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 m. CHASE'S RECIPES ; 
 
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 OR, 
 
 «ftfm»titftt fm i^xtx^HH^, 
 
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 EIGHTY-SEVENTH THOUSAND. 
 
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JOHN MOFFAT, 
 
 WH0L1=>!AI.E AND RCTAII, 
 
 BOOKUER AND $TATI01R, 
 
 WOULD r<'8|,XH;tfUlly inform liin many frif'uds and tlio pnblic generally that he 
 ha« greully EnlaigttI jiii, I'lcmisi-B, to ni ot the increiiBing nct^mimodation 
 of a larger S».ook. Ho in conHiwiitly recciviiig fiom the British, iiicrnian antl 
 
 AtnoriCHD Markets a Htock of 
 
 Which, for Mlcction and prieo, he is confldrnt in !<aying will meet UiC! wants of all. 
 HIS BOOK DEPARTMENT 
 
 Is replete with the Newt«t and 13eKt Editions of the Latest Works. The Stock of 
 
 SCHOOL BOOKS is complete, both in Common School and aa;isical Departiucnts ; 
 
 and he will soil its chcai^ As any hoitsc In Canada 
 
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 THE STATIONERY DEPARTMENT 
 
 Was n«iver equal to the present for variety and cheapness 
 
 HIS STOCK OF WALL PAPER 
 
 Of ftvery pattern, Im completo, and was imt)orted direct from the Knglish and 
 American manufacturers Prices unprecedentedly low 
 
 0f Country Merchants 8ui)plied at Montreal and Toronto pric<». .Jgl 
 
 JOHN MOFFAT, 
 
 Carting's Block, Richmond -street, a few doors south ot the Poet Office, London. 
 
 M I D DLESEX 8EM I N ART AT KOMO K*. 
 
 THE MIDDIJSEX SEMINARY COMIUNY are happy to state that the success 
 that liaa so far attended tlie enterpiizo, has encouraged the Ooinjwny to put 
 forth additional cflTorts, to render tlie 8ch(K>l worthy of the genelrous support of all 
 who desire to secure a first. claps education Every effort has been made to render 
 the course of instruction most tliorough, and at the same time to so reduce 
 expnditures as to jring the advantJtges of the Institution wilhm he reach of 
 near y every cla. 8. « 
 
 TERMS FOR BOARD AND TUITION. 
 
 To the niill literary course only $luO per annum. 
 
 FOR TUITION ALONE. 
 
 English Course, f 15 per annum or $5 per term 
 
 Classical Course — including French and German, 8 "' 
 
 Music— Primary Dopar»mont, 8 " 
 
 Advanced Department, - 10 " 
 
 Drawing, . 4 " 
 
 Painting, "... . - 6 " 
 
 A. M. MOFFAT, B.A., Principal; Mm. MOFFAT, Matron, and Teacher of Painting 
 and Drawing; PETKEt McLEARN, H. A.. Clii8.sical Teacher; MIW. URUN, 
 
 Teacher of Mtisic. 
 
 The Institution is located at the Jtunctiou of the Saruia Br of the G. W- R R. 
 
 JFor ftiU particiilars, apply to 
 
 A.-" M. MOFFAT, Principal, at Komoka; or to 
 
 JOHN MOFFAT, Secrttary, Albion Buildingp, I/Midon, 
 
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OR. CHASE'S RECIPES; 
 
 OR, 
 
 INfOKMATION FOR EVERYBODY : 
 
 AN INVALUABU: COIXECTION OF 
 
 ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED 
 
 PRACTICAL RECIPES 
 
 FOR 
 
 Mttircluuits, Crocen. Saloon-Keepen, Phyiiolani, Dmgglcta, 
 
 Tanners, Bboe Makers, Harness Makers, Painters, 
 
 Jewelers, BTaoksmlths. Tinners, Qnnsmlths, ]Parriezii, 
 
 Barbers, Bakers, Dyers, Renovators, Faimort and 
 
 Families Generally. 
 
 TO WHICSI HAVK BEKf AVWD 
 
 A National Treatment of Pleurisy, Inflammatioiii of the liungs, 
 
 and other Inflammatory Diseaaes, and also for General 
 
 JPemale Debility and Irregularitioih 
 
 All •iTaiig«d In their Appropriate Depantntents. 
 
 BY A. W. CHASE, MJD., 
 
 PKAcncAL niEiuPKirnsi. 
 
 •nVSKTY-THIRD BDITION. 
 
 STEREOTYPED. 
 
 CAREFULLY REVISED, ILLUSTRATED, AND MUCH ENLARGBl>j 
 WITH REMARKS AND FULL EXPLANATIONS. 
 
 We Itearn to Live, by Living to Lcarr. 
 
 LONDON, C.W., 
 PUBLISHED BY J. MOFFAT, BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, 
 
 1805. 
 
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. Author. ; 
 
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 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 herirty thanks for the benefit received 
 from the Book. My wife Wt*o croubled 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 tned. a great many other 
 of the " Recipes" with the same result. j^T would not be without 
 the Book for fifty dollars. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 JAMES FERGUSON. 
 
 ADVERTISER PRINT, LOUDON, C. W. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 TO THE TENTO EDI'nON. 
 
 In bi inging a permanent work, or one that is designed so to 
 be, before the public, it is expected of tlie 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 
 advantagCb, and encourage the Author by quick and extensive 
 purchases, they alone being the judges. Then : 
 
 FiBOT, — Much of the information contained in " Dr. Chase's 
 Recipes ; or Information for Everybody," has never before been 
 published, and is adapted to every day use. 
 
 Sbcond.— The Author, after having carried on the Drug and 
 Grocery business for a number of years, read Medicine, after being 
 38 years of age, and graduating as a Physician to qualify him- 
 self for the work he was undertaking ; for, having been familiar 
 with some of the Receipes, 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. Hi8 
 travels hav. brought him in contact with all classes of Professional 
 and Bus'-icss men, Mechanics, Farriers, and Farmers, thus enabl- 
 ing 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 langiiage expressly for the 
 
vi 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 I 
 
 nc:.t edition of tliis work. Iii this way this mam of inf rmatiou 
 
 has been collected, and ought to take away an objection which 
 
 4Bome pcraontt have raised : " It is too much for one man to know ! ' ' 
 
 '^becaurie they did not realize that the work had been made up 
 
 from vtlura m vftiU as the Author's acltutl everyday txperience, in- 
 
 . stead of from untried books. Yet from the nature of some of the 
 Recipes, one has occjislonally found its way into some of the ear- 
 r. jr editions, which have needed revision, or to bo entirly dropped. 
 
 ■ This, with a desire to add to the various Departments, at every 
 
 . edition, has kept us from having it Stereotyped until the present, 
 
 I 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. 
 
 We have it stereotyped, and send it out, just what we expect, 
 and are willing it should remain. 
 
 ThibX).— Many of the Recipe books published are very large, 
 «nd contain much uselesi matter, only to increase the number, 
 'Consequently costing too much ; this one contains only about 
 •eight hundred recipes, upon only about four hundred different 
 aubjects, all oi which are valuable in daily practical lite, and at 
 a very rersonable 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 iuUy explained, and accompanied with remarks upon 
 the various subjects introduced by the Recipes under considera- 
 tion ; those remarks, explannations, and suggestions accompany- 
 ing the Recipes, are^ special feature of this work, making it 
 worth double its cost as a reading book, even if there was nut a 
 prescription in it. 
 
 FouETH.— 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 glance just what they wish 
 to .find. <^ 
 
 
 
 Fifth.— It is a well known fact that many unprincipled per- 
 sona go around '' gulling" the people by Bulling single Recipes for 
 exorbitant prices The Author found a thing, calling himself a 
 
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 ipled per- 
 lecipes for 
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 man, in Battle Creek, Michigan, nolling a Washing-Fluid Recipe 
 for two dollars, which he obtained of some ; but if he could not 
 obtain that, he would take twoBhilling, or any other sum between 
 them. A merchant gave a horse for the " White Cement" Re- 
 cip«. The Late Mr. Andrews, of Detroit, Michigan, gave three 
 hundred dollars for a Recipe, now improveii and in this work, 
 to cure a bone spavin upon u 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 fiftT 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 doll irs, and all 
 for the purpose of making a hook worthy to be found in " Every- 
 body's" library, and to prevent such extortions in the price of 
 Recip«»8. 
 
 Tet 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 reaih, instead of giving time for disease to 
 strengthen, whilst sending perhaps miles for a physician. 
 
 Mnch 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 
 ^thty were made. 
 
 Sixth.— It will be observed that we have introduced a number 
 [of Recipes upon some of the subj tl-i ; this adapts the work to all 
 I 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 U>r some other w.»y; as also that one prescrip- 
 tion is better for some than for other persons; therefore, we 
 give the variety that all may be benefitted as much a« possible. 
 
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 Viii 
 
 PR2.FA0E. 
 
 For insiance, there are twenty different prewiriptions for diflfer- 
 ent disefutcs, and conditionB of the eye ; there are aluo a dozen 
 different liniments, &c , &c. ; yet the Autlior feels well assured 
 that the most perfect satisfaction will bo experienced in them as a 
 whole. And although it could not be expected that special ad- 
 vantages 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 benefitted 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 with- 
 
 » out the information on this subject ; and in fact, there is not a 
 
 • medical subject introduced but what will be found more or leeg 
 valuable to every one ; even Physicians will be moie than com- 
 pensated in its perusal whilst Consumptive, Dyspeptic, Rhea- 
 
 matic, and Fever patients ought, by all means, to Imdl themselves 
 
 of the advantages here pointed out. 
 
 The treatment in Female Debility , and the observationg on the 
 Changes in female life are such that every one of the mover thir- 
 teen or fourteen years of tige should not be without this vork. 
 The directions in Pleurisy and other Inflammatory diseases 
 cannot fail to benefit every family into whose hands the book 
 shall fall. 
 
 The Good Samaratin 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 Shoe- 
 makers, Painters and Blacksmiths, Tinners and Gunsmiths, Cabi- 
 net Makers, Barbers and Bakers will find in their various Depart- 
 ments 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. 
 
 t 
 
 A gentleman recently called at my house for one of the books 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 IX 
 
 Baying : " I have come ten miles out of my way to get it, for I 
 Btaid over night with a farmer wlio had ono, and had been ben« 
 efltted more than $20, in curing a horse by itH directions." - A 
 gentleman near this city says ho had paid out dollars after c!oliarB 
 to cure a horee of Rpavin, 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 accumu- 
 lating during the seven years in which the work has been in 
 growing up to its present siso and perfection ; and the position in 
 society of mosi of the persons making these statements is such, 
 many Cif which are entire strangers to the Author and to each 
 other, '£hat 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 Mis- 
 cellaneous 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 wea >f clothes. 
 
 Skvbnth. — Many of the articles can be gathered from garden, 
 field or woods, and the others wnl always be i'ound with Drug- 
 gists, 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.— ITiere is one or two things fact about this book ; 
 It is the biggest humbug of the day ; or 't is the best work of 
 the kind published in the Ei glisb language. If a careful peru- 
 sal does not satisfy all that it 's not the first, but that it in the last, 
 then will the author be willing to acknowledge thdt Testing, 
 Experimenting, Labor, Travel and st? dy, 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 bene- 
 
PRKFAOS. 
 
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 11 
 
 fit to hiH felluw 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 BO, I should have kept the work smaller as heretofore, for 
 the eighth edition of two hux<Jred and twenty -four pages, when 
 handsomely bound sold for One Dollar; 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 dollf rs and cents, but relieve suffering and prolong 
 life. 
 
 It is, in fact, a perfect mass of the most valuable melhods 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 "'limes" should 
 be for a moment argued against the purchase of so valuable » 
 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 B.jok Htores, 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 contjiins, scattered through a num- 
 ber of years t)f accumulutod papers, it would be worth more than 
 the price of tlus 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 man- 
 kind 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 bunefitting." 
 
 >*, 
 
 The Author has received too many expressions of gratitude, 
 thankfulness and favor in regard to the value of " Dr.Chase's Re- 
 cipes; or Information for Everybody," to doubt the truth of the 
 foregoing quotation; and trusts that the following quotation 
 
 
PtlBFAO£. 
 
 XI 
 
 may not be set down to " Egotism" or " Bigotry," wlien he gives 
 it as tlie governing reason for tlie continued and perraknent publi- 
 cation of the work: 
 
 •' I live U) iKARN their story, who aiifferftd for mv sake • 
 To emulate their glory, and follow in their wake ; ' 
 Banlp, patriot-", martyrs, sages, and nobles of all ages, 
 Whqee deeds crown History's imges, and Time's great vohime make. 
 
 '< I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, 
 
 For the heaven that smiles above mo, and awaits my spirit too ; 
 For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance 
 For the future in the di^■tance, and the good that I r^n do." * 
 
 May these reooons speedily l)ecome 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 ehould no longer need corroborating testimony to 
 our statements. Now, however, we are obliged to array every 
 point before the people as a Mirror, that they may judge under- 
 standingly, even in matters of the most vital importance to them- 
 selves, 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 he said, we have no doubt ; but we beg to refer such to the 
 statement among our References, of the Rev. C. P, Nash, of Mu8_ 
 kegon, Mieh., 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 accom- 
 plished by it, it is only necessary that it phould be generally 
 introduced and daily used, is the positive knowledge of the 
 
 AUTHOR. 
 
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 MERCHANl'S' AND GROCERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 PAOB. 
 
 Baking Powders, Without Drugs, ..... 60 
 
 Butter ; to Preserve any Length of Time— Butter M»ik- 
 Ing ; 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 Preseive for Winter use— English Patented 
 Method -J. W. Cooper, M. D.'s Method of Keeping 
 
 and Sliipping Game liggs ...... 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 ; Bluck Copying or Writing Fluid — Common Black 
 — Red -the Very Best -Blue — Indellible — Ink Powder; 
 
 Black.. 47-48 
 
 Jellies, Without Fruit ... ' 60 
 
 Mouth Glue, for Tom Paper, Notes, &c. . 50 
 
 Vinegar in Three Weeks— in Barrels without trouble — 
 — Frcm Sugar, Drippings from Sugar Hogsheads, &c. 
 — From Acetic Acid and Molasses — From Apple Cider / 
 — In Three Days, WHhout Drugs— Quick Process by 
 Standing upon Shavings ...... 38-40 
 
 SALOON DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Apple Cider ; to keep Sweet with but Trifling Expense 
 — To Prepare for Medicine — Artificial Cider, or Cider 
 Without App'es ; to Make in Kegs or to Bottle, or in 
 Barrels, for Long Keeping, with Directions About 
 
 " Shipping 
 
 Action of Sugar or Candy on the Teeth . . 
 
 Ale ; Home Brewed, How it is Made 
 
 • • « • I 
 
 51-54 
 59 
 68 
 
"r V 
 
 IKDEX. 
 
 XUl 
 
 Beers ; Root— Spruce, or Aromatic Beer — Lemon— Ginger 
 — Philadelphia— Patent Gas— Corn ; without Yeast — 
 Strong Beer ; English, improved 
 
 Coloring for Wines 
 
 Cream Soda; Using Cow's Cream for Fountains- Cream 
 Soda ; with a Foun' i 
 
 Cream Nectar; Imperial. 
 
 Ginger Pop 
 
 Ice Cream — Ice Cream, very cheap 
 
 Lawton Blackberry ; its Cultivation 
 
 Lemonade, to carry in the Pocket 
 
 Molasses Candy and Pop Corn Balls 
 
 Oyster Soup ...... 
 
 Persian Sherbet 
 
 Porter, Ale or Wine; to Prevent Flatness in parts of 
 Bottles, for the Invalid 
 
 Stomach Bitters, equal to Hostetters, for one-fourth its 
 cost, and Schiedam Schnapps Exposed. 
 
 Sham Champagne, a purely Temperance Drink 
 
 Spanish Gingerette 
 
 Soda Water, without a Machine for Bottling 
 
 Syrups — to make the various Colors — Syrups, Artificial ; 
 various flavors, as Raspberry, Strawberry, Pineapple, 
 Sarsaparilla, &c. — Lemon Syrup, common — Lemon 
 Syrup, to Save the Loss of Lemons — Soda Syrup, with 
 or without Fountains . . 
 
 Tripe, to prepare and Pickle 
 
 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 . . 
 
 Yeasts; Hop Yeast— Bakers' Yeast — Jug Yeast, without 
 Yeast to start with— Yeast Cake 
 
 PAOB. 
 
 61-63 
 74 
 
 57 
 64 
 65 
 
 66-67 
 72 
 60 
 
 58-59 
 58 
 60 
 
 64 
 
 74 
 65 
 66 
 
 57 
 
 64 57 
 58 
 
 67 74 
 65 66 
 
 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Alcohol in Medicine, preferable to Brandy, Rum or Gin ' 
 of the present day, connected with Spiritual Facts. . . . 75 
 
 Ague Medicines , Dr. Krider's Ague Pills— Ague Bitters 
 — Ague Powder — Ague Mixture, without Quinine — 
 Ague Cured for a Tunny — Ague Anodyne — Tonic 
 Wine Tincture, a positive cure for Ague, without Qui- 
 nine . . 77 
 
 Asthma ; Remedies 
 
 Alterative Syrup, or Blood Purifier— Alterative, very 
 strong — Alterative Cathartic, powder — Alterative for 
 Diseases of the Skin— Alterative, Tonic and Cathartic 
 Bitters. 142 
 
 77 
 
 80 
 139 
 
 143 
 
mm 
 
 XIV 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 !i!, 
 
 •II 
 
 Artificial Skin, for Buvtis, Bruises, Abraoians, &c., Proof 
 
 against Water 
 
 Adhesive Plaster, or ^-alve, for Deep Wounds. Cuts, 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 &c.. 
 
 in place of Stitches, 
 
 A Cure for Drunkenness ...... 
 
 Anodyne Pills ...... 
 
 Bread-Tea, used in taking Emetics ...... ...... 
 
 Bateraan's Pectoral Drops 
 
 Balsams ; Dr. R. W. Hutchin's Indian Healing, formerly 
 Peckham's Cough Balsam; Dr. Mitchel's Balsam, for 
 Cuts, Bruises, &c . ... 190 
 
 Bleedings ; Internal and External Remedies ; Styptic 
 Balsam, for Internal Hemorrhages ; Styptic Tincture, 
 External Application 192 
 
 Bronchocele, (Enlarged NedO, to cure. . . 
 
 Burns; Salve for Burns. irost-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 
 
 ■Camphor and other Medicated Waters . 
 
 Cancers, to cure; Methods of Dr. Landoifi, Surgeon 
 General to the Neapo'itan Army; Dr. H. G. Judkins'; 
 L. S. Hodgkins'; Rev. C. C Ci.y'ers'; Great English 
 Remedy: Amenran, Red Oak Bark, Salve from 
 the Ashes; Prof. R. S, New n's; Prof Calkin's, &c., 
 
 , a'together fourteen prescriptioi with Cautions agiinst 
 the use of the Knife, showing when the Treatment 
 should commence, e^c . 90 
 
 Costiveness, Common, or very Obstinate Cases 101 
 
 Chronic Gout, to cure; Gout Tincture. ... 102 
 
 Cathartic Syrup 
 
 Catarrh SniifF 
 
 Camphor- Ice, for Chapped Han.'s and Lips 
 
 Chilblains, to cure, published by order of the Govern- 
 ment of Wirtemburar. . . 
 
 Cod Liver Oil, made Palatable and more Digestible 
 
 Consumptive Syrup, very successful, with directions , 
 about Travel; Remarks on the Use of Fat Meats as ' 
 Preventative of Consumption, &c. ; Chlorate of Potash 
 in Clonsumption, new remedy: Rational Treatment for 
 Consumption, claimed to be the be.t inthe world 119 
 
 Composition Powder, Thompson's 
 
 Croup, Simple but Effectual Remedy; Dutch Remedy; 
 Croup Ointment 149 
 
 Cough Lozenges, two preparations; Pulmonic Wafers for 
 Coughs; Coughs from Recent Colds; Remedy Cough 
 Mixture for Recent Colds; ""ough Candy; Cough Syrup; 
 Cough Tincture; Cough Pih 170 
 
 Cholera Tincture; Isthmus L lolera Tincture; Cholera 
 
 191 
 
 16a 
 140 
 149 
 106- 
 134 
 
 191 
 
 194 
 194 
 
 iir 
 
 302 
 
 100 
 102 
 103 
 106 
 96 
 109 
 
 112 
 119 
 
 125 
 140 
 
 150 
 
 173 
 
 
INDEX , 
 
 IV 
 
 PAOB. 
 
 87 
 
 Preventive; Cholera Cordial; German Cholera, tinc- 
 ture; Egyptian Cure for Cholera; India Prescription for 
 Cholera; Nature's Cholera Medicine... ...., 178 
 
 Colic and Cholera Morbus; Treatment. . . 180 
 
 Carminatives foi Children 
 
 Dyspepsia; Treatment from P«!rsonal Experience, with 
 Cautions about Eating between Meals, especially 
 against constant nibbling; also. Father Pinkney's Ex 
 perience of ninety years 
 
 Dyspeptic's Biscuit and Coffee, very valuable 
 
 Dyspeptic Tea 
 
 Delirium Tremens; to obtain sleep; Stimulating Anodyne 
 for Delirium 
 
 Disinfectant for Rooms, Meat or Fish ; Coffee as a Disin- 
 fectant for Sick Rooms. 
 
 Deafness, if recent, to Cure; if not, to Relieve 
 
 Diuretic Pill; Drops, Decoction and Tincture 143 
 
 Dropsy Syrup and Pills; very effectual ... 144 
 
 Diarrhea Cordial ; Injection for Chronic Diarrhea; Diarr- 
 hea Tinctine. Drops and Syrup; also for Flux and 
 Chronic Diarrhea in adults and children, when accom- 
 panied with Canker . . 176 
 
 Dentrifice which removes Tartareous tulJiesions from the 
 Teeth, arrests decay, and induces a healthy action of 
 the Gums 
 
 Discutients, to scatter Swellings; Common Swellings, to 
 Reduce. 191 
 
 Diphtheria; Dr. Phinney's Treatment, of Boston 
 
 "Enlarged Tonsils, to Cure 
 
 E<;lectic Emetic ...... 
 
 Eye Water, often acknowledged to be worth more than 
 Twenty Dollars; India Prescription for Sore Eyes; Dr. 
 Cook's Eye Water; Preparation for Excessive Inflam- 
 mation of the Eyes; Sailor's Eye Preparation: Fa- 
 ther Pinkney's Preparation for very bad Sore Eyes; 
 Indian Eye Ayater; 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 
 
 Essences; very strong. ,. . 
 
 Febrifuge Wine, to drive away Fe\er. ... ; 
 
 Fevers; General Improved Treatment, for Bilious, "Ty- 
 phoid and Scarlet Fevers. Con^;estive Chills, &c. ; also 
 valuable in arresting Diarrhea, Summer Complaint, 
 Cholera Infantum, and all forms of fever in Children; 
 Lemo'iade, noiirishing for Fever Patients; Professor 
 Hnf'iland's Drink for Fever Patients, or for excessive 
 Thir&t.. 80 87 
 
 180 
 181 
 182 
 
 92 
 292 
 140 
 
 107 
 
 108 
 118 
 144 
 
 145 
 
 178 
 
 18^ 
 
 192 
 188 
 104 
 105 
 
 159 
 
 189 
 
 79 
 
XVI 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 ill 
 
 ml 
 
 PAor. 
 Felon, if recent, to cure in Six Hours- Poultices for 
 
 Felons— Felon Ointment and Salve ... 112 
 
 Fever-Sore Plaster or Black Salve ; lias saved two differ- 
 ent Hands that two different phyalcianb, in each case, 
 said must be cut oif — lied Salve for Fever-Sores— Indiau 
 Cure for Fever-Sores — Kitridge's Salve for Fever 
 Sores— P'ever-Sore Poultices, Ointments and SaJve 
 for Fever-Sores, Abscesses, Broken Br«a8t8, &c., eleven 
 
 preparations 169 162 
 
 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 lan- 
 guage, that every Girl over thirteen years of age, 
 
 ou|rht to have the book 208 214 
 
 Utenne Hemorrhages, Prof. Piatt's Treatment, twenty ,^ 
 
 Tears 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 Kemedy — Grecian 
 
 Remedy — Quaker Remedy ; fifty years successful 151 163 
 
 Inflammation of the Throat, (Laryngitis) — Gargle for 
 Sore Throat— Sore Throat liniment, with a Synopsis, 
 (general view), of Dr. Fitch's Treament of Throat 
 
 Diseases 92 95 
 
 Inflammation of the Lungs — Inflammation of the Pleura, 
 (pleurisy), with such full explanations of general In- 
 flammation that no difficulty will be experienced in 
 
 Treating the disease in any of its forms 196 208 
 
 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 147 
 
 Indian Cathartic Pills. ... 186 
 
 Itching Feet from Frost Bites, to cure... Ill 
 
 Irritating Plaster, extensively used by Eclectics 146 
 
 Jaundice ; Dr. Peabody's Cure, in its worst forms — 
 
 Drink for common cases of Jaundice. . , 130 131 
 
 Liniments : Good Samaritan, luipi'oved — Liniment for 
 Old Sores — Dr. Raymond's Liniment — German Rheu- 
 matic Liquid or Liniment — Cook's Electro-Magnetic 
 Liniment ; Liniment for Spinal Affections ; Great 
 Loudon Liniment ; Gum Liniment ; Patent Liniment ; 
 Lobelia and Cayenne Liniment ; Liniment, said to be 
 St. John's, &c 114 118 
 
INDEX 
 
 XVll 
 
 PAGB. 
 
 Laiidnum 133 
 
 Night Sv.eatP, to relieve. . 80 
 
 Ointment for Old Sores ; Mead's Salt Rbeum Ointment, 
 has proved very su' cesaful ; Judkin's • Sidson's Green 
 Ointment, exceedingly good ; Dr. Kitttidge's cele- 
 biated Ointment for " Pirafled Face," " Prairie Itch," 
 &c. ; Dr. Gibson's Ointment for very bad Skin Dis- 
 Ciises ; Itch Ointment : Magnetic Ointment, said to be 
 Task's, with Stramonium Ointment and Tincture ; 
 
 Toad Ointment, &c.... 125 18^ 
 
 Oil of Spike ; British Oil ; Balm of Gillead Oil ; Harlem 
 Oil or Welch Medacametum ; also Black Oils, valuable 
 
 for persons or animals . 174 17& 
 
 Opedeldoc, liquid ITiJ 
 
 Paralysis, if recent, to cure, if not to relieve ; Paralytic 
 
 Liniment 103^ 
 
 riles, very successful remedy ; Pile Cerate ; Simple 
 Cure for Piles, internal and external Remedies, deven 
 
 preparations 131 133 
 
 Paregoric 183 
 
 Pills, to sugar coat. Nervous Pills ..... 148 149- 
 
 Pain-Killer, said to be Perry Davis' 194 
 
 Poisons ; Antidote ...... 19& 
 
 Rheumatic Liniment ; Inflammatory Rbe;imatism, to 
 cure ; Dr. Kittridge's Remedy for Pheumutism and 
 Stiffened Joints from Rheumatism ; French Remedy 
 for Chronic Rheumatism; Bitt rs for Chrome Rheu- 
 matism, very successful ; Green Bay Indiuii'b Remedy 
 for Rheumatism ; New Remedy, &c. ; twelve prepara- 
 tions... 135 138 
 
 Sick Headache, to cure ; Periodical Headache ; Headache 
 Dropa ; Tincture of Blood Root for certain Headaches ; 
 
 Charcoal for certain Headaches 104 107 
 
 Sweating Drops ; Sweating with burning Alcohol 108 
 
 Stimulant, in Low Fevers and after Uteriiie Hemorrha- 
 ges .. . , 141 
 
 Sore Throat, from recent cold, remedy . . 171 
 
 Snake Bites ; Effectual Remedies, for Persons and Ani- 
 mals.. 163 164 
 
 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 
 
 Sedlitz Powder, cathartic 182 
 
 Teeth, Extracting with little or no pain ; Tooth Pow- 
 der, excellent ; Teeth, to remove blackn ,88 ; Tooth 
 Cordial, Magnetic ; Homeopathic Tooth Cordial ; 
 Neuralgia, internal Remedy ; King of Oilb for Neu- 
 ^ ralgia and Rheumatism 184 188^ 
 
• •• 
 
 IMOBX. 
 
 t- ! 
 
 f 
 
 liii I 
 
 PAOB. 
 
 Tinctures, to miik« 189 
 
 Tetter, Ring Worm, and Barber's Itch; to cure 190 
 
 Typhus Fever; to Prevent Infection 107 
 
 Vermifuge Lozenges; Worm Tea; Worm Cake; Engligh 
 
 Remedy; Tape Worm; Simple but Elffectual Bemedieii; 
 
 Vermifuge Oil ; Prof Freeman's 164 170 
 
 Vegetable Physic ...;.. 184 
 
 Whooping Cough Syrup; Daily's Whooping Cough 
 
 Syrup; Soreness or Hoarseness from Coughs; Remedy . .178 174 
 Warts and Corns, to cure in Ten Minutes; Dr. Hariman's 
 
 innocent and sure cure for Warts, Corns and Chilblains, 
 
 . five prescriptions 118 114 
 
 iVens, to cure 192 
 
 TANNERS', SHOE & HARNESS-MAKERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 iBest Color for Boot, Shoe and Harness Edge, and Ink 
 which cannot freeze; Cheap Color for Boot, Shoe and 
 
 Harness E<1ge 215 
 
 Black Varnish for the Edge 217 
 
 Deer Skins ; Tanning and Buffing for Gloves; three 
 
 methods ...... 218 
 
 French Patent Leather; Erench Finish for Leather 221 
 
 Grain-Side Blacking, for Ten Cents a Btirrel 221 
 
 Tanning Sheepskins; applicable for Mittens, Door Muts, 
 Robes, &c ; Tanning Fur and other Skins; Fifty 
 Dollar Recipe; Tanning Deer and Woodchuck Skins, 
 for Whips, Striogs, &c; Process of Tanning Calf, Kip 
 and Harness, in from Six to Thirty Days; Canadian 
 Process also, with Mr. Rose's modification, of Madison, 
 
 Ohio... 217 221 
 
 Sizing for Treeing out Boots and Shoes. . 215 
 
 Varnish for Harnes-s, the best in use .... 217 
 
 Water-Proof Oil Paste Blacking 216 
 
 Water-Proof Paste without Rubber ; Neats-foot Oil 
 
 Paste . . 2I9 
 
 PAINTERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Drying Oil, equal to the Patent Dryers . . 
 
 DooT Plates, to make .... 227 
 
 Etching upon Glass, for Signs or Side Lights ; easy 
 
 Method 229 
 
 Frosting Glass 
 
 Fluoric Acid; to make for Etcliing Purposes ...... 
 
 Glass Grinding, for Signs, .Shades, &c 
 
 Japiin Dryers, of the best quality 
 
 New Tin Roofs, valuat^le process for painting 
 
 Fire- Proof Paint for Roofs, &c.; Water-Proof Oil-Rubber 
 
 Paint.. 
 
 222 
 229 
 
 230 
 225 
 231 
 230 
 222 
 225 
 
INDEX. 
 
 XIX 
 
 PAOB 
 
 Oil; to prepare for Carriage. Wagon and Floor Painting. . 222 
 
 Oil Pain^, to Reduce with Water . . . . ^. 228 
 
 Oriental or Crystal PaintiHg, with Directions to make 
 
 various Shades, or Compound Colorn; Fancy Green, &C.226 227 
 
 I'aiut Skins; to save and Reduce to Oil . . 224 
 
 Porcelain Finish; very Hard and White, for Parlors 281 
 
 Painter's Sanding Apparatus 224 
 
 Sketching Paper; to prepare 227 
 
 PAINTERS' ECONOMY IN MAKING COLORS. 
 
 Chrome Green; Chrome Yellow; Green, durable and 
 ('heap; Paris Green, two processes; Prussian Blue, 
 two processes; Pea Brown; Rose Pink 232 
 
 23» 
 
 • J 
 
 Blacksmiths to make; 
 
 BLACKSMITHS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Butcher Knives; spring Temper and beautiful Edge 
 
 Cast Iron, to case harden; C^ast Iron, the hardest, to 
 
 Soften for Di illing •?.•••• 
 
 Files and Rasps, old; to Re-cut by a chemical process . . . 
 
 Iron; to Prevent welding 
 
 Iron or Wood; to Bronze, Representing Bell-metal 
 
 Mill Picks, to Temper, three Preparations; Mill Picks and 
 Saw Gumroers. to Temp r; Mill Pick Tempering, as 
 
 done by Church, of Ann Arbor 236 
 
 Poor Iron; to Improve . . 
 
 Rust on Iron or Steel ; to Prevent 
 
 Silver Plating, for Carriage Work 
 
 I Trap Springs; to Temper 
 I Truss Springs; Directions for 
 superior to the Patent Trusses 
 Varnishes; Transparent; for Tools, Ploughs, &c.; Var- 
 nish, Transpaient Blue, for Steel Ploughs; Varnish, 
 Seek-No-Further, for Iron or Steel; Varnish, Black, 
 
 having a polish, for Iron 234 
 
 [Welding Cast Steel, without Borax 
 
 [Welding a small piece of Iron upon a large one, with 
 
 only a light heat 
 
 [Writing upon Iron or Steel, Silver or Gold; not to cost 
 
 the tenth of a cent per letter 
 
 ^Wrought Iron; to Case-harden 
 
 TINNERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 jBlack Varnish, for Coal Buckets 
 
 [Box Metal, to make, for Machinery 
 
 I Britannia; to use Old instead of Block Tin, for Solder . , . 
 
 I Copper, to Tin; for Stew Dishes or other purposes 
 
 Iron, to Tin; for Soldering or other purposes 
 
 28& 
 
 240 
 238 
 239 
 241 
 
 237 
 236 
 234 
 230 
 238 
 
 241 
 
 235 
 236 
 
 240 
 
 286 
 240 
 
 242 
 244 
 245 
 244 
 244 
 
XX 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Iron, Iron Wire or Steel ; to Copper the Surface 
 
 Japans for Tin — Black, Blue, Green Orange, Pink, Red 
 
 and Yellow 
 
 Lacquer for Tin— Gold color. Transparent, Blue, Green, 
 
 Purple and Rose Color- -also, Lacquer for Brass 242 
 
 Liquid Glue for LiibellinR upon Tin 
 
 Liquid to clean Bnws, Door Knobs, &c. . 
 
 Oil Cans ; Size of Sheet foi from One to One Hundred 
 
 Gallons 
 
 Silver Powder for Copper or worn Plated Goods 
 
 Solder for braz/'ng Iron, Lead, Tin and Britannia 244 
 
 *nnning Flux ; improved * 
 
 Tin ; to Pearl, fo? Spittoons, Water Coolers, &c 
 
 GUNSMITHING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Broken Raws ; to Mend Permanently. ... 
 .Browning Gun Barrels ; two processes — Browning 
 
 Twist Barrels 
 
 Case Hardening 
 
 Tinning ; supertor to the old process .... 
 Varnish and Polish for Stocks ; German . 
 
 for 
 
 .246 
 
 1: 41- 
 
 JEWELERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Galvanizing without a Battery 
 
 Galvanizing with a Shilling Battery ; also, Directions to 
 
 Make the Battery 249 
 
 Jewelry ; Cleaning and Polishing 
 
 FARRIERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Broken Lirahs ; Treatment, instead of inhumanly shoot- 
 ing the Horse 260 
 
 Bog-Spavin and Wiud-Gall Ointmtint; also good for 
 Curbs, Splints, ^c 
 
 Bone Spavin ; French Paste ; Three Hundred Dollar 
 Recipe ; Bone Spavin ; Norwegian Cure ; Spavin Lini- 
 ment, four preparations 
 
 Bots, sure remedy 
 
 Cholis Cure, for Horses or Persons ; has not failed in 
 more than Forty Tr als 
 
 Condition Powder, exceedingly valuable, said to be St. 
 John's Cathartic Condition Powder, designed for Worn- 
 down Animals 259 
 
 DeGfay or Sloan's Horse Ointment ...... 
 
 Distemper, to Distinguish and Cure ...... 
 
 Eye Water, for Horses and Cattle 
 
 Founder Remedy 
 
 Grease-Heel and Common Scratches, to Cure 262 
 
 Heaves, Great Relief for; Six Methods for Different 
 Conditions 264 
 
 244 
 
 242 
 
 ^48 
 245 
 245 
 
 216 
 245 
 245 
 245 
 245 
 
 247 
 
 247 
 247 
 248 
 248 
 
 248 
 
 250 
 260 
 
 261 
 266 
 
 254 
 251 
 
 250 
 
 260 
 25'.) 
 265 
 266 
 266 
 263 
 
 266 
 
INDEX. 
 
 XXI 
 
 Hoof-Ail in Slieep, sure reme<]y 
 
 Looseness or Scouring in Horses or Cattle, remedy in use 
 over geveaty years .... 262 
 
 Liniment foe Stiff Neclcs, from Poll Evils ; Enprlish Btnble 
 Liniment, very strong; Liniment for one t'hilling a 
 quart, valuable in Strains, Old Swellings, kc; and 
 Nerve and Bone Liniment 
 
 Poll-Evil and Fistula, positive cure ; Poll-Evil an ' Fis- 
 tula, Nr)rwegian cure ; Eight Methods, nil of which 
 have cured many cases ; I'oll-Evils, to Scjitter, &c. ; 
 Potash, to make, used in Poll-Evils ... 266 
 
 Physic, Ball and Liquid, for Horses and Cattle 
 
 Ring-lx)ne and Spavin Cure, often acknowledged worth 
 the value of the Horse ; 0. B Bangs' Method for Re- 
 cent Cases ; Rawson's Ring-bone and Spavin Cure, has 
 cured Ring-bones as thick as the arm ; Indian Method 
 also very simple 251 
 
 Splint and ir^pavin Liniment 
 
 Sweeny Liniment 
 
 Scours and Pin Worms, to cure, in Horses or Cattle 
 
 Sadd'e and Harness Galls, Bruises, Abrasions, &c., &c. ; 
 Remedy 
 
 Sores from Chafing of the Bits, to Cure. . ' 263 
 
 Shoeing Horses for Winter Travel 
 
 Supporting Apparatus in Lameness of Animals, Ex- 
 plained 
 
 Taming Wild and Vicious Horses; also showing who 
 can do it 267 
 
 Wound Balsam for Horses or Persons. ... 
 
 PAOI. 
 
 266 
 
 268 
 
 268 
 
 268 
 266 
 
 264 
 266 
 266 
 
 259 
 
 263 
 264' 
 205 
 
 261 
 
 269 
 262 
 
 CABINET-MAKERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Finishing Furniture with only One Coat of Varnish, not 
 using Glue, Paste or Shellac ; very valuable , 
 
 Jet Polish, for Wood or Leather ; Black, Red and Blue. . 
 
 Polish for New Furniture ; Polish for Reviving Old Fur- 
 niture, equal to the " Brother Jonathan ;" and 
 Polish for Removing Stains, Spots and Mildew from 
 Furniture 269 
 
 Stains ; Mahogany on Walnut, as natural as nature ; 
 Rosewood Stain, very bright shade, used cold ; Rose- 
 wood Stain, light shade, used hot ; Rose-pink, Stain 
 and Varnish ; also used to imitate Rosewood ; Black 
 Walnut Stain ; Cherry Stain 271 
 
 Varnish, Transparent, for Wood ; Patent Varnish, for 
 
 Wood or Canvass ; Asphaltum Varnish, b'ack 
 
 .273 
 
 270 
 270 
 
 270 
 
 273 
 274 
 
 BARBERS' AND TOILET DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Balm of a Thousand Flowers 280 
 
 Cologne Imperial ; Cologne for Family Use, cheaper . . .278 279 
 
xxn 
 
 IKDEX. 
 
 Vaob. 
 
 Faded and Worn Garments; to Renew the Color, 27R 
 
 Hnlr Dye; Reliable • 274 
 
 Hair Rentorativr; equnl to WfXKl's, for a Trifling cost; 
 fcniT preparations; cheap and reliahle; Hair Invino- 
 ratorp, two preparations; will stop Hair from FallinHT, 275 276^ 
 Hair Oils; New Yorli Barbel's Star Hair Oil; Macassar 
 or Rose; Frapjrant H<>nie-m;ide I'omade or Ox-Marrow, 279 
 
 ShamiM)oning Mixture, for Five (Jents per Quart, 277 
 
 Renovating Mixture; f<»r Orense Spots, Shampooning 
 and Killing Red Bugs; Renovating Clothes; Gentlemen's 
 
 Wear... ......277 278 
 
 Rasor Strop Paste; very nice, 280 
 
 BAKERS' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Breads; Yankee Brown Brea<l; Orahnm Bread; Lond<m 
 Baker's superior Loaf Bread; New French Method of 
 making Bread; Old Bachelor's Bread; Biscuit and Pie- 
 Crust; Baking Powders for Biscuit, without 8horte?iing290 29? 
 
 Cakes: Federal; Rough and Ready; Sponge CaWe. with 
 sour railk; Sponge Cake, with sweet milk; Berwick 
 Sponge Cake, without milk; Surprise Cake; Sugar 
 Cake; Ginger Cake; Tea or Cup Cake; Cake, withoiit 
 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, MolasHPs Cake, 
 Marble Cake, Silver Cake, and Gold Cake, finishing 
 with Bride and Fruit CaWes; Frosting for Cakes, &c. ; 
 excellent Crackers; Sugar CrAckers; Naples Biscuit; 
 Buc)< wheat Shortcake, without shortening, most 
 excellent; and Ycnut Cuke 281 289 
 
 Pies: Lemon Pie. extra nice; Pie-Cruoc Glaze; which 
 prevents the juices from soaking into the crust; 
 Apple-Custard Pie, the nicest ever eaten; Paste for 
 Tarts,.. 293 295 
 
 Puddings: Biscuit Pudding, without re-baking; Old 
 English Christmas Plum Pudding; Indian Pndiiing, to 
 bake; Indian Pudding, to boil; Quick Indian Pudding; 
 Flour Pudding, to boil; Potato Pudding; Green Corn 
 Pudding; Steamed Pudding; Spreading and Dip Sauces 
 for Puddings 295 297 
 
 DOMESTIC DISHES. 
 
 Apples: to bake steamboat style, better than preserves; 
 Apple Frittttfs; Apples to fry, extra nice, 298 992 
 
index; 
 
 XXlll 
 
 PAOB. 
 
 Apple Morange, an excellent snbiUtute 'or Pie and 
 
 Pudding 299 
 
 Back-woodH PrtiMrves, . . . 2U9 
 
 Bread: to fry better than Toast, 299 
 
 French Honey, 80C 
 
 Fruit Jams, Jellies and Preserves, 800 
 
 Fruit Extracts 801 
 
 Green Co? n Omelet, 298 
 
 Moclc Oysters, 800 
 
 Muffins ...... 800 
 
 Toast: German style,. .. 299 
 
 Rose and Cinnamon '^'^aters, 802 
 
 MISC^ ^ LANFX)US DEPARTMENT. 
 Advice to Young Men, ^ik'. others out of employment, . .886 841 
 
 Bed-room Carpets, for One Shilling per yard, 888 
 
 Currants: to dry with sugar, 816 
 
 Currant Catchup 814 
 
 Coflfee: more healthy and better fiavorwl, for oncTfourth 
 
 the expenbe of common, . 884 
 
 Cements: Cements for Chipa, &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 v mont to prevent leaks about 
 Chimneys, Uoofri, &c. ; bcrap B<jok Paste or Cement, 
 
 always ready for use, . . 817 
 
 Canning Fruits: PeHches, Pears, Berries, Plums, Cher- 
 ries, Strawberries and Tomatoes; Cement lor Canning 
 
 Fruits, . 318 
 
 Eggs: to Increase the Laying; Eggs: to fry extra nice,. . 
 
 Fence Posts: to prevent rotting, 
 
 PMre Kindlers, ' ...... 
 
 Fish : art of catching, .... 
 
 Oiavel Houses: to make, proportions of lime, sand and 
 
 gravel,... 
 
 Glues: Liquid Glue; Imitations, equal to Spa'ding's 
 
 Liquid Glue, and Water Proof Glue, ... 
 
 Grammar in Rhyme, for the Little Folks, 
 
 Musical Curiosity; Scotch Genius in Teaching, 
 
 Meats: to pieserve; 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 dryin}?; 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, near y equal to 
 fresh; Fresh Meat: to keep a week or two, in summer; 
 Smoked Meat: to Prese»ve for years or for sea voyages: 
 Rural New Yorker's Method, and the New England 
 '^armer ' ' Saving his Bacon, " 809 312 
 
 319 
 
 314 
 44 
 
 808 
 329 
 322 
 
 324 
 
 328 
 341 
 342 
 
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XV" 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 319 
 331 
 315 
 
 833 
 
 335 
 
 321 
 
 322 
 324 
 
 333 
 335 
 336 
 329 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Magic Paper used to transfer figures in Embroidery, or 
 Impressions of Leaves for Herbariums. 
 
 Percussion Matches, best cnality 329 
 
 Preserves, Tomato and Watermelon Preserves 
 
 Plums and other Fruits ; to prevent Insects from Sting- 
 ing. ... ..... 
 
