, . . . . . 321
Gravel Houses; to make, proportions of Lime, Sand and Gravel, . . . . . 324
Glues; Liquid Glue; Imitations, equal to Spalding's Liquid Glue, and Water Proof Glue, . . . . . 328
Grammar in Rhyme, for the Little Folks, . . . . . 341
Musical Curiosity; Scotch Genius in Teaching, . . . . . 342
Meats; to Preserve--Beef; to Pickle for Long Keeping--Michigan Farmer's method--Beef; to Pickle for Winter or Present Use, and for Drying, very nice--Mutton Hams; to Pickle for Drying--Curing, Smoking and Keeping Hams--T. E. Hamilton's, Maryland Premium method--Pork; to have Fresh from Winter Killing, for Summer Frying--Salt Pork for Frying; Nearly Equal to Fresh--Fresh Meat; to Keep a Week or Two, in Summer--Smoked Meat; to Preserve for Years or for Sea Voyages--Rural New Yorker's Method, and the New England Farmer "Saving his Bacon," . . . . . 309-312
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Magic Paper; used to transfer figures in Embroidery, or Impressions of Leaves for Herbariums, . . . . . 319
Percussion Matches; best quality, . . . . . 329-331
Preserves; Tomato and Watermelon Preserves, . . . . . 315
Plums and other Fruits; to prevent insects from Stinging, . . . . . 333
Pickling; Apples, Peaches, Plums, and Cucumbers; Very Nice Indeed--Peaches; to Peel, . . . . . 334-335
Rat Destroyers; Rat Exterminator--Death For the Old Sly Rat--Rats; to Drive Away Alive--Rat Poison from Sir Humphrey Davy, . . . . . 320-321
Straw Bonnets; to Color a Beautiful Slate--Straw and Chip Hats; to Varnish Black, . . . . . 322
Stucco Plastering; for Brick and Gravel Houses, . . . . . 322-324
Steam Boilers; to Prevent Explosion, with the Reason why they Explode--Steam Boilers; to prevent Lime Deposits, two Methods, . . . . . 332-333
Sand Stone; to Prevent Scaling From Frosts, . . . . . 335
Sealing Wax; to Make, Red, Black, and Blue, . . . . . 336
Starch Polish, . . . . . 329
Soaps; Soft Soap, for Half the Expense and One-Fourth the Trouble of the Old Way--German Erasive Soap--Hard Soap--Transparent Soap--One Hundred Pounds of Good Soap for One Dollar and Thirty Cents--Chemical Soft Soap--Soap Without Heat--Windsor or Toilet Soap--Variegated Toilet Soap, &c., . . . . . 304-306
Tallow Candles for Summer Use--Tallow; to Cleanse and Bleach, . . . . . 307
Tomato Catchup; the Best I Ever Used, . . . . . 314
Tomato; Cultivation for Early and Late--Tomatoes as Food, and Tomatoes as Food for Cattle, . . . . . 69-70
Tin-Ware; to Mend by the Heat of a Candle, . . . . . 315
Tire; to keep on the Wheel Until Worn Out, . . . . . 316
Washing-Fluid; Saving Half the Washboard Labor--Liquid Bluing; used in Washing, Never Specks the Clothes, . . . . . 302-303
Water Filter; Home-Made, . . . . . 316
Weeds; to Destroy in Walks, . . . . . 317
Brilliant Stucco Whitewash; Will Last on Brick or Stone, Twenty to Thirty Years--Whitewash; Very Nice for Rooms--Paint; to Make Without Lead or Oil--White Paint; a New Way of Manufacturing--Black and Green Paint; Durable and Cheap for Out-Door Work--Milk Paint; for Barns, Any Color, . . . . . 325-328
Colors on Woolen Goods; Chrome Black; Superior to any in Use--Black on Wool, for Mixtures--Steel Mix,
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Dark--Snuff Brown--Madder Red--Green on Wool or Silk, with Oak Bark--Green, with Fustic--Blue; Quick Process--Stocking Yarn or Wool; to Color Between a Blue and Purple--Scarlet with Cochineal, for Yarn or Cloth--Pink--Orange--Lac Red--Purple--Silver Drab; Light Shade--Slate; on Woolen or Cotton--Extract of Indigo or Chemic, used in Coloring; to Make--Wool; to Cleanse--Dark Colors; to Extract and Insert Light, . . . . . 343-346
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Durable Colors on Cotton; Black--Sky Blue--Lime Water and Strong Lime Water; to Make for Coloring Purposes--Blue on Cotton or Linen, with Logwood--Green--Yellow--Orange--Red--Muriate of Tin, Liquor; to Make, . . . . . 347-349
Colors for Silk; Green; Very Handsome, with Oak Bark--Green or Yellow, on Silk or Woolen; in Five to Fifteen Minutes Only--Mulberry--Black--spots; to Remove and Prevent Spotting when Coloring Black on Silk or Woolen--Light Chemic Blue--Purple--Yellow--Orange--Crimson-Cinnamon or Brown--on Cotton and Silk, by a New Process; very Beautiful, . . . . . 349-351
Interest Tables, Showing the Interest at a Glance: At Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten Per Cent, on all Sums from One Dollar to One Thousand Dollars, From One Day to One Year, and for Any Number of Years; Also, Legal Interest of all the Different States, and the Legal Consequences of Taking or Agreeing upon Usurous Rates in the Different States, . . . . . 352-360