 Picklins; ; Apples, Peaches, Plums, and Cucumbers, 
 very nice indeed ; Peaches, to peel 334 
 
 Rat Destroyers ; Rat Exterminator ; Death for the Old 
 Sly Rat ; Rats, to drive away alive ; Rat Poison from 
 Sir Humphrey Davy. . . 320 
 
 Straw Bonnets ; to Color a Beautiful Slate ; Straw and 
 Chip Hats, to Varnish Black 
 
 Stucco Plastering, for Biick and Gravel houses .322 
 
 St«am Boilers, to Prevent Explosion, with the Reason 
 why they Explode ; Steam Boilers ; to Prevent Lime 
 Deposits, two Methods. . 332 
 
 Sand Stone, to Prevent Scaling from Frosts 
 
 Sealing Wax ; to Make Red, Black and Blue 
 
 Starch Polish 
 
 Sjaps ; Soft Soap, for Half the Expense and One-Fourth 
 the Trouble of the Old Way ; German Erasive Soap ; 
 Hard Soap i Transparent Soap ; One Hundred Pounds 
 of Good Soap for One Dollar and Thirty Cents ; Chemi- 
 cal Soft Soap ; Soap Without Heat ; Windsor or Toilet 
 Soap ; Variegated Toilet Soap, &c 304 
 
 Tallow Candles for Summer Use ; Tallow, to Cleanse and 
 Bleach . 
 
 Tomato C'atchup, the best I ever used ... 
 
 Tomato ; Cultivation for early and late ; Tomatoes as 
 Food, and Tomatoes as Food for cat lie 69 
 
 Tin- Ware, to Mend by the Heat of a Candle 
 
 Tire, to Keep on the Wheel until Worn Out 
 
 Washing Fluid, Saving half the Washboard Labor ; 
 Liquid Bluing, used in Washing, never Specks the 
 Clothes 302 
 
 Water B'ilte^', Homf Made , 
 
 \» eeds, to Destroy in Walks 
 
 WHITEWASH AND CHEAP PAINTS. 
 Brilliant St''cco Whitewash, will last on Brick or Stone ' ' 
 Twenty to thirty years ; Whitewash, very nice for 
 Rooms ; Paint, to make without L ad or Oil ; White 
 Prtiut, a new way of manufacturing ; Black and Green 
 Paint, Durable and Cheap for Out-Door Work ; Milk 
 Paint, for Barns, any Color 325 328 
 
 COLORING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Colors on Woollen Goof's ; Chrome Black, '^■iperior to 
 any in use ; Black on Wool, for Mixtures ; Steel Mix, 
 
 306 
 
 307 
 314 
 
 70 
 315 
 316 
 
 303 
 816 
 317 
 
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INDEX. 
 
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 PAGE. 
 
 ' Dark ; Snuff Browr ; Madder Red ; Green on Wool 
 or Silk, with Oak Bark ; Green, with Fustic ; Blue, 
 Quick Process ; Stocking Yarn or Wool, to Color 
 lietween a Blue and Purple ; Scarlet with Cochineal, 
 for Yarn or Cloth ; Pink ; Grange ; Lnc Red ; Purple ; 
 Silver-Drab, Light Shade ; Slate, on Woollen or Cot- 
 
 . ton ; Extract of Indigo or Cheraic, used in Coloring, 
 to Make ; Wool, to cleanse ; Dark Colors, to Extract 
 and Insert Light 343 346 
 
 Durable Colors on Cv)tt<5n ; Black ; Sky Blue ; Lime 
 Water anc" 'rong Lime Water, to Make for Coloring 
 Purposes ; i5lue on Cotton or Linen, with Logwood ; 
 Green ; Yellow ; Orange ; Bed ; Muriate of Tin, 
 Liquor, to Make 347 349 
 
 Colois for Silk ; Green, very handsome, with Oak Bark ; 
 Green or Yellow, on Silk or Woollen, in five to fifteen 
 Minutes only ; Mulberry ; Black ; Spots, to Remove 
 and Prevent Spotting when Coloring Black on Silk or 
 Woollen ; Light Chemic Elue ; Purple ; Yellow ; 
 Orange ; Crimson ; Cinnamon or Brown, on Cotton 
 and Silk, by a New Process, very beautiful 349 350 
 
 INTEREST DEPARTMENT. 
 
 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 Usur- 
 0U8 Rates in the Different States 352 360 
 
 GLOSSARIAL, EXPLANATORY, DEPARTMENT. 
 
 This Department erabrjtces Tables of Rules for Adminis- 
 tering Medicines, Having Ref ^nce to Age and Sex ; 
 Explanations of Medical Abbrev'^'tions, 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 Writing and Literature of the Day, Which 
 are not explained in English Dictionaries 361 384 
 
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REFERENCES. 
 
 rxtracts from Certifloates e.nd Diplomas in the Dooior'f 
 Possession, Connected with his Study if Medicine- 
 
 "I hereby certify that A. W. Chask htw prufiecuted the Study 
 of Medicine under my instruction during the term of two years 
 and Hustains a good moral character. 
 
 [Signed] 0. B. KEED, Physician. 
 
 Belle River, Mich" 
 
 " UNIVBBSiJT OF MlCHIOAK, { 
 
 College of Medicine and Surgeiy \ 
 This Certifies that A. W. Chasf has attended a full Course of 
 Lectures in this inntitution 
 
 [Signed] StLAS H. DOUGLASS. Dean. ' 
 
 University oif Michigan, Ann Arbor." 
 
 EoLBOTio Medical Instixutk, Cin., 0. 
 Kuow All Men by these Presents that A W. Chase has sus- 
 tained an honorable examination before the Faculty of this 
 Institute, on all the departments of Medical Science, &c., ^ ** 
 Wherefore we, the Trustees and Faculty, o o o by the 
 authority vested in us by the Legislature of the State of Ohio, do 
 confer on him the Degree of DOmoR of Medicine. 
 
 WM. B. PIERCE, President. 
 W. T. HURLBERT, Vice Pres't. 
 Jas. G. Hemsqall, Secretary. 
 
 Signed also by seven Professors, embracing the names 
 [seal.] of Scudder, Bickley, Fteeman, Newton, Baldridge, Jones, 
 and Saunders. 
 
 ANN ARBOR REFERENCES. 
 
 The following statements are givv,^ by my neighbors, to whom 
 I had sent the eighth edition of my " Recipes," asking their 
 opinions of its value tor the people, most of whom liad 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 oflfa worthless book; but are designed to benefit 
 the people by increasing the spread of genuine practical informa- 
 tion. 
 
 Hon. At,phbus Felch, one of our first lawyers, formerly a Sen- 
 ator in Congress, and also ex-Governor of Michigan, siiys: Please 
 accept my thanks for the copy of your ''Recipes," whi6h you 
 were so good as to send me. The book seems to me to contain 
 much valuable practical information, and I have no doubt will be 
 extensively useful 
 
REFERENCES. 
 
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 A. WiNCHEtL, Professor of Geology, Zoology and Botany, In Che 
 University of Michigan, iiid 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 hesitsvtion 
 in saying that they may all be received with the utmo^t confidence 
 in their practical value, except in those cases where the Doctor has 
 himself qualified his recommendations. 
 
 James C. Watson, formerly Prr' or of Astronomy, and now 
 Professor of Phy.sic8, in the Univ / of Michigan, author of a 
 " Treatise on Comets," also of " «. icr Worlds, or the Wonders 
 •of the Tit'lescope," says :— I have examined your book of practical 
 Recipes, and do not hesitate to say that so far as my observation 
 and experience enable me to judge, it is a work which should find 
 its way into every family in the land. The information which it 
 contains could only have l>een collected by the most careful and 
 long continued research, and is such as is required in every day 
 life. I can heartily recommend your work to the patronage of 
 the public. 
 
 Rev. L. D. Chapin, Pastor of the Piesbyterian Church, says:— 
 Allow me to express to you my gratificatinn in the perusal of your 
 book. I do not regard myself as qualified to apeak in regard to 
 the whole book, for you enter into Departments in which I 
 have no special knowledge, but where I understand the subject I 
 find many things of much practical value for every practical man 
 and house-keeper; and judging of those parts which I do not, by 
 those which 1 do understand, I think that you have furnished 
 a book that most families can afford to have at any reasonable 
 price. 
 
 Rev. Geo. Smivh, Presiding Elder of the M. E. Church, Ann 
 Arbor, says :— I take pleasure in saying that so far as I have 
 examined, I have reason to believe that your Recipes are genuine, 
 and not intended as a ccUch-penny, but think any person purchasing 
 it will get the woith of their money. 
 
 Rev. Geo. Taylor, Pastor of Ann Arbor and Dixboro M. E 
 Church, writ-es as follows :— As per your request, I have carefully 
 examined your book of Recipes, recently issued, and take pleasure 
 in adding my testimony to the many you have already received, 
 that I regard it as the best compilation of Recipes I have ever 
 seen. Several of th<'se Recipes we have used in our family for 
 years, and count each of them worth the cost of your book. 
 
 Elder Samuel Cornelius, Pastor of the Baptist Church, 
 writes : — I have looked over your book of " Information for 
 Everybody," and as you ask my judgment of it, 1 say that it 
 gives evidence of much industry and care on the part of the 
 compiler, and contdns in''ormation which must be valuible to 
 
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 all claKses 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 whep they 
 enjcy it, or seek for it in an economictvl way. I thank you for the 
 copy you sent to me, and hope you may make a great many fami- 
 lies 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 Rec'pes 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 honse. 
 
 Thi8gentl»!man speaks in the highest terms of the "Dyspeptic's 
 Biscuit and CoftVe," as of other recipes used. 
 
 Ebkrbach & Co. , Druggists, 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 dmatisfaction 
 arising from want of correctness ; but on the other hand, we know 
 that they give general satisfaction. 
 
 Rev S. p. Hildreth, of Dresden, 0., a former neighbor, inclos- 
 ing a recent letter, says: 1 have carefully examined your book, and 
 regard it as containing a large amount of information which will 
 be very 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 speak- 
 ing, by using Dr. Chase's black oil, and also know a fevnr sore to 
 have been cured upon a lady, by the use of tbe same article. 
 
 ' OPINIONS OF THE ANN ARBOR PRESS. 
 
 A New Book. -Dr. Chase, of this city, has laid on our table a 
 new edition of his work, entitled " Dr. Chase's Recipes, or Infor- 
 mation for Everybody," for making all sorts of things, money not 
 excepted. We would not, however, convey the idea that the D.. 
 tells ) on how to make spurious coin or counterfeit bills, but by 
 practicing upon the maxims laid down in this work, money-making 
 is the certain result. Buy a book, at fifty cents and adopt 
 the recipes in your houst^holds, on your farms, and in your 
 business, and success is sure to follow. The work h neatly 
 printed, beautifully bound, and undou^ tedly embodies more in- 
 formation than any work of the kind now before the public. 
 
 Students, or others, wishing to engage in selling a saleable work 
 ■will do well to send for circulars describing the book, with terms 
 to agents, &c., for it is indeed a work which " Everybody " ought 
 to have. — Michigan State News, Ann Arbor. 
 
REFERENCES. 
 
 XXIX 
 
 De. a. "W. chase, of this city, has placed on our laV.le a copy 
 of his " Kecipes, or Information for Everybody." Beginning 
 •with a small pamphlet, *he Doctor has swelled his work to a 
 bound volume of about 40U pages ; an evidence that his labors are 
 appreciated. The volume furnishes many recipes and much in- 
 formation of real practical value. — Mirhigan Aryus, Ann Arbor. 
 
 Dr. CHASE'S RECIPES. --The ninth edition of Dr. Clmse's 
 TIecipes has been recently publitihed, revised, illustrated and en- 
 larged ; comprising a very large collection of practical information 
 for busiiiebs men, mechanics, artists, farmers, and for families 
 generally The recipes are accompanied with explanations and 
 comments which greatly increase the value ol the work. It is a 
 handtiomelv bound volume. — Arm Arbvr Jwrnal. 
 
 Dr. CHASE, of Ann A.bor, h'ls favored us with a copy of his 
 book of reoipes, which hfis, irj an unprecedented short time, 
 reached the ninth edition, showing its popularity wherever it has 
 been introduced. It contains "information for everybody," for 
 making all sorts of things. It is a valuable work for everyone, 
 many single recipes being worth much more than the cost of the 
 book. Rev. Mr. Eraser, the gentlemanly agent for the work, is 
 now in the city, and will call upon our citizens, giving them au 
 opportunity to secure a copy. Ihe woik is nciuly printed, ele- 
 gantly bound, and undoubtedly embodies more useful information 
 than any work of the kind now before the public, for sale at fifty 
 cents, a better investment cannot be made by any one.— Grand 
 Rapids Eagle. 
 
 Db. CHASE, of Ann Arbor, has favored us with a copy of 
 Recipes which he has published, coo ^ijo claims that 
 they have been made up from his own and oihers' every day ex- 
 perience. There are certainly a great many useful recipes in this 
 work that might be found to richly repay its cost to any family. — 
 Michigan Farmery Detroit. 
 
 The following wholesale dealers of Detroit, and others with 
 whom I have dealt for years, say : We have been acquainted with 
 Dr. A. W. Chase for several years in the Drug and (Jiocery busi- 
 ness, and we are well satisfied that he would not do a business 
 which he did not know was all right. His information in the 
 form of recipes can be depended upon. 
 
 GEO. BEARD, Dealer in Ovsters and Fruit, Detroit. 
 
 WM. PHELPS & CO., Confectioners, Detroit, Michigan. 
 
 JOHN J BAGLEY, Tobacconist, Detroit, Michigan. 
 
 SAMUEL J. REDFIELD, M. D., Wyandotte, Michigan. 
 
 RICHARD MEAD, Merchant, Bark Shanty. Michigan, 
 
 JOH^ ROBERTSON, (Captain of Steamer Clifton. 
 
 H. FISH, Captain of Steamer Sam. Ward. 
 
 C. A. BLOOD, former partner, Belle River, Michigan. 
 
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 REFERENCES. 
 
 OPINIONS OF THE PEOPLE— STRANGERS. 
 
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 Rkv. C. p. Nash, of Muskegon, Mich., writes Dr. Cbaso. Dear S?ir: Some time 
 einco one of your agents canvassed our town lor your " Book of Recipes, " but 
 tUinkiiii' it, perhaps, one of the liiunbugs of the day, I neglected my opportunity 
 oni>. Tlio books, liowever, were sold to our neighbors about us, and 
 >wed one in order to test a few ()f its Recipes; she found them all 
 ir as she tried them ; and now very much regreta that we did not 
 , she wjnsiders them invaluable. The object of this note is to inquire 
 .> u have the book for sale, and whether you can procure one by sending 
 you the necessary fimds. If so, we will send by return of mail, upon receipt of 
 your answer. If not, can yon, — and will you bo sdfkind aa to — inform us where 
 and how we can procure one ? 
 Pi S.— Enclo.sed please Uiid u directed and prepaid envelope for your reply. 
 
 Fredkrick Bui'W, Vinegar Manul'acturer, of Freeport, 111 , says: Dr. Chase's plan 
 of making Vinegar is jmrely scientific, and I am making it with entire ancce.''8. 
 
 J. M. Chase, Caneadca, N.Y., says: Your Vinegar is all right. More than forty 
 men tasted it last .-^aturday , and they to a man say that it is the best and plcasant- 
 •est they ever saw. " 
 
 J. Clark, of Conncautville, Pa., said to mc he bad made $600 in four months 
 from the Vinegar Recipe. 
 
 L. Wkbkr. Grocer, of Crestline, 0. , says. May 26, '69: I purchased Dr. Chase's 
 Book about a year ago, and have made and sold the Vinegar at a protit of about 
 forty dollars on nine barrels. These statemonts refer to the '* Vinegar In Three 
 Days Without Drugs. " 
 
 H. W. Lord and B. Fox, Grocers, of Pontiac, Mteh .say: We have kept BGua 
 two years by Dr. Cha:ie's procoiis, as good as when put down. 
 
 L. Howard, Hotel Keeper (of the firm of Kimball k Howard), Waver ly House, 
 FJgin, 111., says: We used eggs In June of this year which were laid down in May 
 of last year, by a plan just the same bls Dr. Chase's Aid they were just as good as 
 fresh eggs, and as clean and nice in every way. 
 
 Wm Bves, of the firm of Robinson & Co., Grocers, of Erie, Pa., says : I liave 
 Iried a reci{)e similar to Dr. Chase's egg preserving recipe, for seven.! years, with 
 perfect success -, and freely recommend it to any one wishing to deal in eggri. 
 
 JoHx A. Vanuurn, Merchant, of MarRhatl, Mich., says: I have been acquainted 
 with Dr. Chasers plan of keeping eggs for five years, and know tliat it will keep 
 them as nice as fresh eggs. 
 
 T. L. Stevens, Merchant of Paw Paw, Mich., says: That ho is acquainted with 
 ^the same thing, and knov.'.s that it is good. 
 
 Chapel & Graves, Grocers, at Ottiiwa, HI., say, they paid ten dollars for the egg 
 preserving recipe. I know two men, one of which paid a hundred dollars, and the 
 other one hundred and tweaty-flve dollars for a part only of the Vinegar recii)es. 
 
 HowBRET & Faiior, Druggists, of Bucyrus, Ohio, say: Dr. Chase's Red Ink Is 
 superior to Harrison's Columbian Ink, and also that his Burning Fluid cf.n have 
 no superior. 
 
 Miller & Davis, Bankers, Ann Arbor, Mich., say: We have tried Dr. Chase'.s 
 •Common Ink, and Had it a good article. 
 
 Robert Hkany, Jr. , Druggist, of Hendrysburg, 0., says: I have tried several of 
 your recipe.s, and so far find them good. The Kye Water gives good satisfaction; 
 the Good Samaritan takes the place of ai.lothkr liiiiiments in the shop; The Green 
 Mountain Salve takes well for plasters, and Mead's Sovereign Ointment is doing for 
 me what no other medicine hius done, it in curing a sore oii my back which has bat ■ 
 llud.all applications for more than two years; one doctor called it Tetter, another 
 Erysipelas. It began like a Ring Worm, and slowly sprejui with the mo.-t intoleni- 
 blo itching; it is now nearly well, with only two weeks use of the ointment. 
 
 Dr. A. S, WiTTKR, Eclectic Physician, of Battle Creek, Mich., says: Eitlior of Dr. 
 Chase's preparations for the Ague is worth double what he aisks for ^he whole IL"! 
 of recipes. 
 
 Prof. A. H.PiJkrr, M. P., of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, 0., says: To the 
 Medical Profe.-8ion: Thi.s certifies that the recipe in Dr. Cliuse's Collection,"' tor 
 
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 the cure of Uhrink Hkhorrhagk, <b origiual witli me, and Las been used in my 
 
 practice for nearly twenty years, without a single railuro. 
 
 I.. S. Honr.KiNP, of Reading, Mich., soys : I have cured my wife of Cancer or 
 four years' standing, with one of Dr. Chase's Cancer Cures, l" know it has cured 
 others also. 
 
 W.J. Cook M. D.,of Mendota, 111., says : I hive examined Dr. Chase's recipe* 
 and find two or tliree worth more than he asks f< r the whole collection. 
 
 T. W. Chur(H, Dentist, of Coldwater, Mich, says : I have been acquainted with 
 Dr. Chase and his book of recipt* for about two years ; all I have to.-ted are found 
 tobe practical ; and his pre.acription for my father, in paralysip, was found to be 
 more effi-ctuul in giving relief, than that of any other Physician. 
 
 The B litor of the Ann Arbor Local Nevfrs says : We have thoroughly examined 
 tlie work published by A. W. Chisse, M. P., entitled " Dr. Chase's KeciiKiS," and 
 believe it to bo a most valuable book for everybo<ly. Tnere is not, in our opinion, 
 a single rcripe contained in it that is not of great practical use. 
 
 N. 8. Rki d. Harnegs Maker, of Manttleld, Ohio, sayn : I have used Dr. Chase's 
 Varnish Blacking for Harness, over three years, and say it is the best I ever used, 
 
 J. fc D. MiNCH, Tanners, of Bucyrus, O., says : We are using Dr. Chase's tanning- 
 and finishing recipes with good sntisfaetion. ' 
 
 Mrs. Morris of Lima, near Ann Arbor, Mich., says : I am using Dr. Chase'* 
 Washing Fluid, and have found it to be a very valuable recipe , and I would not do 
 a washing without its aid for hall the price of the book, weekly. 
 
 STKPHKN.ALIJW, of Adrian. Mich , says . We have used A. W. Chase's Washing 
 Fluid for two years, and my wife says she would not do without it for ten dollars a 
 year, and it does not ii Jure the clothes but saves ail bleaching. 
 
 Jacob Scborn, of East Saginaw. Mich., says ; The recipe of Dr. Cliase's Washing 
 Fluid, is gennine and like the same which I noanufacturod and sold for nine years 
 in Vienna, the capital of Austria in Europe. 
 
 H. W. DoNNKtiY. Poet Master of Parma, Mich., says : My family have used a 
 preparation in washing for ten years, similar to Dr. Chases ; and we know it to be 
 practical and valuable. He said to a farmer, who asked his opinion of the book,. 
 buy one, says he, that recipe alone is worth the whole price, a dozen times. 
 
 The editor of the Country Gentlemtui says of the Washing Iluid, from several 
 years' ex|ierience, that clothes not only wash easier, but look better, and last fully 
 as long as when washed in the old way. 
 
 Tlie AiTHOR knows that shirts will last twice as long, frr the board rubblng^ 
 wears them out faster than body wear, and as two-thirds of tliat rul)bing is .saved, 
 the wear is of course saved. 
 
 GmBON HowKU.,of Oramel, N, Y., says : I have drank cider two years old (kept 
 by one of Dr. Chuso's recipes) as good as when put up, and did not cost one-lialf of 
 II cent per barrel to pre|)are it. 
 
 SHKinoN Bkbee. a farmer of Cary, Ohio, says : I put away cider in November, 
 by one of Dr. Chase's recipes to preserve cider, and it is now, in March, as good 
 ns when first made. 
 
 Mkssks. J. W. BBiLand P. Mower, Blacksmiths, of New Vienna, Ohio, August** 
 11, 1859, says : Dr. A. W. Chase, Dear Sir— We have tried your process for re- 
 cutting flies and are happy to say to you that it works well, and wo desire you . 
 also to send us the recipe for welding cast-st(>el without borax, wtiich was forgot- 
 t"n,when we, obtained the other. [I bold to them before these recipes were 
 priiitPd in the book.] 
 
 John Mwer, Blacksmith, of Washington. Ohio, snys : June CO, 18t9, Dr. Chase 
 tried his file cutting process in my shop lu>t night, and ] am satisfied that it is a 
 (jond thing, and have purchased his book. 
 
 VVm. Kusskix, Blacksmith, of Princeton, Ind.. savs : Mav 7, 18fO,l purchased Dr. 
 Cliiise's book of recipes this afternoon, and have "tested the recipe for tempering 
 mill-picks to my perfect .satisfaction, and also of the miller who used them. They 
 cut glass also very nicely. 
 
 J. KiNNEMAN, Miller in Union Mills, Union, Pa., says : Anp. 20, iSrO. Nir. Todd 
 a lilacksmith of this i^lace, put one dollar in my hands to be giviu to Dr. Chase if 
 
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 REFEREKCES. 
 
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 hw Mil -*^ijk Tempering Recipe gave satisfaction upon teat, aud the Doctor gained 
 the money, 
 
 G. C. ScuonBLP, of Conni^aiitvlUe, Pa., says : After uaing Wood's Hair Restora- 
 tive without benefit I have now a good head of hair from using a Roatorative simi- 
 lar to Dr. Chase's, and 1 Icnow his to be a superior article. 
 
 0. B. Hamjs. of Napoleon, Mich., says : Dr. Chase, Pear Sir : Allow me to say, 
 by using your Hair Restorativo once a Day, for two weeks gave me a beautiful dark 
 head of hair in place of silver-grey, which had been my companion for years, and 
 although I have not now used it in four months, yet my tiair retains its beautiful 
 dark appearance, and is soft and pliable as ih youth ; if it was UHed once a day for 
 two weeks, and then two or three days only, every two months, no gray hair 
 would over appear. The expepse of it is so very trilling, also, no one would feci it, 
 as 3^ pinta costs only from 26 to 30 cents. 
 
 T. Shaw, Cabinet Maker, of Westflold. N. Y. , says ; I have used Dr. Chase's 
 preparati'^n in finishing furniture, about five years, and know it is good, and bet- 
 ter than any other thing I have used in thirty-five years. 
 
 JopTATHAN HiGGiNS, Farmer, of West Union. Adams Co., Ohio, says : 1 have used 
 Dr. Chases treatment for cbolic in horses, for the last twelve to fltteen years with 
 perfect success, and also on myself with as perfect satisfaction ; and my wife says 
 she likes Mrs. Chase's Buckwheat Short-cake better than the grlddlc-cake, and it 
 is not half the trouble to make it. 
 
 A. French, of Jackson, 0., says : Having cured many horses of Spavins and Big- 
 head with a preparation similar to Dr. Chase's Ring-l}oniB and Spavin cure, I am 
 IVee to say that this Recipe is worth more than the whole price of the book to all 
 who are dealing in horses. It also cures curbs, callouses, icflammations, &c.. &c.,i 
 and this I know from twenty years' experience In staging. ' 
 
 J, M. LowRY, of Pomeroy, O., says': I have snccessfuUy treated more than 20 
 cases of bots, with Dr. Chase's remedy for that disease. 
 
 W. W. RoBBiNS, of Millwood, 0., says : I purchased one of Dr. Chase's books 
 about two years ago, an'l have used a number of the recipes, and I find all I have 
 tried give entire satislaction ; and I now want your last edition. 
 
 E. L. Burton, a glove manufkcturer atGloversvIlle, N. Y., says, I have never 
 known any preparation for removing paint fr im clothes equal to Dr. Chase's reno- 
 vating Mixture. From experience. 
 
 HiBAM SissoN, an old Farrier and Farmer of Crown Point, Essex Co., N.Y., says 
 I have used Dr. Chase 'sKrrrRiEGK and Grken Ointmknib, for several years, on Hu 
 man Flesh and on hordes, in bruises and deep sores with better success than any 
 other preparation which I have ever used, and know they are no humbug, but are 
 worthy of very great con ifidence. 
 
 HiRAu ' KMS, Dyer and Manufacturer, at Ann Arbor, Aug. 6, 1859, says : I 
 have.oxaniiued and revised Dr. Chase's Coloring Recipes, and am satisfied that 
 they are practical and good, I have also furnished him some valuable recipes in 
 that line. 
 
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 reasonable person of the truth of our statements. Its sales have already reached 
 over 23,000 copies— this being the tenth edition. 
 
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 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 
 
 MERCHANTS' AND GROCERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 VINEGAR. — Merchants and Grocers who retail vinegar 
 should always have it made under their own eye, if poBsible, 
 from the fact that so many unprincipled men enter into its 
 manufacture, as it affords such a large profit. And I would 
 iurther remark, that there is hardly any aiticle of domestic 
 use, upon which the mass of the people have as little correct 
 information as uy on the subject of making .vinegar. I shall 
 be brief in my remarks upon the different points of the 
 subject, yet I shall give all the knowledge necessary, that 
 families, or those wishing to manufacture, may be able to 
 have the best article and at moderate figures. Remember 
 this fact — that vinegar must have air as well as warmth, 
 and especially is this necessary if you desire to make it in 
 a short space of time. And if at any time it seems to be 
 ** Dying," as is usually called, add mulasses, sugar, alcohol, 
 or cider — whichever article you are making from, or prefer 
 — for vinegar is an iudustrious fellow ; he will either work 
 or die, and when he begins to die you may know he has 
 worked up all the material in his shop, and wants more. 
 Remember this in all vinegars, and they will never die, if 
 they have air. First, then, upon a small scale, for family 
 use. 
 
 To Make in Threb Weeks. — Molasses 1 qt. ; yeast 1 pt.; 
 warm rain water 3 gals. Put all into a jug or keg, and tie a 
 piece of gauze over the bung to keep out flies and let in air. In 
 hot weather set it in the sun, in cold weather set it by the stove 
 or in the chimney corner, and in three weeks you will have good 
 vinegar. 
 
 When this is getting low pour out some for use, and fill 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 up the ju|^, ID the same proportion an at first, and jou will 
 never have trouble for want of good vinger. 
 
 2. A correspondent of the Dollar Newspaper says : " The 
 cheapest mode of making good vinegar is, to mix 5 qts. of warm 
 rain water with 2 qts. of Orienns molasses, and 4 qts. of yeant. 
 In a few weeks you will have the iM'st rinegar you ever tasted." 
 He might well say, "The best vinegar you ever tasted," for it 
 would have double the necessary strength, and three or fuur 
 times the strength of much th>it is sold, yet this strecigth would 
 cost less to make, than to buy by the quart. 
 
 8. In Barrels Without TrouBmB — Merchants and 
 Grocer*", who retail vinegar, can always keep a good supply 
 on hand by having about two or three barrels out of which 
 to sell, by filling the first one they sell out, before quite 
 empty, with 
 
 Molasses 1 gal. ; soft water 11 gals. 
 
 Keeping this proportion to fill the barrel ; the vinegar 
 and mother which is left in the barrel makes it work much 
 quicker than if put into empty barrels; so pass around on 
 tpe ne](t barrel as it is nearly out, having thtte barrels, and 
 unless you sell more than a barrel a week, yiu need never 
 be out of vinegar. Some recommend to use Hum, creaok 
 of tartar, <fec., in vinegar, but / say never. It is alway» 
 Advisable to have a hole in the top of the barrel, if standing 
 on end ; if on the side, the bung out and a gauze over it, to 
 keep out fiies and let air in. 
 
 4. From Sugar, Drippikos from Sugar HoosHKADSr 
 Ao. — Dealers who retail molasses, often have from five to 
 fifty pounds of f^ugar left in the barrel after selling out the' 
 molasses. Each pound of this, or other bugar, dissolved in 
 two gallons of son water, makes that amount of good vine- 
 gar by either of the above plans. Rinsings of molasses 
 bar^ls or drippings of sugar hogsheads brought to this de- 
 f le of sweetness, is m good for vinegar as any other mate- 
 rial. Small l)eer, lager beer, ale, <fec., which have become 
 sour, make good vinegar by reducing with water; small 
 beer will m^ed but little water; lager beer will need aa much 
 water as beer, or a little more; and ale, twice as much 
 water as ale; they will all need yeast, a quart or two to 
 each barrel, unless put into barrels which have some vine- 
 
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 6. Fbom Acric Acid and Molaisks.— Acetic acid 4 lie. ; 
 mola88»m 1 gal. ; pat them into a 40 gallon cank, and fill it up 
 with rain water ; shako it up and let stand from one to three - 
 weeks, and the result is good vinegar. 
 
 If this does not make it as sharp as you like, add a little 
 more molasses. But some will object to this because an 
 acid is used ; let me say to such, that acetic acid is concen- 
 trated vinegar. Take 1 lb. or 1 pt. or any other quantity 
 of this acid, and add seven times as much soft water, and 
 you have just as good vinegar as can be made from eidttt 
 and that instantaneomly. 
 
 6. From Applk Cidbr. — As there are those who will 
 not have any but cider vinegar, and have plenty of eider 
 out of which to make it, I will give you the b<»t plan of 
 proceeding for manufacturers : 
 
 Hare a room where it will not freeae ; place on end as many 
 barrels or large casks, without heads, to hold as much «• you 
 wish to make ; fill these one-third full of soft water, and the other 
 two-thirds with apple cider ; yeast two qts. to each cask. 
 
 In a tew weeks you will have good vinegar; without the 
 yeast it would be all the season in becoming good. Then 
 fill up into barrels for sale, leaving a little, say one eighth, 
 in the open barrels, and fill them up with water and cider 
 as before, and it will become goi d much quicker tl>an be- 
 fore. If the water is objected to use the cider without it, 
 but pure cider makes vinegar too strong for any one to use, 
 and requires much longer time in making, These barrels 
 may have boards over them to keep out flies and dirt. If 
 the retailer can give it his attention, by having a barrel of 
 good cider vinegar to sell out of, he can always keep it up, 
 if, when he dri|,ws out two or three gallons of the vinegar, 
 he will go to his cider, kept for the purpose, and replacd 
 the vinegar with the cider ; or if makmg with molasses and 
 water or any other article, fill up with tJie same; but take 
 notice, if you forget or neglect, and draw your vinegar 
 nearly all out before you fill in, it does not keep to the point 
 of sharpness desired, unless you have two or three barrels, 
 ae mentioned in recipe No. 3. 
 
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 36 
 
 DR. CHASERS RECIPES. 
 
 Persons who have old sour cider on hand can in this way^ 
 or as mentioned in No. 6, have good vinegar from it imme- 
 diately, as it comes around into vinegar much quicker than 
 new cider. 
 
 • 
 
 7. In Th^'ib Days without Drugs. — The philosophy 
 of making vinegar quickly, is this: The means that will 
 expose the largest surface of (he vinegar fluid, of a certain 
 temperature, to the air, will convert it into vinegar in the 
 shortest time ; and as there is no way by which so great a 
 surface can be exposed as by the shaving process, and at 
 the same time control the temperature, that plan has been 
 
 adopted, as explained in the following descriptive note: 
 
 DsscRiPTivB NoTB— Those wishing to mannfoctttre, to sell at 
 wholenale, will prepare a tub or square box, the taller and larger 
 the tub the quicker will the vine^^ar become good. The air holes 
 are bored through every other, or every third stave, around the 
 whole tub. These holes are to be about one foot or eighteen 
 inches from the bottom; they must also be bored slanting down 
 as you bore inward, otherwise the vineear would run out and 
 waste as it drips down the side of the tub. These tub& 
 ought t4> be from ten to twenty feet high, according to the 
 quantity you desire to run off daily. Now take beech, maple or 
 
MBRCHANTB* ANlJ^OBOCERS' DEPARTMENT. 37 
 
 bauBwood boardR, and they are valuible In the order namec^ 
 cat them off about eightuen iuchcH in hmgth, and plane thick, 
 heavy Hhavings from the edguH; and if they do not roll up ana 
 stay in nice rollx, you must roll and tie th«tm up with BmiiU cord; 
 or clean corn cobfi will do, tiut they will only laxt ore staHon, 
 whilst the shavings will last Hoveral years. If cobs are used, 
 they must be put in layers, each layer crossing the other, to pre- 
 Tout their packing too close. Then wet or soak them thonmgbly 
 in water, and till up the tub or tubs with them, until you are 
 within two or three feet of the top, at which place you will aail 
 a stout hoop around, upon the inside of the tub, which shall 
 support the fahe top, which has been made and titted for that 
 purpose, through which fuhe top you will have bored good sized 
 gimlet holes about every two inches all over \U whole surface, 
 through each of which holes a small cord, about four or tive 
 inches in length, is to be drawn, having a knot tied upon ite 
 tipper end to keep it in its place, and to prevent the vinegar- 
 fluid from working out too fast. The size of these holes, and 
 the siae of the cord, must be such as to allow the amount of 
 vinegar being made to run through every twelve hours, or if 
 time can be given to put it up so often, it may run through every 
 six hours, lou will cork all around between the false top and 
 the tub with cotton, which causes the vinegar-fluid, hereafter to 
 be described, to pass through the gimlet boles and dri(; from the 
 ends of the small cords, evenly, all over the shavings, other- 
 wise, if the false top was not exactly level, the vinegar-fluid 
 would all run off at the lowest po'at, down th^ side of the tub, 
 and be a very long time in becoming good, whilst if it dripc 
 slowly and all over and down through the Savings, it bood 
 comes around into good vinegar. The holes bored for that pur- 
 pose, in warm weather, oxidizes or acetifies the vinegar-fluid, by 
 affording the two essential points of quickly making good vinegar, 
 that is, dtr and heat, withcut the expense of a fire to warm the 
 fluid, or room in which the vinegar is made. Now bore Ave 
 one-inch holes through the false top, one of them through the 
 centre, and the others two-thirds of the distance each wsj, 
 towards the outside of the tub, into which holes drive as many 
 
 f>in8, having a thiee-quarter inch hole bored through them 
 engthwise, which makes them tubes; cut the tubes off an inch 
 below the top of the tub, so as to be out of the wuy of the maia 
 cover or loose boards which will be thrown over the top of the 
 tub for the purpose of keeping oat flies and dirt, and also to 
 keep the healed air in, .vhich comes up through the tubes; thii 
 air becomes heated by the chemical action of the air upon the 
 vinegar-fluid as it drips aloi g down through the shavings in the 
 tub, becoming so hot that it would be uncomfortable to hold the 
 hand therein. The f«pace between the false top and the cover 
 is called the vinegar-fluid space, and it must be sufficiently tight 
 in the joints of the tub, or box, to hold the fluid when put in. 
 Now take a banel of good vinegar and pour it into the top of 
 
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 the tub. and let it drip through the gimlet holcB, from the cordg, 
 over the shavings, two or three times, each time putting in one 
 gallon of high wines, or two or three gallons of cider, as the case 
 may be, which soul's the shavings and greatly helps the starting 
 process of the vinegar-making. Without the addition to the 
 strength of the vinegar as it runs through, it would part with 
 nearly all of its own strength or acidity, to the shavings and 
 thus lose its own life. If you have not, nor cannot obtain, vin- 
 egar, to sttrt with, you must begin with weak vinegar-fluid, and 
 %eep adding to it every time through until it becomes very sour ; 
 then you will consider yourj^elf ready to begin to make vinegar in 
 vdouDle quick time, by using any of the fluids mentioned in the 
 'foregoing vinegar recipes. But manufacturers generally use 
 high wines thirty to forty per cent, above proof, one gallon ; water, 
 ' eleven gallons ; but persons living a great distance from market 
 •will find a cheaper plan by using ninety-eight per cent alcohol, 
 one gallon; water, fifteen gallons ; either of which make good 
 "rinegar, using yeast, of course, with either article, from one 
 ipint to one quart to each barrel being made. Another tub or 
 '^at must be set in the ground, under the generator, or in a cellar, 
 •s the case may be, to hold a^ much vinegar as the SDace be- 
 tween the false' and real top will contain, or as much as you 
 wish to make at one time ; from which it is to be carried op in 
 buckets, (or a wooden pump having a leather sucker is quicker 
 and easier to nusnit), ^ the t6p of the generator, until* it be- 
 comes good vinegar, which it will do in the time mentioned at 
 the heaid of this recipe, if passed through the generator by the 
 faucet every twelve hours, which it must be i and if the tubes are 
 fiteen or twenty feet high, it will only need passing through once, 
 <or twice at most. 
 
 Some will have no vinegar Lut that made from apple 
 
 «ider ; then put in one-tbird water, and it makes vinegar as 
 
 «trcng as anybody ougbt to use; but if they will have it at 
 
 full strength, make it so, only it requires a little longer time 
 
 to make. 
 
 If those who have cider which has been »tanding a long 
 iime, and does not become vinegar, will reduc<p it one-third 
 with water, and pass it thro>igh this machine, they, will 
 o^ind out first-rate vinegar in one or two days' time. Sour 
 ,Deer or ale, the artificial cider, also, if it gets sour, make 
 good vinegar when mixed with some other vinegar in mak- 
 ing. Small beer, also drippings from sugar hogsheads in 
 place of molasses, &c. Nothing having sugar or alcohol in 
 It should be thrown away, as all will make good vinegar, 
 which is as good as cash, and ougbt to be saved — if f6r no 
 other purpose than to have the more to give the worthy poor. 
 
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 merchants' and grocers' department. 39^ 
 
 It was at fimt thought to be absohttely necessary to make 
 the vinfgar-fluid of about seventy five d^-grees of heat, and 
 alno to keep the room of the aame temperature'; but it hat 
 been found that by keeping the heat in the tub by the false 
 top and the loose cover, that in warm weather it does ^ery 
 well without heating up the fluid, although it would make a 
 little quicker with it ; and if desired to mnke in cold weather, 
 you must heat the fluid and keep the room warm also. 
 
 If families choose to try this plsn, they can make all 
 they will need in a keg not larger than a common churn, 
 whilst wholeshler3 will use tubs as tuU as their rooms will 
 admit. 
 
 The first merchant to whom I sold this recipe, made all 
 
 the vineirar he could retail by placing strips of board across 
 
 the centre of a whisk" barrel, which supported the sdaving* 
 
 in the upper half only, allowing the vinegar to stsnd in the 
 
 lower half, as his room was so low he could only use the 
 
 one barrel and a wash-tub at the top instead of the false top 
 
 and 8pace as previously represented ; it took him only a week 
 
 to make in this way. I use'* the vinegar over a year. 
 
 The strength of the fluid he used was good eoromon whisky, 
 
 one gal.; water four gals. So it will \y6 seen that all 
 
 kinds of spirit, or articles containing spirit, can be made 
 
 into vinegar. 
 
 Bkmabk— If you wish to make sugar into vinegnr, do not at- 
 tempt to run it through the osnekatou, as it forms mother in that 
 way, and soon fills up the little holes; ^ut make it by standing 
 in a barrel, as mentioned under that head, No. 4. 
 
 8. Quick Process by Gtandinq upon Shavings. —Take four or 
 five hogsheads or casks, and Bet them side hy side, having a 
 fftucet near the hottom; then till up the ca^ks full of shavings, pre- 
 pared as in the foregoing recipe, or clean coin-a>b8, putting 
 some tiirniug shavings over th« top, after having put on an old 
 coffee sack to keep the fiae shavings from fulling down among the 
 coarse ones; this is to keep in the warmth ; now sour the 
 shavings with the best vinegar, by throwing it on the shavings 
 and letting it stand half a day or so; then draw off by the fau- 
 cet at tlie bottom, and throw It on again, adding 1 qt. of high- 
 wines to each bar.el each time yon draw it off, a« the shavings 
 absorb the r.ci(i, and the vinegar would become flat, but by adding 
 the spirit the shavings becomu soured or acetified, and the 
 Tinegar gets Vetter also. "When the sliavings aie right, take 
 highwiues 30 or 40 per cent alnive proof 1 gal.; molasses 1 qt ; 
 soft water 14 gals. ; (river or well water will do, but nut as good 
 
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 DR. CHASE S RECIPES. 
 
 for any vinegar), and put it upon the shavings, and draw off and 
 put on again from one to three times daily, until sufficiently sour 
 to barrel up. 
 
 Mr. Jackson, a grocer, of Jackaon, Michigan, has been 
 jnaking in this way for several year.*. I e uses also, sour 
 ftle, rinsings of sugar hogsheads, or the diippings, and 
 throws this fluid on the shavings, and draws off and returns 
 from on« to three times each day uotii sufficiently sour to 
 barrel up, which only requires a {dvi drawings; he then fills 
 his barrels only twothir«ls full, and leaves the bungs out 
 summer and winter, and if he finds a barrel is getting weak 
 in strength, he puts in a quart of highwines, which recruits 
 the strength, or gives it work again, which, as I remarked 
 before, if you give him stock to work on, and air, he labors 
 — without both, he dies. Bear this in mind, and your vin- 
 egar will improve all the time, no matter how or of what it 
 is made. He fills the tubs only one third or one-half full 
 when making, does not heat, but uses yeast, and only works 
 them in warm weather, and in winter fills the tubs with 
 good vinegar and lets them stand over until spi ing, when 
 they are ready for work again. 
 
 This man, with five casks thus managed, has sold over 
 three hundred barrels of vinegar in one season. 
 
 It might not be amiss, in closing this long subject, to say 
 that when yuu have no vinegar to begin with in either of 
 the processes, that if you commence with the fluid quite 
 weak at first, it begins to sour quicker than if begun with at 
 full strength, then as it begins to become sour, add more of 
 the spirit, cider, sugar, or molasses, &c., until you get the 
 desired point of strength . So you might go oil until a 
 swallow of it would strangle a man to death, and remove 
 every particle .of skin from his throat. • 
 
 BUTTER.— To Pbeservb any Length of Time. — First, work 
 out all the buttermilk. Second, use rock salt. Third, pack in 
 air-tight jars or cans. Fourth, keep in a cool place, and you will 
 have nice butter for years, if desired to keep so long. A short 
 Tecii>e, but it makes long butter. 
 
 Merchants who take in more butter than they can sell 
 during the warm months, can put it into jare and cover the 
 jar with about half an inch of lard over the t^p of the but- 
 ter, and place it in the cellar; or they can put about an 
 
MERCHANTS* AND GROCERS' DEPARTMENT. 41 
 
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 inch or two of brine in place of the lard, and have it do 
 well, first working out all the buttermilk which may remain, 
 when bought in. It would be well for them to have their 
 regular customers to furnish them butter, to whom they 
 furnish the right kind of salt, as the rock, or crystal salt, 
 does not contain so much lime as the common, which is 
 evaporated by artificial heat. Let sugar, and saltpetre, and 
 all other petres, alone, if you wish good butter, eitjter- for 
 present use or long keeping. 
 
 2. MAKDia-DiBBCTiONS FOB Daibtmen.— If butter raakerR 
 or dairymen, will use only shallow pans for their milk— and 
 the larger the surface, and the less the depth of the milk the 
 better— then put into each pan, before straining, 1 qt. of cold 
 spring water to every 8 qts. of milk, they will find the cream 
 will begin to rise immediately, and skim every 12 hours, the 
 butter will be free from all strong taste arising from leaves, or 
 coarse pasturage. 
 
 It is a fact, also, that high or up-land makes better butter 
 than when the cows are kept on rich bottom pasturage. The 
 object of the cold water is double: it cools the milk, so that 
 ♦he cream rises before the milk sours, (for when milk be- 
 comes sour it furnishes no more cream,) and alsio improves 
 the flavor. 
 
 8. STOBma— Thk (Illinois) Pbaibib Fabmkb's Method — First, 
 work the buttermilk carefully from the butter ; then pack it 
 closely in jars, laying a thin cloth on top of the butter, then a thin 
 layer of salt upon the cloth ; now hare a dry cellar, or make it so 
 by draining, and dig a hole in the bottom of H for each jar, 
 packing the dirt closely and tightly around the j, r. allowing the 
 tops of the jars to stand only an inch or so above the top of the 
 cellar bottom ; now pliice a Iward with a weighiu upon each jar to 
 prevent removing by accident, and all is safe. 
 
 Merchants who are buying in butter, should keep each 
 difierent lot separate, by using the thin cloth and salt; then 
 another cloth over the salt beifbro putting in the next lot, for 
 mixed butter will soon spoil, besides not selling as well, and 
 finally cover the top as before described. If kegs or barrels 
 are used, the outside must be as well painted as possible to 
 prevent outside tastes, and also to preserve the wood. 
 
 FRUITS TO KEEP.- Without Loss of Colob ob Flavoe.- 
 To each pound of rosin, put in 1 oz. of tallow, and 1 oz. of 
 beeswax. Melt them slowly over the fire in an iron kettle, and 
 be careful and not let it boil. Take the fruit separately and rub 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
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 it over with whiting or fine clialk (to prevent the coating from 
 adhering to the fruit,) then dip it into the solution once and hold 
 it up a moment to uet the coating ; then pack away carefully in 
 Uarreltf or boxes in a cool place. When you dip oranges or lem- 
 ons, ] p a thread around to hold them ; for pears or apples, in- 
 sert a pointed stick to hold them by, then cut it off with a pair of 
 sharp, heavy shears. Oranges or lemons cannot he put in boxei 
 but must be placed on shelves, as the accumulated weight would 
 mash them down. 
 
 It 18 now a well established fact that articles put up sci- 
 entifically air tight, may be kept fresh and fair for any 
 length of time, or until wanted for use. This composition 
 makes good sealing for air-tight cans ov bottles, pouring it 
 around the top of the can cover, and dipping the neck of 
 the bottle into it. A patent has been secured for a compo- 
 sition for ])re8erving fruit, of diflerent proportions, however, 
 from the foregoing, but the agent, at the Ohio State Fair, in 
 1859, had such poor success in selling rights at three dol- 
 lars that he reduced the price to twenty-five cents, and still 
 but few would take hold of it, so that I think not much 
 more will be done with the patent. I purchased twenty 
 recipes for one dollar, but finding this composition to stick 
 together and tear oft' pieces wherever they touched each 
 other, I went to work to improve it as above. The patented 
 proportions are, rosin 6 lbs., lard or tallow 8 ozs , beeswax 
 4 oz. Tlio patentee is John K. Jenkins, of Wyoming, Pa„ 
 and the patent was issued December 8, 1858. It does not 
 work well on peached or other juicy garden fruits. 
 
 EGGS. — To Preskrve for Winter Use. — For every three 
 giiUoiiM of water, put in 1 pint of fieKh slaked lime and common 
 salt i p'nt ; nii.v well, and let the barrel be ab m* half full 
 of this Hiiid, then with a dish let down your fresh eirgs into 
 it, tippingthe dish after it fills with water, so they roil out with- 
 out cracking the shell, for if the shell is cracked the egg will spoil. 
 
 If fresh eggs are put in, fresh eggs will come out, as I 
 have seen men who have kept them two, and even four, 
 years, at sea. A piece of board may be laid across the top 
 of the eggs, and a little lime and salt kept upon it, which 
 keeps the fluid as strong at the top as at the bottom. This 
 will not fail you. They must always be kept covered with 
 the brine. Families in towns and cities by this plan can 
 have eggs for winter usf at summer prices. I have put up 
 lorty dozen with entire success. 
 
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 merchants' and grocers' department. 43 
 
 The plan of preserving eggs has undoubtedly come from 
 a patent secured by a gentlen an in England in 1791, 
 Jaynes, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, which reads as follows: 
 
 2. Enoubh Patkstkd Method —" Put into a tub 1 bu. Wiu^. 
 Chester measure, of quick lime, (which is fresh slacked lime.) sal 
 32 oz. ; cream of turtar 8 oz. Use as much water aH will give 
 that consistency to the composition as will cause an tgg to swim 
 with its top just above the liquid. 'Ihan put and keep the 
 eggs therein, which will preserve them perfectly sound at least 2 
 years." 
 
 Persons who think it more safe can follow this Enghsh 
 plan. I desire in all cases to give all the information I 
 have on each subject. Consequently I give you the follow- 
 ing also : 
 
 8. J. W. CooPEB, M. D 's, Mbthod of Kebpino and Ship- 
 PIKG Game Egos.— " Dissolve some gum shellac in a sufficient 
 quantity of alcohol to make a thin varnish, give each egg a. 
 coat, and after they become thoroughly dry, pack them in bran 
 or saw duat, with their points downwards, In such a manner 
 that they cannot shift alx>ut. After you have kept them as long 
 as you desire, wash the varnish carefully olF, and they will be 
 in the same state as they were before packing, ready for eating or 
 hatching " 
 
 This would seem to be from good authority, aR.Dr. Cooper 
 has been engaged for the last thirty years in raising nothing 
 but the best game fowls, and he has frequently imported 
 egns. He invariably directed them to be packed as abover 
 and always had good success with them, notwith.standing- 
 the time and distance of the journey. He bas also pul>- 
 lished a work upon Oame Fowls. His address is Medin, 
 Delaware Co., Pa. 
 
 This last plan would be a little more troublesome, but 
 still would not be very much to prepare all that families 
 would wish to use through the winter, or even for the 
 retailer; as the convenience of having them in a condition* 
 to ship would be one inducement (o use the last method, for 
 with the first they must be taken out and packed in oats or 
 something of tbat sort, to ship; with the last they are 
 always ready ; and weather permitting, about Christmas or 
 New Year's, fresh and good eggs in cities always command 
 suflSciint price to pay for all trouble and expense in th«- 
 preservation and shipment. 
 
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 The Sex of Egos. — Mr. Genin lately addressed the 
 Academy des Sciences, France, on the subject of the sex of 
 tggB. He afiSrms that he is now able, after having studied 
 the subject for upwards of three yeare, to state with assur- 
 ance that the eggs containing the germ of males have 
 wrinkles on their smaller ends, while female eggs are smooth 
 at the extremities. 
 
 While on the subject of eggs you will excuse me for 
 putting in a couple of items more, which appropriately 
 belong to other departments: 
 
 4. To Increase the Laying. — •' For several years past 
 I bavo spent a few weeks of the latter part of August on 
 the Kennebtic river, in Maine. The lady with whom I 
 have stopped is a highly accomplished and intelligent house- 
 wife, She supports a • hennery,' and from her I derived my 
 information in the matter. She told me that for many 
 years she had been in the habit of administering to her 
 hens, with their common food : 
 
 " Cayenne pepper, pulverized, at the rate of one teaspoon each 
 alternate day tu 1 doz. fowls. 
 
 '• Last season, when I was with her, each morning she 
 brought in from twelve to fourteen eggs, having but sixteen 
 hons in all. She again and again experimented in the mat- 
 ter by omitting to feed with the Cayenne for two or three 
 days. The consequence invariably was, that the product of 
 eggn fell off five or six per day. The same effect of using 
 Ae Cayenne is produced in winter as in summer." — Boston 
 Transcript, 
 
 5. To Fbv; Extba Nick.— Three eggs; flour 1 tablespoon; milk 
 1 cap. 
 
 Beat the eggs and flour together, then stir in the milk* 
 Tave a skillet with a proper amount of butter in it, made 
 hot, for frying this mixture; then pour it in, and when one 
 side is done brown, turn it over, cooking rather slowly ; if a 
 larger quantity is needed, it will require a little salt stirred 
 in, but for this amount the salt in the butter in which vou 
 fry it, seasons it very nicely. 
 
 BURNINa FLUID— Bmar IN Usb.— Alcohol, of 98 per cent., 9 
 pts.; goud camphene 1 qt., or in these proportions. Shake 
 
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 each 
 
 MERCHANTS* AND GROCEBS' DEPARTMENT. 45 
 
 briskly, and it will at once become clear, when mthoot the 
 shaking it would take from 6 to 7 qts. of alcohol to cut t.'ie cam- 
 I^bene, while with the least it is the best. 
 
 These proportions make the best burning fluid Viiich can 
 be combined. Many put in camphor gum, alunj, (be, the 
 first to improve its burning qualities, the last to prevent ex- 
 plosion, but they are perfectly useless for either, from the 
 fact that camphor adds to the smoking properties, and noth- 
 ing can prevent the gas arising from any fluid that will 
 burn, from explosion, if the fire gets to it when it is con- 
 fined. The only safety is in filling lamps in day-time, or 
 far from fire or lights : and sJso to have lamps which are 
 perfect in their construction, so that no gas may leak out 
 along the tube, or at the top of the lamp ; then let who will 
 say he can sell you a recipe for non-explosive gas or fluid, 
 you may set him down at once for a humbug, ignoramus, or 
 knave. Yet you may set fire to this fluid, and if not con- 
 fined it will not exploie, but will continue to burn until all 
 is consumed. Families cannot make fluid any cheaper than 
 lo buy it, as the profit charged on the alcohol is usually 
 TOore than that charged on fluid ; but they will have a bet- 
 ter article by this recipe than they can buy, unless it is 
 made from the same, and it is best for any one, even the 
 retailer, only to make small quantities at a time, and get 
 the freshest camphene possible. When made in large quan- 
 tities, even a barrel, unless sold out veiy soon, the kst part 
 is not as good as the fir»t, owing to the separation of tlie 
 camphene from the alcohol, unless frequently shaken, whilst 
 being retailed out. 
 
 INTEREST.— CoMPunNO by Onk Multipucatioii add Onn 
 Division, at ant Rati Pkb Cknt.— Multiply the amount by the 
 number of days, (counting 80 days to each month. ) 
 
 Divided by 60 gives the interest at 6 per cent. 
 
 do 46 " " 8 " 
 
 do 40 " •' 9 " 
 
 do 86 " " 10 " 
 
 do 80 " •• 12 , " 
 
 ExAMPUi.— $150 at 8 months and 10 days, or 100 days, is 15000 
 
 divided by 60, gives $2 50, which is the interest at 6 per cent. ; or 
 
 divided by 46, gives $8.88 interest at 8 per cent., &c. 
 
 I sold a gentleman, a miller, one of my books the second 
 time, as si.me person stole the first before he became fami- 
 liar with the foregoing rules, which he admired too much to 
 lose. 
 
46 
 
 DR. CHASES RECIPES. 
 
 2. Mkthod bt a Sinqlk Multiplicatiom. — Ruu8— To find the 
 intereBt on any given Bum of money for any number of years, 
 months or days. Reduce the years to months, add in the months, 
 if any, take one-third of the days and uet to the right of the 
 months, in decimal form, multiply this result by one-half the 
 prtncipal, and yuu have the interest required. 
 
 ExAMPLB. — I'he interest required on $1,400 for 2 years, 3 
 months and 9 days: 
 
 Interest on $1,400 for 2 years, 3 months and days. 
 
 27.3 
 700 
 
 Answer required . . $191 . 10 . 
 
 The above example is at six per cent. Rule to obtain the 
 interest at any other rate : For seven per cent increase the 
 interest at six per cent, by one-sixth ; for eight per cent, by 
 one-third ; for nine per cent by one-half; for ten per cent, by 
 two-thirds; for eleven per c^int. by five-sixths; for twelve per 
 cent* multiply by two. Twelve per cent, is the highest rate 
 of interest allowed by any State, except Minnesota, which, I 
 believe, allows fifteen per cent. 
 
 In pointing off, persons will observe to point off as many 
 figures in the product or answer as there are decimal points 
 in the multiplicand. The balance, or rt^mainder, show you 
 the dollars and cents. 
 
 COUNTERFEIT MONEY— Seven Rules for De- 
 tecting. — First. Examine the form and features of all 
 human figures on the notes. If the forms are graceful and 
 features distinct, examine the drapery — see if the folds lie 
 natural ; and the hair of the head should be observed, and 
 lee if the fine strands can be seen. 
 
 Second. Examine the lettering, the title of the bank, or 
 the round handwriting on the face of the note. On all 
 genuine bill? (e work is done with great skill and perfect- 
 ness, and there has never been a counterfeit but was defective 
 in the lettering. 
 
 Third. The imprint, or engraver's name. By observing 
 
 the great perfection of the different company names — in the 
 
 evenness and shape of the fine letters, countei-feitere never 
 
 ,^jpet the imprint perfect. This rule alone, if strictly observed, 
 
 will detect every counterfeit note in existence. 
 
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 HIRCHANTS' AUD QROCERS' DEPARTMENT. 47 
 
 Fourth. — The Rh'adin^ in the back ground of the viff- 
 nette, or over or around the letters forming the name of th« 
 bank, on a good bill is even and perfect, on a counterfeit is 
 irregular and imperfect. 
 
 Fifth. — Examine well the figures on the other parts of 
 the note, containingthe denomination, also the letters. Ex- 
 amine well the die work around the figures which stand for 
 the denomination, to see if it if* of the same character as 
 that which forms the ornamental work surrounding it. 
 
 StxTH. — Never take a bill that is deficient in any of the 
 above points, and if your impression is bad when you first 
 see it, you had better be careful how you become convinced 
 to change your mind — whether your opinion is not altered 
 as you become confused in looking into the texture of the 
 workmanship of the bill. 
 
 Skvbnth. — Examine the name of the State, name of the 
 
 bank, and name of the town where it is located. If it has 
 
 been altered from a broken bank, the defects can plainly be 
 
 seen, as the alteration will show that it has been stamped 
 
 on. 
 
 INKS— Black Copying, or Wanma Fluid.— Rain water 2 
 gal«. ; gum arabic \ lb. ; brown sugar \ lb. ; clean coperas \ lb ; 
 powderfd nutgalls | lb, ; bruise all, and mix, shaking occasioa- 
 ally for 10 days, and strain ; if needed sooner, let it steep in an 
 iron kettle until the strength is obtained. 
 
 This ink can be de[)ended upon for deeds or records 
 which you may wish some one to read hundreds of years to 
 come. Oxalic acid one-fourth oz. was formerly put in, but 
 since the use of steel pens it does not work well on them, 
 If not used as a copying ink, one-fourth the gum or sugar is 
 sufficient as it flows more free without them. 
 
 2. Common Black —Logwood chips 1 lb. ; boil in IJ^ gals, of 
 water until reduced to 2 qte. ; pour off, and repeat the boiling 
 again as before ; mix the two waters, 1 gal. in all ; then add 
 bi-chromate of potash ^ oz. ; prussiate of potash \ oz. ; prujsiate 
 of iron [prussian blue] j^ oz. ; boil again about five minutes, and 
 strain and bottle for use . 
 
 You will find none of the gumminess about this ink that 
 is found in that made from the extract of logwood; j'et it 
 is not presumed that this will be as durable as the gall inks 
 for deeds, records, &c., &c., but for schools and common use 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 it is as ffood as the most costly inks. This copy was pre- 
 pared with it, which was made two years ago. 
 
 8. Rbp— The Vsrt Bbst — Take an ounce vial and put into it a 
 teaspoon of aqna ammonia, gum arabic the size of two peas, and 
 6 grs No. 40 carmine, and 5 grs No. 6 or 8 carmine also; fill up 
 with soft water, and it is soon ready for use. 
 
 This forms a beautiful ruling ink. I sold the book in 
 the Pike County Bank, 111., from the fact that this ink was 
 so much better than what they could get of any other make. 
 Speaking of banks makes me think of what a gentleman of 
 Michigan City, Ind., told me about a black ink for banking 
 purposes, which would never fade, composed of two articles 
 only: 
 
 Iron or steel filings and simple rain water, exposing it to the sun 
 far a good length of time; pale when first written with, but be- 
 coming very black. 
 
 I have never thought to try it, but now montlon it, for fear 
 
 it might be good, and lost to the world, unless now thrown 
 
 to the public. 
 
 4. Blub.'- Take sulphate of indigo and put it into water until 
 you get the desired depth of color ; that sold in little boxes for 
 bluing clothes is the article desired . 
 
 This does well for school children, or any writing not of 
 
 importance to keep ; but for book keeping it is not good, 
 
 as the heat of a safe in a burning building fades away the 
 
 color. 
 
 6. iNDMitiBiK.- -Nitrate of silver 11 grs; dissolve it in 80 grs. 
 (or about a teaspoon) of water of ammonia; in 85 grs (or 2^ tea- 
 spoons) ot rain water, dissolve 20 grs. of gum arabic. When the 
 gum is dissolved pat into t)ie t^ame vial also 22 grs. of carbonate 
 of soda (sal soda). When all is well dissolved, mix both vials, 
 or their contents, and plac ■ the vial containing the mixture in a 
 basin of water, and boil for several minutes, or until a black com- 
 pound is the result. When cold it is ready for use. Have the 
 linen or other goods starched and ironed, and perfectly dry; then 
 write with a quill pen. 
 
 If twice the amount is made at a time it will not cost any 
 
 more, as the expense is only frojn the trouble of weighing, 
 
 ao little is used of the materials. Soft soap and boiling 
 
 cannot eflFace it, nor years of wear. Use only glass vessels. 
 
 6. PowDKK — Black. — Sulphate of copper 1 dr ; gum arabic i oz; 
 copneras 1 oz; nutgalls and extract of logwood 4 ozs each; all to 
 be pulverized and evenly mixed.- Scientific American. 
 
MIRCHANTS' AND OROCERS' DEPARTMENT. 49' 
 
 About one oz, of the mixture will be required to each 
 pirt of boiling water used. It will be found a valuable 
 color for boot, sboe and harness-edge, also. It should stand 
 a couple of weeks before using, or it may be steeped a few 
 hours if needed sooner. 
 
 HONEYS.— ABTinciAL Cuba Honbt.— Good , '•own sugar 10 
 lbs. ; water 1 qt, ; old bee bread honey in the comb 2 lbs. ; cream 
 ol' tartar 1 tea-spoon ; gum arable 1 oz ; oil of fteppermiat 
 8 drops ; oil of rose 2 drops. Mix and boil two or three minutes, 
 and have ready 1 quart more of water, in which an egg is put, welt 
 beat up ; pour it in, and as it begins to boil, skim well, remove 
 from the fire, and when a little cool, add 2 lbs, of nice bees' honey, 
 and strain. 
 
 This is really a nice article, looking and tasting like honey. 
 It has been shipped in large quantities under tlie name of 
 *• Cuba Honey." It will keep any length of time aa nice 
 and fresh as when first made, if sealed up. Some persons 
 use a (able-spoon of slippery elm bark in this amount, but 
 it will ferment in warm weather, and rise to the top, 
 requiring to be skimmed off. If it is to be used only for 
 eating purposes, the cream of tartar and gum arabic may be 
 left out, also the old bee-bread honey, substituting for it 
 another pound of nice honey. 
 
 2. DoKESTTO HoNBT. — Coffcc sugar 10 ]\m. ; water 3 lbs, ; cream 
 of tartar 2 ozs. ; strong vinegar 2 table-spoons ; the white of 1 
 egg we'l beaten ; bees* honey J lb. ; Lubin's extract of honey- 
 suckle 10 drops. 
 
 First put the sugar and water into a suitable kettle and 
 place apc'.i the fire; and when luke warm stir in the cream of 
 tartar, and vinegar ; then continue to add the egg ; and 
 when the sugar is nearly melted put in the honey and stir 
 until it comes fo a boil, take it off, let it stand a few min- 
 utes, then strain, adding the extract of hon'^rsuckle last; 
 let stand over night, tmd it is ready for use. This resembles- 
 candied honey, and is a nice thing. 
 
 3. Excellent Honey, — An article suitable for every* 
 day use is made as follows: 
 
 Good common sugar 6 lbs ; water 1 qt. ; gradually bring it to a 
 boil, skimming well ; when cool, add 1 lb. bees' honey, and 4 
 drops of peppermint essence. 
 
 If you desire a better article, use white FUgar, and one- 
 half pint less water and one-half pound more honey. If it is 
 
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 DB. chase's recipes. 
 
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 til! 
 
 <l6sired to gire it the ropy appearance of bees' honey, put 
 into the water one-fuurth ounce of alum , 
 
 4. Pbbmium Honkt.— CommoD sugar 4 lbs. ; water 1 pt. ; let 
 4hem Come to a boil, and flkiiu ; then add pulverised alum \ Oft. ; 
 remove from the Are and ntir in cream of turtar ^ uz. ; and water 
 or e> tract of roHe 1 table-8poon, and it is fit for use. 
 
 This took the premium at an Ohio State Fair. We um 
 the recipes for common sugar and the one using Lubin's 
 extract c f honeysuckle, and desire nothing better. 
 
 JELLIES— Without Fruit.- Take water 1 pt., and add to it 
 pulverized alum { oz., and boil a minute or two ; then add 4 lb?, 
 of white crushed or coffee sugar, continue the boiling a little, strain 
 while hot ; and when cold put in half of a two shilling bottle of 
 extract of vanilla, strawberry, or lemon, or any other flavor you 
 desire for jelly. 
 
 This will make a jelly so much resembling that made 
 from the juice of the fruit that any one will be astonished; 
 and when fruit cannot be got, it will take its place admira- 
 bly, I have had neighbors eat of it and be perfectly aston* 
 ished at its beauty and palatableness. 
 
 BAKING powders—Without DRTTGS.—Baking soda 6 ozs. ; 
 cream of tartar 8 oz. ; first dry tliem from all dampness by putting 
 them on a paper and placing them in the oven foi a short time, 
 then mix and keep dry, in bottles or boxes. 
 
 The proper amount of this will be about one tcji-spoon to 
 each quart of flour being baked. Mix with cold water, and 
 bake immediately. This contains none of the drugs gen- 
 erally used for baking powders ; it is easy made, and does 
 not cost over half as much as to buy them alreatly made. 
 This makes biscuit very nice without milk or shortening. 
 Yet if milk is used, of course it would be that much richer. 
 The main ob' baking powders is for those who are 
 
 " Keeping ' ^ it is called, or for those who are far 
 
 from ci' ' ..uvoniences, and for those who prefer thii 
 
 kind of J. or biscuit to that raised with yeast or sour 
 milk and saleratus. I stand among the latter class. 
 
 MOUTH GLUE -For Torn Paper, Notks, &c — Any quantity 
 ■of glue may be used, with sugar, only half as much as of the 
 glue. 
 
 First dissolve the glue in water, and carefully evaporata 
 ;ii8 much of the water ar "»u can without burning the glue; 
 
SALOON DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 then add the sugar; if desired to have a very nice article, 
 use gelatine in place of the due, and treat in the same man- 
 ner; when the sujyar is dissolved in the glue pour it into 
 moulds or a pan and cut it into squares, for convenience, be- 
 fore it getfl too hard. This dissolves very quickly by placing 
 the edge of a piece in. the mouih, and is not unpleasant to 
 the taste, and is very handy for ofRce or house use. Use to 
 stick together torn bills, paper, &c., by softening the edg» 
 of a piece as above, then touching the parts therewith and 
 pressing together for a moment only. 
 
 SALOON DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Remarks. — If saloon keepers and grocers, who deal in 
 wine, beer, cider, <fec., will follow our directions here, and 
 make some of the following articles, they and their custom- 
 ers will be better pleased than by purchasing the spurious 
 articles of the day ; and families will find them equally ap- 
 plicable to th<ir own use. And although we start with an 
 artificial cider, yet it is as healthy, and is more propeily a 
 small beer, which it should be called, but from its close re- 
 semblance to cider in taste it has been so named. 
 
 CIDERS.— Artificial, ob Cidkr without Apples. — To cold 
 water 1 pal. . put dark brown sugar 1 lb. ; tartaric acid ^ oi. ; 
 yeast 8 table-spoons, and keep these proportions for any amount 
 desired to make; shake it well ttigether. Make it in the evening 
 and it will be fit fcr use the next day. 
 
 I make in a keg a few gallons at a time, leaving a few 
 quarts to make into next time — not using yeast again until 
 the keg needs rinsing. If it gets & little sour make more 
 into it. In hot weather draw in a pitcher with ice ; or if 
 your sales are slow, bottle it and keep in a cool cellar ac- 
 cording to the next recipe. 
 
 2. To Bottle, — If it is desired to bottle this artificial 
 cider by manufacturers of small drinks, you will proceed as 
 follows : 
 
 Put into a barrel hot water 5 gals. ; brown sugar 30 lbs.; tar- 
 taric arid f lb., cold water 25 gals.; hop or brewers' yeast 3 
 ptf.; work th« yeast into a paste with flour | lb.; shake or stir 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 -all well together; fill the barrel full, aud let it work 24 to 48 
 hours, or until the yeast is done working out at the bung, by 
 having put in a little sweetened water occasionally to keep the 
 bfurrel full. 
 
 Wheo it has worked clear, bottle it, putting in two or 
 three broken raisins to each bottle, and it will nearly equal 
 champagne. Let the bottles lay in a cool place on the side 
 — (observe also this plan of laying the bottles upon the side, 
 in putting av ipple-cider or wine) — but if it is only for 
 your own r ii ■■ ade you can make as follows in the next 
 recipe, and have it keep until a barrel is retailed. The first 
 recipe will las' ily three or four days in hot weather, and 
 about two weeks in winter, 
 
 3. In Barrels for Long Keeping. — If retailers wish 
 
 to keep this cider with the least possible loss of time, or 
 
 families for their own dnnk or for the harvest field, proceed 
 
 ^■f loUows: 
 
 Place in i\ keg or barrel, cold water 20 gals. , brown sugar 15 lbs. , 
 and tartaric acid ^ lb. only, not using any yeast, but if you have 
 them, put iiL 2 or 3 lbs., dried sour apples, or boil them and pour 
 in the expressed juice; without the yeast it wiil keep, in a cool 
 •cellar, for severaJi weeks, even in summer. The darker the sugar 
 the more naturui will be the color of the cider. 
 
 Dr. 0. B. Reed, of Bell River, Mich., with whom I 
 read medicine, drank of this cider freely, while sick with 
 bilious fever, knowing its composition, and recommended 
 it to his patients as soon as he got out amongst them again, 
 an a drink that would allay thirst, with the least amount of 
 fluid, of anything with which he was acquainted. But 
 some will prefer Prof. Hufeland*s drink for Fever Patients, 
 which see. 
 
 4. Apple Cider, to Keep Sweet, with but Trivlino 
 Expense. — ^Two things are absolutely necessary to pre- 
 serve cider in a palatable state for any considerable time ; 
 that is, to clear it of pomac«, and then to keep it in a cool 
 place, and the cooler the place the better. And then if kept 
 air tight, by bottling, it is also better, but farmers ^n- 
 not take the time nor expense of bottling. Some persona 
 leach it through charcoal, and others boil, or rather scald 
 ^nd akim, to get clear of the pomace. In the first place, 
 «ider, that is designed to keep over winter^ should be 
 
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 SALOON DEPABTMENT. 
 
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 made from ripe, sound, sour apples only, and conpequently 
 
 it will be getting cool weather, and less likely to ferment. 
 
 Then when made: 
 
 Stand in open casks or barrels, and put into each barrel about 1 
 pt. each of hickory (if you have them, if not other hard wood), 
 ashes and fresh slacked lime; stir the ashes and lime first into 1 
 qt. of new m Ik, then stir into the cider. It will cause all the 
 pomace to rise to the surface, from which you can skim it as it 
 rises, or you can let it remain about 10 hours, then draw off by 
 a faucet near the bottom, through a strainer, to avoid the hara> 
 ened pomace. 
 
 It is now ready for bottling or barreling, if too much 
 trouble to bottle. If you barrel it, it has been found essen- 
 tial to sulphur the barrel. The sulphuring is done by dip- 
 ping cotton cloth into melted sulphur, and drying it; then 
 eutting into strips about two by six inches. Put about 
 three gallons of cider into the barrel; fire one end of the 
 stiip of the sulphured cloth, and introduce it into the bung- 
 hole, and hold it by means of the bung, giving it air suffi- 
 cient to let it burn, keeping the smoke in as it burns, when 
 you will push the bung in tight and shake the barrel until 
 the sulphur gas is alworbed into the cid<'r ; then fill up the 
 barrel with cider, and if not already in the cellar, place it 
 there, and you have accomplished the two points first spoken 
 of. If the above plan is too much labor, get oil barrels, if 
 possible, to keep your cider in, (as vinegar can scarcely be 
 made in an oil barrel,) the oil coming out a litile and form- 
 ing an air-tight coat on the top of the cider in the barrel. 
 Or: 
 
 5. Make your cider late in the Fall, and when made, put into 
 each barrel, immediately, ground mustard ^ lb; salt 2 oe; pul- 
 verized chalk 2 oz; stir them up in a little of the cider, then pour 
 into the barrel iEuid shake well. 
 
 I have drank cider kept in this way, in August, whicli 
 was made in early Sprirg ; it was vei nice. 
 
 6. I have had cider keep very nice, alfo, by k'^ping in a 
 
 cool cellar, and putting into each barrel : 
 
 Mustard seed 2 oz; allspice 2 oz; sweet oil } pt, and aloc^ol 1 
 pt. only. 
 
 Always ship your cider, if you have cider to ship, late in 
 the Fall or ^rly in Spiing, for if laken out of a cool cellar 
 
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 in hot. weather it is sure to start fermentation. If wanted 
 for medicine, proceed as in the following recipe : 
 
 7. To Prepare for Medicine.— To each barrel of 
 cider just pressed from ripe, sour apples, not watered : 
 
 Take rauBtard seed, unground, 1 lb. ; isinglass 1 oz ; alum pul- 
 verized 1 oz. ; put all into the barrel, leave the bung out, and 
 shake or stir once a day for four days, then take new milk 1 qt.. 
 and half a dozen eggs, beat well together, and put them into the 
 cider and stir or shake again, as before, for 2 days ; then let it 
 settle until you see that it is clear, and draw off by a faucet. 
 
 And if you wish to use in place of wine, in medicine, 
 put it into bottles ; but if designed for family use you can 
 barrel it, bunging it tight, and keep cool, of course, and 
 you will have a very nice article, if the cider was not made 
 too near a well, or running stream of water ; but it is found 
 that if made too near these, the cider does not keep. 
 Judge ye why ! 
 
 In some parts of England, by using only ripe, sound ap- 
 ples, letting it work clear, racking off about twice, bottling, 
 (fee, (fee, cider is kept from twenty to thirty years. When 
 cider is drawn off and bottled, it should not be corked until 
 the next day after filling the bottles, as many of them will 
 burst. Then lay on the side. 
 
 SYRUPS. — To Make the Various Colors — Powder cochineal I 
 oz. ; soft water 1 pt. ; boil the cochineal in the water for a few 
 minutes, using a copper kettle ; while boiling add 30 grs, of pow- 
 dered alum, and 1 dr. of cream of tartar ; when the coloring 
 matter is all out of the cochineal remove it from the fire, and 
 when a little cool, strain, bottle and set aside for use. 
 
 This gives a beautiful red, and is used in the strawberry 
 syrups only. Colored rather deep in shade. Pine apple is 
 left without color. Wintergreen is colored with tincture of 
 camwood, (not deep.) Lemon anci ginger with tincture of 
 turmeric. (8ee Tinctures. ) The two last named syrups 
 are not colored high — a light shade only. 
 
 2. Artificial, Various Flavors.— The ground work of all 
 
 syrups ought to be the same, t. e. Simple Syrup ; to make, it, 
 
 *take 2} Ihn. of the best coffee sugar, which is found not to crys- 
 
 talise, and water 1 pt., or what is the same, 60 lbs, sugar, water 
 
 3 gals. 
 
 Dissolve the sugar in the water by heat, removing any 
 
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 «cum that forins upon it, and strain vrhWe hot. This can bt 
 kept in a barrel or keg, and is always ready to flavor, m 
 desired. 
 
 3. Raspbeurt — Is made as follows: ■ 
 
 Take orris root, liniiged, any qarmtity. say \ lb., and jnst hand- 
 somely cover it with dilute alcohol, [76 per cent, alcohol, and 
 water, equal quantitiee], so that it cannot \x made any stronger of 
 the root. 
 
 This is cal'ed the ''Saturated Tincture;" and use sujfi- 
 cient of this tincture to give the desired or natural taste of 
 the raspberry, from which it cannot be distinguished. 
 
 4. Strawberry — Flavor is as follows : 
 
 The saturated tincture of orils, as above, 2 oas. , acetic-ether, 2 
 drs ; mix, and use pufficient to give the desired flavor — a very 
 little only is required, in either case. 
 
 5. Pine Apple flavor is made by using to suit the taste, 
 of butyric ether. If persons hsve any doubt of these facts 
 simply, try them. Some think syrups even for fountains, 
 charged with carbonic acid gas, that it is best to use about 
 three-fourths oz. of tartaric acid to each gallon, but I 
 prefer none unless the fountain is charged with the super- 
 carbonate of soda, in which case it is necessary to use about 
 three-fourths oz. of the acid to each pound of sugar. See 
 Soda Syrups. 
 
 This, above plan, for making nmph iyrvp, is the true 
 way of making all syrups; but some people think they must 
 use more water, that the syrup may be cheaper. Others 
 will object to using artificial flavors. Oh ! they say : '* I 
 buy the genuine article." Then, just allow me to say, 
 don't buy the syrups nor the extracts, for ninety-nine hun- 
 dredths of them are not made from the fruit, but are artifi- 
 cial. Rather make your own, as given under the head of 
 Jams and Extracts. For the more watery syrups, see " Soda 
 Syrups." * : 
 
 6. Sarsaparilla — Is very nice as follows : 
 
 Simple syrup, as al:K)ve, and nice golden pyrnp. equal quantities 
 of each, and mix well ; then use a few drops of oils of wintergreen 
 and cassAfras to each bottle, as used. 
 
 The amounta for the desired flavors cannot be given ex- 
 actly to suit every one, but all will wish different flavors; 
 
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 in some towns, using very high flavor, and in others suflS- 
 cient to perceive it, merely. AH will soon get a plan of 
 their own, and like it better than that of others. This 
 mixture of golden syrup make^ the sarsapaiilla a beautiful 
 dark color without other coloring. 
 
 *J. Lbmon Syrup, Common — Was formerly made by 
 dissolving four pounds of crushed sugar in one quart of 
 water by boiling, and adding three ounces of tartaric acid 
 and flavoring with the oil of lemon ; but it is best made as 
 follows : 
 
 Coffee sugar 3 lbs ; w^ter \^ pts. ; dissolve by gentle heat, and 
 add citric acid 3 oz^., and flavor with oil or extract of lemon. 
 See "Extracts." 
 
 8 Or a very nice lemon gynip is made as follows : Take cit- 
 ric acid in pontder \ oz. ; oil of lemon 4 drops ; simple syrup 1 
 quart. 
 
 Rub the acid and oil in three or four spoons of the syrup, 
 then add the mixture to the remainder, and dissolve with 
 gentle heat Citric acid is not as likely to cause infllamraation 
 of the stomach, as the tartaric, hence, its better adaptation to 
 syrups calculated for drinks, and especially in disease. 
 
 9. Lbmon Stkup - To Pave thk Loss of Lemons. —Where you 
 have lemons that are spoiling or drying up, take the insides 
 which are yet sound, squeeze out the juice, and to each pint put 
 1} lbs. white sugar, and a little of the peel ; boil a few minutes^ 
 strain and cork for use. 
 
 This will not require any acid, and one-half tea-spoon of 
 soda to three-fourths of a glass of water with two or three 
 table-spoons of syrup, makes a foaming glass. Some per- 
 sons think they ought to put in water, but if water is added 
 the syrup will not keep as well, and takes more of it. 
 
 10. Soda Strbp, With or Without Fountains — The common 
 or more watery syrups are made by using loaf or crushed sugar 
 8 lbs ; pure water 1 gal. ; gum arable 2 ozs. ; mix in a brass or 
 copper kettle ; boil until the gum is dissolved, then skim and 
 strain through white flannel, after which add tartaric acid 5J oz. ; 
 dissolve in hot water ; to flavor, use extract of lemon, orange, 
 rose, pine apple, peach, sarsaparilla, stic^^berry, &c., ^ oz. to each 
 bottle, or to your taste. 
 
 Now use two"or three table-spoons of the syrup to three- 
 fourths of a tumbler of water and one-half tea-spooo of 
 
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 super-carbonate of soda, made fine; stir well and be ready to 
 drink, or use the soda in water as mentioned in the "Impe- 
 rial Cream Nectar;" the gum arable, howev.., Ljlds the 
 carbonic acid so it will not fly off as rapidly as cominon 
 «oda. The above is to le used without fountains, that is to 
 make it up as used, in glasses, or for the cheaper fountains 
 which have an ounce of super carbonate of soda to the gal- 
 lon of water; but for the fountains which are charged, in 
 the cities, with carbonic acid gas, no acids are used in the 
 syrups. 
 
 11. Cbeam Soda, Using Cow's Cream, for Fountains.— Nice 
 loaf suerar 6 lbs. ; sweet rich cream 1 qt. ; water IJ gills ; warm 
 gradually so as not to burn ; extract of vauilla | oz. ; extract of 
 nutmeg ^ oz. 
 
 Just bring to a boiling heat, for if you cook it any length 
 of time it will crystalize; use four or five spoons of this 
 syrup instead of three, as in other syrups. If used without 
 a fountain, tartaric acid one quarter pound is added. The 
 tendency of this syrup is to sour rather quicker than other 
 syrups, but it is very nice while it lasts; and if only made 
 in small quantities and kept cool, it more than pays for the 
 trQuble of making often. 
 
 12. Cream Soda, wiihout a Fountain.— Coffee sugar 4 lbs. ; 
 water 3 pts. ; nutmegs grated 3 in number ; whites of 10 eggs 
 well beaten ; gum arabic 1 oz. ; oil of lemon 20 drops ; or extract 
 equal to that amount. By usiug oils of other fruits you can 
 make as raauy flavors from this as you desire, or prefer. 
 
 Mix all and place over a gentle fire, and stir well about 
 thirty minutes; remove from the f , strain, and divide into 
 two parts; into one-half put super-carbonate of soda 
 eight ounces; and into the other half put six ounces tartaric 
 acid ; shake well, and when cold they are i-e^dy to use, by 
 pouring three or four spoons, from both parts, into separate 
 glasses which are one-third full of cool water; stir each and 
 pour together, and you have as nice a glass of cream soda as 
 was ever drank, which can also be drank at your leisure, as 
 the gum and eggs hold the gas. 
 
 13. Soda Water, without a Machine foe Bottlino. — 
 In each gallon of water to be used, carefully dissolve ^ lb. of 
 crushed sugar, and 1 oz. of super-carbonate of soda ; then ill 
 half-pint bottles with this water, have your corks ready ; now 
 
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 drop into each bottle } dr. of citric acid in crystals, and imme 
 diately coik and tie down. 
 
 These bottles must be bandied carefully without shaking, 
 and kept cool until needed ; a little more or less sugar can 
 be used to suit the taste of different persons. 
 
 OlSTER SOUP.— To each dozen or dish of oyBters put a half 
 pint of water; milk 1 gill; butter J <iz ; powdered crackers to 
 thicken Bring the oystern and water to a boil, then add the 
 other ingredients previously mixed together, and boil from 3 to 5 
 minutes only. 
 
 - Each one will choose to add salt, pepper, <fec., to their 
 own taste. Keep about these proportions if you should 
 have to cook for an oyster supper for parties, &c. 
 
 TRIPE— To Prepabb and Pickm.— First sew it up, after it is 
 tunied inside out; be careful tu sew it up tight, that no lime gets 
 into it; now hive a tub of lime water, the consistence of good 
 thick whitewash; let it remain in from 10 to 20 minutes, or until 
 when you take hold of it, the dark outside skin will come off; 
 then put it into clean water, changing three or four times to 
 weaken the lime, that the hands be not injured by it; then with a 
 dull knife scrape off all of the dark surface, and continue to soak 
 and scrape several times, which removes all offensive substances 
 and smeU. After tbts, let it soak 20 or 80 minutes in 2. or 3 hot 
 waters, scraping over each time; then pichle in salt and water 12 
 hours, and it is ready for cooking; boil from three to four hours, 
 cut in strips to suit, and put it into nice vinegar with the various 
 spices, as desired; renew the vinegar at the expiration of one 
 week, is all that will be required further. 
 
 Many persons stick up their nose when tripe is spokeu of; 
 but if nicely prepared, I prefer it to any dish furnished by 
 the beef. 
 
 MOLASSES CANDY AND POP-CORN BALLS—Candt — Eqiial 
 quantities of brown sugar and molasses, aud put them into 
 a suitable kettle— copper is the btst— and when it Itegins to boil, 
 skim it well, and stritm it, or else pour it through a fine wire 
 sieve to free it of slivers and sticks which are often found in the 
 sugar; then return it to the kettle and continue to lK>il, until, 
 when you have dipped your hand in cold water and passed one 
 or two fingers through the boiling candy and immtdiat^ly back 
 to the cold water, what adheres when cold will crush like dry 
 egg shells, and does not adhere to the teeth when bitten. When 
 done, pour it on a stone or platter which has been greaS'd, and 
 as it gets cool begin to throw up the edges and woik it by 
 pulling on a hpok or by the hand, until bright and glirttening 
 like gold; the hands should have a little flour on them occasion- 
 
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 Cqnal 
 into 
 boil, 
 e wire 
 n the 
 uutil, 
 ed one 
 back 
 e dry 
 When 
 d, and 
 it by 
 tening 
 Vision- 
 
 ally ; now keep the maf g by a warm stove, if much is made at 
 one time, and draw it into Btick size, occiwionally rolling them to 
 keep round, until all is pulled out and cold, then with shears din 
 a little upon them, at propper lengths for the sticks, and they will 
 snap quickly while yet the stick will bend ; no color, no butter, 
 no lard or flitvor w used or need be, yet any oil can be used for 
 Bavoring, if debired, when poured out to cool. 
 
 Sugar left in molasses barrel^ works very nicely in this 
 preparation. Pulverized white sugar sprinkled amongst it 
 will prevent it from sticking together. 
 
 2 . Candy Perfectly White. — If it is desired to have 
 •candy that is perfectly white, proceed as follows: 
 
 Best co£fee sugar 2^ lbs ; the nicest symp li pts. ; boil very 
 ■carefully, until when tried as above, it crisps like egg shells, or 
 flies like glass ; then draw and work upon tnA hook until very 
 white. 
 
 8. Molasses Candy Without Svoak. — Forto-Rico molasses 
 boiled and worked as above, has a cream shade according to the 
 amount of pulling, and most persons prefer it to the mixture of 
 sugar and molasses, ao in the first, 
 
 4. Pop Ck}aM Balls.— Pop the corn, avbi<)i|i'g 'all thai is not 
 nicely opened ; place i bu. of the corn upon a table or in a large 
 drippiag pan ; put a little water in a suitable kettle with sugar 1 
 lb. ; and boil as for candy, until it becomes qnite waxy in water, 
 when tried as for candy ; then remove from the fire and dip into 
 it 6 to 7 table spoons of thick gum solutitfli, made by pouring 
 boiling water upon gum arable, over night, or some hours before ; 
 now dip the mixture upon different parts of the com, putting a 
 stick, or the hadds, under the com, lifting op and mixing until 
 the com is all saturated with candy mixture ; then with the 
 hands press the corn into l>alls, as the boys do snoW'halls, being 
 quick, lest it sets before you get through. 
 
 This amount will make about one hundred baOs, if prop- 
 erly done. White or brown sugar may be used. And for 
 variety, white sugar for a part, and molaasciB or synip for 
 another batch. Either of these are suited to street ped> 
 lars. 
 
 Action of Sugar or Cakdt on tub Tkkth. — M. Iiareaw 
 of France, in the course of his investigations on the teeth, 
 has arrived at the following conclusions . 
 
 First— That " refined sugar, either from cane or beet, is injuri- 
 ous to healthy teeth, either by immediate contact with these 
 organs, or by the gas developed, owing to the stoppage in the 
 
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 stomach. Second — that !f a tooth is mncerated in a saturated 
 solution of sugar, it is so much altered in the chemical compoiu- 
 tion that it becomes gelatinous, and its enamel opaque, spongy, 
 and easily broicen This modification is due not to free acid, but 
 to a t<^ndency of sugar to combine with the calcareous basis of the 
 teeth." 
 
 I Lave destroyed my own teeth, I have no doubt now, by 
 constantly eating candies, while in the grocery business, be- 
 fore I knew its injurious effecte, and I believe it to have 
 destroyed the first teeth of all my children which were born 
 during my candy-eating propensities. What say our candy 
 eating gentry to the above ? 
 
 LEMONADE" To Carry in the Pookbt.- -Loaf sugar 1 lb; rub 
 it down finely in a mortar, and add citric acid ^ oz; (tartaric 
 acid will do), and lemon essence ^ oz. and continue the trituration 
 until all is intimately mixed, and t>ottle for use. It is best to 
 dry the powders as mentioned in the Pc <uan Sherbet next 
 following: 
 
 A rounding tablespoon can be done up in a paper and 
 carried conveniently in the pocket when persons are going 
 into out-of-the-way places, and added to half pint of cold 
 water, when all the l)eautieB of a lemonade will stand before 
 you, waiting to be drank, not costing a penny a glass. This 
 can be made sweeter or more sour if desired. If any, how- 
 ever, should prefer an effervescing drink, they can follow the 
 directions given in the next recipe. 
 