This Department embraces Tables of Rules for Administering Medicines, Having Reference to Age and Sex--Explanations of Medical Abbreviations, Apothecaries Weights and Measures--also, an Explanation of About Seven Hundred Technical Terms found in Medical Works, Many of which are Constantly Occurring in the Common Writings and Literature of the Day, which are not explained in English Dictionaries, . . . . . 361-384
Apparatus for Supporting Lame Animals, . . . . . 261
Frontispiece, . . . . . 2
Form of Lettering for Door Plates, . . . . . 229
Machine for Splitting Matches, . . . . . 331
Painter's Sanding Apparatus, . . . . . 224
Salves and Lozenges; Apparatus for Making, . . . . . 164
Vinegar Generator, . . . . . 36
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"I hereby certify that A. W. CHASE has prosecuted the Study of Medicine under my instruction during the term of two years and sustains a good moral character.
(Signed,) O. B. REED, Physician.
"UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,
College of Medicine and Surgery.
This Certifies that A. W. CHASE has attended a full Course of Lectures in this institution.
(Signed,) SILAS H. DOUGLASS, Dean.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor."
ECLECTIC MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Cin., O.
Know All Men by these Presents, That A. W. CHASE has sustained an honorable examination before the Faculty of this Institute, on all the departments of Medical Science, &c. * * Wherefore we, the Trustees and Faculty, * * * by the authority vested in us by the Legislature of the State of Ohio, do confer on him the Degree of DOCTOR OF MEDICINE.
WM. B. PIERCE, President.
W. T. HURLBERT, Vice Pres't.
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The following statements are given by my neighbors, to whom I had sent the eighth edition of my "Recipes," asking their opinions of its value for the people, most of whom had previously purchased earlier editions of the work, and several of them used many of the Recipes; and surely their position in society must place their statements above all suspicion of complicity with the author in palming off a worthless book; but are designed to benefit the people by increasing the spread of genuine practical information:
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A. WINCHELL, Professor of Geology, Zoology and Botany, in the University of Michigan, and also State Geologist, says:--I have examined a large number of Recipes in Dr. Chase's published collection, and from my knowledge, either experimental or theoretical, of many of them, and my confidence in Dr. Chase's carefulness, judgment, and conscientiousness in the selection of such only as are proved useful, after full trial, I feel no hesitation in saying that they may all be received with the utmost confidence in their practical value, except in those cases where the Doctor has himself qualified his recommendations.
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all classes of business men, in town and country, and especially to all families who want to cook well, and have pleasant, healthy drinks, syrups and jellies; who wish to keep health when they enjoy it, or seek for it in an economical way. I thank you for the copy you sent to me, and hope you may make a great many families healthy and happy.
REV. F. A. BLADES, of the M. E. Church, and Pastor in charge, for two years, of Ann Arbor Station, says: Dr. Chase--Dear Sir--Your work of Recipes, I have examined--and used some of them for a year past--I do not hesitate to pronounce it a valuable work--containing information for the Million. I hope you will succeed in circulating it very generally--it is worthy a place in every house.
This gentleman speaks in the highest terms of the "Dyspeptic's Biscuit and Coffee," as of other recipes used.
EBERBACH & CO., Druggists, of Ann Arbor, say:--We have been filling prescriptions from "Dr. Chase's Recipes," for three or four years, and freely say that we do not know of any dissatisfaction arising from want of correctness; but on the other hand, we know that they give general satisfaction.
REV. S. P. HILDRETH, of Dresden, O., a former neighbor, inclosing a recent letter, says: I have carefully examined your book, and regard it as containing a large amount of Information which will be valuable in every household.
REV. WILLIAM C. WAY, of the M. E. Church, Plymouth, Mich., says:--I have cured myself of Laryngitis, (inflammation of the throat,) brought on by long continued and constant public speaking, by the use of Dr. Chase's black oil, and also know a fever sore to have been cured upon a lady, by the use of the same article.