 Pkbsian Shbbbbt. — Pulverized sugar 1 lb ; su/ier-carbonate of 
 soda 4 OZ4; tartaric acid 8 ozs; put all the articles into the 
 stove oven when moderately warm, being separate, upon paper 
 or plates, let them remain sufficiently long to dry out all diemnp- 
 ness absorbed from the air, then rub about 40 drops of lemon 
 oil (or if preferred, any other flavored oil,) thoroughly with the 
 sugar in a mortar — wedge-wood is the best — then add the soda 
 and acid, and continue the rubbing until all are thoroughly 
 mixed. , 
 
 Bottle and cork tight, for, if any degree of moi.sture is 
 permitted to reach it, the acid and soda neutralize each 
 other, and the virtue is thus destroyed. A middling sized 
 table-spoon or two teaspoons of this put into a hsuf pint 
 glass and nearly filled with water and quickly drank, makes 
 an flgieeable summer beverage ; and if three or four glasses 
 of it are taken within a short time, sa} an hour or two, it 
 has the effect of a gentle cathartic, hence for those habit- 
 
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 ually costive it would be found neivily or quite equal to tb& 
 
 seidliiz powder, and for child i en it would be the pleasantest 
 
 of the two. [The printers have tri3«i it, and c^n bear tes.ti- 
 
 mony to its good qualiMes.] 
 
 BEERS.— Riot Bkbe.— For each galU n of water to be iwed,. 
 take hops, burdock, yellow dock, sarsi |>i rilla, dande'ion, and 
 spikenard roots, bruised, of each A oz ; bxU about 20 minutes, 
 Mid strain while hot, add 8 or 10 drops -tf oils of spruce and 
 sassafrass mixed in equal proportions, when « >ol enough not to 
 toald your hand, put in 2 or 3 table-spoons Oi"y ^ast ; molasses § of 
 a pint, or white sugar J lb gives it about the r%ht sweetnesa 
 
 Keep these proportions for as many ga.lv is as you wish 
 to make. You can use more or less of il%\ roots to suit 
 your taste after trying it: it is best to get th v Iry roots, or 
 dig them and lot them get dry, and of courtt 'ou can add 
 any other root known to possess medicinal proyo 'ies desired 
 in the beer. After all is mixed, let it stand in » iar with a 
 cloth thrown over it, to work about two hours, tl en bottle 
 and set in a cool place. This is a ni>;e way to ith e altera- 
 tives, without taking medicine. And families o« ght to 
 make it every Spring, and drink freely of it for several 
 weeks, and thereby save, perhaps, several dollars in doctors* 
 bilk 
 
 2. Bprcci ob Aromatic Bkeh.— For 8 gals, water put in 1 qt. 
 and one ^ pt. molasses, 3 eggs well beaten, yeast 1 gill. Inv*;( 2 
 qta. of the water boiling hot put fifty drops of any oil you wuh 
 the flavor of ; or mix 1 ounce each, oils sassafras, spruce and w.U - 
 tergreea, then use 50 drops of the mixed oils. 
 
 Mix all, and strain ; let it stand two hours, then bottlet* 
 bearing in mind that yeast must not be put in when the 
 fluid would scald the hand. Boiling water cuts oil for beers, 
 equal to alcohol. 
 
 8. Lkmon Bkek. — Water 30 gals. ; ginger root bruised ozs. ; 
 cream of tartar \ lb. ; coffee sugar 13 lbs. ; oil of lemon 1 oa. ; or 
 ^ oz. of the oil may be ut>ed, and 6 good sized lemons, sliced ; 
 yeast 1| pts. 
 
 Boil the ginger and cream of tai-tar, about twenty to thirty 
 minutes, in two or three gallons of the water; then strain it 
 upon the sugar and oils or sliced lemons, which have bef?n 
 rubbed together, having warm water enough to make the 
 whole thirty gallons just so you can hold your hand in it 
 without burning, or about seventy degrees of heat; then 
 
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 work up the yeast into a paste, as for the cider, with fir© or 
 six ounces of flour. Let it work over night, skimming off the 
 veasf., or letting it work over an the cider, then strain and 
 bottle for use. This will keep fifteen or twentj days. The 
 Port Huronites think it a splendid drink. 
 
 4. GiNOEK Bkkr. — White sugar 6 Ibti ; lemon juice 1 gill; honey 
 ^ lb. ; ginger, bruiiied, 6 ozs. ; water 4^ gal8. 
 
 Boil the ginger thirty minutes in 3 quarts of the water; 
 theu add the other ingredients, and strain ; when cold, put 
 in the white of an egg, well beaten, ^ '*h one tea-spoon of 
 lemon essence — let stand four dayx, and bottle. It will 
 keep for months — much longer tlan if yeast was used ; the 
 honey, however, operates mildly in place of yeast. 
 
 6. Philadblfhia Bbbr — Water 80 gi%Ii. ; brown sugar 20 lbs.; 
 ginger, bruised, l\ \h».', cream of tarto,t \ lb.; super carbonate of 
 soda 8oz ; oil of lemon, cut in a little alcohol, 1 teaspoon; whites 
 of ^0 eggs, well beaten; hops 2 ob.; yeast 1 qt. 
 
 The ginger root and hops should be boiled twenty or 
 
 thirty minutes in enough of the water to make all milk 
 
 warm, then strained into the rest, and the yeast added and 
 
 allowed to work over night; skimmed and bottled. 
 
 6. PAnkT Oas Pbir —Ginger 2 out. ; allspice 1 os { cinna- 
 mon } 02. ; cloves \ oz. ; all bruised or ground ; molasses 2 qts. ; 
 cold water 7} gals. ; yeast 1 pt. 
 
 Boil the pulverized articles, for fifteen or twenly minutes, 
 in the molasses; then strain into your keg, and add the 
 water, then the yeast; shake it well together and bung 
 down» If made over night it will be ready for nse the next 
 day. There ought to be a little space in the keg not filled 
 with the beer. This beer is ahead of all the peps and min- 
 eral waters of the day, for flavor, health or sparkling quali- 
 tiei or speed in making. Be careful ypu do not burst the 
 keg. In hot weather, draw in a pitcher with ice. I have 
 •old this in the prinoipal towns of Ohio, Indiana and Mchi- 
 gan, traveling with a «aravan, and obtained two dollars for 
 the recipe of the man who kept the inside stand, and bluwed 
 the head out the first keg of it which he made. l 
 
 7. Corn Bbbr, Withovt Ybast.— Cold water 6 gals. ; sound 
 nice corn 1 qt. ; molasses 2 qts. ; put all into a k* g of this sise ; 
 ihi^e well, and in 2 or 8 days a fermentation will have bsen 
 brought on as nicely as with yeast. Keep it bunged tight. 
 
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 bung 
 
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 filled 
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 lis size; 
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 It may \)e flavored with oils of spruce or lemon, if desired, 
 by pouring on to the oils one or two quarts of the wnter, 
 boiling hot. The coin will last five or six makinjrs. It it 
 gets too sour add mom molasses and water in the same pro- 
 portions. It is cheap, healthy, and no bother with yeast. 
 
 6. Stoonq Brat. Enoush Improved. —Malt 1 peck ; coarse 
 brown sugar 6 lbs ; AoTps 4 oz.; good 3'eaflt 1 tea-cup; if you have 
 not malt, take a littie over one pectc of barley (twice the amount 
 of oats will do, but are not as KtMxi,) and put it into an oven after 
 the bread is drawn, or into a stove oven, and steam the moisture 
 from them. Grind coarHcly. 
 
 Now pour upon the fpround malt 8j[ f;als. of water at 170 or 
 172 ® of heat. The tub in which you scald ttte malt should have 
 a false bottom, two or three inches from the real bottom; the false 
 bottom should be bored full of gimlet holes, so an to act as a 
 strainer, to ke<'p back the mult meal. When the water is {wured 
 on, stir them well, and let it 'stand 8 hours, and draw off by a 
 faucet; put in 7 gals, more of water at 180 to 182 ' ; stir it well, 
 and let it stand 2 hours, and draw it off. Then put on a gal. or 
 two of cold water, stir it well and draw it off; youshnud have 
 about 5 or 6 gals. Put the Olbs. of coarse brown sugar in an 
 equal amount of water; mix with the wort, and boil 1^ to 2 hours 
 with the hops ; you should have eight gals, when b<>iled ; 
 when cooled to 80 '^ put in the yeast, and let it work 18 to 20 
 hours, covered with a sack ; use sound iron hoi)ped kegs or porter 
 bottles, bung or cork tight, and in two weeks it will be good 
 sound beer, and will keep a long time; and for persons of a weak 
 habit of body, and especially females, one glass of thiK with their 
 meals is far better than tea or coffee, or all the ardent spirits in 
 the universe. If more malt is used, not exceeding ^ a bushel, the 
 beer, of course, would have more spirit, but this strength is suffi- 
 cient for the use of families or invalids. 
 
 9, Alb, Homk-Brewbd — How it'w Madr . — The follow- 
 ing formula for the manufacture of a famous horae-bre «ved ale 
 of the English yeomanry, will convey a very clear idea of 
 the components and mixture of ordmary ale«. The middle 
 classes of the English people usually make their ale in 
 quantities of two barrels, that is seventy-two gallons. 
 
 For this purpose a quarter of malt (8 bus.) is obtained at th* 
 malt-houHe — or, if wished to be extra strong, niue bushels o' 
 i-Qalt— are ttken, with bops, 12 lbs.; yeast, 5 qts. 
 
 The maU., being crusher! or groun.d is mixed with 72 gals, of 
 water at the temperature of 160 =• , and covered up for 3 hours, 
 when 40 gallons are drawn off, into wuiuh the hops are put, 
 and left to infuse. Mxty gallons of water at a temperature 
 of 170'=' are then added to the malt in the mash-tub, and welt 
 
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 DR. CHABE's recipes. 
 
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 mixed, and after standing 2 hours, sixty gallons are drawn off'. 
 The wort from thene two mashes is boiled ivith the hops for two 
 hours, and after being cooled down to t36*^, is strained through a 
 flannel bug into a fermenting tub, where it is mixed with the 
 yeast and left to worli for 24 or 30 hours. It is then run into 
 barrels to cleanse, a few gallons Y-ilng reberved for filling up the 
 casks as the yeast works over. 
 
 Of course when the yenst is worked out it must be bunged. 
 If one half a pint of this was taiien each meal by luen, and 
 half that amount by females, and no other spirits, tea nor 
 ■coffee, during the day, I hesitate not in saying that I firmly 
 believe it would conduce to health. I know that thiB,which 
 a man makes himself, or some of the wines mentioned in 
 this work, home-made, are all that any person ought to allow 
 themselves to use in these days when dollars and cents are 
 the governing influences of all who deal in such articles. 
 
 10. PoRTKB, Ale, or Wink, to Prkvbnt Flatness in 
 
 Parts of Bottles for the Invalid. — Sick persons who 
 
 are recommended to use ale, porter, or wine, and can 'only 
 
 take a small glass at a time, nearly always find the last of 
 
 the bottle flat or stale. 
 
 To prevent this, put in the cork firmly, and turn the cork-end 
 downwards in a large tumbler or other vessel nearly filled with 
 water. 
 
 This plan prevents communication with the external air. 
 
 11. Cream Nbotar, iMPBEi.vr-.— First, take water 1 gal; loaf 
 jiugar 8 lbs. tartaric acid 8 oz; gum arable 1 oz* put into a suitable 
 kettle and place on the fire. 
 
 Second, take flour 4 teaspoons; the whites of 4 eggs well 
 beaten together with the flour, and add water ^ pt; when the 
 first is blood warm put in the second, and boil three minutes, and 
 it is done. 
 
 Directions: Three tablespoons of the syrup to a glass 
 half or two-thirds full of water, and one third teaspoon of 
 super carbonate of soda, made fine; stir well, and drink at 
 your leisure. 
 
 jj^" In getting up any of the soda drinks which are 
 spoken of, it will be found preferable to put about eight 
 ounces of super-carbonate, often called carbonate of soda, 
 into one pint of water in a bottle, and shake when you 
 wish to make a glass of soda, and pour off this into the glass 
 until it foams well, instead of using the dry^ soda as directed. 
 
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 12. Ginger Pop. — Water 5J gals.; gingor root, brni«ed, J lb; 
 tartaric acid } oz ; white Biigur 2J lbs ; white> of 8 eggn, well 
 Iseaten; lemon oil 1 ten-Hpoon; yea«t 1 gill. 
 
 Boll the root for thirty mil utes in one gallon of the 
 water, strain off, and put the oil in while hot; mix. Make 
 over night, and in the morning Bkira and bottle, keeping 
 out sediments. 
 
 13. Spanish GiNOKErm.— To each gal. Of water put 1 lb. of 
 white sugar; ^ oz. best bruised ginger root; \ oz. of cream of 
 tartar, and 2 lemons sliced. 
 
 DiBKCTioNS : In making 5 gals, boil the ginger and lemons lO* 
 minutei* in 2 gals, of the water; the sugar and cream of tartar to 
 be dissolved in the cold water, and mix all, -and add ^ pint of 
 good ^east; let it fern«c^6 over night, strain and bottle in the 
 morning. 
 
 This is a valuable recipe for a cooling and refreshing bev* 
 erage; compounded of ingredients highly calculated to 
 assist the stomach, and is recoramen led to pei'sons suffering 
 with Dyspepsia or Sick Headache. It is much used in Eu- 
 ropean countries, and pei'sons having once tested its virtues 
 will constantly use it as a common drirk. And for saloons, 
 or groceries, no temperance beverage will set it aside. 
 
 14. Sham-Champagne.- A Purely Tbmpebancb Drink. — Tartaric 
 acid 1 oz.; one good sized lemon; ginger root 1 oz. ; white sugar 
 1^ lbs.; water 2^ gals ; yeast 1 gill. 
 
 Slice the lemon, and bruize the ginger, mix all, except the 
 yeast, boil the water and pour it upon them and let stand until 
 cooled to blood heat ; then odd the yeast and let it stand in the 
 sun through the day; at night, bottle, ticing the corks, and in 2 
 days it will be fit to use. - Mrs. Btecher. 
 
 Be sure and not drink over three or four bottles at one 
 time. 
 
 YEASTS — Hop Yeast.— Hops 1 oz.; water 8 pts.; flour 1 tea- 
 cup.; brown sugar 1 table-spoon; salt 1 teaspoon; brewers' or 
 bakers' yeast 1 gill. 
 
 Boil the hops twenty minutes in the water, strain into a 
 jar, and stir in the flour, sugar, and salt, and when a little 
 cool add the yeast, and after four or five houre cover up, 
 and stand in a cool place or on the ice for u^e. 
 
 The above makes a good family yeast, but the following 
 is the regular bakers' yeast, as they always keep the malt on 
 hand. 
 
 
 
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 2. Bakkhs' YKAST.^Hops 2 oz. ; water 1 gal. ; wheat floor 2 
 lbs. ; m lit flour 1 pt. ; stock yeast J pt. 
 
 Boil the hops for thirty minutes in the water, strain, and 
 let cool until you can well bear your hand in it; then stir 
 in the flour and yeast; keep in a wai-m place until the fer- 
 mentation is well under way, and then let it work in a cooler 
 place six or eight hours, when it should be put in pint bot- 
 tles about half full, and closely corked and tied down. By 
 keeping this in a vaiy cool cellar, or ice house, it will keep 
 for months, fit for use. But as it is ( ften troublesome to 
 obtain yeast to start with, I give you the " Distillers' Jug 
 Yeast," starting without yeast. 
 
 8. Jog YEA-rr, Wit'iout Ybast to Start With. — Hops ^ lb. ; 
 water 1 gal ; flue malt flour J pt. ; brown sugar ^ lb. 
 
 Boil the hops in the water until quite strong, strain, and 
 stir in the malt flour ; and strain again through a coarse cloth, 
 and boil again for ten minutes; when lukewarm, stir in the 
 sugar, and place in a jug, keeping it at the same tempera- 
 ture until it works over; then cork tight, and keep in a 
 cool place. 
 
 4. Yea8T Cake. —Good sized potatoes 1 doz. ; hops 1 large 
 handful ; yeat»t ^ pt. ; corn meal sufficient quantity. 
 
 Boil the potatoes, after peeling, and rub them through a 
 cullender ; boil the hops in i wo quarts of water, and strain 
 into the potatoes; then scald sufficient Indian meal to make 
 them the consistence of emptyings, and stir in the yeast and 
 let rise ; then, with unscalded meal, thicken so as to roll 
 out and cut into cakes, dry quickly, at first, to prevent 
 iouring. They keep better, and soak up quicker, than if 
 male with flour. 
 
 ICE CREAM. —Fresh cream J gal.; rich milk ^ gal.; white 
 Bugc>r 1 lb ; some do use as much as 2 lbs. of sugar to the gal- 
 lon, yet it leaves an unpleasant astringency in the throat after 
 eating the cream, but please yourbelves. 
 
 Dissolve the sugar in the mixture, flavor with extract to suit 
 your taste, or take the peel from a freeh lemon and steep one- 
 half of it in as little water as you can, and add this— it makes 
 the lemon flavor l)etter than the extract — and no flavor will so 
 univer^lly please as the lemon ; keep the same proportion for 
 any amount desired. The juice of strawberrie** or raspberries 
 gives a beautiful color and flavor to ice creams ; or about ^ oz. 
 
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 of essence or extracts to a gallon, or to suit the taste. Have your 
 ice well b'oken ; 1 qt. salt to a bucket of ice. 
 
 About half an hour's constant stirring and occasional 
 
 scraping down and beating together, will freeze it. The 
 
 old-faahioned freezer which turns in a tub of ice, makes 
 
 smooiher and nicer ice-cream than all the patent freezers I 
 
 have seen ; and tlie plan of using the genuine cream and r \ 
 
 gives sufficient profit; but I will give you the best substitutes 
 
 there are, in the following recipe, hnt the less you eat of 
 
 either the better will it be for your health. 
 
 2. loB Cream, Vhrt Chbap. — Milk 6 qts. ; Oswego corn starch 
 half a pound. , 
 
 Fii-st dissolve the starch in one quart of the milk, then 
 mix all together and jast simmer a little (not to boil). 
 Sweeten and flavor to suit your taste, as above ; o** — 
 
 8. Irish moss 1^ ots.; milk 1 gal. 
 
 First soak the moss in a little cold water for an hour, and 
 rinse well to clear it of sand and a certain peculiar taste ; then 
 steep it for an hour in the milk just at the boiling point, but not 
 to boil ; it imparts a rich color and flavor without eggs or cream. 
 The moss may be steeped twice. ^ 
 
 It is the Chicago plan. I have eaten it and know ft to 
 be very nice. A few minutes rubbing, at the end of freez- 
 ing, with the spatula, against the side of the freezer, gives 
 ice cream a smoothness not otherwise obtained. 
 
 WINES. — Currant, CnKRRY, and other Berry 
 Wines. — The juice of either of the above fruits can be 
 used alone, or in combinations to make a variety of flavors, 
 or suit persons who have some and not the other kinds of 
 fruit. 
 
 Express all the juice you can, then take an equal amount of 
 boiling water and pour on ihe p-essed fruit, let stand two hours, 
 squeeze out as much as there is of juice, and mix, then add 4 lbs. 
 of brown sugar to each gallon of the mixture; let stand until 
 worked, or 3 or 4 weeks, without a buns: in a keg or barrel, 
 simply putting a piece of gauze over the bung-hole to keep out 
 flies ; when it is done woiking, bung it up. 
 
 A cool cellar, of course ' the best place for keeping 
 wines, as they must be kept where they will not freeze. 
 Some persons use only one-fourth juice, in making fruit 
 wines, and three-fourths water, but you will bear in mind 
 
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 that the wine will be good or bad. just in proportion to the 
 water and sugar used. If care is taken when you express 
 the juice, to prevent the pulp or seeds from entering or re- 
 maining in the juice, no other straining or racking will be 
 needed. Most persons also recommend putting in brandy, 
 but if any spirit is used at all, let it be pure alcohol, frpm one 
 gill to one-half pint only per gallon, but the strength of 
 juice I recommend, and the amount of sugar, remove all 
 necessity for any addition of spirit whatever. Bear in mind 
 that all fruit of which you are to make wine ought to be 
 perfectly ripe, and then make it as soon as possible there- 
 after, not letting the juice ferment before the addition of 
 the sugar. If bottled, always lay them on the side. 
 
 % Rhubarb, or English Patent Wink. — An agree- 
 able and healthful wine is made from the expressed juice 
 of the garden rhubarb. 
 
 To each giil. of juice, add 1 gal, of soft water, in which 7 lbs. of 
 brown sugar has been dissolved; fill a keg or a barrel with this 
 proportion, leaving the bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened 
 water as it works over, until clear; then bung down or bottle as 
 yon desire. 
 
 These stocks will furnish about three-fourths their weight 
 in juice, or from sixteen hundred to two thousand gallons 
 of wine to each acre of well cultivated plfints. Fill the bar- 
 rels and let them stand until spring, and bottle, as any wine 
 will bd better in glass or stone. 
 
 *3, Some persons give Mr. Gaboon, of Kenosha, Wis., 
 credit for originating pie-plant wine, but that is a »nistake; 
 it has long been maile in England, and has even bete pa- 
 tented in that country. They first made it by the following 
 directions, which also makes a very nice article, but more 
 Ai)plical»le for present use than for keeping. 
 
 For every 4 lbs of the stocks cut fine, pour on 1 gaV vf bo'Ilng 
 water, adding 4 lbs. of brown sugai; let stand covered i:i aonrs; 
 Laving also -'dded a little cinnamon, allspice, cloves and nutmeg, 
 1[)ruici€«l, as may be desired for flavoring; then strain and let work 
 a few days, and bottle. 
 
 4. Tomato Wine. — Express the juice from clean, ripe tomatoes. 
 «nd to each gallon of it, (without any water,) put brown sugar 4 
 lbs. 
 
 Put in the nugar immediately, or before fermentation 
 
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 begins — tliis ought to be done in making any fruit wine. 
 Something of the character of a chease press, hoop and 
 cloth, is the best plan to squeeze out the juice of tomatoes 
 or other fruits. Let the wine stand in a keg or barrel for 
 two or three months; then draw off into bottles, carefully 
 avoiding the sedrmenl. It makes a most delightful, wine, 
 having all tha beauties of flavor belonging to the tomato, 
 and I have no doubt all its medicinal properties also, either 
 as a tonic in disease, or as a beverage for those who are in 
 the habit of using intoxicating beverages, and if such per- 
 sons would have the good sense to make some wine of this 
 kind, and use it instead of rot-gut whisky, there would not 
 be one-hundredth part of the " snakes in the boot" that now 
 curi*e our land. It must be tasted to be appreciated. I 
 have it now, which is three years old, worth more than 
 much pretended wine which is sold for three or four shillings 
 a pint. 
 
 5. Tomato Cultivation, foe Early and Latb. —The Working 
 Farmn S'lys of the tomato plant : "That it bears 80 per cent of 
 its fruit within 18 inches of the ground, while more than half 
 the plant is above that part. When the branches are cut they do 
 not bleed, and they may therefore te shortened immediatoly above 
 the large er early setting fruit. 
 
 •' The removal of the small fruit on the ends of the 
 branches is no loss, for the lower fruit will swell to an un- 
 natural size by trimming, and both a greater Weight and 
 measure of fruit will be the consequence, besides obtaining a 
 large portion five to fifteen days earlier, The tiimraing 
 should be done so as to have a few leaves beyond the fruit, 
 to insure pei-fect ripening. The importance of early manur- 
 ing is too evident to need comment. The burying of the 
 removed leaves immediately around the plant is a good 
 practice, both by insuring fuli disturbance of the soil, and 
 by the presenting of a fertilizer progressed precisely to the 
 point of fruit making. The portions buried decay rapidly, 
 and are rapidly assimilated." If wanted very early and 
 large, trim off all except two or three upon each plant. 
 
 6. To ripen late tomatoes, pull the plants having green toma- 
 toes on them, before the commencement of frosts, and hang them 
 in a well ventilated cellar. 
 
 The fruit will continue to ripen until early winter, espe- 
 cially if the cellar is cool and damp. ' ' 
 
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 V. The Tomato As Food. — Dr. Bennett, a professor of 
 
 some celebrity, considei's the tomato an invaluable article of 
 
 diet, and ascribes to it various important medical properties. 
 
 First — that the tomato is one of the most powerful aperient* for 
 the liver and other organs; where cal(/mel is indicated, it is proba- 
 bly one of the most effective and least harmful remedial agents 
 Itnown to the profession. Second -that a chemical extract will be 
 obtained from it that will supercede the use of calomel in the cure 
 of disease. Third— ih.9X he has successfully treated Diarrhoea 
 with this article alone. Fourth — that when used as an article of 
 diet, it is an almost sovereign remedy for Dyspepsia and indiaestion. 
 Fifth — that it should be constantly used for daily food, either 
 cooked or raw, or in the form of ca chup; it is the most healthy 
 article now in use. 
 
 Knowing personally the value of the tomato in disease, 
 for food and wine, I freely give all the information regard- 
 ing it which I can, that others may make as free use of it 
 as health and economy demand, consequently, I give you 
 the next item, which I have learned just as the type were 
 being set, upon this subject in i860. 
 
 8. Tomatoes a«j Food for Cattle. — Mr. Davis, the 
 editor of the " Michigan State News," Ann Arbor, Mich., 
 says, " that he has fed his cow, this season, at least ten 
 bushels of tomatoes." 
 
 His plan is to mix a little bran with them (3 qts. to a half- 
 bushel of tomatoes, when fed;) they cause an excellent flow of 
 rich and delicious milk. 
 
 He did not think of it until after the frosts, when ob- 
 serving them going to waste, he thought to see if she would 
 eat them, which she did freely, from the commencement. I 
 have also known pigs to eat them, but this is not common. 
 In 1862, I found my cow to eat them as freely as spoken of 
 by Mr. Davis. 
 
 9. Wink, from White Currants. — Kipe, white currants, any 
 quantity; squeeze out the juice, and put on water to get out as 
 much more as there is of the juice, and mix the two, and to each 
 gallon put Z\ lbs. of sugar; let it work without boiling or skim- 
 ming for 2 or 8 months, then rack off and bottle. 
 
 The white currant has less acidity than the red, and does 
 not require as much sugar. I have never tasted currant 
 wine equal to this. 
 
 10. GiNQER Wink — Alcohol of 98 per cent. 1 qt.; best ginger 
 
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 root, bruised, 1 oz.; uiyenne 5 gre ; tartaric acid 1 dr. ; let stand 
 1 week and filter, or draw off by faucet above the sediment. 
 Now add 1 gal. of water in which 1 lb. of crushed sugar has 
 been boiled. Mix when cold. To mulce the color, boil ^ oz. of 
 cochineal, J oz. of crca n of tartar, J oz of saleratus, and J oz. 
 of alum, in 1 pt. of water until you got a bright red color, and 
 use a proper amount of this to bring the wine to the desired 
 color. 
 
 This wine is suitable for nearly all the purposes for which 
 any wine is used, and a gallon of it will not cost more than 
 a pint of many wines sold tliroughout the country for med* 
 icinal purposes, represented to be imported from Europe* 
 Let a man, suffering with a bad cold, drink about half a 
 pint of this wine hot, on going to bed, soaking his feet at 
 the same time in hot water fifteen or twenty minutes, and 
 coveiing up warm and sweating it out until morning, then 
 washing off bis whole body with cool or cold water, by 
 means of a wet towel, and rubbing briskly with a coarse dry 
 towel for four or fives minutes, will not be able to find his 
 cold or^any bad effects of it in one case out of a hundred. 
 Ladies or childien would take less in proportion to age and 
 strength. Females in a weakly condition, with little or no 
 appetite, and spare in flesh, from food not properly vligest* 
 ing, but not yet ripened into actual indigestion, will find 
 almost entire relief by taking half a wine-glass of this wine 
 twenty minutes before meals, and following it up a month 
 or two, according to their improved condition. For family 
 use it is just as good without color, as with it. 
 
 11. Blaokbeary Wink. — Mash the l)errie8, and pour 1 qt. of 
 boiling water to each gal. ; let the mixture stand 24 hours, stir- 
 ring occasionally; then strain and measure into a keg, adding 2 
 lbs. of sugar, and good rye whisky 1 pt., or best alcohol J pt. to 
 
 each pral. 
 
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 Cork tight, and let it stand until the following Octoberi 
 and you will have wine fit for use, without further strnining 
 or boiling, that will make lips smack as they never smacked 
 under its influence before. 
 
 I feel assured that where this fruit is plenty, that this 
 wine should lake the place of all others, as it is invaluable 
 in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is better for bowel dis- 
 ease. I therefore give the recipe for making it, and having 
 tried it myself, I speak advisedly on the subject. 
 
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 The Dollar Times, Cincinnati, 0., first published this 
 recipe, not using any 8pirit<«, but I find that it will often 
 sour without it. 
 
 12. Lawton Blackrerry — Its Cultivation. — An edi- 
 tor at Coldwater, Mich., says of this fruit: ♦* That where it 
 is best known it is one of the most popular small fruits that 
 has ever been cultivated. It has been known to produce 
 over one thousand full-grown ripe berries in one season on a 
 single stalk; the average size of fruit being from three- 
 fourths to one and a half inches in diameter; quality excel- 
 lent, very juicy, seeds veiy small, and few in number. Five 
 quarts of berries will make one gallon of juice, which, 
 mixed with two gallons of water and nine pounds of refined 
 sugar, will make three gallons of wine, equal in quality to 
 the best grape wine. Professor Mapes, and many othei-s, 
 who have tested the qualities of the same as a wine fruit, 
 speak of it in terms of the highest praise. 
 
 13. Port Wine —Fully ripe wild grapes 2 bu. ; best alcohol 3 
 gals. ; sugar 26 lbs. ; water to fill a barrel. 
 
 Mash the grapes without breaking the seed; then put 
 them into a barrel with the sugar and alcohol, and fill up 
 with rain water, and let it lie a few weeks in the sun; or if 
 the weather has become cold, in a warm place, then in the 
 cillar until spring; then rack off and bottle, or place in per- 
 fectly clean kegs or barrels, and you have a better article 
 than nine-tenths of what is represented as imported Port. 
 
 14. Cider Wine. — Prof. Horsford, a celebrated chemist, 
 communicated the following recipe to the Horticultural 
 Society of Massachusetts, and recommends it for general 
 trial : 
 
 " Let the new cider from sour apples (ripe, sound fruit preferred) 
 ferment from one to three weeks, as the weather is warm or cool. 
 When it has attained to a lively fermentation add to each gallon, 
 according to its acidity, from ^ a lb. to 2 lbs. of white 
 crushed sugir, and let the whole ferment until it possesses pre- 
 cisely the taste which it is desiied should be permanent. In this 
 condition pour out a quart of the cider, and add for each gallon 
 Joz. of m'phite of lime, not sulphate. Stir the powder and cider 
 until intimately mixed, and return the emulsion to the ferment- 
 ing liquid. Agitate briskly and thoroxighly for a few moments, 
 and then let the cider gettle. Fermentation will cease at once 
 
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 When, after a few days, the cider has become clear, draw off care- 
 fully, to avoid the sediment, and bottle. If loosely corked, which 
 is better, it will become a sparkling cider wine, and may be kept 
 indefinitely long. 
 
 Thift has been tned with varied success; those who do not 
 think it too much to follow the directions, obtain a good 
 article, but others, supposing it to do just as well without 
 sugar, or drawing off, or bottling, have found but little sat- 
 isfaction—they have no reason to expect any; and yet they 
 might be well satisfied to obtain a good wine from the 
 orchard, even with all the above requisitions. 
 
 15. Gkapb Wine.—" Ripe, freshly picked, and selected, 'i»me 
 grapes, 20 lbs.' put them into a stone jar and pour over them 6 
 qts. of boiling soft water; when sufficiently cool to allow it, you 
 will squeeze them thoroughly with the hand; after which allow 
 them to stand 8 days on the pomace with a cloth thrown over 
 the jar, then squeeze out the juice and add 10 lbs. of nice crushed 
 flugar, and let it remain a week longer in the jar; then take off 
 the scum, strain and bottle, leaving a vent, until done fermenting, 
 when strain again aud bottle tight, and lay the bottles on the side 
 in a cool place." 
 
 This wine is the same as used by the Rev. Orrin Whit- 
 more, of Saline, Mich., for sacramental purposes. I have 
 tasted it myself, and would prefer it for medicinal usea to 
 nine-tenths gf the wines sold in this country. "With age, it 
 18 nice. I am of the opinion that it might ju8t as well re- 
 main n the jar un'.il it is desired to bottle, and thus save the 
 trouble of the extra straining. For I have now wir >, four 
 years old in my cellar, made in Evansville, Ind., from the 
 grape, which was made without the additi'^n of any partick 
 of matter whatever. Simply, the juice pi .^sed out, hauled 
 in from the vinery, put into very large casks in a cool cellar, 
 'not even racked off again und- r one year fi-om the time of 
 making. It tastes exactly like the grape itself; this, yoa 
 will perceive, saves much trouble in racking, straining, &c. 
 I am told bv other wine makers also, that if care is observed 
 when the juice is pressed out to keep clear of the pomace, 
 that wine is better to stand without racking or straining, 
 and that nothing is found in the barrels, after the firet year, 
 save the crude tai-tar or w ue-stone, as some call it, which all 
 grape wine deposites on the sides of the cask. These wines 
 are every way appropriate for sacramental and medicinal 
 
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 purpopes, and far more pure than can be purcliasecl once in 
 a hundred times, and if one makes their own, they have the 
 satisfaction of knowing that their wines are not made of 
 what is vulgarly, yet truly called, *' Rot gut whisky. " 
 
 .16. CoriORiNQ FOB WiNB3. — White sugar 1 lb. ; water 1 gill; 
 '^t in*'.o an iron kettle, let boil, and burn to a red black, and 
 thick ; remove from the fire and add a little hot water to keep it 
 from hardening as it cools ; then bottle for use. 
 
 Any of the foregoing wines can be colored with this, as 
 desired, but for family use I never use any color. 
 
 17.. Stomach Bitters, Equal to Hostbtters', fob Onb-Foubth 
 ITS Cost, and Schiedam Schnapps Exposed - -European Gentian 
 root 1 1-2 oz. ; orange peel 2 1-2 oz. ; cinnamon 1-4 oz. ; anise 
 seed 12 oz. ; coriander seed 1-2 oz ; cardamon seed 1-8 oz ; un- 
 ground Peruvinn bark 1-2 oz. ; gum kino 1-4 oz. ; bruise all tbese 
 articles, and put them into the best alcohol 1 pt. ; let it stand a 
 week and pour off the clear tincure ; then boil the dregs a few 
 minutes in 1 qt. of water, strain and ^VKsi out all the strength , 
 now dissolve loaf sugar 1 lb., in the 'lot liquid, adding 3 qts. 
 cold water, ad mix wfth the spirit tincture first poured oflF, or you 
 can add these, and let it stand on the dregs if preferred. 
 
 18. NOTE. — Schiedam Schnapps, Falsely so Called. — It is 
 generally known that in Schiedam, Holland, they make the best 
 quality of Gin. calling it "Schiedam Schnapps," consequently it 
 might be expected that unprincipled men would undertake its 
 imitation ; but hardly could it have been expected that so base an 
 imitation would start into existence under the guidance of a man^ 
 who, at least, calls himself honorable. 
 
 Take gentian root 1-4 lb. ; orange peel 1-4 lb. ; puds 1-2 lb.; 
 (but if this last cannot be obtained, poma aurantior, unripe 
 oranges,) or agaric 1-4 lb. : best galangal 1-4 lb. ; centaury 1-4 
 lb, — cost $1 20. Put pure spirits, 10 gals., upon them and let 
 them stand 2 weeks ; stir it every day and at the end of that time 
 put three gallons of this to one barrel of good whisky ; then bot- 
 tle and label ; and here follows the label : 
 
 AROMATIC SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS, a Suprelativb Tonic, 
 Diuretic, Anti-Dyspeptic, and Invigorating Cordial. — This Med- 
 ical Beverage is manufactured at Schiedam, in Holand, and is 
 warranted free from every injurious property and ingredient, ard 
 of the best possib' quality. 
 
 Its extraordinary medi inal prop3rtie8 in Gravel, Gout, Chronic 
 Rheumatism Incipient Dropsy, Flatulency, Colic Pains of the 
 Stomach or Bowels, whether in adults or infants. In all ordi- 
 nary cases of obstruction in the Kidneys, Bladder, and Urinary 
 organs, in Dyspepsia, whether Acute or Chronic, in general 
 Debility, sluggish Circulation of the Blood, Inadequate Assimi- 
 
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 latioQ of Food, and Exhausted Vitnl Energy, are acknowled by the 
 whole Medical Facnlty, and attested iu their highest written 
 authorities. " 
 
 I purchased the foregoing recipe of an extensive dealer in 
 Evansville, Ind.; ho put up the stuff in quart bottles, and labeled 
 it as I have shown you ; his label was got up in splendid style, 
 bronzed letters, and sent out to the world as pure " Schiedam 
 Schnapps" at $1 per bottle. 
 
 1 have given you the whole thing, that the thouaandfl into 
 whose hands this book may fall shall know what confidence, or 
 that no confidence whatever, can be placed in the "Advertised 
 Nostrums" of the day, but that the only security we have is to 
 make our own or go to those whom we know to be scientific. 
 Obtain their prencription, and follow thtir cnunsel. Every person 
 knows that retd Holland Gin possesses diuretic and other valuable 
 properties ; and who would not suppose he was getting a genuine 
 atticle from this Flaming, Brome-crested Label, pointing out especi* 
 ally all the complaints that Schiedam-lover a are wont to complain of I 
 And yet not one drop of Kin to a barrel of it. And my excuse for 
 this expomre is that thty and all who may have an occasion to use 
 such articles may know that " good whisky" ought to be afforded 
 at less than $4 per gallon, even if $1 20 worth of bitter tonics are 
 put into 8^ barrels of the precious stuff. 
 
 Then take our advice where gin or other liquor is needed, as 
 mentioned in the first recipe in the Medical Department. 
 
 "^ MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 I would give an introductory word of Caution in this 
 Department. 
 
 Whenever you buy an article of medicine which is not 
 regularly labeled by the Druggist, have him, in all cases, 
 write the name upon it. In this way you will not only save 
 money, but perhaps life. Ai-senic, phosphorus, laudanum, 
 acids, <fec., should always be put where children cannot get 
 at them. And always purchase the best quality of drugs to 
 insure success. 
 
 ALCOHOL — Iir Medicines, Preferable to Brandt, 
 Rum, or Gin, of the Present Day. — There is no one 
 thing doing so much to bolster up the tottering yet strong 
 tower of Intemperance, as the old Fogy Physicians, who 
 are constantly prescribing these articles to their patient*, 
 
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 and one-half of the reason for it is to cover the faults of 
 their own constant use of these beverages. This unneces- 
 sary call for these articles thus used as a medicine, keeps up 
 a largo demand ; and when we take into consideration the 
 almost impossibility of obtaining a genuine article, the sin 
 of prescribing them becomes so much the greater, when it 
 is also known by all really scientific men that with alcohol 
 (which is pure) and the native fruit wines, cider, and cider 
 wines, (which every one can make for themselves, and can 
 thus know their purity,) that all the indications desired to 
 bo fulfilled in curing disease can be accompliBhed without 
 their use. 
 
 Then, when it is deemed advisable to use spirits to preserve 
 any bitters or syrups from souring, instead of 1 qt. of brandy, 
 mm or gin, use the best alcohol ^ pt., with about 2 or 3 ozs. of* 
 cruBhed sngar for this amount, increasing or lessening according 
 to the amount desired in these proportions. If a diurettc sflFect is 
 desired, which is calculattd to arise where gin is p*-c8cribed, 
 put 1 dr. of oil of juniper into the alcohol befoie reducing with 
 the water : or if the preparation admits of it you may put in 
 from I to 2 02s., of juniper berries instead of the oil. If tlie aa- 
 tringent effect is desired, as from brandy, use, say, \ oz. of gum 
 kino or catchu, either, or a half of each may be used. If the 
 tweating or opening properties are required, as indicated by the 
 prescription of rum, sweeten with molasses in place of the sugar, 
 and uite 1 dr of oil of caraway, or 1 to 2 oas. of the seed for the 
 above amount, as the junip r berries for gin. 
 
 If the strength of wine only is desired, use 1 qt. of the ginger 
 wine, or if that flavor is not fancied, use uuy other of the wines a»- 
 preferred by the patient. 
 
 But no one should use any of the descriptions of alcohol as a 
 constant beverage, even in medicine, unless advised to do so by a 
 physician who is not himself a toj.er. 
 
 If families will follow the directions above given, and 
 use proper care in making some of the various fruit wines 
 as given in this book for medical use, preparing cider, <fec., 
 which is often used in prescriptions, they would seldom, if 
 ever, be obliged to call for the pretended pure brandies, 
 rums, gins, &c , of commerce and intemperance would die a 
 natural death for want of support. 
 
 And you will please allow me here *x) correct a common 
 error, with regard to the presence of alcohol in wines. It 
 is generally supposed that wine made from fruit, without 
 putting some kinds of spirits into it, does not contain any 
 
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 alcohol ; but a greater miRtalce does not exist id the world. 
 Any fruit, the juice of which will not pass into the vinous 
 fermentation by which alcohol is produced, will not make 
 wine at all; distillation will produce brandy or alcohol froio 
 any of these fermented liquors. 
 
 There is no wine of aqy note, containing less than 10 parts of 
 alcohol to 100 parts of the wine; and from that amount up to 2^^ 
 parts; currant 20J; go«)8el)erry 11^; cider from 6 to 9 parts; porter 
 4J; even smnl* beer IJ parts or qts. to 100 qts. 
 
 So it will be seen that" every quart of fruit wine not made 
 for medicine, or sacramental purposes, helps to build up the 
 cause (intemperance) which we all so much des-ire not to 
 encourage. And for thos^ who take any kind of spirits for 
 the take of the spirit, let me give you the following : 
 
 2. Spiritual Facts. — That whiskey is the key by 
 which many gain entrance inio our prisons and almshouses. 
 
 3 . That brandy brands the noses of al! those who cannot 
 govern their appetites. 
 
 4. That punch is the cause of many «n-friendly punches. 
 
 5. That ale causes many ailinys, while heer brings to the 
 bier, 
 
 6. That i?tnc causes many to take a winding way home. 
 v. That cAom-pagne is the source of many real pains, 
 
 8. That gin sh'ngs have ''slewed^^ more than slings of 
 old:' 
 
 AGUE MEDICINES.— Dr. Kriedbh's Pills.— Quinine 20gr8.; 
 Dover's powders 10 grs. ; sub-carbonate of irou 10 grs. ; mix with 
 mucilage of gum arable and form into 20 pills. Dose— Two each 
 hour, commencing 5 hours before the chill should set in Then 
 take one night and morning, until all are taken. 
 
 I cured myself of Ague with this pill after having it hang 
 on to me for three yeare with all the common remedies of 
 the day, five weeks being the longest I could keep it oflf^ 
 until I obtained the above pill. This was before I had 
 stu'^'id medicine. I have cured many others with it also, 
 never having to repeat the dose only in one case. 
 
 In attacks of Ague, it is best to take an active cathartic 
 immediately after the first ' fit,' unless the bowels are lax, 
 which is not generally the case, and by the time the cathar- 
 tic has worked off well, you will be prepared to go ahead 
 with the * cure ' as soon as you know its periodical return. 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 2. For very yonnK chiUhen, nothing iti l)6tt6r than 6 or 6 grs. of 
 quinine in n 2 oz. vial with 1 tal)ie-^[)OOM of white sugar, then fill 
 with water. Dosb— ii tea-upoon given U8 above, as to time. A 
 thick solution of licorice, however, hides the taute of the quinine 
 quite etfectually. 
 
 3. AouB BiTTKiw. — Quinine 40 grs ; capsicum 20 grs.; cloves 
 \ oz. ; cream of tartar i uz. ; whisky 1 pt. ; Mix. Dosb— 1 to 2 
 table-spoons every 2 hours, beginning 8 hours before the chill 
 comes on, and 3 times daily for seveml days. Or, if preferred 
 without tipiiits, take the following : 
 
 4. AauK Powder.— Quinine 10 grs.; capsicum 4 grs.; mix and 
 <livide into 3 powders. Directions— take one 4 hours before the 
 chill, one 2 bouts, and the third 1 hour before the chill thould 
 
 ■ commence, and it will very seldom commence again. Or 
 
 5. AauB Mixture winiour Quini.sb. — Mra. Wads- 
 worth, a few miles south of this city, has been using the fol- 
 lowing Ague mixture over twenty years, curing, she says, 
 more than forty cases, without a failure. She takes — 
 
 Mandrake root, fresh dug, anl pounds it; then squeezes out 
 the juice, to obtain 1^ table-spoons; with which she mixes the 
 jiame quantity of molasses, is dividing into 3 equal doses of 1 table- 
 spoon each, to be given 2 hours ap.irt, commencing so as to take 
 -all an hour before the chill. 
 
 It sickens and vomits some, but she says, it will scarcely 
 »ever need repeating. Then steep dog-wood bark, ('some 
 •call it box-wood.) make it strong, and continue to drink it 
 freely for a week or two, at least. 
 
 6. Ague Curb, by a Clairvoyant. — ^There is no doubt 
 in my mind but what there is much virtue in the following 
 clairvoyant prescription, for I have knowledge of the value 
 of one of the roots. See Cholic remedy : 
 
 Blue vervain, leaf and top, 1 lb.; bjne set } lb.; best rye 
 whisky 1 gal. 
 
 The dose was not given, but mo^tt persons would take a 
 wine glass five or six times daily. 
 
 7. Ague Cured for a Penny. — It has been discovered 
 that nitric acid is of great value in the treatment of Inter- 
 mittent Fever, or Ague. A physician administered the 
 article in twenty-three cases of such fever, and it was successful 
 in all but one, in interrupting the paroxysms, and there oc- 
 cured oo relapse, 
 
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 In the mnjcrlty of canes, 5 or 6 drops of the strong ocld, given 
 in a little gum mucilage, every 2 hourH, until 60 dropH hud been 
 taken, were found sufficient to hreak the fever, and rcHtore the 
 patient to health. The foregoing confirms the following : 
 
 8 Ague Anodynk —Muriatic acid and laudanum, of each i ob. ; 
 quinine 40 grs ; brnn ly 4 ozs. 'J ake 1 tca-Kpoon 9, 0. and 3 nours 
 before the chill, until broken ; then at 7, 14, and 21 days after, 
 take 3 doses, and no relapse will l)e likely to occur. 
 
 I am well satisfied that any preparation of opium, as lau- 
 danum, morphine, &c., which effect the nerves, are valuable 
 in ague medicine, from its intimate connection with, if not 
 entirely confined to, the nervous system ; hence the advan- 
 tage of the first Ague pill, the opium being in the Dover's 
 powder. 
 
 I have given this large number of preparations, and fol- 
 low with one or two more, from the fact that almost everv 
 phyMcian will have a peculiar prescription of his own. and 
 are generally free to contribute their mite fur the benefit of 
 the world ; and as I have seen about as much of it as most 
 book-makers, I have come in for a large share. The nature 
 of the articles recommended are such also as to justify their 
 insertion in this work. 
 
 9. FEBBiriTOE Wine.— Quinine 26 grs. ; water 1 pt. ; sulphuric 
 acid 16 drops ; epsom salts 2 ozs ; brandy 1 gill ; loaf supar 2 ozs. ; 
 color with tinctuie of red Sanders. Dose™ A wine glass 3 times 
 per day. 
 
 This is highly recommended by a regular practising phy- 
 sician, in one of the ague holes (Saginaw) of the west. It, 
 of course, can be taken without any previous preparation of 
 the system. 
 
 10. Tonic Wine Tincture. — A positive cure for Ague without 
 quinine. Peruvian bark 2 ozs. ; wild cherry tree bark 1 oz. ; cin- 
 namon 1 dr. ; capsicum 1 tea-spoon ; sulphur 1 oz ; port wine 
 2 qts. Let stand a week, shaking occasionally. All the articles 
 are to be pulverized. Dose — A wine glass every 2 or 3 hours 
 through the day until broken, then 2 or 3 times per day until all 
 is used. 
 
 Always buy your Peruvian bark, and pulverize it your- 
 self, as most of the pulverized article is generally adulterated. 
 This is the reason why more cures are not performed by it. 
 
 11. Soot Coffee — Has cured many cases of ague, after 
 " everything else" had failed ; it is made as follows : 
 
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 Soot scrapotl from a chimney (that from stove-pipes does not do), 
 1 table-spoon, steeped in water 1 pt., and t<ettled with 1 egg beaten 
 up in a little water, as for other coffee, with sugar and cream; 3 
 times r'ttily with the meals in place of other cofl'ee. 
 
 It has corae iu very much tf) aid restoration in T} phoid 
 F«.ver, bad caaea of Jaundice, Dyspepsia, <fecf, <tc. 
 
 Many persons will stick up their noses at these " Old 
 Grandmother prescriptions," but I tell many ** iip8*--*rt Phy- 
 , aicians" that our grand raothere are cariying more informa 
 tion o'lt of the world by their deaths than will ever be 
 rjxissessed by this class of '* sniffers," and I really thank 
 God, 80 do thousands of others, that He has enabled m >, in 
 »this work to reclaim such an amount of it for the benefit of 
 j'the world. 
 
 12. Balmony J of a pint basin of loose leaves, fiM with boiling 
 water and steep; drink the whole in the course of the day, and 
 irepeat 3 or 4 days, or until well. 
 
 It Isas cured many cases of Ague. It is valuable in 
 ijaondice and all diseases of the Liver; and also for worms, 
 hy the mouth and by injection. It is also valuable in Dys- 
 pepsia, Inflammatory and Febrile diseases generally. 
 
 NIGHT SWEATS— To Relieve.— After Agues, Fe- 
 vers, &c., and in Consumption, many persons are troubled 
 •with "Night Sweats;" they are cjiused by weakness or gen- 
 eral debility. For its relief: 
 
 Take Ess. of Tansy ^ oz ; a'cohol } oz.; water, J oz., quinine 16 
 grs.; rAuriate acid 30 drops; mix. Dose- -One teaspoon in a gill 
 .of col< 1 sage tea. 
 
 It sLould he taken two or three times during the day, and 
 
 at bed ame ; and the coFd sage tea should be used freely as 
 
 adrirk, also, until cured. It will even cure Ague, also, by 
 
 rep^satiog the above dose every hour, beginning twelve to 
 
 fifteen hours before the chill. 
 
 FiJVERS^ — General Improved Treatment for Bil- 
 ious, Typhoid, a^std Scarlet Fevers, CovoESTiVE Chills, 
 Ac. Ak.S0; Vaiuablf in Diahkhea, Summer Complaint, 
 Choiisra Infantum, a»i) all Forms of Fever in Child- 
 ren. — The symptoms of Fever are generally under- 
 stood, yet 1 will give the characterisfjc features by 
 which it will always be detected: cold chills, followed by 
 
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 a hot skin ; a quickened pulse, with a weak aud languid feel- 
 ing of di>tre8.s; also, lot^s of appetite, thirst, restlessness, 
 scanty excretions; in fact, every function oi the body is 
 more or less deranged. Of course, then, that which will 
 restore all the rlifferent machinery to healthy action, will 
 restore health. That is what the following febrifuge has 
 done in hundreds of cases — s) att«rited to by •' Old Doctor 
 Cone," from whose work on '' Fevere and F&brile Diseases," 
 
 1 firet obtained the outlines of the treatment, and it gives 
 me pleasure to acknowledge my indebtedness to him through 
 touv'aen years of neighborhood acquaintance, always finding 
 him as willing to communicate, as qualified to practice, and 
 daring, \n breaking away from •' Medical Society Rules," to 
 accomplish good. 
 
 Vermifuge Ft)B Fkvees in General. —Cdrbonate of amironia 
 
 2 dra. ; alum 1 dr.; capsicum, foreign gentian, colombo root and 
 Prusttiate of iron, all pulverized, of each^ dr ; mix, by putting 
 into a bottii, adding cold water 4 oz. Doss— Oue tea-spoOn to a 
 grown persoii, every two hours, in common cases of fever. It may 
 be sweetened if preferred. Shake urell each time before giving, 
 and keep tho bottle tiijhtly corked. 
 
 The philosophy of this treatment is, the carbonate of am- 
 monia neutralizes the acidity of the stomach, and determines 
 to, and relaxes the surface; and with the capsicum is a hun- 
 dred per cent more tfficient. The alum constringes, soothes, 
 and aids in relieving the irritated and engorged mucous raem- 
 biane of the stomach, and finally operates as a gentle laxa- 
 tive. The Colombo and gentian are gently astringent and 
 stimulating, but chiefly tonic, and the Prussiate of iron is 
 tonic: and in their combination are, (as experience will and 
 has proved) the most efficient and safe Febrifuge, in all foims 
 and grades of fever, yet known. We therefore wish to 
 state that, after twe ..y-five years' experience in the trep' 
 ment of disease, we have nr* been able to obtain a k.iow- 
 ledge of any course of treatuie.-i that will begin to compare 
 with that given abave, for the certain, speedy, and effectual 
 cure of all forms of feVer; and all that is requisite, is, to 
 have sufficient confidence in the coui-se of treatment recom- 
 mended ; to use ! I from three to five, and in extreii. ^ cases, 
 seven days, as directed, and that confidence will be inspired 
 in all who use it, w^ev'.er Physician (if unprejudiced) or 
 
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 patient, or the beads of families; remember all processes in 
 nature require time for their accomplishment. 
 
 After tha patient has been twenty-four Y ^urs without 
 fever, or if the patient be pale, blanched, with a cool sur- 
 face and feeble pulse, at the commencement of fever, pre- 
 pare the following: 
 
 2. Febrifuge Tea. — Tiike Virginia anike root and valerian root, 
 of each 2 drs. ; boiling water 1 pt. Pour the boiling water on the 
 roots and steep half an hour, and give a teispoon of the Febrifnge 
 and a table-spoon of this Tea together, every 2 hours, and after 
 he has been another 24 hours without fever, give it every three or 
 four hours, until the patlmt his good appetite and digestion, 
 then three times daily, just before meals, until the patient has 
 gained considerable strength, when it raiy be entirely discon- 
 tinued ; or he may continue the simple infusion to aid digestion. 
 
 A "♦^^ronof tea of wild cherry bark makes the best substi- 
 tute I the snake root tea, and especially if mercury has 
 been ^.eviously used in the case, and if it has, it is best to 
 continue the cherry bai-k tea until the patient is entirely re- 
 covered. 
 
 A patient using this treatment, if bilious, may vomit bile 
 a few times, or if there is conjestion of the stomach, he will 
 probably vomit occasionally for a few hours, but it will soon 
 subside. It will not purge, except a patient be very bilious, 
 in which case there will probably be two or three bilious dis- 
 charges; but it gives so much tone to the action of the 
 stomach and bowels as to secure regular operations; but if 
 the bowels should not be moved in two or three days, givo 
 injections of warm water, or warm water with a little salt 
 in It. 
 
 Give the patient all the plain, wholesome diet, of any 
 kind, he will take; Aspecially bioiled ham, mush and 
 rich milk, boiled rice, milk or dry loast, hot mealy potatoes, 
 boiled or roasted, with good fresh butter, <fec., <fec. ; and good 
 pure cold water, or tea and co(Fe<3, seasoned to the taste, as 
 drinks, and keep the person and bed clean, and room quiet 
 and undisturbed by convei'sation, or any other noise, and see 
 that it is well ventilated. 
 
 If there should be extreme pain in the head when the 
 fever is at the highest, or in the back or loins, and delirium 
 at night, with intolerance of light and noise; in such cases, 
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 bile 
 
 will 
 
 soon 
 
 ions, 
 
 dis- 
 
 the 
 
 ut if 
 
 givo 
 
 salt 
 
 the 
 
 in addition to keeping the room cool, dark and quiet, and 
 
 giving the febrifuge regularly, aa above directed, take the 
 
 following: 
 
 3. Fever Limment.— Sulphuric ether and aqua ammoi i v, of each 
 1 oz.; muriate of ammonia } oz.; mix and shake the bottle, and 
 wet the scalp and all painful parts, every 2 or 3 hours, until the 
 pain abates. Keep tightly corktd. 
 
 After the application of the liniment, fold a muslin cloth 
 four or live thicknesses, dip it in cold water, and apply it 
 to the heaJ or any p»rt afflicted with severe pain; or to the 
 pit of the stomach, if there be much vomiting; and it may 
 be renewed every three or four houi-s. 
 
 Besides the above treatment, dip a towel in cold water, 
 and rub the patient oflf briskly and thoroughly, and be care- 
 ful to wipe perfectly dry, with a clean, hot and dry toWel ; 
 this may be repeated every three or four hours, if the skin 
 be very hot and dry; but if the surface be pale, cool, moist, 
 livid, or lead-colored, omit the general sponging; but the 
 face, neck and hands may be washed occasionally, but be 
 sure to wipe perfectly dry with a clean, hot and dry towel. 
 But if he be very pale and blanched, with a cool or cold 
 surface, or have a white circle around his mouth and nose, 
 or be covered with a cold clammy perspiration, give the 
 Febrifuge every hour, until the above symptoms disappear, 
 giving the patient hot coffee or tea, pennyroyal, sage, balm, 
 or mint lea, as hot as he can sup them, and as freely as pos- 
 sible, and make hot applications to his peison, and put a 
 bottle of hot water to the soles of his feet; and after this 
 tendency to piostration is overcome, then give the Febrifuge 
 once in two hours as before only. 
 
 Children will use the medicine in all respects as directed 
 for grown persons, giving to a child one year old a fourth of 
 fl tea-spoon, or fifteen drops; if under a year old, a little less, 
 (we have frequently arrested Cholera Infantum with the Feb- 
 rifuge, in children under six months old, and in some in- 
 stances under a month old,) and increase the doee in propor- 
 tion 'o the age above a year old, giving half a teaspoon to 
 a child from three tC' six, and three-fourths of a tea-spoon 
 from six to ten yea; s old, and so on ; and be sure to offer 
 children some food several times a day, the best of which is 
 broiled smoked ham, good stale wheat bread boiled in good 
 
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 rich milk, mush and milk, boiled rice, etc.; but animal diet 
 agreed best, and especially in cases of Summer Complaint, 
 or Cholera Infantum, the diet had better be almost exclu- 
 sively animal. It will be difficult to use the infusion of 
 snake root with children that are tco young to obey the 
 mandate of parents, and the Febrifuge may be made sweet, 
 with white or loaf sugar, for young children, so as to cover 
 its taste as much as possible, but older children will be bene- 
 fitted very much by the use of the infusion of snake root 
 and valerian, -and should take it as prescribed for adults, of 
 course adapting the dose to the age of the patient. 
 
 4. NoTiB. — ^The above treatment, if persevered in for a short 
 time, is effectual in arresting Diarrhea, Summer Complaint, Chol- 
 era Infantum, and all forms of Fever in children. Give it every 
 two hours, or if the patient be very feeble and corpse like, give it 
 every hour until there is reaction, and then give it every two 
 hours, as prescribed for fever in general, and you will be satisfied 
 
 • th the result after a short time. 
 
 5. Typhoid Fever. — If the patient be Typhoid, that is, 
 if his tongue be brown or black, and dry in the centre, with 
 glossy red edges; if he have Diarrhea, with thin, watery, or 
 muddy stools, and a tumid or swollen belly, he will probably 
 have a rnpid, or frequent, and small pulse, and be delirious 
 and rest but little at night; undei these circumstances, give 
 Febrifuge in the Tea, No. 2, as foi* fevers in general, every 
 two hours, and give, also, the following : 
 
 6. Fkbrifugk Balsam. — Gum camphor SO grs. ; balsam copa- 
 bia, sweet spirits of nitre, compound spirits of lavender, of each 
 i oz. 
 
 Shake the vial, and give forty drops eveiy four houre, in 
 with the other medicine, until the tongue becomes moist, 
 and the Diarrhea pietty well subsided, when you will dis- 
 continue this propaiation, and continue the Febrifuge and 
 snake root tea, as directed for fever in general, 
 
 NoTR. — We do not believe that one case of fever in a thousand 
 will develope Typhoid symptoms, unless such cases hav^ been in- 
 jured in the treatment of the first stasfe, by a reducing course of 
 medicine, as bleeding, vomiting, especially emetic tartar, purg- 
 ing, especially with ciilomel, and compound extract of colocynth, 
 or oil, salts, or infusion of senna, and the common cooling pow- 
 der, which is composed of saltpetre or nitre, and lartar emetic 
 or ipecac, all of which irritate the mucous mimbrane of the 
 
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 copa- 
 each 
 
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 usand 
 en in. 
 irse of 
 purg- 
 ynth, 
 pow- 
 metic 
 f the 
 
 stomach and bowels, and coiscquently produce determination 
 of blood to these parts, that results in irritatiou, engorgement, 
 congestion, inflammation, and lonsequently, Trpboid Fever. 
 
 If fever is attended wilh the Dysentery, or Bloody Flux, it 
 should be treated in the same raancer precisely as Typhoid 
 Fever, as ii is nothing but Typhoid Fever with inflammation 
 of the large, and sometimes small bowels. The treatment 
 given for Typhoid Fever above, will cure all forms of Dysen- 
 tery as it does fever, but the bloody and slimy discharge* 
 will continue hr two or three days after the fever is sub- 
 dued, and the appetite and dijrestion are restored, and at 
 times, especially if the patient discharge bile, which will be 
 green, there will be agood deal of pain at stool, which, how- 
 ever, will soon subside. 
 
 7. Scarlet Fever. — If you liave Scarlet Fever, treat it 
 in all respects as fever in general, and if the patient's throat 
 should show any indications of swelling, apply the Fever 
 Liciment No. 3, and make the application of cold water m 
 the same manner as there directed; and it had better be re- 
 peated every three or four hours until the swelling is entirely 
 subdued, when the wet cloth should be substituted by a 
 warm, drv flannel one; but if the patient's throat should 
 ulcerate, give a few drops of the Febrifuge every half hour, 
 or hour, until the dark sloughs sej arate, and the throat looks^ 
 red and clean, when you need only give the medicine at regu- 
 lar intervals, as recommended for fever in general, that is, 
 every two L jurs. If this treatment be pursued ait the onset, 
 the throat will seldom, if ever, ulcerate. 
 
 8. Congestive, or Sinking Chill. — In case of Conges- 
 tion or Sinking Chill, give the Febrifuge as directed for fever 
 in general; but if the patient be insensible and cold, or 
 (^renched in a cold perspiration, give the Febrifuge in a table- 
 spoon of the snake root and v.-ileriaii tea every hour until the 
 patient becomes warm, and then give it every two hours ta 
 within twelve hours of the time he anticipates anuther chill, 
 when you will give the folic wing : 
 
 9. SnMULATiNa Tomc— Sulphate of quinine 20grB ; pulverized 
 cap.sicum 30 grs.; pulverized carbonate of ammonia 90 grs.;. 
 mix and put into a bottle, and add 16 tfa-spoom* uf ctjld water, 
 and give a tea-spoon, together with a tea-spoon of the Febrifuge, 
 
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 DR. CHASE 8 RECIPES. 
 
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 every hour, either alone, or what is better, in a teaspoon of the 
 snake root and valerian tea, for 16 hours. 
 
 The patient should lie in bed and drink freely of penny- 
 royal tea, or hot coffee, or some other hot tea, and after the 
 time has elapsed for the chill, give the same as for fever 
 in general, until the patient is entirely recovered. The 
 above treatment will ai-wst any form of ague, and the after 
 treatment will, with any degree of care, prevent its return. 
 Or the Ague may be arrested most speedily, by taking one 
 grain of quinine in a teaspoon of the Febrifuge every hour 
 for six hours preceeding a paroxysm, and then pursue the 
 above tonic course. 
 
 I have given the foregoing treatment for fevers because I 
 know that it is applicable in all cases, and that the articles 
 are kept by all druggists. But there is a better, because 
 quicker method of cure, and I am very soriy to say that for 
 want of knowledge in regard to the value of the medicine, 
 it is not usually kept by druggists. I mean the Tincture of 
 Gelseminum. It is an unrivalled Febrifuge. It relaxes the 
 system without permanent prostration of strength. Its 
 specific action is to cloud the vision, give double-sighted ness 
 and inability to open the eyes, with distressed prostration ; 
 which will gradually pass oti* in a few houi-s, leaving the 
 patient i»efreshed, and if combined with quinine, completely 
 restored. To administer it : 
 
 10. Take the tincture of gelseminum 50 drops, put into a vial, 
 and add 6 teaspoons of water ; quinine 10 grs. Shake when used. 
 Dose— One teaspoon in half a glass of sweetened water, and repeat 
 every two hours. 
 
 Watch carefully its action, and as soon as you discover its 
 specific action as mentioned above, give no more. 
 
 Dr. Hale, of this city, one of the more liberal class of 
 physicians (and I use the term liberal as synonymous with 
 the term successful), prefers to add twenty-five drops of 
 the tincture of veratrum viride with the gelseminum, and 
 give as there directed. And in case that their full specific ac- 
 tion should be brought on, give a few spoons of brandy, to 
 raise the patient from his stupor, or what is preferable : 
 
 11. Carbonate of ammonia \ oz ; water 4 ozs.; mix. boss — 1 
 tablespoon every 15 or twenty minutes, until revived. 
 
 If Dr. Hale's addition should be use 1, it will be found 
 
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 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 applicable in all ca^es of fever, except in Typhoid accompan- 
 ied with its own excessive prostration; without the addition 
 of the veratruin it is applicable in all cases of fevers above 
 described. Of course, in all cases whert, the fever is thus 
 subdued, you will continue quinine, or some otber appropri- 
 ate tonic treatment, to perfect a cure, and prevent a relapse. 
 And it might not be amiss here to give a plan of preparing 
 a nourishing and agreeable lemonade for the sick, and 
 e^'pecially for persons aiflicted with fever : 
 
 12. .JjBMONade, Nourishing, . fok Fever Patients.— Arrow-root 
 2 or 8 teafipoons, rubbed up witb a little cold water, in a liowl or 
 pitcher, which will hold about 1 qt; then squeeze in the juice of 
 half of a good sized lemon, with 2 or 3 ta^-le-spoons of white 
 sugar, and pour on boiling water to fill the dish, constantly stir- 
 ring whilst adding the boiling water. 
 
 Cover the dish, and when cold, it may be freely drank to 
 allay thii-st, as also to nourish the weak, but some will pre- 
 fer the following : 
 
 13. Prof. Hufeland's Drink pof F«vbb Patients or Excessive 
 Thirst.— Cream of tartar J oz.; water 3 qts.; boil until dissolved; 
 after taking it from the fire add a sliced orange with from Ih to 3 
 ozs. of white sugar, according to the taste of the patient; bottle 
 and keep cool. 
 
 To be used for a common drink in fevers of all grades^ 
 and at any time when a large amount of driak is craved by 
 the invalid. Neither is there any bad taste to it for those in 
 health. 
 
 UTERINE HEMORRHAGES.— Prof. Platt's Treatmknt 
 Twenty Years Without a Failure — Sugar of lead 10 grs. ; 
 ergot 10 grs.; opium 3 grs. ; epicac 1 gr.; all pulverized and well 
 mixed. Dose— 10 to 12 grs,, given in a little honey or 
 syrup. 
 
 In very bad cases after child-birth, it might be repeated 
 in thirty minutes, or the dose increased to fifteen or eigh- 
 teen grains; but in eases of rather profuse wasting, repeat 
 it oncG at the end of three hours, will usually be found all 
 that is neces.sary, if not, repeat occasionally as the urgency 
 of the case may be seen to require. 
 
 Prof. Piatt is connected with Antioch College, O., and 
 has been a very 8ucces.sful practitioner. 
 
 DYSPEPSIA.— In the goo;l old davs of corn bread and 
 
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 crust coffee, there was but little trouble with Dyspepsia; but 
 since the days of fashionHble intemperance, both in eating 
 and drinking, such as spirituous liquors, wiuea, beers, ale, tea 
 and coflFee, hot bread or biscuit, high seasoned food, over- 
 loading the stomach at nreals, and constant eating and 
 drinking between meals, bolting the food, as called, that is, 
 swallowing it without properly chewing, excessive venery, 
 want of out-door exeicise, with great anxiety of mind aa to 
 how the means can be made to continue the same indulgen- 
 ■ces, (fee, fill have a tendency to debilitate the stomach, and 
 bring on or cause, Dyspepsia. 
 
 And it would seem to the Author that the simple state- 
 ment of its cause, the truth of which no one can reasonably 
 •doubt — would be suflBcient to, at least, suggest its cure. But 
 I am willing tc> state that, as a general thing, this over- 
 indulgence would not be continued, nor would it have been 
 allowed had they known its awful consequences. I know 
 that this was true in my own case, in all its points; this was, 
 ot course, before I had studied, or knew but little of the 
 power, of the human systtm or the practice of medicine, and 
 it was for the purpose of finding something to cure myself 
 that I commenced its study ; for it was by years of over- 
 indulgence at table, and between meals, in the grocery busi- 
 nest which I was carrying on, that I brought on such a 
 condition of the stomach that eating gave me the most in- 
 tolerable suffering — a fueling almost impossible to describe ; 
 ^ret a feeling of goneness, or want of support at the stomach, 
 heat, lassitude, and finally pain, until a thousand deaths 
 would have been a great relief; drink was craved, and the 
 more I drank the more intolerable the suffering — apple 
 cider, vinegar and water, made palatable with sugar, excepted. 
 It might be asked at this point, what did I do ? I would 
 .ask, what could I do! Eat, I could not; drink, I could 
 not; then what else was to be done, only to do without 
 either. "What, starve? No. 
 
 Treatment. — Take — no, just stop taking. *♦ Throw all 
 medicine to the dogs" — yes, and food also. What, starve ? 
 No, but simply get hungry; whoever heard of a dyspeptic 
 being hungry ? at bast, those whe eat three meals a day. 
 They eat because the victuals taste good — mouth-hunger, 
 only. 
 
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 The last year or two of my dyspeptic life, J only ate be- 
 cause 1 was eating time, and supposed I must eat or die^ 
 when I oidy died forty deaths by eating. 
 
 All pbsicians whose books I have read, and all whose 
 prescriptions I have obtained, say * " Eat little and often ; 
 drink litlle and often.'' I say eat a little, and at the right 
 time, that is, when hungry at the stomach ; drink a little^ 
 and at the right time, that is, after digestion, and it is of 
 just as much importance to eat and drink the right thing,, 
 as at the right time. 
 
 Persons have been so low in Dyspepsia, that even one 
 tea-spoon of food on the stomach wou]<i not rest; in such 
 cases, let nothing be taken by mouth for several days; but 
 inject gruel, rice water, rice broths, Ac. ; but these cases 
 occur very seldom. 
 
 First. — Then, with ordinary cases, if there is much heat 
 of the stomach, at bed time, wet a towel in cold water, 
 wringing it out that it may not drip, and lay it over the 
 stomach, having a piece of flannel over it to prevent wetting 
 the clothes. This will soon allay the heat, but keep it on 
 during the night, and at any subsecjuent time, as may be 
 needed. 
 
 Second. — In the morning, if you have been in the habit 
 of eating about two large potatoes, two pieces of steak, two 
 slices of bread, or from four to six hot pancakes, or two to 
 four hot biscuits, and drinking one to three cups of hot tea 
 or coffee — hold, hold, you cry ; no let me go on. I have 
 many times seen all these eaten, with butter, honey or mo- 
 lasses, too large in amount to be mentioned, with a taste of 
 every other thing on the table, such as cucumbers, tomatoes. 
 &c., &c., and all by dyspeptics; but. 
 
 You will stop this morning on half of one potato, twa 
 inches square of steak, and half of one slice of cold, wheat 
 bread — or I prefer, if it will agree with you, that you use 
 the "Yankee Brown Bread," only the same quantity ; eat 
 very slow, chew perfectly fine, and smallow it without water, 
 tea, or coffee; neither must you drink any, not a drop, until 
 one hour before meal time again, then as little as possible, 
 so as you think not quite to choke to death. 
 
 Third. — The question now to be settled is, did you svffer 
 from the abundance of your breakfast, or from the kind <jf 
 
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 food taken ? If you did, take less next time, or change 
 the kind, and ho continue to lessen the quantity, or change 
 the kind until you ascertain the proper quantity and kind, 
 which enables you to overcome this exceeding sufi'ering 
 after meals ; nay, more, which leaveg you perfectly comfort- 
 able after meals. 
 
 Lastly — You now have the whole secret of curing tha 
 worst case, of dyspepsia in the world. You will, however, 
 bear in mind that yeai's have been spent in indulgence; do 
 not therefore expect to cure it in days, nay, it will take 
 months, possibly a whole year of self-denial, watchfulness, 
 and care; and even then, one overloading of the stomach 
 at a Christmas pudding will set you back again for months. 
 Make up your mind to eat only simple food, and that, in 
 small quantities, notwithstanding an over-anxious wife, or 
 other friend, will say, now do try a little of this nice pie, 
 pudding or other dish, no matter what it may be. Oh ! 
 ■now do have a cup of this nice coffee, they will often ask: 
 but no, Ko must be the invariable answer, or you are again 
 a ** goner." For there is hnidly any disease equally liable 
 to relapse as dyspepsia; and indulgence in a variety of food, 
 or over-eating any one kind, or even watery vegetables or 
 fruit, will be almost certain to make the patient pay dear for 
 the whistle. 
 
 Then you must oat only such food as you know to agree 
 with you, and in just as small quantities as will keep you in 
 health. Drink no fluids until digesiion is over, or about 
 four hours after eating, until the stomach has become a little 
 strong, or toned up to bear it, then one cup of the '* Dyspep- 
 sia Coffee," or one cup of the " Cofitee Made Healthy," may 
 be nsed. But more difficulty ^z experienced from over- 
 drinking, than over eating. Most positively must Dyspeptics 
 avoid cold water with their meals. If the saliva and gastric 
 juice are diluted with an abundance of any fluid, they never 
 have the same properties to aid, or carry ou digestion, which 
 they had before dilution; then the only hope of the Dys- 
 peptic is to use no fluid with his food, nor until digestion 
 has had her perfect work. 
 
 Caution. — I may be allowed to give a word of caution 
 to mothere, as well as to all others. Cue plate of food is 
 
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 enough for health — two, and even three, are often qp' a. 
 Most persons have heard of the lady who did not waul a 
 *' cart load," but when she got to eating, it all disappeared, 
 and the retort, " Back up your cart and I will load it again," 
 was just what I would have expected to hear if the load had 
 been given to a Dyspeptic, which it no doubt was; then 
 learn the proper amount of food necessary for health, and 
 when that is eaten, by yourself or child, stop. If pudding 
 is on the table and you choose to have a little of it, it is all 
 right — have some pudding; if pie, have a piece of pie; or 
 cake, have a piece of cake; but do not have all, and that 
 after you have eaten twice as much meat victuals as health 
 requires. If apples, melons, raisins or nuts are on the table, 
 and you wish some of them, eat them before meal, and never 
 after it; if surprise is manifested around you, say you eat 
 to live, not live to eat. The leason for this is, that persons 
 will eat all they need, and often more, of common food, then 
 eat nuts, raisins, melons, <fec., until the stomach is not only 
 filled beyond comfort, but actually distended to its utmost 
 capacity of endurance; being led on by the taste, when if 
 the reverse cou'^e was taken, the stomach becomes satisfied 
 when a proper amount of the more common food has been 
 eaten, after the others. 
 
 Are you a Grocer, and constantly nibbling at raisins, candy , 
 cheese, apples, and every other edible? Stop, until jiist be- 
 fore meal, then eat what you like, go to your meal, and re- 
 turn, not touching again until meal- time, and you are safe; 
 continue the nibbling, and you do it at the sacrifice of future 
 health. Have you children or other young persons under 
 your care? See that they only eat a reasonable quantity at 
 meals, and not anything between them ; do this, and I am 
 willing to be called r/ooI by the younger ones, which I am 
 sure to be; but do it not, and the fool will suffer for his 
 folly. 
 
 You may consider ma a hard Doctor — ^be it so then; th® 
 drunkard calb hitn hard names who says give up you^" 
 "cups;" but as sure as he would die a drunkard, so sure 
 will you die a dyspeptic unless you give up your over-eatiag^ 
 and over- drinking of water, tea coffee, wine, beer, ale, &c. 
 Now you knoio the consequences, suit yourselves; but I 
 
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 have paid too dearly hr my experience not to lift a warning 
 voice or spare the guilty. 
 
 In recent cases, and in cases brought on by over-indulg- 
 ence at some extra rich meal, you will find the " Dyspeptic 
 Tea," made from *♦ Thompson's Composition," will be all 
 sufficient, as spoken of under that head ; which see. 
 
 2. The wild black cherries, put into J imaica rum is 
 highly recommended, made very strong with the cherries, 
 and without sugar ; but I should say put them into some of 
 the domestic wmes, or what would be still better, make a 
 wine directly from them, according to the directions under 
 the head of Fruit Wines. 
 
 3. Old •* Father Pinkney," a gentleman over 90 years of 
 age, asaures me that he. has cured many bad cases of Dys- 
 pepsia, where they would give up their over indulgences, 
 by taking: 
 
 Blue flag root, washed clean, and free from xpeckd and rotten 
 streaks, then poundiDg it and putting into a little warm wat«r, 
 and utraining.out the milky juice, and adding sufficient jiepper- 
 sauce to make it a little hot. Dobs— one tahle-spoon three times 
 daily. 
 
 It benefits by its action on the liver, and it would be good 
 in Liver Complaints, the pepper also stimulating the stomach. 
 See '* Soot Coffee" No. 12, amongst the ague medicines. 
 
 LARYNGFIS — Inflammation of the Throat. — This 
 complaint, in a chronic form, has become very prevalent, 
 and is a disease which is aggravated by every change of 
 weather, more esj^ecially in the fall and winter months. It 
 is considered, and that justly, a very hard disease to cure, 
 but with caution, time an& a rational coui'se of treatment, 
 it can be cured. 
 
 The difficulty with most persons is, they think that it i* 
 
 an uncommon disejise, and consequently they must obtain 
 
 some uncommon preparation to cure it, instead of which, 
 
 some of the more simple remedies, as follows, will cure 
 
 »i early every case, if persevered in a sufficient length of time. 
 
 First, then, take the : 
 
 AiiTERATiVB FOR DisBASE^ OF THs Skin.— Compound Tlncture 
 of Peruvian bark 6 oz ; fluid extract of sarsapariila 1 lb. ; 
 extract of conium ^oz.; iodide of potash, (often calL^d hydrio- 
 date) ^oz.; iodine^ dr. j dissolve the extract of oonium and the 
 
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 powders in a little of the fluid, and mix all. Dose— Two tea- 
 spoons 8 times daily, before meals, until all is taken. Shake thu 
 bottle well before using. 
 
 In the next place, take the : 
 
 2. Garolb roK Sorb Theoat. — Very strong sage tea J pt. 
 strained honey, conimou salt, and strong vinegar, of each 2 table- 
 spoons; cayenne, the pulverized, one rounding tea-spoon; 
 steeping the cayenne with the sage, strain, mix and bottle tor 
 use, gargling from 4 to a dozen times daily according to the 
 severity of the case. 
 
 This is one of the very beat gargles in nse. By persever- 
 ing some three months, I cured a case of two yeai*8 standing 
 where the mouths of the Eustachian tubes constantly dis- 
 charged matter at their openings through the tonsils into 
 the patient's mouth, he having previously been quite deaf, 
 the whole throat being also diseased. I used the preparation 
 for *• Deafness" also as mentioned under that head. 
 
 Remembering always to breathe through nature's channel 
 for the breath, the nose. 
 
 Besides the foregoing, you will wash the whole surface 
 twice a week with plenty of the " Toilet Soap," in water 
 wiping dry, then with a coarse dry towel rub the whole sur- 
 face for ten minutes at least, and accomplish the coarse towel 
 part of it every night and morning until the skin will remain 
 through the day with its flushed surface, and genial heat; 
 this draws the blood fiom the throat and other internal or- 
 gans, or in other word^ equalizes the circulation; know, and 
 act, upon this fact, and no inflammation can long exist, no 
 matter where it is located. Blood accumulates in the part 
 inflamed, but let it fl.w evenly through the whole system, 
 and of course there can be no inflammation. 
 
 You will also apply to the throat and breast the follow- 
 ing: 
 
 3 Sore Throat Liniment.— Gum Camphor 2 ote.; castile 
 soap, shaved fine, 1 dr.; oil of turpentine 1 table-spoon; oil of 
 origanum ^ oz.; opium ^ oz ; alcohol 1 pint. In a week or ten 
 days it will be ^t for use, then bathe the parts freely 2 or 3 timet 
 daily. 
 
 This liniment will be found useful in almost any throat or 
 other disease where an outward application might be needed. 
 If the foregoing treatment should fail there is no alternative 
 
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 but to bring in emetics with the Qther treatment, and con 
 tinue them for a long time. 
 
 I mention the emetic plan last, from the fact that so many 
 people utterly object to the emetic treatment. But when 
 everything else fails, that steps in and saves the patient, 
 which goes to show how unjust the prejudice. By the 
 phrase, a long time, I mean several weeks, tw^ice daily at 
 firet, then once a dav^ and finally thrice to twice a week, &c. 
 A part of this course you will see, by the following, is cor- 
 roborated by the celebrated Lung and Throat Doctor, S. 3. 
 Fitch, of New York, who says **it is a skin disease, and that 
 purifying medicines are necessary to cleanse the blood — 
 taking long, full breaths," <fec. This is certainly good sense. 
 His treatment of throat diseases is summed up in the fol- 
 lowing 
 
 NoTB. — " Wear but little clothing aroiund the neck— chew often 
 n little nut-^All and swiillow the juice — wear a wet cloth about 
 the throat at night, having a dry towel over it — bathu freely 
 all over as in consumption, and t^pecially bathe the throat with 
 cold water every morning, also w.ish out the inside of the 
 throat with cold water— avoid crowded rooms— gargle with a 
 very weak solution of nitrate of silver— chewing gold thread and 
 swallowing the juice and saliva from it— borax and honey 
 occasionally, and gum arable water, if much irritation —use the 
 voice as little as possible until woU, also often using a liniment 
 externally." 
 
 I had hoped for very much benefit from using croton oil 
 externally, but time has shown that the advantage derived 
 from it is not sufficient to remunerate for the excessive irri- 
 tation caused by its conti-iued application. 
 
 4. Smoking dried mullein leaves in a pipe not having 
 been u^ed for tobacco, is said to have cured manv cases of 
 Laryngitis. And I find in my last Eclectic Medical Jour- 
 nal so strong a cowoboration. taken from the Medical and 
 Surgical Reporter, of this fact, that I cannot refrain from 
 giving the quotation. It says : *' in that form of disease in 
 which there is dryness of the trachea, with a constant desire , 
 to clear the throat, attended with little expectoration, and 
 considerable pain in the part affect'd, the mullein smoked 
 through a pipe, acts like a charm, and affords instant relief. 
 It seems to act as an anoydyne in allaying irritation, while it 
 promotes expectoration, and removes that gelatinous mucus 
 
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 which gathei-8 in the larynx, and at the same time, by some 
 vnknowti power, completely changes the nature of the dis- 
 ease, and, if persevered in, will produce a radical cure. " 
 
 We read in a certain place of a gentleman who was walk- 
 ing around and through a great city, and he came across an 
 inscription '' To the unknown God " — and directly we find 
 him explaining that unknown being to the astonished in- 
 habitants. And I always feel, like this old-fashiond gen- 
 tleman, to cry out, upon every convenient occasion, my be- 
 lief, that it was that God's great wisdom, seeing what was 
 required, and His exceeding goodness, providing according 
 to our necessities, this wonderful, and to some, that unknown 
 ' power in the thousands of plants around us. What matters 
 it to us how it is done ? If the cure is performe<^, it is suf- 
 ficient. 
 
 Since the publication of the foregoing, in the ninth edi> 
 t'von, I have been smoking the dried mullein, and recom- 
 mending it to others. It has given general satisfaction for 
 coughs, and as a substitute for tobacco in smoking, exhilera- 
 ting the nerves and allaying the hacking coughs fr->ra recent 
 colds, by breathing the smoke into the lungs. In one in- 
 stance, after retiring, I could not rest from an irritation in 
 the upper portion of the lungs and throat, frequently hack- 
 ing without relief only for a moment; I arose, filled my pipe 
 with mullein, returning to bed I smoked the pipeful, drawing 
 it into the lungs, and did nut cough again during the night. 
 
 An old gentleman, an inveterate smoker, from my sugges- 
 tion, began to mix the mullein with his tobacco, one-fourth 
 atfirat, for a while; then half, and finally three-fourths; at 
 this point he rested. It satisfied in place of the full amount 
 of tobacco, aad cured a cough which had been left upon him 
 after inflammation of th« lungs. The flavor can hardly be 
 distinguished from the flavor of tobacco smoke, in rooms. 
 
 It can be gathered any time during the season, the centre 
 stem removed, carefully dried, and rubbed fine, when it is 
 ready for use. It gives a pipe the phthysic, as fast as it 
 cures one in the patient; but the clay pipe, which is to be 
 used, can be readily cleansed by burning out. 
 
 Here is the " Substitute for Tobacco" for which tho 
 French have offered 50,000 francs. 
 
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 It can be made into cigai-s by using a tobacco-leaf wrapper. 
 
 Catarrh is often more or less connected with that disease. 
 In such cases, in connection with the above treatment, take 
 several times daily of the following: 
 
 Catarrh Snoff. — Scotch snuff 1 oz. ; chloride of lime, dried and 
 pulverized, 1 rounding tea-spoon; mix, and bottle, corking 
 tightly. 
 
 The snufF has a tendency to aid the secretion from the 
 parts; and the chloride corrects unpleasant fetor. 
 
 CANCERS.— To Cure — Method o? Dr. Landolpi, 
 (Surgeon-Gknkral of tub Nkapolitant Army) and sev- 
 eral Successful American Mkthods. — The principle 
 upon which the treatment is based, consists in transforming 
 a tumor of a malignant character, by conferring upon it a 
 character of benignity, which admits of euro. This trans- 
 formation is effected by cauterization with an agent looked 
 upon as a 8|)ecific, viz : chloride of bromine, combined or 
 not, with other substances, which have already been tried, 
 but have hitherto been employed separately. The inter- 
 nal treatment is merely auxiliary. (Cancers may be known 
 from other tumore by their shooting, or lacinating pains; 
 and if an open sore, from th'^ir great fetor. — Author.) 
 The formulas for the caustics are, with the exception of a few 
 cases, the foUow^'ng: 
 
 Equal parta of the chlorides of zinc, gold, and antimony, mixed 
 with a sufficient quantity of flour to form a viscid pivste. 
 
 At Vienna, he us^d a mixture of the same substances in different 
 proportions, chloride of bromine 3 parts; chloride of zinc 2 parts; 
 chloride of gold and antimony, each 1 part; made into a thick 
 paste with powdered licorice root, llns preparation should be 
 made in an open place, on account of the gases which are 
 disengaged. 
 
 The essential element is the chloride of bromine, which has 
 often been employed alone; thus, chloride of bromine from 2J to 
 4 drs. ; and put licorice root as much as sufiQcient. 
 
 The chloride of zinc is indispensable in ulcerated cancers, 
 in which it acts as a heraastatic, (stopping blood.) The 
 chloride of gold is only useful in cases of encefthaloid, 
 (brain like) cancers, in which it exercises a special, if not a^ 
 specific action Cancers of the skin, (epitheliomas,) lupus, 
 and small cystosarcomas, (watery or bloody tumoi-s,) are 
 treated with bromine mixed with basilicon ointment in the 
 
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 proportion of one part of bromine to eight of the ointment; 
 the application should not extend to the healthy parts, ita 
 action oeing often propagated through a space of one or tw* 
 lines. The paste is only allowed to remain on about twentjf- 
 four hours; on removing the dressing a line of deraarkatioa 
 is almost always found separating thp healthy from the moi^ 
 bid parts. The tumor is itself in part whitish and part 
 reddish, or marbled with yellow and blue. The caustic it 
 replaced with the poultiee, or with compresses smeared with 
 basillion ointment only, which are to be removed every thret 
 hours until the scar is detached ; the pain progressively di- 
 minishing in proportion as the mortincation advances, th« 
 line of demarkation daily becomes more eNident; about the 
 fourth or fifth day the cauterized portion begins to rise, and 
 from the eighth to the fifteenth day it becomes detached, or 
 can be removed with forceps, and without pain, exposing 
 a suppurating surface, secreting pus of good quality and 
 covered with healthy granulations. If any points remain 
 of less satisfactory appearance, or present traces of morbid 
 growth, a little of the paste is to be again applied, then dress 
 the sore as you would a simple* nicer; if the suppuratio* 
 proceedo too slowly, dress it with lint dipped in the following 
 solution: 
 
 Chloride of bromine 20 or 30 drops; Goulard's Extract froa 
 1 to 2 drs ; distilled water 16 ozs. 
 
 In the majority of cases healing takes place rapidly, cica- 
 tt-ization progre'&see from the circumference to the center, no 
 complications supervene, and the cicatrix (scar,) resemble* 
 that left by a cutting instrument. His internal j-emedy, t« 
 prevent a relapse, is, 
 
 Chloride of bromine 2 drops; powder of the seeds of water 
 fennel 23 grs ; extract of hemlock (Conium Maculatum) 12 grs.? 
 mix and divide into 20 pills; one to be taken daily for 2 months 
 and after that, 2 pilU for a month or two longer, 1 night and 
 morning, after meals. 
 
 In any case of Cancer, either the foregoing, internal rem- 
 edy ,t or some of the other Alteratives, should be taken two 
 or three weeks before the treatment is commenced, and 
 should also be continued for several weeks after its cure. 
 
 2. Dr. H. G. Judkins' Method. — This gentleman, of 
 Malaga, Monroe Co., 0., takes: 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 Cbloride of zinc the size of a hazel nut, and puts enough water 
 'With it to make a thin paste, then mixes with it equal parts of 
 flour, and finely pulverized charcoal, sufficient to form a tolerable 
 «(i£f paste. 
 
 ; He spreads this on a soft piece of sheep skin, sufficiently 
 large to cover the tumor, and applies every two days until 
 it 18 detached, then drdsses it with " Judkins' Ointment," 
 which see. Again — 
 
 3. L. S. HoDOKiNs' Method. — This gentleman is a mer- 
 
 •chant, of Reading, Mich. The method is not original with 
 
 hira, but he cured his wife with if, of cancer of the breast, 
 
 after having been pronounced incurable. Some would use 
 
 it because it contains calomel — others would not use it for 
 
 the same reason ; I give it an insertion from the f;ict that I 
 
 am well satisfied that it has cured the disease, and from its 
 
 singularity of composition. 
 
 "Take a white oak root and bore out the heart and burn the 
 «bip8 to get the ashes, J oz. ; lunar caustic J oz. ; calomel J oz. ; 
 salts of nitre ^salt petre) \ oz. ; the body of a thousand legged 
 worm, dried and pulverized, all to be made fine and mixed with 
 :J lb of lard. 
 
 Spread this rather thin upon soft leather, and apply to the 
 ijancer, changing twice a day; will kill the tumor in three or 
 four days, which you will know by the general appearance ; 
 then apply a poultice of soaked figs until it comes out, fibres 
 jand all; henl with a plaster made by boiling red beech 
 leaves in water, straining and boiling thick, then mix with 
 ."beeswax and mutton tallow to form a salve of proper con- 
 sistency. To cleanse the system while the above is being 
 used, and for some time after : 
 
 Take mandrake root, pulverized, 1 oz. ; epsom salts, 1 oz. ; put 
 into pure gin 1 pt., and take of this three times daily, from 1 tea 
 to a table-spoon, as you can bear. He knew of several other cures 
 itova. the same plan. 
 
 4. The juice of pokeberries, set in the sun, upon a pewter 
 dish, and dried to a consistence of a salve, and applie'^1 as a 
 plaster, has cured cancer. 
 
 5. Poultices of scraped carrots, and of yellow doqk root, 
 "have both cured, and the scraped carrot poultices, especially,' 
 not only cleanse tie sore, but remove the very ofiensive 
 ;£m«ll of fetor, which is characteristic of cancers. 
 
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 6. A gentleman in Ohio cures them by making a tea of 
 the yellow dock root, and drinking of it freely, washing the- 
 gore with the same several times daily for several days, then 
 poulticing with the root, mashed and applied twice daily^ 
 even on the tongue. 
 
 7. Rev. C. C. Cuyler, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., says h« hfts- 
 known several cases cured as follows : 
 
 Take the marrow-leaved dock-root and boll it in soft water antil< 
 very strong, wash the ulcer with this strong decoction 8 times in> 
 the 24 hours, fill the cavity also with.the same 2 minutes, each< 
 time, then bruise the root, and lay it on guaze, and lay the gauze 
 next to the ulcer, and wet linen cloths in the decoction, and lay 
 over the poultice; and each time let the patient drink a wine-glass 
 of the strong tea of the same root, with § of a glass of port wine 
 ' sweetened with honey. 
 
 8. Dr. Buchan's work on Medicine, gives the case of a 
 person who had cancer of thp tongue, cured in fourtf^jn. 
 days, as follows : 
 
 Dilute nitric acid 1 oz ; honey 2oz3. ; pure water 2 pts ; nlx.- 
 DosB — Three table-spoons frequently; to be sucked past thf teeth, 
 through a quill or tube. * 
 
 Opium was given at night, simply to keep down bain. 
 
 9. Great English Rembdt — by which a brother oT 
 
 Lowell Mason was cured, is as follows: 
 
 Take chloride of zinc, blood-root pulverized, and flour, equal 
 quantities of each, worked into a paste, and applied until the mags' 
 comes out, then poultice and treat as a simple sore. ; 
 
 The Rural New Yorker, in reporting this case,* says, in 
 applying it, '' First spread a common sticking plaster much 
 larger than the cancer, cutting a circular piece from the 
 center of it a little larger than the cancer, applying it, which 
 exposes a narrow rim of healthy skin ; then apply th« mn- 
 cer plaster and keep it on twenty-four houi-s. On removing 
 it, the cancer will be found to be burned into, and appeairs 
 the color of an old shoe-sole, and the rim outside wiU 
 appear white and par-boiled, as if burned by steam. 
 
 " Dress with slippery elm poultice until suppuration t»kes 
 place, then heal with any common salve." 
 
 10. Armenian Method — In Armeni^, a salve, made by boiling- 
 olive oil to a proper consistomce for the use, is reported by aik 
 eastern traveler to have cured very bad cases. 
 
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 11. Figs boiled in ivew milk until tender, then split and applied 
 lot— chaDging twice daily, washing the parts everv change, 
 vith some of the milk— drinking 1 gill of the milk also as 
 WIen. 
 
 And continuing from three to four months, is also 
 
 jwported to have cured a man ninety-nine years old by 
 
 Bsing only six pounds, whilst ten pounds cured a case of ten 
 
 jears' standing. The f^nt application giving pain, but 
 
 •fterwaids relief, every application. 
 
 12. Red Oak Bark. — A salve from tbo ashes, has long 
 Been credited for curing* cancer, and as I have recently seen 
 ^ method given for preparing and using it, by Isaac Dil- 
 
 - Ion, of Oregon, published in a paper near him, I cannot 
 leep the benefit of it from the public. The directions were 
 a«it to. him by his father, John Dillon, sen., of Zanesville, 
 O., and, from ray knowledge of the Dillon family, I have the 
 vtmost confidence in the prescription. It is as follows : 
 
 Take red oak bark ashes one peck; pat on to them, boiling wa- 
 ter 6 qts. ; let it stand 12 hodrs; then draw off the hy and boil 
 to a thick salve; spread this, pretty thick, npon a thick cloth a 
 Kttle larger than the cancer, and let it remain on 3 hours; if it 
 is too severe, half of that time; the same day, or the next, apply 
 •gain 3 hours, which will generally effect a cure; after the last 
 Blaster, wash the sore with warm milk and water; then apply a 
 healing salve made of mutton tallow, bark of elder, with a little 
 Bosin and l^s-wax, (some root of white lily maybe added,) 
 •tewed ov«r a slow fire; when the sore begins to matterate, 
 wash it 8 or 4 times dail^, renewing the salve each time; avoid 
 •trong diet, and strong drmk, but drink a tea of sassafras root 
 SDd spice- wood tops, for a week before and after the plaster. 
 
 18. Pbof. R. S. Newton, of Cincinnati, uses the chloride of 
 rinc, a saturated solution, (as strong as can be made,) or makes 
 Hie chloride into a paste, with thick gum solution. 
 
 In cases of large tumora he often removes the bulk of 
 them with a knife, then applies the solution, or paste, as he 
 thinks best, to destroy any remaining roots which have been 
 •evered by the knife. 
 
 14. Prof. Calkins, of Philadelphia, prefers a paste made from 
 yellow-dock, red-clover, and poke, using the leaves only of either 
 article, in equal quantities. ^ 
 
 Boiling, straining, and simmering to a paste, applying 
 from time to time, to cancerous growths or tumors, until the 
 «ntire mass is destroyed, then poultice and heal as usual. 
 
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 But Dr. Beach, of N. Y., who is a man of much experi- 
 ence in cancers, says beware of the knife, or any plaster 
 which destroys the cancer or tumor; but first use discutients, 
 (meo'cines which have a tendency to drive away swellings,) 
 unless aheady ulcerated, then, mild poultices to keep up a 
 discharge from the ulcer, N/ith alteratives, long continued, 
 keeping the bowels regular, Ac. , Ac. The Vienna physi' 
 cians, as well as Dr. Beach, allow the inhalation of a few 
 drops of chloroform where the pain is excruciating. And I 
 would say, apply a little externally, also, around the sore. 
 
 Cancers should not be disturbed as long as they do not 
 grow nor ulcerate, but as soon as either begins, then is the 
 time to begin with them. 
 
 COSTIVENESS— -To Cuwc.— Costive habits are often 
 brought on by neglecting to go to stool at the usual time, 
 for most persons have a regular daily passage, and the most 
 usual time is at rising in the morning, or immediately after 
 breakfast; but hurry, or negligence, for the want of an un^ 
 derstanding of the evil arising from putting it off, these calls 
 of nature are suppressed ; but let it be understood, nature^ 
 like a good workman or srudent, has a time for each duty ; 
 then nc* only let her work at her own time, but if tardy go 
 at this time and not only aid but solicit her call, or in other 
 words : 
 
 When nature ccHU at eUher door, do not attempt to bluff her ; 
 But Aoufe-aioay, night {>: day^ or heaUh is sure to suffer. 
 
 The above with attention to diet, using milk, roasted apples, 
 and if not dyspeptic, uncooked apples, pears, peaches, &c., at 
 mealtime, "Yankee Brown bread," or bread made of unbolted 
 wheat, if preferred, and avoiding a meat diet, will in most cases 
 soon remedy the difficulty. Howover : 
 
 2. In very Obstinatb Oasis— Take extract of henbane \ dr.; 
 extract of colocynth \ dr. ; extract of nux vomica 3 grs. ; carefully 
 work into pill mass, and form into 15 pil7s. Doss— one pill 
 night and morning. 
 
 Continue their use until the difficulty iS overcome, at the 
 same time, following the previous directions, faithfully, 
 
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 "With many persons the following will be found all suflBcient : 
 
 3. Brandt — \ pt.; and put intu it rhabarb-root, bruizsd, 1 dr. ; 
 hiera-picra 1 02 ; and fennel seed ^ oz. 
 
 After ii has stood for several days, take a table-spoon of 
 it three tioies daily, before eating, until it operates, then half 
 the quantity, or a little less, just sufficiei^t to establish a daily 
 action of the bowels until all i^ taken. Or, the second pill 
 under the head of Eclectic Liyer Pill may be taken as an 
 alterative to bring about the action of the liver, which is, of 
 course, naore or less inactive in most cases of long continued 
 costiveness. 
 
 4. CoBN Mkal— 1 table-spoon siinred up in sufficient oold 
 water to drinli well, and drank in the morning immediately after 
 rising, haa, with perdeverance, cured many bad cases. 
 
 6 A Fresh Egg — Beat in a gill of water and drank on 
 yisipg in the morning, and at each meal, for a week to ten 
 days, has cured obstinate eases. It might be increased to 
 two or three at a time as the stomach will bear. 
 
 CHRONfC GOUT— To Cure.— «• Tall e hot-vinegar, and put 
 into it all the table salt which it will dissolve, and bath* the 
 parts affected with a Sv>ft niece of flannel. Rub in with the hand, 
 and dry the foot, &o., by the fire. Repeat this operation four 
 times in the 24 hours, 16 minutes each time, for four days; then 
 twice a day for the same period . then once, and follow this rule 
 whenever the symptoms bhow t'.iemselves at any future time." 
 
 The philosophy of the above formula is as follows : Chronic 
 gout proceeds from the obstruction of the free circulation of 
 uie blood (in the parts affected) by the deposit of a chalky 
 substance, which is generally understood to oe a carbonate 
 and phosphate of lime. Vinegar and salt dissolve these; 
 and the old chronic compound is broken up. The carbonate 
 of lime, (fee, become aceiata and muriate, and these being 
 soluble, are broken up by the circulating system, and dis- 
 charged by secretion. This fact will be seen by the gouty 
 joints becoming less and less m bulk until they assume their 
 natural size. During this process, the stomach and bowels 
 should be occasionally regulated by a gentle purgative. Ab- 
 stinence from spirituous libations; exercise in the open air, 
 and especially in the morning; freely bathing the whole 
 surface; eating only the plainest food, and occupying the 
 time by study, or useful employment, are very desirable as- 
 sistants. 
 
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 2. OooT TiNCTURB. — Veratrum viride, (swamp hellebore) } oz.; 
 opium \ o« ; wine J pt.; let tiiem Btunrl for several days. Dobb — 
 16 to 80 d>->p8, according to the robiutneas of the patient, at • 
 intervals of two to four hours. 
 
 M. Husson, a French oflBcer, introduced this remedy in 
 gout some sixty years ago, and it became so celebrated that it 
 sold as high as from one to two crowns a dose. It is con- 
 sidered valuable also in acute rheumatism. In gout it re- 
 moves the paroxyisms, allays pain, aud procures rost and 
 sleep, reduces the pulse and abates fcver. 
 
 3. Coffee has recently been recommended, not only for 
 o-out, but gravel also. Dr. Mosley observtc, in hi ) " Trea- 
 tise on Coffee," that the great use of the article in France is 
 supposed to have abated the prevalence of the gravel. In 
 the French colonies, where coffee is more used than in the 
 Fnglish, as well as in Turkey, where it is the principal bev- 
 erage, not only the gravel but the gout is scarcely known. 
 Dr. Faur relates, as an extraordinary instance of the effect 
 of ccffee on gout, the case of Dr. Deveran, who wai attacked ' 
 with gout at the age of twenty-five, and had it severely till 
 he was upwards of fifty, with chalk stones in the joints of 
 his hands and feet ; but for four years preceding the time 
 when the account of his case had been given to Dr. Faur' to 
 lay before the public, he had, by advice, used coffee, and had 
 no return of the g-^ijt afterward. 
 
 PARALYSIS.— If Recent— To Cure.— When paraly- 
 sis, (numb palsy) has existed for a great length of time, but 
 little benefit can be expected from any treatment; but if 
 recent, very much good, if not a perfect cure will be the re- 
 sult of faithfully governing yourself by the following direc- 
 tions with this: 
 
 Paralytic Linimbnt — Sulphuric ether 6 ozs.; alcohol 2 oas.; 
 laudanum ' . ; oil of lavender 1 oz. ; mix and cork tightly. In 
 a recent case ul paralysis let the whole extent of the numb surface 
 "be thoroughly bathed and rubbed with this preparation, for 
 several miuuiefl, Ubing the hand, at least three times daily, at the 
 same *ime take internally, 20 drops of the same, in a little sweet- * 
 ened water, to prevent translation upoa some internal organ. 
 
 It may be used in ol.l cases, and, in many of them, will 
 undoubtedly do much . good ; but I do not like to promise 
 what there is no reasonable chance to perform. It is well 
 
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 in very recent cases to keep the parts covered with flannels, 
 with a large amount of friction by the hand ; also, electricity 
 scientifically applied, that is by a physician, or some one who 
 has studied the nature and operations of the electrical ma- 
 chine. 
 
 This liniment should be appli i so freely that about ac 
 on ounce a day will be consumer on an arm or 1^, and if a 
 whole side is palsied, proportionally more. In cases of 
 pains in the stomach or side a teaspoon will be taken with 
 unusual success ; or for pain in the head, apply to the surface, 
 always bearing in mind that some should be taken internally 
 whenever an external application is made. In sprains and 
 bruises, where the surface is not broken, it will be found very 
 efficacious. It may be successfully rubbed over the seat of 
 any internal disease accompanied wita pain. 
 
 ENLARGED TON8ILS~To Cuha.—Where the tonsila 
 are enlarged from colds, or epidemic sore throat. 
 
 Take No. six 1 ois.; molauses 2 ozs.; and h6t water 4 ozs.; 
 mix, and stp a little into the throat often, swallowing a little 
 al^ ;'it keeps up a discharge of saliva irom those \yeai», and thus 
 relieves their swollen condition ; and stimulates to renewed healthy 
 action. 
 
 It has proved vory efficacious in the above epidemic cases, 
 which leave the tonsils much indurated (hardened), as weU 
 as swollen, with a tendency to chronic inflammation of the 
 whole larynx, or throat, often with little ulcers. In that 
 case: 
 
 Put 10 grs. of nitrate of silver to 1 oz. of water, with 3 or 4 
 drops of creosote, and swab the throat with it, and lay a flannel 
 wet with turpentine upon the outside. 
 
 The worst cases will shortly yield to this mild treatment. 
 Should there, however, be a disposition to fever, you might 
 also put the feet into hot water fifteen or twenty minute8,with 
 occasional sponging the whole surface. 
 
 SICK HEADACHE— To Curis.— Sick headache, pro- 
 per, arises from acidity, or over-loading the stomach ; when 
 it is not from over-eating, all that is necessary is to soak the 
 feet in hot water about twenty minutes, drinking at the san»e 
 time some of the herb teas, such as pennyroyal catnip, or 
 mint, (fee, then get into bed, cover up warm and keep up a 
 
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 sweating process for about an liou», by which time relief 
 will have been obtained ; but when food has been taken 
 which remains in the stomach, it is much the best way to 
 take an emetic, and the following is the 
 
 2. EcLSonc Embtic— Which is composed of lobelia, and 
 ipecacuanha, equal parts, and blood root half as much as of 
 either of the others, each pulverized separately, aud mix thor- 
 oughly. DosB — Half a common tea-spoon every 16 or 20 min- 
 utes in some of the warm teas, for instance, camomile flowers, 
 pennyroyal, or boneset ; drinking freely between doses of the 
 same tea in which you take it ; continue until you get a free and 
 full evacuation of the contents of the stomach. 
 
 After the operation, and when the stomach becomes a 
 little settled, some nourishment will be desired, when any 
 of the mild broths, or gruel, should be taken, in small qtian< 
 tities, without fear of increasing the difficulty. 
 
 •'There is, probably, no emetic surpassing thij, either in 
 efficacy of action, or efficiency in breaking up morbid, un- 
 healthy conditions of the system generally; and exciting 
 healthy action. It is excellent in croup, chronic affections 
 of the liver or stomach, (fee, and^ in fact when and where 
 ever an emetic is needed." — Beach, 
 
 But after a full trial of both, upon my own person and 
 others, I prefer lobelia seed alone, pulverized when used. 
 The manner of administering them has been the cause of 
 bringing the lobelia emetic into disrepute. I take '• Thomp. 
 son's Composition" tea, made as there directed and drink 
 two saucers of it, fifteen minutes apart, and w'th the third 
 I stir in one roundmg tea spoon of lobelia seed, pulverized, 
 and drink it; then every fifteen minutes I take another 
 saucer of the tea until free vomiting takes place, not taking 
 any more of the lobelia, by this course I think it more effi- 
 cient and thorough than the mixed emetic, and entirely free 
 from danger of the ** alarming symptoms," as they are called, 
 brought on by continuing to give the lobelia every few min- 
 utes instead of waiting its action, and all for want of knowl- 
 edge as to what that action should be ; but if you give it its 
 own time, continuing the stimulating tea, it will have its 
 specific action, which is to vomit, no matter a^, which end it 
 18 introduced. When it begins to vomit it will generally 
 continue its action until it empties the stomach, then I begin 
 to substitute the composition with : 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 3. Bread TeA{ Used in Taking Emetics —Made by taking a 
 piece of dry breivd and crumbing it into a bowl, with a little salt, 
 pepper and butter, to suit the taste, then pouring boiling water 
 upon it, this soon allays the retching, and strengthens the stomach 
 to renewed healthy action. 
 
 Pbriodical Headache. — There are those who have sick 
 headache coming on at periods of from a few weeks to two 
 or three months, lasting two or three days, accompanied 
 with nausea, and occasionally with vomiting. In these cases, 
 after using the emetic to relieve the present attack, take the 
 Cathartic Syrup next following : 
 
 4. Cathartic Syrup. — Best senna leaf 1 oz.; jalap k oz ; butter- 
 nut, the inner bark of the root, dried and bruised, 2 ozs. ; pepper- 
 mint leaf, ^ oz. ; fennel seed ^ oz.; alcohol ^ pt ; water 1| pts ; 
 sugar 2 lbs ; put all into the spirit and water, except the sugar, 
 and let it stand 2 weeks, then strain, pressing out froin the dregs, 
 adding the sugar and simmering a few minutes only, to form the 
 syrup. If it should cause griping in any case, increase the fennel 
 seed and peppermint leaf Dose —One table spoon, once a day, or 
 less often if the bowels become too loose, up to the next period 
 when the headache might have been expected, and it will not be 
 forthcoming. 
 
 This is a mild purgative, and especially pleasant. Most 
 persons, after a trial of it, will adopt it for their general 
 cathartic, and especially for children. Increase or lessen the 
 dose, according to th^ effect desired. 
 
 Females in a weak and debilitated condition, often have 
 a headache which is purely sympathetic ; this they will dis- 
 tinguish by their general weakness, irregularities, and light- 
 headedness, often amounting to real pain; in such cases 
 take the following : 
 
 5. Headaohb Drops. —Castor, gentian, and valerian roots, 
 bruised, | oz.; laudanum 1 oz ; sulphuric ether l^ oz ; alcohol i 
 pt.; water ^ pt ; put all into a bottle and let stand about 10 
 days. Dose — A teaspoon as often as required, or 2 or 3 times 
 daily. 
 
 6. Tincture of Blooo-Root. — Made by putting 1 oz. of the 
 dried, bruised root, to 1 pt. of gin, and takibg 1 teaspoon before 
 eating, evcy morning, and only a reasonable amount of easily 
 digested food : ' 
 
 Has worked wonders in cases where headaches had been 
 cf very long standing. And it might not^be amvB to say 
 that the majority of headaches are found amongst those who 
 are disposed to Dyspepsia, by long continued over- eating, 
 
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 ;rian roots, 
 
 tben reducing the gastric juice by over-drinking, even of 
 water, tea or coffee. 
 
 A Niles paper gives one which is easily tried. It is as 
 follows : 
 
 7. " Charcoal, a Curb for Sick Headache. — It is stated that 
 two tea-spoons of finely powdered charcoal, drank in half a tum- 
 bler of water, will, in less than 15 minutes, give relief to the sick 
 headache, when caused, as in most cases it is, by superabundance 
 of acid on the stomach. We have tried this remedy tim« and 
 again, and its efficacy in every instance has been signally satis- 
 factory." 
 
 "When headache has been brought on by eating too freely 
 of boiled beef, cabbage, (fee, or any other indigestible din- 
 ner, one cup of " good tea," at tea time, eating only a slice 
 of dry bread, will often allay the nervousness, quiet the 
 head, and aid in getting to sleep. The " Good Samaritan" 
 applied to the head is also good. 
 
 DELinroM TREMENS.— To Obtain Sleep.— Give an emetic 
 of ipecacuanha, then give 15 to 18 grs., of the same, ever 2 hours, 
 using th« shower bath, and giving all the beef tea the patient 
 desires. 
 
 The jail physician of Chicago reports thirty six-favorable 
 cases treated as above. In Boston, at the *' House of Cor- 
 rection," the danger arising from the sudden loss of their 
 accustomed stimulus, according to Puritanic economy, is 
 overcome by administering freely, a strong decoction of 
 wormwood. 
 
 2. Stihclatino Anodynm. — Sulphate of quinine 12 grs.; sulphate 
 of morphine 1 gr. ; mix, and divide into 6 powders, Dose- One 
 powder every hour. 
 
 Prof. King, of Cincinnati, 0., says that from two to four 
 powders of the above anodyne, will nearly every time pro- 
 duce sleep in this whisky delirum. 
 
 TYPHUS FEVER— To Prevent Infection.— Take nitre, (salt 
 petre,) pulverized, | oz. ; oil of vitriol | oz. ; put the nitre into a 
 tea-cup and set it on a red hot shovel, adding the vitriol one- 
 sizth at a time, stirring it with a pipe stem ; avoiding the fumes 
 as they rise from the cup ; no danger, however, in breathing the 
 air of the room. 
 
 The above amount is sufficient for a room twelve by six- 
 teen feet, and less or more according to the size of other 
 roomi?. Dr. J. C. Smith, of London, is said to have re- 
 
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 DR. CHaSE*S recipes. 
 
 ccived from Parliament £5000 for making this recipe public. 
 
 2. To purify the air from noxioun effluvia in sick rooms, 
 not of c<>ntagiou8 character, simply slice three or four 
 onions, place them on a plate upon the floor, changing them 
 three or four times in the twenty-four hours. 
 
 8. Disinfectant, fob Rooms, Miat, Ain> Fish.— Common salt 
 ^ a tea-cup; sulphuric acid 2 or 8 oz. ; put about A oz. ot the acid 
 upon the salt at a time, every 15 minutes, stirring until all 
 pot on : 
 
 Which will purify f. large room ; and for meat or fish, 
 hang them up in a box having a cover to it,and thus confine 
 the gas, and taiuted article's of food will »oon be purified, by 
 the same operation. And notwithstanding so much was 
 paid for the " Smith Disinfectant," the above will be found 
 equally good, 
 
 4. Coffee, dried and pulverized, then a' little of it 
 sprinkled upon a hot shovel, will, in a very few minutes, 
 clear a room of all impure effluvia,_and especially of an ani- 
 mal character. 
 
 5. Chloride of Lime — Half a saucer of it, moistened 
 •#ith an equal mixture of good vinegar and water, a few 
 drops at a time only, will purify a sick room in a few 
 minutes. 
 
 SWEATING PREPARATIONS. —SwBATisa Deops. —Ipecacu- 
 anha, saffroD, Virginia snake root, and camphor gum, each 2 ozs. ; 
 opium ^ oz. ; alcohol 2 qts. Let stand 2 weeks, shaking occa- 
 sionally. Dose — A tea spoon in a cup of hot pennyroyal, spear- 
 mint, or catnip tea, every half hour, until perspiration is 
 induced; then once an hour, for a few hours. 
 
 It is excellent in colds, fevei-s, pleurisy, inflammation of 
 
 the lungs, &c. It is good to soak the feet in hot'water at 
 
 the same time . 
 
 2. Sweating with Buenino AloohoIi. — Pour alcohol into a 
 saucer, to about half fill it; place this undei a chair; strip the 
 person, to be sweated, of all clothing, and place him in the chair, 
 putting a comforter over him, also; now light a match and throw 
 mto the saucer of alcohol, which sets it on fire, and by the time 
 the alcohol is burned out he will be in a profuse perspiration, if 
 not, put in half as much more of alcohol and fire it again, which 
 will accomplish the object; then rise up and draw the comforter 
 around you, and get into bed, following up with hot tcus and 
 sweating drops, an in the first atove. 
 
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 This last plan of cweating is also good in recent cold^ 
 pleurisy, iDflammation of the lungs, and all other inflamma- 
 tory diseases, either in recent attacks, or of long standinv 
 complaints. See t.be closing remarks af^^^r the treatment^ 
 " Pleurisy," also " Ginger WiQe," 
 
 IMPERIAL DROP,— Fob Obaybl and Kidney Complaintb.— 
 Take saltpetre 1 oz.; putting it into an iron mortar, dropping iu 
 a live coal with it, which sets it on fire ; stir it around uutil it ak 
 melts down into the solid form, bl«>w out the coals and pulverise 
 it ; then take an equal amount of bi-carbonate of potassia, or 
 saleratus, and dissolve both in soft water 2 ozs. Dose— from ^ 
 to 80 drops, morning and evening, in a swallow of tea made from 
 flax seed, or a solution of gum arable. 
 
 In connection with the drop?, let the patient take from 
 a table-spoon to two or three table-fipoons of onion juice — 
 that is, all the stomach- will bear — eating all the raw oTiions 
 he can, and continue it until free of the complaint. I hav« 
 seen gravel the size of a common quill, crooked, and one 
 and one fourth inches in length, which a lady passed from 
 the bladder, and smaller bits almost innumerable, by tb« 
 simple use of onion juice alone. 
 
 The onion juic^ (red onions are said to be the best^) has, 
 and may be injected through a catheter, into the bladder; 
 Lave no fears to do this, for I know a physician of forty 
 years' pi-actice who has done it five times with success — a 
 physician, however, w.ould have to be called to introduce 
 the catheter. 
 
 2. In what is termed '' Fits of the Gravel," that is, whei© 
 small gravel has become packed in (he ureter, (tube which 
 leads from the kidney to the bladder,) causing excruciating 
 pain in that region, a pill of opium must be given, varying 
 in size from one to three grains, according to the paiiv 
 strength, and age of the patient. 
 
 3. A strong decociion made by using a large handful of smaii 
 weed, adding a gill of gin, and a gill each of horse mint and 
 oniou juices, and taking^ all in 12 hours, has been known to dis- 
 charge gravel in large quantities* — Philadelphia Eclectic Journal. 
 
 Tbe surest sign of gravel is the dark appearance of the 
 urine, as if mixed with coffee grounds, and a dull pain ia 
 the region of the kidney — if only inflammation, the darknes* 
 will not appear. See the closing remarks upon Gout. 
 
 CAMPHOR ICE.— Foe Chapped Hands oe Lips.- Sperm- 
 
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 DR chase's recipes. 
 
 acetic tallow IJ ov:. ; oil of sweet almonds 4 toa-spoona; gum 
 camphor | oz.; made fine: Set on the stove until dissolved, 
 constantly stirring. Do not use only just sufficient heat to melt 
 them. 
 
 Whilst warm, pour into moulds if desired to sell, then 
 paper and put up in tin foil. If for your own use, put up in 
 a tight box. Apply to the chaps or cracks two or three 
 .jbtmes daily, especially at bed time 
 
 '15URNS.— Salvh Foa Burns, j. eost-Bitbs, Chacked Nipples, &o. 
 — A|ual parts of turpentine, sweet oil, and beeswax; melt the oil 
 add wax together, and when n little cool, add the turpentine, and 
 stir until cold, which keeps them evenly mixed. 
 
 A.pply by spreading upon thin cloths— linen is the best. 
 I used this salve upon one of ray own children, only a year 
 and a half old, which had pulled a cup of hot coffee upon 
 itself, beginning on the eye lid and extendino; down the face, 
 neck and breast, also over the shoulder, and in two places 
 across the arm, the skin coming off with the clothes; in 
 fifteen minutes from the application of the salve, the child 
 ■yfM asleep, and it never cried again from the burn, and not a 
 j)article of scar left. 
 
 it is good for chaps on hands or lipe, or foi* any other 
 sore. If put on burns before blistering has taken place, 
 they will not blister. And if applied to sore or cracked 
 nipples every time after the child nurses, it soon cures them 
 also. For nipples, simply rubbing it on is sufficient I find 
 it valuable also for pimples, and common healing purposes; 
 Aud I almost regret to add any other preparations for the 
 -same purposes, for fear that some one will neglect this; but 
 iis there may be cases where some of the following can be 
 made when the above cannot, I give a few others known to 
 hQ valuable. The first one is from Dr. Downer, of Dixboro, 
 within six miles of our city ; be used it in a case where a 
 boy fell backwards into a tub of hot water, scalding the 
 whole buttock, thighs, and privates, making a bad scald in a 
 bad place, but he succeeded in bringing him successfully 
 through, and from it containing opium, it might be prefer- 
 ajble to the first in deep and very extensive burns, tut in 
 that case the opium might be added to the fii-st. It is as 
 
 follows •. 
 
 2. Db. Downer's Salve fob Burns. —Beeswax 4 ozs ; opium 
 \ OB , sugar of lead 1 oa. ; melt the beeswax, and rub the lead 
 
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 up in the wax, then tbo opium, and finally add about a gill ol 
 sweet oil, or sufficient to make a salve of proper consistence. 
 
 Spread ligbtly on cloth — no pain, he says, will be felt 
 
 under its use. He highly recommends it for the pain and 
 
 inflammation of Piles, also. 
 
 8. Poultice fo.: Burns and Frozen Fles^.— A. Bronson, of 
 Meadvilie, Pa., says, from 16 years' experience, that Indian meal 
 poultices covered with Young Hyson tea, moistened with hot 
 water, and laid over burns or frozen parts, as hot as can be 
 borne, will relieve the pain in i minutes, and that blisters, it they 
 have not, will not arise, and that onj poultice is usually suffi- 
 cient. 
 
 4. Salve for Burns — Beeswax, Burgundy pitch, white pine 
 pitch, and rosin, of each J lb.; mutton tallow \ lb,; goose oil 
 1 gill ; tar ^ gil^, mixed and melted together, and used as other 
 salves. 
 
 This was used successfully on a very bad case, burned all 
 over the face, neck, breast, bowels, <fec., soothing and quiet- 
 ing pain, giving rest and sleep directly. 
 
 6. Garden and Kitchen Salve fob Burns and Frost Bites. i—- 
 Liveforever and sweet clover leaves, camomile and sweet elder, 
 the inner batk, a handful of each ; simmer them in fresh butter 
 and mutton i allow, of each, ^ lb.; when crisped, strain out, and 
 add 2 or 8 ozs. of beeswax to form a salve. Spread very thin on 
 thin cloth. 
 
 Mrs. Miller, of Macon, Mich., cured a bad case with this, 
 burned by the clothes taking fire, nearly destroying the 
 whole surface. She speaks of it in equal praise for cuts and 
 frost bites. See the Green Ointment also for Chilblains. 
 
 6, The white of an egg beat up, then beat for a long- 
 time with a table-spoon of lard, until a little water separate* 
 from them, I have found good for burns, 
 
 1. The white oxide of bismuth, rubbed up in a little 
 lard, is also a good application in burns. 
 
 8. Glycerine and tannin, equal weights, rubbed together 
 into an ointment, is very highly recommended for sore or 
 cracked nipples. See Dr. Raymond's statement in connec- 
 tion with the treatment of Piles. 
 
 ITCHING FEET FROM FROST BITES— To Cube.— Take hy- 
 irochloric acid 1 oz.; rain water 7 ozs.; wash the feet with it 2 
 or 8 times daily, or wet the socks with the preparation uatUf 
 relieved. 
 
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 A gentleman whose feet had lieen frozen, in the Alps, 
 sight years before, and another man's had been frozen two 
 jears befoie on the Sierra-Kevada mountains, were effect- 
 ually :iired by its use, 
 
 CHILBLAINS,— To CuaB.— Pobushid by OaDsa of thi Got- 
 caNUENT OF WiRTBMBUEG. — Muttom tallow and lard, of each | lb.; 
 melt in an iron vessel and add hydrated oxyde of iron 2 oz. ; 
 stirring continually with an iron spoon, until the mass is of an 
 vniform black color ; then let it cool and add Venice-turpentine 2 
 •s. ; and Armenian bole 1 oz ; oil of bergamot 1 dr. ; rub up the 
 lole with a little olive oil before putting it in. 
 
 Apply several times'daily, by putting it upon lint or linen 
 — heals the worst cases in a few days. 
 
 . Chilblains arise from severe cold to the part, causing 
 inflammation, often ulcerating, making deep, and very 
 troublesome, long continued sores. 
 
 FELONS,- If Bboknt, to Cdkb in Six Eoubs— Venice turpen- 
 tine 1 oz. ; and put into it half a tea-spoon of water, and stir with 
 a rough stick until thf mass looks like candied honey, then spread 
 a good coat on a oloth and wrap around the finger. If the case 
 . is only recent, it will remove the pain in 6 hours. 
 
 2. A "poke root poultice on a felon cures by absorption, 
 finless matter is already formed ; if it is, it soon brings it to 
 a head,, and thus saves much pain and suffering. 
 
 3v BTne flag and hellebore roots, etpal parts, boiled in 
 milk and water, then soak the felon in it for twenty minutes, 
 as hot as can be borne, and bind the roots on the parts for 
 one hour, has cured many felono, when commenced in time. 
 
 4. A poultice of clay, from an old log house, made and 
 "kept wet with spirits of camphor, is also good . 
 
 5» Felon Ointment.-- Take sweet oil J pint, and stew a 3 cent 
 pAig of tobacco in it until the tobacco is crisped ; then squeeze it 
 out and add red lead 1 oz., and boil until black ; when a little 
 oool, add pulverized camphor gum 1 oz. 
 
 Mrs. Jordan, of Clyde, 0., paid ten dollars for this recipe, 
 and has cured many bad felons, as well as bad fellows, with it 
 Bad fellows because they did not pay her. Certainly, this 
 is a rational use of tobacco. 
 
 6. Felon Salvb. — A salve made by burning one table- 
 spoon of copperas, then pulverizing it and mixing with the 
 jolk of an egg^ is said to relieve the pain, and cure the felon 
 
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 Id Iv^entv-four hours ; then heal with croam two parts, and 
 soft soap one part. Apply the healing s&lve daily after 
 soaring the part in warm water. 
 
 DEAFNESS. —If R».'wjt, to Cubi, if hot, to Rnnivi. — Hen's 
 c^l 1 gill ; and a single handful oi' the sweet clover raised in gar- 
 dens ; stew it in the oil until the juice is all out, strain it and 
 bottle for use. 
 
 Where deafntsss is recent, it will be cured by putting three 
 or four drops daily into the ear, but if of long standing, 
 much relief will be obtained if continued a sufficient lengu 
 of time. 
 
 2. Much has been said in France about suj^ uT'ric ether, 
 lirst tried by Madam Cleret, of Paris; and, although she 
 lost her reason by the elation of feeling brought on, no 
 doubt, by the honor givon her for the discovery, yet the 
 continued trial of the article does not give the sati^Csction 
 which had been hoped for from its first suiccess. 
 
 WARTS AND CORNS -To Curb w Tin Minotss.— Take a small 
 pieco of potash and let it stand In the open air until it slacks, 
 then thicken it to a paste with pulverized gum arable, which pre- 
 vents it from spreading where it is not wanted. 
 
 Pare off the seeds of the wart or the dead skin of the 
 corn, and apply the paste, and let it remain on ten minutes; 
 wash off and soak the place in sharp vinegar or sweet oil, 
 either of which will neutralize the alkali. Now do not jam 
 nor squeeze out the wart or corn, like " street-corner ped- 
 dlers," but leave them alone, and nature will remove them 
 without danger of taking cold, as would be if a sore is made 
 by pinching them out. Corns are caused by pressure; in 
 most cases removing the piessure cures the corn. Nine of 
 every ten corns can be cured by using twice, daily, upon it, 
 any good liniment, and wearing loose shoes or boots. See 
 Good Samaritan. 
 
 2. Cure for Corns. — If a cripple will take a lemon, cut 
 off a piece, then nick it so as to let in the toe with the corn, 
 the pulp next the corn — tie this on at night, so that it can- 
 not move— he will find next morning that, with a blunt 
 knife, the corn will come away to a great extent. Two or 
 three applications of this will make a " poor cripple" happy 
 for life. — London Field. 
 
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 3. Acetic Acid, touched to hard or soft corns, nighl and 
 morning, for one week, will cure them. So will the Sjiraar- 
 itan liniment, which see. 
 
 4. Dr. Hariman's Innocbnt and Sure Ctjrk for Corns, Warts 
 AND Chilblains.— Nitric and muriatic acids, blue vitriol and salts 
 of tartar, of each 1 oz ; add the blue vitriol, pulverized, to either 
 of the acids, and in the same way add the salts of tartar ; when 
 done foaming add the other acid, and in a few days it will be fit 
 for use. 
 
 Directions. — For frosted feet, rub them with a swab or 
 brush, wet with this solution very lightly, every part that 
 is red and dry ; in a day or two, if not cured, apply again 
 as before. For corns, apply in like manner, scraping off 
 dead skin before using. For warts wet once a week until 
 they disappear, which will be soon, for it is a certain cure 
 in all the above cases, and very cheap. So says the Doctor, 
 of Anderson, Ind. 
 
 5 . A gentleman in Ohio offers to pay ten dollars a piece 
 for all corns not cured in three days by bit ding a bit of 
 cotton batting upon it, and wetting it three times a day 
 with spirits of turpentine. 
 
 6. 1 am assured by a gentleman of Syracuse, N". Y., that a 
 plaster of the " Green Mountain Salve," put upon a corn, 
 will completely cure it by the time it naturally comes off. 
 
 LINIMENTS. — Go;>D Samaritan— Improved. — Take 98 per cent 
 alcohol 2 qts., and add to it the following articles: Oils of sassa- 
 fras, hemlock, spirits of turpentine, tinctures of cayenne, catechu, 
 guaicaci, (guac,) and laudanum, of each 1 oz ; tincture of myrrh 
 I 0Z8. ; oil of origanum 2 ozs. ; oil of wintergreea } oz, ; gum 
 camphor 2 ozs. ; and chloroform 1^ ozs. 
 
 I have used the above liniment over five years, and can- 
 not speak too highly of its value; I have cured myself of 
 two severe attacks of rheumatism with it, the firet in the 
 knee and the last in the shoulder, three years after; my 
 wife has cured two corns on the toes with it, by wetting 
 them twice daily for a few days ; and it is hard to think of 
 anything which it has not cured, such as sprains, bruises, 
 cuts, jams, rheumatism, weak back, reducing swellings 
 curing leg-ache in children from over-playing, for horse- 
 flesh, &c,, <fec. But you will allow me one remark about 
 liniments — they ought jn all cases to be put on and rubbed 
 
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 in frdm twenty to thirty minuteR, and laying the hand on 
 the part until it burns from its etiecls, instead of one or two 
 minutes, as is the usual custom ; and if made by the quart, 
 you can use them freely, as the cost is not more than about 
 one-eighth as much as to purchase the two shilling bottles. 
 Wetting flannel with the liniment, and binding on, is a good 
 mannef of application. Dr. Hale, of this city, has adopted 
 this liniment for creneral use; but for headache and neural- 
 gia, he takes eigut ounces of it and adds an ounce of chlo- 
 roform, and half an ounce of oil of wintergreen, rubbing 
 upon the head, holding to the nostrils, <fec. The full pres- 
 cription will usually cost about two dollars. 
 
 2. LiNiMBNT FOE Old Soms. . — Alcohol 1 qt.; aqua amraopJa 
 4 ozs. ; oil of origanum 2 ozs ; camphor gum 2 ozs.; opium 2 ozs.; 
 gum myrrh 2 ozs ; common salt 2 table-spoons. Mix, and shake 
 occasionally for a week. 
 
 This was presented for insertion by H. Loomis, of Ed- 
 wardsburg, Mich., hoping it might do many others as much 
 good as it had done himself and neighbore. He showed me 
 scars of an old sore on his leg which he had cured with it, 
 aftvjr years of suffering; and also called up a young man 
 whose father he had cured of a similar sore, years before, 
 which had never broken out again ; he used it twice daily. 
 His leg became sore after a protracted fever, I have great 
 confidence in it. He uses it also for cuts, bruises, horse- 
 flesh, inflammatory rheumatism, &c., &c. 
 
 8. Db. Raymond's Linihbmt. — Alcohol 1 qt. ; oils of origanum 
 2 ozs. , and wormwood 1 oz ; with camphor gum 2 ozs. ; spirits of 
 turpentine 2 ozs, ; and tincture of cautharides 1 oz. Mixed and 
 used as other liniments. 
 
 Dr. D. W. Raymond, of Conneaut, 0., thinks that the 
 
 last is the best liniment in the world. 
 
 4. Gbrhan RaRUMATic Fluid. — Oils of hemlock and cedar, of 
 each ^ oz. ; oils of origanum and sassafras, each 1 oz. ; aqua am- 
 monia 1 oz.; capsicum, pulverized, 1 oz.; spirits of turpentine 
 and gum camphor, each ^ oz ; put all into a quart bottle, and fill 
 with 95 per cent, alcohol. 
 
 The Germans 8pea"k equally in praise of this fluid, as a 
 liniment, as Dr. Raymond does of his, besides they say it ia 
 very valuable for colic in man or horse. Dosk. — For colic, 
 for man, half a tea-spoon; for a horse, one-half to one ounce 
 in a little warm water, every fifteen minutes, until relieved. 
 
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 A g«fntleinan purchased a horae for seventy Ave doiUrsr 
 which had b«6n strained in one of the fetlocks, worth b^ore 
 the strain one hundred and twenty-five dollars. He cared 
 him with this liniment, and sold him for the original value. 
 He cured his wife also of neuralgia, with the same, since I 
 have published thia recipe. Judge ye of its value. 
 
 6. Cook's ELKorRO-MAOMSTic Liniment.— Bunt alcohol 1 gal. ; 
 oil of Hmber 8 oss. ; gum camphor 8 ozh. ; castile soap, shaved 
 fine, 2 OH. ; beef's gall, 4 on. ; ammonia, 8 F's strong, 12 oss. ; 
 mix, and shake occasionally for 12 hours, and it is fit for use. 
 
 This will be found a strong and valuable liniment, and at^j 
 
 cheap. It may be used in swellings, strains, disc., aL i 
 
 rubbed upon the throat, breast and lungs, in asthma, sore 
 
 throat, Ac, 
 
 LiNiMKNT FOR Spinal Atfrotions — Take a pint bottle and put 
 into it oil of origanum, wormwood, spirits of turpentine, and gum 
 camphor, of each I oz., and fill it with beat alcohol. 
 
 Mr. Barr, a gentleiuan with whom I. have been acquainted 
 for acme four years, has been troubled with spinal weakness 
 and pains, and he iinds great relief from the use of this liui- 
 ment ; and his daughter took it internally for a cough, also, 
 with success. 
 
 7. Grkat London Linimknt.— Take chloroform, olive oil, and 
 aqua ammonia, of each I oz ; acetate of morphia, 10 grs . Mix 
 and use as other liniments. Very valuable. 
 
 8. Gum Linimknt.— Take gum myrrh, gum camphor, and gum 
 opium, of each \ oz ; cayenne pepper ^ oz. ; alcohol 1 pt. ; iQix. 
 
 This liniment is ready for use in three or four days, and 
 is very highly recommended by E. Burrows, of Matamora, 
 Lapeor Co. Mich. He prefers rum, if a good article can 
 be got, in place of the alcohol. This would be excellent in 
 colic, or diarrhea also, 
 
 9. Patent Liniment. — In order that those who purchase 
 thfc patent liniments may know what they are buying, I give 
 a formula, from which over twenty thousand dollars worth 
 of liniment was sold in two yeare' time, but one of the 
 partners going out of the firm and into the livery business, 
 gave me the plan as follows : 
 
 Take whisky 16 gals., and put into it 2 Ibt. of capBicum, pul- 
 verized, let stand 10 days and percolate, or draw off the whisky, 
 free of the sediment ; in the mean* time take 1 gal. of spirits of tur- 
 
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 ima, gore 
 
 peniiiie and v*\t into it oils of origunum, horte-mini, HaimfrM, 
 «nd hemlock, 6 on. each ; adci gum camphor 2 lbs. Mix and it 
 is ready to sell, for the purpose of gulling those who suppose 
 everybody to be honest becanso they are thenisslves so. 
 
 But that no loss may aiise from the space this liDiment 
 redpe occupies here, I will tell you how to make a good lin- 
 iment, by using a part of that with the following : 
 
 Take of the patent liniment 8 ozs. ; sweet oil and oils of origa- 
 num, sassafras and aqua ammonia, of each 2 ozs. , and mU, 
 shaking well as used, and thid mixture will make a splendid horse 
 liniment, with which you can easily blister, by bandaging the part 
 if desired, and wetting the bandage with it. 
 
 The first would cost less than $1 per gallon, whilst the 
 
 retail price, two shillings per bottle, makes it over $2 per 
 
 quart See where your money goes. 
 
 10. LoBRLU. AND Catsnms Liniuent.— Take a quart bottle and 
 put into it^ OS. of Cayenne, pulverized, t' en put in 2 oks. of lobe- 
 lia herb, and All up the bottle with whisky ; in two weeks it is 
 ready for use, and applicable for cuts, bruises, strains, sprains, &c. ; 
 and it will heal cork cuts in the feet of oxen or horses, without 
 stopping them from labor, and with but very little soreness, by 
 applying 2 or three times daily. 
 
 I know a gentleman who had a gash cut in his scfcip, four 
 inches in length, and to the skull in depth, by a falling limb, 
 which by the use of this liniment only, as strange "w it may 
 appear, it healed without pain or soreness. But some may 
 object to it as a whisky liniment. I admit it to be such, but 
 by knowing how to make it yourselves, you get it for a 
 whisky price, and if it be not found as good as one-half of 
 the two-shilling-a-bottle liniments, then you may tell me 
 that I do not know when I have a good thing. 
 
 11. LiNiMBNT— Said to bb St. John's.— For 70 doz. bottles take 
 spirits of turpentine and seneca oils, of each 4 gals. ; linseed or 
 sweet oil, 2 gals.; oik of oria;inum, hemlock, juniper, amber, and 
 laudanum, of each 8 qts ; spirits of ammonia 1 qt. ; tincture of 
 arnica 2 gals.; camphor gum 1 lb. Put all into a keg and shake 
 well ; when you wish to fill into small bottles, shake it well 
 and draw into a convenient bottle or pitcher to pour from ; and 
 shase it well every time you fill five bottles ; and shake the 
 bottle whenever you use the liniment ; thus it might be called 
 "Shaking" Liniment. No matter what you call it, however, it 
 is a good one. 
 
 I obtained the recipe of a young gentleman who jrked 
 in Mr. St. John's store over a year, yet much care was taken 
 
 't 
 
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 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES, 
 
 to prevent the knowledge of its exact composition from being 
 found out by aasistauts; it \% a well known fact, however, 
 that an observing mind can learn much, although not ex- 
 pressed in words. Perhaps he will blame me tor publishing 
 information gained in that way, but I obtain knowledge for 
 the benefit of the people ; and as I have called on the Doc- 
 tor two ditferent times to sell my work, but could not suc- 
 ceed, I do not feel under any special obligations to him, and 
 if I did, I go in for the greatest good to the greatest num- 
 ber. Were it not so, I should not publish much I ,t is 
 contained in this work, for there are many persons who have 
 and are making fortunes out of single recipes, now published 
 for the benefit of the world. 
 
 Because I could not sell my Recipes to I. L . St. John, a 
 dmggist, of Tiffin, 0., however, is not saying that I do not 
 sell them to druggists generally, as I do. In Aurora, 111., 
 I sold to six, and in Pomeroy, 0., to seven, every one in 
 either place, which is not common. They are, however, not 
 only anxious to obtain information generally, but also willing 
 to impart it to othei-s; and how Mr. St. John should have 
 obtained as good recipes as the ones here attributed to him, 
 without sometime having bought^ is a little surprising; for 
 as a general rule, those who put out " Patent Medicines," 
 are not themselves the originators of the recipes; even Dr. 
 Jayne is reported, I know not how truly, to have picked up 
 the recipe in an out-house, for his celebrated Alterative, I 
 eay, then, am I not justified in publishing these recipes ? 
 l»Jay, more! am I not honorable in thus benefitting the 
 people? I rest the matter with them, always willing to 
 abide their decision. 
 
 Persons only wishing to put up for their own use, will 
 take one-seventieth of the various amounts, which will be 
 about as followb : 
 
 Turpentine and Seneca oils, of each, 7J ozs.; sweet oil and 
 tincture of arnica, of each, 3|ozs.; oils ot criganum, hemlock, 
 juniper, amber, and laudanum, of each, 1^ ozs.; spirits of ammo- 
 nia ^ oz , and gum camphor ^ oz , which makes a little less than 
 1 qt., there being 64 qta., besides the gum camphor, in the whole 
 amount. 
 
 This calculation • will be suflSciently near for all practical 
 purpose. 
 
 I have solvl the condition powder and liniment, out of the 
 
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 drug store, made by the Doctor, which has always given 
 good satisfaction. And I think any one who tries both will 
 be as well pleased with those made from these recipes as 
 wilh that which is sent out from Tiffin, and make it for one- 
 fom'th the cost of the other. 
 
 COD LIVER OIL — Made Palatabue and more Diqbstibijb — 
 To each bottle, add fine table salt 1 oz. Mix well. 
 
 By this veiy simple plan cod liver oil has its peculiar un- 
 pleasantness overcome, as well aa made far more easy for the 
 stomach to dispose of. But even with this improvement, I 
 do not consider a tablespoon of it equal, for consumption, to 
 a glass of rich, sweet cream, with a tea-spoon of best brandy 
 in it, to be drank at each meal. 
 
 CONSUMPTIVES.— Syritp Very SuccB»»FOL.-Take tamarack 
 'oark, without rossing, (the moss may be bruised off,) 1 peck; 
 spikenard root J lb.; dandelion root J lb.; hops 2 ozs. Boil 
 these sufficiently to get the strene'th, in 2 or 8 gals of water, 
 ptrain aad boil down to 1 gal. ; whta blood warm add 3 lbs. of 
 honey and 3 pta. of best brandy; bottle, and keep in a cool place. 
 DosB — A wine glass or a little less, as the stomach will bear, 3 or 
 4 times daily, before meals and at bed time. 
 
 Consumption may justly be called the King of diseases, 
 but he has, many times, been obliged to haul down his col- 
 ors, and give place to health, and consequent happiness, when 
 he came in contact with the above syrup. It does not, how- 
 ever, contain any of the articles usually put into syrups for 
 this di8ea<se — this of itself ought to obtain for it a considera- 
 won. I have been told, and that by a professional man, that 
 there was not an article in it of any value for consumption, 
 I have acknowledged it does not contain any articles com- 
 monly useil for that disease ; but all >w me to ask if they 
 cure the disease in one case out of a hundred ? The answer 
 is. No. I ain now using this on a case within a few miles of 
 the city, who hf d called one of our Professors. He promised 
 banefit, and diet benefit about one week ; subsequently, two 
 other physicians were also called without any lasting benefit. 
 He had not cut his wood for nearly a year, nor done other 
 labor to any extent; he has now taken our syrup nearly three 
 months; he was weak, spare in flesh, and coughed very 
 much, with cold feet and surface ; he is now stout, fleshy, 
 and scarcely any cough; surface and feet warm. What 
 
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 DR chase's BECIPES. 
 
 more could be asked ? Yet he is very careless, for I called 
 on him on a cold, snowy day lately, and he was in the woods, 
 for wood. Do I need better proof of its value ? No one 
 would expect sickness of the stomach to arise from its use, 
 from the articles of which it is composed, but the first dose 
 usually make^ the person rather sick at the stomach, and 
 sometimes vomits, but don't fear to continue its use. I bad 
 rather trust to tamarack-bark tea than three-fourths of the 
 consumptive syrups of the day. Let every one who is af- 
 flicted with cough, be careful to avoid exposure as much as 
 possible. Remember, with this syrup, or disease, as long as 
 there is life, there is hope. 
 
 But it would be deceptive and wicked to hold out to all 
 consumptives the idea that the} could be cured — facts 
 speak like this, although I have never seen it in print, nor 
 heard the remark, but my own observation says thafc nine 
 of every ten hereditary consumptives, will, in the end, die 
 of the disease, while an equal number of tliose whose dis- 
 ease is brought on by colds being neglected, or from neglect 
 of acute innammations, &c., may be cured. Then tnose 
 who know their parents or others in their family to have. 
 gone with this disease need hardly expect a cure, notwith- 
 standing much benefit may be derived from care, with the 
 above treatment, good diet, and out-of door exercise, while 
 those whose systems are not tainted from parents may ex- 
 pect a permanent cure. 
 
 I shall now throw in a few thoughts of my own, and from 
 the experience of many others in the profession, which I 
 hope may benefit all, needing light on the subject. 
 
 First, then —Do not go South, to smother and die; but 
 go North, for cool, fresh air, hunt, fish, and eat freely of 
 the roasted game ; cast away care, after having trusted all in 
 Christ, that it may be well, living or dying. Take a healthy, 
 faithful friend with you, to lean uporf when needed, in your 
 rambles. So shall it be well with many who would other- 
 wise sink to the consumptive's grave. Have your potatoes 
 with you, and roast them in the embers; your corn mtal 
 also, which you will mix with cold water, having a little salt 
 in it, and bake on a board before the fire, and then say you 
 cannot make out a good flavored meal, and a healthy one 
 also, from your roast venison, or broiled fish, with roast pota- 
 
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 toes and johnny-cake, I will then acknowledge that you are 
 indeed far gone on the consumptive's track, and especially 
 if you have been wandering over hills and through the val- 
 leys of our northern country in pursuit of the game of which 
 you are about to partake. 
 
 Sboondly — Do not leave home after having tried evory- 
 thing else in vain, and just ready to wrap the mantle of the 
 grave around you; then you need all the care of many 
 friends, and a quiet place to die : but, strike out the first 
 thino^ when you become certain that permanent disease has 
 faS' . upon the lungs ; then you may not only reasonably 
 expo, a cure, but be almost certain. Have the means with 
 you to avoid getting wet by rains ; but often wash and rub the 
 whole surface, wearing flannel next the skin, and clothe 
 yourself according to the weather and sex ; for there is no 
 reason why females should not pursue about the same course. 
 
 They can dress a la Bloomer, and with their father, bus* 
 band, bi other or other known friend, derive the same bene- 
 fit from out-door exercise, like field or forest rambles, botan- 
 ical huntings, geological surveys, or whatever sports or 
 realities may give just the amount of exercise not to fatigue 
 the invalids 
 
 For females who have families and cannot leave them, 
 gardening, will be the best substitute for the travel, or of all 
 the employments which can be engaged in. 
 
 Lastly — Those who are ah-eady far down the consump- 
 tive track and confined at home, will derive much benefit by 
 using, at each meal, half a pint of rich, fresh cream. In all 
 cases it is ahead of Cod-Liver Oil, with none of its disagree- 
 ableness. And if it can be borne, a tea, to a tea-spoon of 
 the best brandy may be added. 
 
 Much is being said now-a-days, about the necessity of 
 constant inflation of the lungs by long-drawn breaths, hold- 
 ing the breath, also, as long as possible, when thus fully 
 inflated ; but for those whose lungs are extensively diseased, 
 it is not only useless but very dangerous, from the liabiHty 
 to burst blood-vessels in the lungs, causing hemorrhage, if 
 not instant death. In the commencement of the disease, 
 however, or for those in health, the practice is decidedly 
 good. 
 
 2. Half a pint of now milk, with a wine-glass of expressed 
 
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 122 
 
 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 juice of green hoarhound, each morning for a month, is said 
 to have worked wonders in relieving the soreness of the 
 lungs, and giving tone to the general health in this disease. 
 
 3. — Chlorate of Pota.8h, for, Consumption. — A. gen- 
 tleman of Iowa read a paper about a year ago before the 
 *' American Medical Association," upon the subject of Chlo- 
 rate of Potash in Consumption, giving the history of a few 
 c^se8 only. For the want of a more ex;ended trial of it, 
 the Association thought best not to publish his paper, but 
 referred it back to him, and to the consideration of the other 
 members for further test. 
 
 Amongst those members is Dr. A.H, Palmer, o'' this city, 
 one of the Vice-Presidents of the Association, and Profes- 
 sor of" Practice, Materia Medica," &c., in the University of 
 Michigan, at Ann Arbor— by the way, a gentleman and a 
 scholar. Having had much experience in practice, he saw 
 fit to give it a trial. He has used it in about thirty cases,, 
 and with a single exception with marked success; and in 
 that case there was at first much improvement, but the pa- 
 tient wtis a German who does not understand our language 
 very well, and from this fact when he found that it caused 
 a heat or burning sensation in the stomach instead of going 
 to the Professor and having the quantity lessened, he aban- 
 doned it altogether. But through Prof. Palmer's kindness 1 
 have been permitted to refer to other cases where a very 
 marked amelioration has taken place. One of these, a mar- 
 ried lady, although her lungs were full of tubercles, v»ith 
 much coughing) soreness of the lungs, with sharp pains upon 
 full breaths being taken, &c., finds her cough loose, soreness 
 all gone, and that full breaths can be taken without pain, 
 (or stitching, as commonly called,) and fully believes that if 
 she could have had this prescription earlier in the disease, 
 she would now have been well, yet derives much relief from 
 its use. Another lady has been using it only a few months, 
 and finds that her symptoms are all very much relieved, and 
 «he has gained seventeen pounds in flesh. 
 
 The Professor assures me that in th>^ firet few cases where 
 he prescribed the clorate, the benefits were so marked, it 
 was really astonishing; which, of course, caused him to go 
 on in its use, until, as before remarked, about thirty cases 
 have been more or less benefitted by its use, under his care 
 
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 Hi'a mettod of giving it is to put about a tea-spoon of the 
 chlorate into a glass of water, which is to be drank a little 
 at a time, in from six to twenty-four hours, with other ap- 
 propriate treatment. 
 
 If in any case the chlorate should cause a heat or buraing 
 sensation at the stomach, lessen the quantity ; and unless 
 this does occur, no apprehensions need be felt in using it. 
 It improves the general symptoms, lessening the j ulse, (fee, 
 whSlst the Cod-Liver Oil has never done anything more than 
 to benefit merely as food; and from its very disgusting smell 
 and taste, and the almost impossibility of keeping it upon 
 the stomach, I greatly prefer the fresh sweet cream men- 
 tioned above, or the fat meat, as mentioned below. 
 
 The hyper-phosphates have been extensively used, but 
 Prof. Palmer tells me that in Paris »nd other parts of Eu- 
 rope, where he traveled during the past summer, that not 
 one well authenticated case of cure by them can be pro- 
 duced. But he feels much encouraged to hope that the 
 chlorate will prove itself worthy of great confidt-nce. 
 
 The above w.is written one year ago ; and the reports 
 coming in since then, both in America and from Europe, 
 more than confirms the expected benefits and hoped for ad- 
 vantages from the use of the chlorate in this disease. 
 
 4. Remarks ok the Use of Fat Meats — Preventive 
 OF Consumption. — There is so much said against the use of 
 fat meats, and especially pork, as an article of diet, that I 
 cannot better close my remarks upon this subject than by 
 giving the opposite opinions of those in high places, corro- 
 borated also by my own experience. 
 
 Dr. Dixon, of the Scalpel, some time ago, assumed the 
 position that " the use of oils would diminish the victims 
 of consumption nine-tenths, and that that was the whole 
 secret of the use of Cod-Liver Oil, to take the place of fat 
 meats. " 
 
 Dr. Hooker's observations on the use of fat meats, con- 
 nected with consumption, are as follows: 
 
 *' First— Of all persons between the ages of 15 and 22 years 
 more than one-fifth eat no fat meat. Second— Of persons at 
 the age of 45, all, excepting less than 1 in 50, habitually use fat 
 meat. Third— Of persons who, between the ages of 15 and 22, 
 avoid fat meat, a few acquire an appetite for it, and live to a 
 
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 DB. OHASE's BEOIPES. 
 
 good old age, while the greater portion die with phthesis (con- 
 aumption,) before 35. FouaxH— Of persona dying with phthesia 
 between the ages of 12 and 45, nine tentha, at least, have never 
 used fat meals. 
 
 " Most individuals who avoid fat meat, also use little but- 
 ter or oily gravies, though many compensate for this want in 
 part, at least, by a free use of those articles, and also milk, 
 ^ggs, and various saccharine substances. But they consti- 
 tute an imperfect substitute for fat meat, without which, 
 sooner or later, the body is almost sure to show the effects of 
 deficient calorification." 
 
 A lady-lecturer recently said in this city, in one of her 
 lectures — " Set a piece of pork before a lady : oh, horrible ! 
 the dirty, nasty, filthy stuff; give us chicken — clean, nice 
 chicken." Now this lady, certainly, was no farmer's wife, 
 or she would have obsel-ved that the habits of chickens are 
 ten times more filthy than that of the hog, if it be possible ; 
 for even the hog's leavings and droppings are carefully over- 
 hauled by them, and much of it appropriated to ♦' ladies' 
 meat." But their filthiness is no argument in either case; 
 for nature's strainer (the stomach), throws -ofi^ all impurities. 
 Why do 80 many young ladies, young clergymen^ and stu- 
 dents die of consumption ? Simply because chicken or other 
 ■lean meats, hot biscuit, &c., without exercise, make up the 
 sums of their diet; when, if they would eat fat meats, with 
 bread not less than one day old, scrub floors, saw wood, or 
 other arm exercise, according to sex, an hour at each end 
 of each day, they mignt be spared for years — perhaps to 
 long lives of usefulness, to their families, congregations, or 
 the world. 
 
 So far as pork is concerned as food, the folio v»ing rule 
 may be safely followed: If it agrees with the stomach, 
 which is known by its digesting without " Risings," as it is 
 called, its use may be continued, but if it rises, lessen the 
 quantity, and if it still rises abandon its use altogether ; but 
 it digests better with me than mutton, or chicken, and I 
 have been trying them for nearly fifty yeare. The same 
 rule is good for all articles of food. As to exercise, for 
 men who are not regular laborers, wood sawing is the best, 
 next, horse back riding, then walking ; for women, hoeing 
 in the garden or field, next sweeping, dusting, &c,, then 
 horse-back riding, walking, &c. 
 
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 6i But I have recently seen a piece going tLe rounds of 
 the papers as the best cure for consumption in the world, 
 which contains so much good sense that I will close my re- 
 marks on the subject by giving it a quotation, and let every 
 one judge for themselves, which to try, if they see fit to 
 give either a trial. It is. represented as coming from an 
 exchange only, but from its style of remark, I think it must 
 have started from Hall's Journal of Health : 
 
 " Eat all that the appetite requires of the most nonrisbing food, 
 such as ftesh beef, lamb, oysters, raw eggs, fruit, vegetables, and 
 three times a day take a glass of egg-nog, made as rich as the 
 patient can bear. Avoid all other alcoholic drinks. Bathe twice 
 a week in water made agreeably warm, and in a warm room ; 
 after bathing rub the body and limbs with sweet cream or sweet 
 oil. Exercise daily in the open air ; walking is the best. Stand 
 erect, exercise the arms and lungs freely, keep the mind cheerful ; 
 take freely of the best cough syrup, and consumption will be a 
 stranger to your household. 
 
 " For making the best cough syrup, take 1 oz. of thorough wort ; 
 1 oz. of slippery elm ; 1 ok. of stick licorice, and 1 oz. of flax 
 seed ; simmer together in 1 qt. of water until the strength is 
 entirely extracted. Strain carefully, add 1 pt. of best molasses 
 and A lb. of loaf sugar ; simmer them all w^U together, and wl n 
 cold t)ottle tight. This is the cheapest, best, and safest medicine 
 now or ever in use." 
 
 " A few doses of one table-spoon at a time will alleviate 
 the most distressing cough of the lungs, soothes and allays 
 irritation, and if continued, subdues any tendency to con- 
 sumption; breaks up entirely the whooping cough, and no 
 better remedy can be found for croup, asthma, bronchitis, 
 and all affections of the lungs and throat. Thousands of 
 precious lives may be saved every year by this cheap and 
 simple remedy, as well as thousands of dollars which would 
 otherwise be spent in the purchase of nostrums which are 
 both useless and dangerous." — Exchange. For egg-nog 
 see '* Stimulant in Low Fevers." 
 
 OINTMENTS.— For Old Sobbs.— Red precipitate J oz ; sugar 
 of lead \ oz. ; burnt alum 1 oz. ; white vitriol \ oz., or a little 
 less ; all to be very finely pulverized ; have mutton tallow made 
 warm \ lb. ; stir all in, and stir until cool. 
 
 Mr. Brownell, of Dowagiac, Mich. , thinks there is no 
 ointment equal to this for fever or any other old sores, from 
 actual trial, as much so as Mr. Loomis does of his Liniment 
 
 No. 2. 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 2. Jddkins' Ointment. — This ointment bag been long 
 celebrated through Ohio and the Eastern States. It was 
 invented and put up by an old Doctor of that name, whose 
 family took to the profession of medicine as naturally as 
 ducks to water. I obtained it of one of the sons, who is 
 practising at Malaga, Ohio, from. whom I also obtained Lan- 
 dolfi's and his own method of curing cancer, ^see those re- 
 cipes,) and he always uses this ointment to heal cancers and 
 all other sores : 
 
 Linseed oil 1 pt. ; sweet oil 1 oz ; and boil them in a kettle on 
 coals for nearly 4 hours, as warm as you can; then liave pulver- 
 ized and mixed, borax ^ oz.; red lead 4 ozs., and sugar of lead 
 1^ ozs ; retnove the kettle from the fire and thicken in the pow- 
 der; continue the stirring until cooled to blood heat, then stir in 
 1 oz. of spirits of turpentine; and now take out a Utile, letting 
 it get cold, and if not then sufficiently thick to spread upon thin, 
 soft linen, as a salve, you will boil again until this point is 
 reached. \ 
 
 He says, and I have no doubt of it, that it is good for kll 
 kinds of wounds, bruises, sores, burn«, white swellings, rheu- 
 matisms, ulcers, sore breasts, and even where there are 
 woundK on the inside, it has been used with advantage, by 
 applying plaster over the part. 
 
 8. Sisson's Ointment. -Best brandy J pt. ; turpentine I gill; 
 camphor gum 1 oz ; beefs gall J pt.; (beefs gall bottled with \ 
 alcohol will keep nice for future use, ) neats-foot oil 1 pt. Mix. 
 
 This ointment, or probably liniment, is probably not equal- 
 ed for reducing swellings whic^- arise from bad bruises, or 
 swellings of long standing; rub it in for quite a lengtb of 
 time, then wet a flannel in it and wrap around the parts. 
 
 4. Orkkn Gintmknt — White pine turpentine and lard J lb. each; 
 honey and bees-wax \ lb each ; melt all together and stir in ^ oz. 
 of very finely pulverized viirdigris. 
 
 In deep wounds and old sores this works admirably, it 
 keeps out proud llesh, and Deals beyond all calculation, keep- 
 ing up a healthy discharge. It was used on a horse, which 
 had run upon a fence stake, the stake entering under the 
 shoulder blade and penetrating eighteen inches alongside of 
 the ribs; the ointment was introduced by stitfeping linen 
 cloth with warm beeswax, and rolling it up into what is 
 called a tent, then smearing the ointment upon the tent, and 
 pushing it to the bottom of the wound, which kept the out- 
 
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 side from healing until it healed from the bottom, and thus 
 saved the horse, which everybody said must die; and of 
 course everybody always knows. The man owning the horse 
 was thrown from his buggy whilst the horse was running, 
 and had a leg broken ; the horse was well before the man. 
 Hiram Sis' on, an old farrier and farmer, of Crown Point, 
 Essex Co., N. Y., has used this and the one bearing his 
 name, No. 3, several years, and speaks of them in the high- 
 est terms. Mr. WykofF, a few miles north of this city, has 
 used this green ointment for several years, curing a deep cut 
 in the thigh of a friend in a few days with it, which' induced 
 him to pay ten dollars to an English lady for the recipe; 
 since then he cured a bad case of chilblains with it, upon a 
 German boy who had not worn boot or shoe for three years 
 on their account. I have now known it for two years, curing 
 cuts on horses' feet, from stepping over corn stubble in 
 spring ploughing, by only a few applications. It is worth 
 more than the cost of this book to any family who has not 
 got it.« 
 
 This mixed with equal parts of the Magnetic, No. 11, and 
 the world cannot beat it for general use. 
 
 5. Green Ointment. — Honey and beeswax, of each ^ lb.; spirits 
 of turpentine 1 oz. ; wintergreen oil and liiudanum, each 2 ozs.; 
 verdigris, finely pulverized, \ oz. ; lard IJ lbs.; mix by a stove 
 fire, a copper kettle, heating slowly. 
 
 I have given this green ointment, varying somewhat from 
 the first, obtained of a gentleman at Jamestown, N.Y., who 
 was selling it in large quantities, as he uses the spirits of 
 turpentine instead of the white pine, for that frequently is 
 hard to get, and by some this will be preferred, for the flesh 
 of a few persons will inflame under the free use of verdigris 
 and it will be seen that this last recipe has not near as much 
 of it in as the first. 
 
 6. Dr. Kittrkdoe's Celebrated Ointment, — For " Pimplbd- 
 Fack," " Peairub Itch," &c — Take a pint bottle and put into it 
 nitric acid 1 oz. ; quicksilver 1 oz. ; and let stand until the uilver 
 is cut; then melt lard ^ lb. in an earthen bowl and mix all 
 together, and stir with a wooden spatula until cold. 
 
 Old Dr. Kittredge is an Allopathic Physician, but his 
 ointment has been known over the whole State as death to 
 the " Michigan or Prairie Itch," and the doctor recommends 
 
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 DR. chase's REOIPBS. 
 
 i'l 
 liif 
 
 it for Cancerous, Scrofulous, and Syphilitic Ulcers, also Salt- 
 rheutn, Ring-worms, •• Pimpled Face," Chronic Inflamma- 
 tion of the eyelids, Ac. Application — For cutaneous erup- 
 tions, scratch off the scab, warm the cerate, rub in thoroughly 
 once a day ; for running ulcers, spread a thin plaster, and 
 not change oflener than once in thirty six or forty-eight 
 bonra. 
 
 7. MiAD'sSAU-RHmifOiKTMiMT. — Aquafortlfl 1 oz ; quickiUrer 
 1 oz ; good hard soap dissolved so as to mix readily 1 oz.; prepared 
 chalk 1 oa., mixed with 1 lb. of lard ; incorporate the aoove by 
 pQttidff the aquafortis and quicksilver into an earthen vessel, and 
 when dune effervescing, mix: with the other ingredients, putting 
 the chalk in last, and add a little spirits of turpentine, say half a 
 table-spoon 
 
 Mr, Mead is a resident of this city, advanced in age, over 
 ninety years, and great confidence may be placed in this re • 
 cipe. He sent it for insertion in the seventh edition of this 
 work, and many have tried it with satisfaction. He first 
 proved it on himself, after suffering with Salt-rheum for te^ 
 years; at first it came back after two years; he then cured 
 it again, and now has been free from it about fourteen years. 
 His only object in presenting me the recipe was to do good 
 to his fellow-creatures. Some physicians think that if nitirc 
 acid one ounce, and three drachms, was put upon the quick- 
 silver and cut or dissolved by gentle heat, that it would be 
 a better way to prepare it; but I never wish to change when 
 an article works as well as this does. 
 
 8. Dr. Gibson, of Jaraestowr . Pa., says he has never failed 
 in curing salt-rheum or leprosy, (meaning very bad skin 
 diseases) with the following : 
 
 First, wash the part with C*stile soap and water, dry with a 
 soft cloth, then wet the parta e-upted with the tincture of iodine, 
 and after this gets dry, anoint with citron ointment. When the 
 eruption exists abjut parts not covered with clothing, use the 
 following wash alternately with the tincture : Corrosive sublimate 
 1 dr. ; sugar of lead 3 ozs. ; white vitriol 2 scruples ; salammoniac 
 3 drs. ; common salt 2 drs. ; soft water 1 pint ; mix. 
 
 He had a case — a young gentleman who was engaged to 
 be married, but the lady would not marry him till cured 
 from the fact that a sore of a leprouR or obstinate character 
 surrounded his head where the hat came in contact with it 
 But patience and nine months perseverance removed the 
 scab from his crown, and crowned him with a help-meet 
 
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 unmoDiac 
 
 Let m« here say that in any disease of long standing, 
 use some of the alterative medicines to cleanse the blood, 
 while usintf the outward applications. The " Cathartic Al- 
 terative" 18 especially adapted to these skin diseases, and 
 should be continued some time, even if you are not anxious 
 to get married. The Citron Ointment is kept by nearly ail 
 druggists. 
 
 9. White lead in sweet oil, used as an ointment, cured a 
 lady in Lafayette, Ind., of a bad case of Salt-Rheum . 
 
 10. Itch Ointmknt. — Unsalted butter 1 lb.; Burgundy pitch 
 2 oz.; spirits of turpentine 2 oz,; red-precipitate, pulverized, 
 1^ oz.', melt the pitch and add the butter, srirring well together; 
 then remove from the fire, and when a little cool add the spirits 
 of turpentine, and lastly the precipitate, and stir until cold. 
 
 This will cure all cases of psora, usually called '* The 
 Itch," and many other skin eruptions, as pimples, blotches, 
 (fee. 
 
 Dr. Beach thinks the animal which infests the skin in real 
 itch, is the i-esult of the disease, whilst most authors think 
 it the cause. 
 
 11. Maonbtic Ointmbnt. — Said to be Tbask's. — Lard, raisins, 
 cut in pieces, and fine-cut tobacco, equal weights; simmer well 
 together, then strain and press out all from %he dregs. 
 
 The above is an excellent ointment, and looks like its 
 namesake, and its action is really magnetic. Mix this in 
 equal parts with the first Green Ointment No. 4, and it will 
 make a ^ ood application in Piles, Salt-Rheum, and ail cuta- 
 neous 0*^ skin diseases, as well as cuts, bruises, (fee. If used 
 in Salt-Rheum, some of the alterative remedies must be 
 taken at the same time, and loqg continued. 
 
 12. Stramonium Oi^JTMrfS^. — The probability is, that 
 for general use, no ointment will be found superior to this, 
 when properly made. It is kept by most druggists, but it is 
 not half as good generally as if made by the following direc- 
 tions. I give large proportions, from the fact that it will be 
 used in large quantities. Stramonium is known by the 
 names of '« Jimpson," •• Stink Weed," " Thorn Apple," &c., 
 from its thorny burr. 
 
 Pick about a bushel of the leaves, while yet green, having a 
 suitable iron kettle placed over a slow fire; put in a few of the 
 leaves and mash them as you keep adding until you get 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 them all mashed iuto a pulpy mass, then put in lard 6 lb« , 
 stew to a crisp ; then strain and box for use. Those who in 
 
 and 
 Bp ; tnen strain ana dox tor use. Xbose who live in 
 towns and prefer to malce it with leHS troulile, wiil purchase 1 dr. 
 of the soft extract, iiept by druggiutH, rubbing it with a little 
 water until it is of such a conuistenco as to allow it to be rubbed 
 into an ointment with lard 1 ok. This wiil be better than the 
 sale ointment, but not as good as the " Home Made," above. 
 
 It is aDodyne, (relieves pain,) in burns, scalds, old irrita- 
 ble ulcers, skin diseases, painful hemorrhoids, (Piles,) and is 
 discutieot, (diiving away swellingB,) and very strengtheninff 
 to broken limbs, i. e. , after the bones are healed to rub 
 over the limb freely, and thoroughly ; it reduces the swell- 
 ing and gives tone to the muscles, tendons, &c. 
 
 We have recently known two oases of fracture, one a com- 
 pound fracture of the ankle, the other of the wrist, both in 
 persons well advanced in life; in both cases strength re- 
 turned very alow, but with double speed by the free appli- 
 cation of this ointment; and in the first case it undoubtedly 
 prevented mortification. It is valuable, also, in painful or 
 swelled rheumatism. Or, pei haps what would be preferable, 
 in such cases, is a tincture made of the seeds from the 
 thorny burr, two ounces, to alcohol and water, of each, a 
 half pint, if it is not found ahead of the *' Tincture of 
 Arnica," I will give you my bead for a Foot-Ball." In ap- 
 plying it, wet cloths or brown paper, and bind upon the 
 parts, keeping them well wet. To make this tincture, see 
 « Tinctures." 
 
 13. Toad OmrMENT. — For sprains, strains, lame-back, 
 rheumatism, caked breasts, caked uddera, &c., &c. 
 
 Good sized live toads, 4 in number , put into boilinp: water 
 and cook very soft ; then take th^m out and boil the water down 
 to l-;2 pint., and add fresh churaecVttnsalted buttefr 1 lb. and ^m- 
 mer togetlier ; at the last add .tincture of arnica 2 ozs. 
 
 This was obtained from* an old Physician, who thought 
 more of it than of any other prescription in his possession. 
 Some persons might think it hard on toads, but you could 
 not kill them quicker in any other way. 
 
 JAUNDICE.— Dr. Pbabodt's Curb.— In its Worst Forms.— 
 Red iodide of mercury 7 grs. ; iodide of potassium 9 grs. ; aqua 
 dis. fdistiled water,) 1 oz. ; mix. Commence by giving 6 drops 
 8 or 4 times a day; increasing one drop a day until 12 or 15 drops 
 are given at a dose. Qlve in a little water immediately 
 
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 after mealfl. If it causes a griping senaation in the bowels, and 
 fullness in the head when you get up to 12 cr 15 drops, go buck 
 to 6 drops, and up again as before. 
 
 In two very bad casefl of jaundice, I have known the 
 above to be entirely successful. 
 
 I am aware that many persons will not use any prepara- 
 tion containing mercury in any of its forms, while there are 
 many others who would use then. >v that very reason ; diy 
 object is to benefit all, without strengthening tiie prejudices 
 of any; for this reason I give you the following: 
 
 2. Drink for Jaundice — Tie up soot and saffron, equal parts, 
 in a cloth to the nhe of half a hen's egg, let it lie in a r ^uH oif 
 water over night ; in the morning put thu yoke of an egg, > *en 
 into this water, and drink it. Do this 3 mornings, skipping 8, 
 until 9 doses have been taken. 
 
 I am assured that it has proved successful in many bad 
 (ases. See also 3oot Coffee, No. 12, amongst the Ague 
 remedies. j 
 
 PILES. —SuooBssFut Rrmbdigr.-^Tntbrkal RmiDT. — Cream of 
 tartar, jalap, pulverized, senna and flowers of sulphur 1 oz. each ; 
 nitrate of potash, (saltpetre.) 1-2 oz. ; golden seal 1 oz. ; thorough- 
 ly pulverize all together, in a mortar, and give a tea-spoon three 
 timjfl ev< ry day, or the dose may be varied to suit the condition 
 of the patient, taking more or less to suit circumstances, keeping 
 the bowels in a » vent state. 
 
 ExmtMAL Application. — Inner bark of the white oak tree, boil 
 and strain, and boil again until you obtain 1-2 pt. of the extract, 
 very thick ; then add 1-2 pint of the oil of the oldest and strongest 
 bacon you can procure ; simmer together until a union takes 
 place when cold. Tlien apply by the finger up the rectum every 
 night until well. Be very strict to abstain from sti-ong and stimu- 
 lating diet. The above h a sure cure for blind or bleeding piles, 
 in all cases, sooner or later ^ 
 
 Dr. Harriman, of Andersontown, Ind., has been very suc- 
 cessful with this plan of tr^nting Piles; ahd since I obtained 
 the plan, now two years, I have had one opportunity of 
 proving its efficiency, upon a gentlemrn who had been laid 
 up for days, and sometimes weeks, with the complaint; by 
 ft few applications of the external remedy he has been en- 
 abled to keep directly along with his labor. • 
 
 2, PilbCkratb.— Cftrbonate of lead 1-2 oz. ; sulphate of mor- 
 pbine 16 grs. ; stramraonium ointment 1 oz . olive oil 20 drops. 
 Mix, and apply three times a day, or as occasion and pain may re- 
 quire. 
 
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 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 
 
 This cerate has been highly celebrated as a remedy in 
 Piles. It will lelieve the pain most assuredly. Piles have 
 been cured with lamp oil applied to the parts two or three 
 times a day. Even tallow, or any simple ointmeiit, is good 
 for dry Piles, that is, for pain in those parts, coming on 
 often in the dead of night, without apparent cause. 
 
 3. For External Piles. — The following is very highly 
 spoken of: Take oyster shells, wash and burn them, then 
 finely pulverize and rnb up with fresh lard; anoint with 
 this, and take internally sulphur one ounce, mixed with 
 three ounces of pulverized rosin ; take night and morning 
 what will lay on a five cent piece. Take every day for the 
 first week, then every three or four days, until well, contin- 
 uing the ointment. 
 
 Mrs. Morbhead, of Danville, Ind., cured herself of 
 Piles by simply sitting in a hip bath of warm water, every 
 time the pains would come on, after stools or any other 
 time, remaining in the bath until the pains left her. Her 
 husband cured himself by sitting in cold water, and using 
 upon the parts an ointment made by stewing celendine 
 in fresh lard. I give these various plans, so that if one 
 fails, a remedy maj certainly be found amongst the many 
 given. 
 
 G. P. Rogers, of Irontown, 0., has known cases cured 
 by using the following ointment: Powdered opium and pow- 
 dered ros'n, one ounce each, mixed with one ounce of tallow, 
 and anoint as required. 
 
 6. Dr. D. W. Raymond, of Corneaut, 0., says: Equal 
 weights of glycerine and tannin will cure Piles, by anointing 
 with it, and that very speedily: also cures sore or cracked 
 nipples in twenty-four hour8,^Dd in remarkably good for 
 any excoiiation, or sore, of the skin. I know that simple 
 tallow introduced into the rectum is exceedingly beneficial 
 in Piles, which satisfies me that any preparation containing 
 oil or any kind of grease, is good, 
 
 7. I have found in the scrap of an old newapapei, the 
 following, and it is so easily tried, and speaks with so mueli 
 certainty, and is so simple, that I give it an insertion. 
 
 " Simple Cure for Piles. — Mix one table-ppoon of sul- 
 phur with half a pint of milk, to be taken every day until 
 
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 cracked 
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 \eneficial 
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 favorable symptons appear, and then occasionally, as ^he 
 case may require. The above is a cheap, simple, and most 
 infallible cure for that most painful and uoplea>'ant disorder. 
 It has been used with complete success in old and inveterate 
 cas<;8 where individuals had spent scores of dollars in medi- 
 cal advice. It is equally used as a preventive. It will in- 
 jure none, and only requires a trial." 
 
 8. Paschal Mason, living near this city, cured a South- 
 ern lady visiting in the neighborhood, who was confined to 
 the bed with them, by making a strong tea of the wild 
 swamp-currant root, drinking occasionally for a few days 
 
 only. 
 
 9. JiMPSON Leaves and parsely, a handful of each, 
 
 stewed in lard, one pound, and used as an ointment, has 
 
 cured many cases. 
 
 ANODYNES— Hoffman's Anodyne, or Golden Tinotubb. — 
 Sulphuric ether 2 ozs.; alcohol 4 ozs. ; and etherial oil f dr.; mix. 
 Dose— From half to two tea-spoons; (J dr. to 2 drs.) according to 
 the urgency or pain for which it is given. 
 
 It is given in a little sweetened water, and much pre- 
 ferr«'^ by the Germans to laudanum, especially where lauda- 
 num causes sickness of the stomach. It makes an excellent 
 local application in neuralgia and other painful affections, 
 being second cousin to the Magnetic Tooth Cordial and 
 Paralytic Liniment. 
 
 2. Latoanum — Best Turkey opium 1 oz. ; slice and pour upon it 
 boiling nvater 1 gill, and work it in a bowl or mortar until it is 
 dissolved; then pour it into the bottle, and with alcohol of 76 per 
 cent, proof ^ pt., rinse the ditsh, adding the alcohol to the prepa- 
 ration, shaking well, and in 24 hours it will be ready for use. 
 Dose — From 10 to 30 drops for adults, according to the strength 
 of the patient, or severity of the pain. 
 
 Thirty drops of this laudanum will be equal to one grain 
 of opium, and this is a much better way to prepare it than 
 putting the opium into alcohol, or any other spirits alone, 
 for in that case much of the opium does not dissolve. See 
 the remarks occuring after Godfrey's Cordial. 
 
 3. Parbgokic. — Best opium Jdr;, dissolve it in about 2 table- 
 spoons of boiling water; then add benzoic acid ^ dr. ; oil of anise 
 A a fluid dr.; clarified honey 1 oz.; camphor gum 1 scruple; alco- 
 hol, 76 per cent., 11 fluid ozs.; distilled water 4A fluid ozs.; 
 macerate, (is^ep warm,) for 2 weeiis. Doss — For childfren, 5 to 20 
 drops; adults, 1 to 2 tea-spoons. 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 Used as an anodyne and antispasmodic, allays cough, re- 
 lieves nausea, and slight pain in the stomach and bowels, 
 checks diarrhea and procures sleep. Used principally for 
 children. See the remarks after No. 5, bdow. 
 
 4. Batehan's Pkctoeal Deops. — Opium in powder, catechu in 
 powder, camphor gum, red saunders, rasped, of each 1-2 oz. ; oil 
 of anise i dr. ; dilute alcohol [alcohol of 76 per cent, and water in 
 equal proportions,] 1 gal. Keep warm for 2 weeks. 
 
 The opium strength of this is about equal to paregoric, and 
 it is used for similar purposes, and doses. See the remarks 
 below, 
 
 5. OonrBET'^OBDiAL. — Dissolve pure carbonate of potassa 1 oz; 
 in water 5 qtg., and add nice golden syrup or best molasses 8 qts., 
 and heat until they hegin to simmer ; take off the scum and add 
 laudanum ozs., and oil of sassafras 1 dr. Mix well. Use similar 
 to the two last. 
 
 Remarks. — It is a well known fact that much injury i^ 
 done to children by the use of anodynes, such as the above; 
 and " Mrs. Winslow^s soothing syrup," which is now taking 
 the pla(^ to a great extent, in towns, of the foregoing, for I 
 noticed a short time ago eighty-seven empty bottles with 
 Mrs. Winslow's label upon them, sitting on a counter of one 
 of our drug stores, which led me to ask if they put up her 
 syrup. The answer was no, a ladi/ in this city has fed that 
 much to one child within the past eighteen months. 
 
 The question might be asked, why do we tell people how 
 to make any of these anodynes ? Because they are good in 
 proper cases, when properly used, and to give a place for 
 these remarks; for those who are evil disposed will find a 
 way to accomplish their designs, whilst the well disposed 
 wiU, or can, act only from knowledge, and if they do not 
 know the evils arising fiom the constant use of anodynes on 
 children, are as liable to do evil as the evil disposed. 
 
 Then let it be remembered tbat the constant use of opium 
 in any of its preparations on children, or adnlts disturbs the 
 nervous system, and establishes a nervous necessity for its 
 continuation. Then use them only in severe pain, or extreme 
 nervousness, laying them by again as soon as possible under 
 the circumstances of the case. Of course we do not give 
 a recipe for the Soothing Syrup spoken of^^as ite ^act 
 composition has not yet come cut to the public ; but that its 
 
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 soothing properties are owing to opium, there is not tha 
 least doub' . See *' Carminatives," which are preferable to 
 opiates, especially for children. 
 
 RHEUMATISMS— Inflammatory Rheumatism— Bill Weight's, 
 AMD OTHiB CiiRKS— Sulphur and Balt-petre, of eachloz. ; gum 
 guaiac 1-2 oz.; colchicum root, or seed, aad nutmegs, of each 
 } oz ; all to be pulverized and mixed with simple svrup of molas- 
 Bes 2 OZ8. DosB— One teaspoon every 2 hours until it moves the 
 bowels rather freely; then three or four times daily until cured. 
 
 Mr.Wright, of the Niagara Hotel, Toledo, 0., has several 
 times proved this to be an excellent medicine, and since I 
 obtained it I found a man at Marshall, Mich., one Saturday 
 evening, with his feet and legs so swollen with this disease 
 that he could but just crawl with two crutches. 1 filled this 
 prescnption and gave him a teaspoon of it every two houre 
 until it moved his bowels, then every four hours, and on 
 Monday noon he could walk quite comfortably without cane 
 or crutch, the medicine costing only twenty cents. 
 
 2. Rheumatic Alterative. — In Rheumatism of long 
 standing the following preparation has often proved very 
 valuable * 
 
 Colchicum seed, and black cohosh root, of each 1-2 oz , the root 
 to be bruised ; best rye whisky 1 pt. ; put together and let stand 
 3 or 4 days. Dose — From one teaspoon to a table-spoon 3 times 
 daily, before meals. 
 
 The action will be to loosen the bowels, or cause a little 
 sickness at the stomach ; and the dose may be modified not 
 to cause to great an effect upon the patient either way, but 
 increasing the dose if necessary until one of these specific 
 actions is felt, and lessening it if the action is too great in 
 any case. 
 
 3. Rheumatic Liniment. — Olive oil, spirits of camphor, and 
 chloroform, of each 2 ozs.; sassafras oil 1 teaspoon. First add the 
 oil of sassafras to the olive oil, then the spirits of camphor, and 
 shake well before putting in the chloroform, shaking when used, 
 keeping it corked, as the chloroform evaporates very fast if left 
 open. Apply 3 or 4 times daily, riibbing it well, and always to- 
 wards the body. 
 
 . I had a brother-in-law cured of a very bad case of inflam- 
 matory, or swelling rheumatism, by the use of this liniment 
 — accomplished in about four days, without other treatment. 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 He paid five dollars for the recipe after the cure. But I 
 would recommend the use of this in connection with " Bill 
 Wright's Cure," above, feeling perfectly assured that no 
 attack will stand before the internal and external combina- 
 tion. 
 
 4. J. B. HiTOHCOx, Ypsilanti, Mich , uses spirits of turpentine 
 1 pt.; tar 2 tea-spoons; oil of vitriol 1 tea-spoon, mixing in a 
 mug; then sets them on fire, letting it burn 15 minutes, and 
 bottle for use. 
 
 He bathes the parts fre y twice daily with this prepara- 
 tion, then binds on the mashed tory weed, as mentioned 
 under the head of '' Reducing Swellings," and gives a little 
 spirits of turpentine internally. 
 
 5. Alvah Raymond— Takes run^ 1 pt.; neats-foot oil \ pt., or if 
 the juint is stiff, skunk's oil instead of the other; spirits of 
 turpentine 1 gill, and simmers them together, and bottle for use, 
 rubbing it in thoroughly 3 times daily. 
 
 He also directs to soak the feet in hot water, scraping the 1 
 bottoms of the feet with an old knife; then he has poke 
 root roasted and mashed, mixing with it tar and sulphur to 
 form drafts for the feet . With this method of treatment 
 he assures me he has been successful for 30 years. And it 
 bears so strong a resemblance to Dr. Kittredge's preparation 
 next following, for stiffened joints in rheumatism, that it 
 gives me double confidence in them both. 
 
 6. De, KiTTRSDaE's Remedy foe Rheumatism and Stiff Joints. 
 — Strong camphor spirits 1 pt. ; neats-foot, coon, bear, or skunk's 
 oil 1 pt. ; spirits of turpentine \ pt. Shake the bottle when used, 
 and apply 3 times daily, by pouring on a little at a time and rub- 
 bing in all you can for 20 to 80 minutes. 
 
 The old doctor i*ecomraends this as a sure cure for chrouic 
 rheumatism, 8pr>«in8, stiff joints where they have not formed 
 an anchylosis, tnat is, if the bones have not actually grown 
 together; and as remarked in connection with his ointment, 
 No. 6, he has been a very celebrated physician for many 
 years; but like many other men with superior minds, oh! 
 how fallen. Rum, and its advocates, have got a most fear- 
 ful account to balance. 
 
 T. French and Other Remedies for Chronic Rheu- 
 matism. — Dr. Bonnet, of Graulbet, France, states in a. 
 letter to the Abeille Medicale, that he " has been long in 
 the habit of prescribiog: ^ 
 
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 •'The essential oil of turpentine for frictions against rheuma- 
 tiem. And that he has used it himself with perfect success, 
 having almost instantaneously got rid of rheumatic pains in both 
 knees and in the left shoulder." 
 
 He was led to make the prescription from having used the 
 oil of turpentine to wash coal-tar and other sticking mixture 
 from his hands. After having washed his hands in soap 
 and water, and drying them, a pricking sensation like an 
 electric spark upon the knuckles from a machine, lasting 
 about two houre, was always experienced, and it is to this 
 exciting action that he attributes its eJSicacy. It may be 
 used twice or thrice daily, 
 
 8. Chronic rheumatism has been cured in twenty-four 
 hours, after two years' suft'eving, by using alcohol, spirits of 
 turpentine, sweet spirits of nitre, and oil of juniper, equal 
 parts of each , mix ; rub well into the parts, and take ten 
 drops at bed time in water. 
 
 9. BiTTKKS FOR Chronic Rhbumatism. — Prfckly-ash berries, 
 spikenard root, yellow poplar and dog- wood barks, of each J lb.; 
 all pulverized and put into a gallon jug, and fill it up witn 
 brandy. Doss — A wine-glass of it is to be taken 3 times daily 
 before meals. 
 
 A baker of Lafayette, Ind., was cured by the use of this 
 amount, of a very bad case of this disease of long standing^ 
 
 10. David Mowry, of Grenville, Ohio, says : yellow poplar, 
 dog- wood, prickly-ash, wild cherry and white-ash barks of the 
 trees, equal quantities of each, a good large handful, boiled in 
 2 gak. of water, to 1, and add 1 gal. of good old rye, will, if 
 taken freely 3 times daily, cure the worst inflammatory rheuma- 
 tism in the world. 
 
 There is no question but what both of these preparations, 
 and the next also, are good, if made sufficiently strong with 
 the barks. But I should consider them much more appli- 
 cable in chronic cases, or rheumatism of long standing; and 
 in these cases very applicable indeed, and I am well satis- 
 fied that no one will take them for the spirits. 
 
 11. Chronic Rheumatism, has been cured by taking 
 the bark of a bearing crab-apple tree, and putting a suffi- 
 cient amount of it into whiskey to make it very strong, then 
 taking a wine-glass three times daily, until a gallon was used 
 
 12. Grebn Bay Indian's REMiajT for Rheumatism. — Wahoo, 
 bark of the root, 1 oz. ; blood root 1 oz. ; black cohosh root 2 oai. ; 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 swamp hellebore J oz.; prickly ash, bark or berries 1 oz ; poke 
 root, cut fine, 1 oz. ; rye whiskey 1 qt. ; let stjand a few days before 
 'UsiDg. DoriH — One tea-spoon every 3 or 4 hours, iacreasing the 
 dose to 2 or 3 tea-spoons, as the stomach will bear. 
 
 Soak the feet well and go to bed, covering up warm, and 
 taking the *' Sweating Drops " between each dose, as there 
 directed, for three or four hours, and repeat the sweating 
 every day until the disease surrenders to the treatment. If 
 at any time the head feels too full, or the stomach sickens 
 too much, drop down to the first dose of a tea-spoon, or even 
 less, if necessary. 
 
 This prescription is from Jacob S. Cornelius, an Indian 
 of Green Bay, who was very successful in Illinois, with it, in 
 this disease. 
 
 13. I know an old physician who assures me that he has 
 cured cases where all other remedies failed, with saltpetre, 
 beginning with twenty grains, and doubling the dose every 
 three or four hours, until it reached half an ounce, in a very 
 robust and plethoric patient; but this dose would be too 
 large to venture upon by persons not of a plethonc habit. 
 But as it is mostly prescribed, by putting a table spoon to a 
 pint of whiskey, then a tea-spoon for a dote ; you might as 
 well ex} ect to dip the Atlantic into the Pacific with a tea- 
 spoon, as to cure rheumatism in that slow way. It may be 
 ■ taken in quantities from half an ounce to an ounce and 
 a half in the twenty-four hours, being largely diluted with 
 water. If pain should coma on in the stomach, under its 
 use, stop it at once, and give large quantities of mucilaginous 
 drinks, such as slippery-elm water, gum-arabic water, flax- 
 seed tea, &C. 
 
 14. N«w Eemedt. — Kerosene oil 3 ozs. ; skunk's oil 1 oz.; mix, 
 and shake when applied. Put it on quite freely, and heat it in by 
 the stove, or by means of a hot shovel. ^ 
 
 A firm of grocers, Slawson <fe Geer, of this city» hate been 
 using this mixture . during the fast winter upon their own 
 persons, and have recommended to many others amongst 
 them, one of the Clergymen, and also the President of the 
 Univereity, and so far as they know, it has proved very suc- 
 cessful, relieving the pain directly. 
 
 1 5. One of our physicians in the city has u«ed a preparatio h 
 rery nearly resembling the above, but varying sufficient to 
 
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 139 
 
 satiflfy myself that any other animal oil will do as well a* 
 that from the highly flavored one, above mentioned. 
 
 He used kerosene oil 2 o w. ; neats-foot oil 1 ox. ; oil of origanum 
 1-2 oz; mixed and shakeo as used. 
 
 The smell of the kerosene is not very pleasant, hut if a 
 pair of ankles and feet, badly swollen, so much so that you 
 could not walk on them for months, could be cured in two 
 or three weeks, as it was in this case, it might be well to put 
 up with its disagreeable smell. Rub and heat it in thor- 
 oughly twice daily. 
 
 ASTHMA — Rbmbdies.— Elecampane, angelica, comfrey, and 
 spikenard roots, with hoarhound tops, of each 1 oz. ; bruise and 
 steep in honey 1 pt. Dose — A tablespoon taken hot every few 
 minutes, until relief is obtained, then several times daily until a 
 cure is eflfected. 
 
 It cured a young lady near the ** Falls of the Ohio," 
 whom the doctors said it was wicked to disturb ; " let her die 
 in peace " was their advice to the parents. An old lady, 
 instead, let her live in peace. It will be found very excel- 
 lent in any cough, even low consumptives will find great 
 relief from its use, 
 
 2. Dr. J. K. Finley, of Pittsburg, cured a lady with 
 whom I afterwards became acquainted, and from the com- 
 pleteness of the cure I was induced to write to the doctor 
 and obtain the prescription. It is as follows: 
 
 Oil of tar 1 dr. ; tincture of veratrum viride 2 drs. ; simple syrup 
 2 drs.; mix. Dosk — For adults 15 drops three or four times 
 daily. 
 
 I have very great confidence in this prescription. 
 
 3. A lady at Yellow Springs, 0., tells me that she cured herself 
 of Asthma by using for her common drink a tea made of the 
 leaves of common chestnut, which had fedlen from the tree in 
 autumn ; sweeten well, and continue its use for 2 or 8 months. 
 
 She used it for a month at first, and it returned, when 
 she continued its use for two months; and ten years have 
 elapsed without its return. It is certainly safe as well as 
 simple, and of easy trial, 
 
 Lobelia is considered by some a specific in asthma, but 
 the prejudice against it is so great I forbear speaking fur- 
 ther of it, but: 
 
 4. Iodide of potassium has cured a bad case of asthma, hy 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes 
 
 taking 6 gr. doses, 3 times daily. Take | oz. and put it into a 
 vial, and itdd 82 tea-spoons of water; then 1 tea-spoon of it will 
 contain the 6 grs., which, put into ^ gill more of water, and drink 
 before meals. 
 
 COMPOSITION POWDER -Thompsons.— "Bayberry bark,2 lbs. : 
 hemlock bark 1 lb. ; ginger root 1 lb. ; cayenne pepper 2 ozs. ; 
 cloves 2 O'M. ; all finely pulverized and well mixed. Dosb — One- 
 half of a tea-spoon of it, and a spoon of sugar; put them into a tea- 
 cup, and pour it half full of boiling water; let it stand a few min- 
 utes and fill the cup with milk, and drink freely . If no milk is to 
 be obtaintid, till up the cin) with hot water. 
 
 " This, in the first stages and less violent attacks of disease, 
 is a valuable medicine, and may be safely employed in all 
 cases. It is good in relax, pain in the stomach and bowels, 
 and to remove all obstructions caused by cold. A few doses 
 the patient being in bed with a steaming stone at the feet, 
 or having soaked the feet fifteen or twenty minutes in hot 
 w^ter, drinking freely of the tea at the same time, will cure 
 a bad cold, and often throw off disease in its first stages." 1 
 I use it, taking, or giving lobelia emetics as mentioned under 
 the head of '' Eclectic Emetics." I use it also, as a: 
 
 2. Dyspbptic Tea. — "Where an attack has been brought 
 on by over-indulgence at an extra rich meal, you will find 
 immediate and generally perfect relief by having a cup of 
 this tea made, and drinking about one-half of it fifteen min- 
 utes before meals, and the balance just as you sit down to 
 the meal, not taking any other fluid at all until after diges- 
 tion is over, following up the same plan for a few days or 
 weeks, as may be necessary. It stimulates the stomach to 
 action, causing digestion and absolution, preventing also the 
 accumulation of gas, which is the cause of eructations of 
 wind from the stomach, commonly called belching, and gives 
 tone to the whole system. ^ 
 
 A cup of this tea taken when going out into extreme cold, 
 will be found a better Warmer than the whiskey or any other 
 ardent spirit, which so many resort to upon such occasions : 
 and^ what is best of all, it will be found : 
 
 3. A Pbrfect Curb fob Drunkenness. — Let those 
 who are accustomed to the excessive use of ardent spirits, 
 and who wish to stop the practice, I say, let such have a 
 cup of this tea made^ as above directed, and drink a part of 
 
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 it immediately on rising in the morning, and the balance 
 just before meal time, keeping entirely away from the 
 places of temptation, they will find a warm, healthy glow 
 spreading from the stomach over the whole system, with a 
 desire for food, instead of " rot gut." Follow this up faith- 
 fully two or three times daily, or whenever the craving begins, 
 for the accustomed stimulus, for a few days, or weeks, if 
 necessary, and it will be found that the cayenne, which is 
 the purest stimulant in the whole Materia Medica, with it« 
 assistant, the bayberry, which stimulate without an after 
 prostration, have gradually supplied and satisfied the previ- 
 ous false appetite or cravings of the stomach; whilst the 
 combination has toned up the stomach together with the 
 whole system, and again you find yourself a man. 
 But remember, oh, remember i your only safety is in keep- 
 ing entirely away from places wher9 intoxicating spirits 
 are kept or sold! 
 
 A burned child will not play with fire. I would to God 
 that a burned man was equally wise. For not one in a thovr 
 sand can rasist the solicitation of enemies, (called friends,) 
 to take a glass, just one, and that one glass acts like fresh 
 coals upon extinguished brands, and the fire goes a head 
 again with a hundred fold more energy than if thrown upon 
 wood which Lad never been charred ; hence the propriety of 
 the sentence *' plucked as a brand from the everlasting burn- 
 ings" — for if re-kindled there is but little prospect of another 
 extinguishment of the raging fire, Dr. Thompson, notwith- 
 standing all that has been said against him, has done more 
 good than any other medical man that ever lived ; for he set 
 the people to studying for themselves. 
 
 STIMULANT— In Low Fevbrs, and After Uterine Hbmorb- 
 HAQES. — MisiUEA Spihitus viNi Gallici. — Best brandy, and cin- 
 namon water, uf each 4 fluid ozs ; the yolks of 2 eggs, well 
 beaten ; loaf sugar ^ oz. ; oil of cinnamon 2 drops ; mix. Dose — 
 From J to 1 (fluid) oz. ; as often us required. This makes both 
 eat and drink. Of course, any other flavoring oils can be used, if 
 preferred, in place of the cinnamon. 
 
 The mixture is an imitation of the well-known compound 
 termed " egg-flip." It is an exceedingly valuable stimulant 
 and restorative, and is employed in the latter stages of low 
 fevers, and in extreme exhaustion from uterine hemorrhages, 
 
142 
 
 DR. chase's BECIPES. 
 
 It may be used in place of the *' egg-nog " spoken of in the 
 treatment of consumption, No. 6. 
 
 ALTERATIVES — Sybup or Blood PuRiniB.— Honduras saraapa- 
 
 parilla 12 ozs ; guaiacum shavings 6 ozs ; wintergreen laf 4 oz8.; 
 
 sassafras root bark 4 ozd. ; elder flowers 4 ozs. ; yellow dock 8 ozs. ; 
 
 burdock root 4 ozs.; dandelion root 6 ozs.; bittersweet root Z ozs.; 
 
 all bruised. Place these ingredients in a suitable vessel and add 
 
 alcohol 1 pt., with water sufficient to cover handsomely, set them 
 
 in a moderately warm place for 8 or 4 days, pour oflf 1 pt. of the 
 
 tincture and set it aside until you add water to the ingredients 
 
 And boil Mil you obtain the strength, pour off and add more water 
 
 and boil tgain, then boil the twO waters down to 1 qt.; strain, 
 
 . and add tho liquor first poured off, and add 2 1-2 lbs. crushed or 
 
 * coffee sugar, and simmer to form a syrup ; when cool, bottle and 
 : seal up for use Dosk — One to 2 table-spoons, according to the 
 
 age and strungth of the patient, half an hour before me&h and at 
 bedtime. 
 
 This, or any other alterative, when given, should be fol- 
 
 • lowed up for weeks or months, according to the disease for 
 •which it is prescribed, as scrofula, and for every disease de- 
 pending upon an impure condition of the blood. It ought 
 to be used in sore eyes of long standing, old ulcers, salt 
 rheum, <fec. I would not give this for Jayne^s Alterative, 
 nor Swain's, Townsend's or Ayer's Sarsaparillas, because I 
 know it is good, and we also know what it is made of. 
 
 2. Altkrativs, Vbrt Strong. — Poke, mandrake, yellow dock, 
 sassafras, blue flag, roots, and bark of the roots, guaiac wood 
 raspings, and sweet elder flowers, of each 4 ozs.; caraway seed 
 B OS. ; bru/se the roots, and put to the whole, alcohol 1 qt, and 
 water to cover all handsomely ; let stand 3 or 4 days in a warm 
 place as the last recipe above, making everyway the same, except 
 to pour off 1 qt., instead of 1 pt., as in the first, of spirit ; then 
 boil the waters to 1 qt'., adding 4 lbs of sugar with the quart of 
 spirit tincture. The dose being only 1 tf.ble-spoon 4 times daily 
 as above. 
 
 But if that amount should make the bowels too loose, re- 
 duce the quantity ; and if that amount does not act upon 
 the bowels at all, increase the dose to keep the bowels solv- 
 ent. .This may be used in the most inveterate diseases of 
 long standing, syphilis not excepted. 
 
 8. Altirativk Cathartic— PowDBE.—Rochelle salts 6 on. ; 
 cream of tartar 2 ozs.; sulphur 1 oz ; [epaom salts may be need, 
 but are not quite as good,] place the svUts in a dripping-pan and 
 set in the stove oven until all the water of crystalization is dried 
 out ; then pltvce all in a mortar and rub finely and thoroughly 
 
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 together. Doss — Mix up a few spoons of the powder with mo- 
 lasses ; then take a tea-spoon every throe or four hours until a 
 catiiartic action is kept up fur 24 to 86 hours ; then take once or 
 twice daily only, to act on the blood, increasing once in ten days 
 to get up thA cathartic action, as at first. 
 
 This alterative is eapecially valuable in any disease of 
 the skin, as itch, pimples, salt-rheum, and any other erup- 
 tions where an outward application is being made, or is about 
 to be made, i ^so valuable m sore eyes. 
 
 4. Altkeativs, Tonic, and Cathartic Bittkbs. — Best rye • 
 whisky, and water, of each, 1 qt. ; l>est unground Peruvian bark, 
 Colombo root, and prickly-ash berries, of each 2 ozs. ; prickly- 
 ash, black cherry, and poplar barks, of each 1 oz. ; poke-root, 
 mandrake-root, and cloves, of each 1-2 oz. ; all to be the dry arti- 
 cles, and all to be pulverized before putting into the spirits ; 
 shake every day for a week, by which time it will be ready for 
 use. DosB — One to two table-spoons at morning and evening 
 meals. 
 
 Although this alterative is mentioned last in the list, yet 
 
 it is not least in value. I first made this prescription for my 
 
 own use, feeling that I needed something of just such a 
 
 nature, and it worked so admirably that I gave it to ethers'. 
 
 It has given such entire satisfaction that I am now at the 
 
 tenth edition, giving it a place to do a greater good than if 
 
 kept from the world. 
 
 If, in any case, it causes any griping sensations, or too 
 great action upon the bowels, essen the dose, and if neither 
 of these actions are felt, increase the dose, or take it three 
 times daily. I think any of the fruit wines will do in 
 place of the spirits and water, by adding alcohol one-half 
 pint. 
 
 It will be found very valuable in all cases of weakness 
 from general debility, and especially so when the liver is 
 inactive, known by constant costiveness. 
 
 After using out the spirits, it may be filled again in the 
 same way. It will be found very valuable in ague, and after 
 all fevers, preventing relapse, and strengthening up the gen- 
 eral system. 
 
 DroRETICS — Pill, Deops, Dkooction, &c. ~ Solidified co- 
 pabia 2 parts ; alcoholic extract of cupebs 1 part ; formed into 
 pills with a little oil of juniper. Dose -1 or 2 pills 3 or 4 
 times daily. Druggists can. obtain them of Tilden & Co., New 
 York. 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 The pill has been found very va! .able in affections of thd 
 kidneys, bladder, and ure ha, as inflammation from giavel, 
 
 Sonorrhea, gleet, whites, lucorrbea, common inflammations, 
 ;c. For giving them a sugar coat, see that heading, if 
 desired. 
 
 2. DicBETic Drops.— Oil of cubebs ^ oz. ; sweet spirits of nitre i 
 OK., balnam of copaiba 1 oz ; Harlem Oil 1 bottle; oil of iavendef 
 30 dropa; spirits of turpentine 20 drops; mix. Dosb — Ten to 26 
 ^drops, OH the stomach will bear, 3 timeu daily. 
 
 It may be used in any of the above diseases with great 
 satisfaction. 
 
 3. DuJRKTic Decoction. — Queen of the meadow, dwarf-elder, 
 yellow dock and polie-roots, of each 1 oz ; dandelion, burdock. 
 American Sarsaparilla, and blue-flag roo^s, of each ^ oz. ; grind or 
 pound all up, and thoroughly mix. Dosk— Talce up a pinch with 
 the ends of the fiagers and thumb of one hand, say V to ^ o?.., and 
 pour upon it I pt. of Ijoiling water, steeping a while; when cool, 
 
 ^ke a swallow or two sufficiently often to use up the pt. in the 
 course of the day. \ 
 
 Follow this plan two or three days, or as may bo necessary 
 resuming the couree once in ten or twehfl days. It may be 
 used in all obstructions of the kidneys, where the urine is 
 high colored or scanty, 
 
 4. DiuRKTif! TiNCTURK— Green or growing spearmint mashed, 
 put into a bottle and covered with gin, is an excellent diuretic. 
 
 6. Diuretic for Children. — Spirits of nitre; a few drops in a 
 little spearmint tea, is all sufficient. For very young children 
 pumpkin seed, or watermelon seed tea is perhaps the best. 
 
 DROPSY. — Syrup and Pills. — Queen of the meadow root dwarf 
 elder flowers, berries, or inner bark, juniper berries, horse-radish 
 root, pod milkweed or silkweed, often called, root of each 4 ozs,; 
 piickly-ash bark or berries, mandrake- root, bittersweet bark of 
 the root, of each 2 ozs.; white mustard seed 1 oz.; Hoiland gin 
 Ipt. 
 
 Pour boiling water upon all, except the gin, and keep hot 
 
 for twelve hours; then boil and pour off twice, and boil 
 
 down to three quarts and strain, adding three pounds of 
 
 sugar, and lastly the gin. Dose -Take all the stomach will 
 
 bear, four times daily, say a wine-glass or more. This will 
 
 be used in connection with the following: 
 
 2. Drop.sy Pills.— Jalap 50 grs ; gamboge 30 grs.; podo- 
 physllin 20 grs. ; elaterium 12 grs.; aloes 30 grs.; cayenne 36 grs. ; 
 cftstile soap shaved, dried and pulverized, 20 grs. ; croton oil 90 
 
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 drops ; powder all finely, and mix thoroughly ; then form into 
 pill mass by uuing a thick muciiHge made of equal partH of gum 
 arable and tragacanth, and divide into 8 gr. pills. Dora One pi'il 
 every 2 days for the flmt week, then every 8 or 4 days until the 
 water is evacuated by the coml^ioed aid of the pill with the above 
 syrup. 
 
 In this diseaHe the work must be very thoroufrh, and I 
 im inclined to think that if our directions are followed that 
 whoever find themselves under the operations of the medi- 
 cine will consider the work to be a'jout as thorough as wo 
 expect. Some sickness of the stomach may be expecte<i 
 under the operation of the pill, but never mind it, go ahead, 
 and four or live days will satisfy most persons of the value 
 of the treatment; for you may expect to see the greatest 
 evacuations, front and roar, that you ever have witnessed. 
 If the patient should become weak and exhausted under the 
 continued treatment, slack up a little and throw in beef tea, 
 wine, (fee, with rich, nourinhing diet, and no danger need 
 be apprehended. The above pul will be found very valua- 
 ble m bilious colic, and other cases hard to operate upon. 
 They have operated in fifteen minutes, but not usually so 
 quick, of course ; but it will generally be found bebt not to 
 venture over one pill at a dose; two have been taken, how- 
 ever ; but ibey made a scattering among the waste paper, 
 causing fourteen evacuations, having to call for the second 
 " chamber " the first fire. Some have called them the " Irish 
 Pill," from their resemblance to the Irish girl^with her brush 
 and Scrub broom. They make clean work. 
 
 IRRITATINa PLASTER— ExTBNSivBLT Used by Eclbcticb— Tar 
 1 lb. ; Burgundy pitch ^ oz. ; white pine turpentine 1 02 ; rouin 2 
 ozs. Boil the tar, rosin and gum together a short time, remove 
 from the fire, and stir in finely pulverized mandrake root, blood 
 root, poke root, and Indian turnip, of each 1 oz. 
 
 This plaster is used extensively in all cases where counter 
 irritation or revulsives are indicated; as in chronic afiec- 
 tions of the liver and lungs, or diseased joints, Ace. It is 
 applied by spreading it on cloth and over the seat of pain, 
 renewing it every day, wiping off any matter which may b« 
 on it, and also wiping the sore produced by it with a dry 
 cloth, until relief is obtained, or as long as the patient can 
 bear it. Always avoid wetting the sore, as it will cause in- 
 flammation, and you will be obliged to heal it up imtuedi- 
 
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 ately, instead of which the design is to keep a running sove 
 as long as may be necessary, using at the same time consti- 
 tutional remedies as the case may lequire. 
 
 INFLAMMATION.— Of the Liver.— Inflammation 
 of the liyer, or as it is generally called, ** Liver complaint," 
 is of two forms, acute and chronic. The acute form is 
 known by a sense of weight and pain in the right side, un- 
 der the short nbs, and often in that shoulder, or between 
 the shoulders, pale or yellow appearance often gi-eat depres- 
 sion of spirits, Pot much appetite, costiveness, high colored 
 urine, &c., and often with fever, and some times with pain 
 similar to that of pleurisy, difficult breathing, dry cough, 
 and sometimes sickness, with vomiting. 
 
 In the chronic, or long standing complaint, in addition to 
 the above, there is generally flatulence, with pain in the 
 stomach, foul breath and mouth, coated tongue, indigestion, 
 eyes yellow, stools clay colored, with great weakness and slow 
 emaciation, frequently going on to ulceration, giving symp- 
 toms as mentioned under the head of " Ointment of Ulcer- 
 ated Liver," &c. 
 
 In the acute form you will pursue the same course as 
 mentioned under the head of ** Pleurisy," besides taking 
 either of the Liver Pills or Liver Drops mentioned below, in 
 full cathartic doses, un*!l relieved ; but in the chronic form, 
 the Pills, in connection with the " Ointment," or '* Irrita- 
 ting Plaster," will be found all sufficient, unless Jaundice 
 has already set in ; then look to the directions under that 
 disease. 
 
 2. EoMOTic LivBR PiLi.. — Podophylliu 10 gre.; leptandrin 20 
 gi'8.; aanguinarin*' 10 grs.; extract of dandelion 20 grs. ; formed 
 into 20 pills, by being moistened a little with some essential oil, as 
 cinnamon or peppermint, &c. Dosb — la chronic diseases of the 
 liver, take I pill at night, for several days, or 2 may be taken at 
 first to move the bowels; then 1 daily. 
 
 In connection with the pill, wear the '* Irritating Plaster," 
 . over the region of the liver, washing the whole body daily, 
 by means of towels, and rubbing dry, being careful not to 
 wet the sore caused by the plaster ; as an active cathartic 
 
 ■ *NOTE.— Tljcse articles ai:<3 kept by Eclectic Physiciana, and are beginning to be 
 kept by Druggihki gonerally. 
 
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MEDICAL DEPABTM^NT. 
 
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 from two to tbree pills may }>e taken in all cases where cal- 
 omel or blae pills are considered applicable by *' Old School 
 Physicians." 
 
 3. LivBR Pill Ihproved. — Leptandria 40 grs.; podophylia and 
 cayenne, 30 grs, each ; sanguiaarin, iridin and ipecac 15 grs. t^ach; 
 see that all are pulverized and well mixed ; then form into pill- 
 mass by using 1-2 dr of the so t extract of mandrake and a few 
 drops of anise oil, then roll out into 3-grain pills. 
 
 Dose — Two pills taken at bed time will generally operate 
 by morning; but there are thost^ that will require three, 
 whilst'one pill every night on retiring, will be found the 
 best corrective of the liver of anything now in use, for com- 
 mon cases; but in very bad cases where the pill does not 
 arouse the liver to action, take the following : 
 
 4. LivBR Drops for Obstinate Cases. --'finctures of mandrake 
 and blue flag roots, of each 1-2 oz.; and of culvers root 2 ozs. 
 Dose — For adults, 1 teaspoon every 3 to 5 hours, increasing the 
 dose gradually uatil you reach two or three teaspoons, it the 
 mouth does not become sore, and the stomach not sickened, nor 
 the bowels moved too freely. 
 
 These drops are especially applicable in liver and spleen 
 enlargements, and cases of very long standing disease of 
 these organs; and in such cases it may be well to use exter- 
 nally, over the liver and spleen, especially if there is believed 
 to be ulceration, the following : 
 
 5. OiNTicBtiT voa Uloeratid Liver, Ague Cake &c.— Take a 
 good handful of smartweed, wormwood, and the bark of sumac 
 root, boil all together to get the strength, then strain and boil 
 down carefully to 1-2 pt.. adding lard \ lb., and simmering to- 
 gether ; when nearly cool add a teaspoon of spirits of turpentine. 
 
 Apply at night, by rubbing it over the liver or other 
 organ which may have pain or disease located upon it, heat' 
 ing it in well by the stove or by a heated iron, putting it on, 
 rubbing, and heating it in three or four times each applica- 
 
 tion. 
 
 I obtained this prescription from the Rev. Mr. Fraser, of 
 this city, whose nep) ew was so afflicted with ulceration of 
 the liver that a council of doctors said he must die; the 
 pain was situated just under the short ribs of the right side, 
 completely bowing him together, like the one of old, who 
 could *'in 30 wise lift up herself. " He had had a sister, 
 
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 who died some years before; but at this junture of the case 
 the invalid dreamed of meeting her, and she gave hira this 
 prescription, which he told his mother in the morning; and 
 ehe would not rest nntil it was tried, and it entirely cured 
 the patient. The Elder tells me he has given it to a great 
 many persons, for pains of internal organs, ague cakes, &c., 
 and that it has given great satisfaction — a perfect cure. The 
 two first nanred articles I know to be good for what they are 
 here recommended, but they are generally used by boiling 
 and laying the herbs over the affected parts, or by steaming 
 the parts over the herbs. I see no reason why spirits from 
 the other world should not be permitted ito communicate 
 with the spirits of friends here ; but that they are so per- 
 mitted, to communicate in such a way to be understood 
 by us frail mortals, I never did nor do I now believe, neither 
 I do I believe this to be the firat dream of this character 
 which has proved valuable. There are many things of a 
 similar character in the history of a number of individuals 
 in the range of my acquaintance, more singular and more un- 
 aceountable than the above, which would be very interesting 
 to relate, but the nature of this work does not admit. If 
 this shall benefit any, I shall be satisfied. 
 
 PILLS— Nervous Pilm. — A.la)holic extract of the Ignatia 
 Amara, (St. Ignatius bean) 30 grs. ; powdered gum arable 10 grs. 
 Make into 40 pills. 
 
 DosB — One pill to be taken an hour after breakfast, and one an 
 hour before retiring at night. Half a pill is enough for young, or 
 very old or very delicate persons. The pills may be easily cut if 
 laid on a damp cloth for a few moments. 
 
 These pills will be found applicfible in bad Dyspepsia, 
 nervous headache, sleeplessness, palpitation of the heart, con- 
 fusion of thought, determination of blood to the head, fail- 
 ure of memory, and all other forms of general nervous de- 
 bility, no matter of how long standing. Where a prominent 
 advantage to discover in two weeks from the commence- 
 ment of the medicine, one a day will suffice until all are 
 taken. 
 
 The extract is made by pulverizing the seed or bean, and 
 putting it into alcohol from ten to fourteen days, then evap- 
 orating to the consistence for working into pill mass with the 
 powdered gum. 
 
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 This is the prescription of the Rev. John M. Dagnal, the 
 " Retired Physician," brought out in 1Q64, and to my at- 
 tention, and that of the medical class, by Prof. Palmer, in the 
 University of Michigan, in the winter of '66 7. He said 
 when this prescription first came out he was practising in 
 Chicago, and many persons sent for the pills, and derived 
 mHch benefit from their use, at first, but soon after they 
 seemed to loose their efficacy, and he pi'esumed the reas^^u to 
 be that the demand was so great that something else was 
 substituted in place of the extract. This being the case, 
 druggists ought to prepare the extract themselves, so as to 
 furnish patients with the genuine article for home use. It 
 is undoubtedly a splendid prescription, if put up with fidelity. 
 
 2. Pills — To Sugar Coat. — Pills to be sugar-coated 
 ' must be very dry, otherwise they will shrink away from the 
 coating and leave it a shell, easily crushed off. When they 
 are dry, you will : 
 
 Take starch, gum arable, and white sugar, equal parts, rubbing 
 them very fine in a marble mortar, and if damp, they must b« 
 dried before nibbing together ; then put the powder into a suita- 
 ble pan, or box, for shaking ; now put a few pills into a small 
 tin box having a cover, and pour ou to them just a little simple 
 8]rrap, shaking well to moisten the surface only, then throw into 
 the box of powder and keep in motion until completely coated, 
 dry and smooth. 
 
 If you are not very careful you will get too much syrup 
 upon the pills ; if you do, put in more and be quick about 
 it to prevent moistening the pill too much, getting them mto 
 the powder as soon as possible. 
 
 3. Akodtnb Film — Morphine 9 grs. ; extract of stramonium 
 and hyosciamus, of each 18 grs. ; form into pill-mass by using 
 solution of gum arable and tragicanth, quite thick. Divide into 
 40 pills. DosK— In case of severe pain or nervousness, 1 pill taken 
 at bed time will be found to give a quiet night of rest 
 
 The advantage of this pill over those depending entirely 
 upon opium or morphine for their anodyne properties, is, 
 that they may be taken without fear of constipation. 
 
 CROUP — Simple, but Effectual Remedy. — This dis- 
 ease is attended with inflammation of the windpipe, spasms 
 of the muscles of th« throat, occasioning a peculia- sound, 
 hard to be described, but when once heard by a mother, 
 
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 never to be forgotten ; cough, diflScult respiration, and fever. 
 The phlegm or mucous often filling, or very much obstruct- 
 ing the throat, and*fiDally forming a false membrane which 
 cuts off all possibility of breathing. 
 
 The first thing to be done is to get hot water ready as soon as 
 poBsible, having always on hand a bottle of emetic tincture, com- 
 posed of equal parts of the tincture ot lobelia and blood-root. 
 DosK — According to the age of the child; if 2 years old, about I 
 tea-spoon every 10 to 15 minutes until free vomiting taiies place; 
 if 5 years old 2 tea-spoons, and increasing in proportion to age 
 to 1 table-spoon for a child of 10 years, decreasing for very young 
 children, say of 4 to 8 months, only 8 to 12 drops. Place the 
 feet as soon as possible Into hot water, and keep them there until 
 vomiting takes place, laying cloths wrung out of hot water upon 
 the breast and throat, changing sufficiently often to keep them 
 hot. The next morning give sufficient of the •' Vegetable Physic" 
 to move the bowels rather freely. The emetic tincture should be ■ 
 given in some warm tea. \^ 
 
 Repeat the emetic as often as the returning symptoms 
 demand it, which usually occur the following night, repeating 
 the cathartic every second or third day, and I will guarantee 
 success if commenced in any kind of reasonable time; but 
 usually no repetition will be needed if parents keep the pre- 
 paration in the house so as to begin with the beginning of 
 the disease. 
 
 2. Dutch Rkhkdt. — Oooee oU, and urine, equal quantities. 
 t)08E — From a tea to a table-spoon of the mixture, according to the 
 age of the child. Bepeat the dose every 15 minutes, if the first 
 dose does not vomit in that time. 
 
 This remedy will be found valuable in mild cases, and 
 where the first is not at hand; and I know it to have saved 
 a child when one of their best Doctors eaid it must die; but 
 bear in mind he had not used our first prescription ; yet an 
 old Dutch woman came in at the eleventh hour, from the 
 next door neighbors' wash-tub, and raised the child with 
 what she called '' p — s and goose grease." I have used it 
 with success. 
 
 3. Ceoup Ointhbnt. — ^Take mutton suet and nice lard, of 
 each i lb.; spermacetti tallow ^ oz ; melt them together and add 
 ^ pt. of the best vinegar, and simmer until the vinegar Is nearly 
 evaporated, skimming well, and constantly stirring, until it be- 
 gins to graduate; then add oils of amber and spruce, and pul- 
 verized sugar of lead, of each ^ oz ; now remove from the fire 
 and stir it until cool. Dos£ — For a child of two years old, give 
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 from J to 1 tea-spoon every J hour, until relief Ib obtained, or until 
 vomiting takes olace; at the same time rubbing it upon the chest, 
 and over the .^>,^w& and lungs, freely. 
 
 Dr. , of Finley, O., sayB, from his experience, he 
 
 knows it will cure as often as quinine will break up the , 
 ague. 
 
 HYDROPHOBIA AND SNAKE BITES— To Pre- 
 vent, AND Curb. — A. Hubbard, of Boone Co., Ill , in a 
 letter to the St. Louis Republican, says: •• Eighteen years 
 ago my brother and myself were bitten by a mad-dog. A 
 sheep was also bitten at the same time. Among the many 
 cures offered for the li* ^ie boys, (we were then ten or twelve 
 years old,) a friend suggested the following, which he said 
 would cure the bite of a rattlesnake: 
 
 " Take the root of the common upland n^h, commonly called 
 black ash, peel oflf the bark, boil it to a strong decoction, and of 
 this, diink freely. Whilst my father was preparing the above, 
 the sheep spoken of, began to be afflicted with hydrophobia. 
 When it had become so fatigued from its distracted state as to 
 be no longer able to stand, my father drenched it with a pint of 
 the ash root ooze, hoping to ascertain whether he could depend 
 upon it as a cure for his sons. Four hours after the drench hsid 
 been given, to the astonishment of all, the animal got up and 
 went quietly with the flock to graze. My brother and myself 
 continued to take the medicine for 8 or 10 days, 1 gill 3 times 
 daily. No effects of the dread poison were ever discovered on 
 either of us. It has been used very successfully in snake bites, to ' 
 my knowledge." 
 
 There is no doubt in the author's mind but what this gen- 
 ' 'eraen has made a mistake in the kind of ash meant, as the 
 upland ash is white-ash, from which flooring is made,having 
 a thick, rough outside bark, whilst the black ha smooth . 
 bark, and grows in low, wet land, and is the same tVom which 
 the flour barrel hoop is extensively manufactured. It is the 
 up-land, white-ash that is to be used ; it is known, ss he says, 
 to cure rattlesnake bites, and a gentleman of thif>. place has 
 tried with success in rheumatism; boiled vory strong and 
 taken in half gill doses. May vomit and purge if taken too 
 freely. Yet a moderate action, either up or down, will not 
 be amiss. I have cured a case of rheumatism, in a boy 
 twelve or fourteen years of age, with the above, since it 
 came to my knowledge. 
 
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 2. Saxon Rbmbdt. — Gastell, a Saxon forester, now of the 
 venerable age of eighty-two, unwilling to take to the grave 
 with him a secret of so much importance, has made public 
 in the Leipsic Journal the means whcih he has used fifty 
 years, and wherewith he affirms he has rescued many 
 human beings and cattle from the fearful death of Hydro- 
 phobia. 
 
 Take imraediately after the bite, warm vinegar or tepid water, 
 wash the wound clean therewith, and dry it, then pour upon the 
 wouul. a few drops of hydrochloric acid, because mineral acids 
 destroy the poison of the saliva. 
 
 3. Grecian Rkmbdy. — Eat the green shoots of asparagus raw ; 
 sleep and perspiration will be induced, and the disease can be thus 
 cured in any stage of canine madness. 
 
 A writer in the Providence Journal says, a man in Ath- 
 ens, Greece, was cured of hydrophobia by this remedy, even 
 after the paroxysms had commenced. 
 
 4. Quaker Remedy — Fifty Years Successful. — Jacob 
 Ely, a good old honest Quaker merchant, of Lloydsville, 
 0., gave me the following plan which his father had used 
 since 1806 with success, to his knowledge, both on persons 
 and domestic animals ; and the New York Tribune nas re- 
 eently published something of the same character. 
 
 The dried root of elecampane ; pulverize it and measure out 9 
 heaping table-spoons, and mix it with 2 or 3 teaspoons of pulver- 
 ised gum arable : then divide into 9 equal portions. When a per- 
 son is bitten by a rabid animal take one of these portions and 
 steep it in 1 pt. of new milk, until nearly half the quantity of 
 milk is evaporated ; then si in, and drink it in the morning, 
 fasting for 4 or 5 hours after. The same dose is to be repeated 
 3 mornings in succession, then skip 3, and so on until the 9 doses 
 are taken. 
 
 The patient must avoid getting wet, or the heat of the 
 sun, and abstain from high seasoned diet or hard exercise, 
 and, if costive, take a dose of salts. The above quantity is 
 for an adult — children will tike less^according to age. The 
 Tribune's publication is as ' .)llow8 : 
 
 6. Tribune's Cure for Hydrophobia. — The following 
 was sent to the N. Y. Tribune, by J. W. Woolston, of 
 Philadelphia: 
 
 " Bboipb. — First dose, 1 oz. of elecampane root, boiled in 1 pt. 
 of milk until reduced to 1-2 pt. Second dose, (to be taken two 
 
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 days aft«r the firat,) 1 1-2 oss. of elecampane root, boiled in 1 pt. 
 of milk, 8^6 as the first. Third dose, same as the second, (to be 
 taken two days after,) — in all, three doses. 
 
 If there is any virtue in the elecampane, at all, the pref- 
 erence, of course, is to be given to the Quaker's plan, whick 
 fives nine instead of three doses. But it substantiates Mr. 
 Ij's plan, as it comes from the place of his father's former 
 residence. Consequenty it would seem to strengthen confi- 
 dence in the first. 
 
 6. Snakb Bitbs.— in case of being bitten by any of the poison- 
 ous snakes, the l^est plan is to wash ofiF the place immediately, 
 then if the position of the wound is such that you can get the 
 meuth to the spot, suck oiit all the poison in that way, or if any 
 other person is present, whose mouth is not sore, no danger need 
 be apprehended. 
 
 For all the poison may be upon the outside, and washed 
 off, yet most likely penetrates more or less into the wound, 
 if a snake bite, as the arrangement of their teeth is such 
 that the poison comes out near the point and when in the 
 wound, thus you see the propriety of sucking it out Or: 
 
 7. Spirits of ammonia, a small vial of it can be carried in the 
 pocket, and if bitten, sharpen a little piece of wood to a small 
 point, dipping this stick into the ammonia, and then penetrating 
 the wound with it. A piece of lunar caustic can be carried in 
 the pocket, and sharpened, if needed, and used the same as the 
 stick and ammoniar-and one of the celebrated English farriers 
 has reported that this caustic, used freely on the bite of the mad 
 dog, destroys the poison ; but to insure even a reasonable hope 
 of success, it must be used immediately. This holds good in any 
 of the sucking or caustic applications. 
 
 All persons working on or near marshes, or wherever the 
 
 massasauger is known to inhabit, should always hare one of 
 
 these caustics with them. 
 
 8. But when a person is bitten in the absence of all these- 
 caustics, and not being able to reach the spot to suck out 
 the poi^ion, he must drink whisky enough to get as drunk 
 as a fool, or his whole dependence must be upon the ash 
 asparagus, or elecampane. 
 
 The National Intelligencer, a year or two since, published 
 a recipe for the cure of the rattlesnake bite, which it 
 claimed was infalliable, it having been tried in a number of 
 cases, and always with success. It was nothing more nor 
 less thac the use of whisky as above recommended, and it 
 
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 Is but justice to say that a daughter of Win. Reid, of the 
 town of Pittsfield, in this county, who wta bitten^ on the 
 arm some three year* ago, was cured by drinking whisky 
 until drunkenness and stupor were produced, and she has 
 never felt any inconvenience from the bite since, which 
 goes to show that the bite of the DeviTt tea is worse than 
 the bite of a rattlesnake. 
 
 9. I know an old physician who was called to a boy bit- 
 ten by a rattlesnake, and in the absence of all other remedies, 
 he cured him upon the principle that ** The hair of the 
 dog will cure his bite," taking a piece of the snake about 
 two inches long, splitting it upon the back, and binding it 
 upon the bite. It cleansed the wound very white, and no 
 bad effects were seen from it. 
 
 < 10 Salbbatcs, moistened and bound upon the bite ; then 
 dissolve more, and keep the parts wet with it for a few hours, 
 has cured many massasauger bites, as also bee stints. 
 
 11. Snake Bitten Cattle. — Remedy, — Cattle or 
 horses are usually bitten in the feet. When this is the case, 
 all that is necessary to do is t(f drive them into a mud-hole 
 and keep them there for a few hours; if upon the nose, bind 
 the mud upon the place in such a manner as not to interfere 
 "with their breathing. And I am perfectly satisfied that 
 soft clay mud would be an excellent application to snake 
 bites on persons, for I know it to draw out the poisoning 
 from ivy, and have been assured that it has done the same 
 for snake bites, of persons as well as for cattle. 
 
 EYE PREPARATIONS -Eyh Watbe.— Table salt and white 
 vitriol, of each one table-spoon ; heat them upon copper or earth- 
 en until dry ; the heating drives oflf the acrid or biting water, 
 called the water of crystalization, making them much mjilder in 
 their action : now add them to soft water ^ pint ; putting in white 
 sugar 1 table-spoon ; blue vitriol a piece the size of a common pea. 
 If it should prove too strong in any case, add a little more soft 
 water to a vial of it Apply it to the eyes 8 or 4 times daily. 
 
 If the eyes are very sore, or if the soreness has been of 
 long standing, take the " Alterative Syrup," or tbd Cathar- 
 tic Alterative," continuing them for several weeks, accord- 
 ing to the necessities of the case. I find it an excellent 
 plan, in using any preparation for sore or weak eyes, to 
 -apply it again about twenty minutes from the first applica- 
 
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 lion. More than double speed is made by ibis repetition. 
 For inflammation of any part of the body, apply tbia by 
 wetting clotbs. Even for sores about the ears and groins of 
 babes, reduce it, and three or four appHcations will cure 
 them. I have also found it valuable for horses, as a wash, 
 when they got the eye injured by straws, or otherwise, which 
 causes the eye to water, or matterate, using it freely. 
 
 The use of this eye water enabled me to lay by the spec- 
 tacles after four years' wearing, and I have since studied 
 medicine and. graduated as a physician, without resoii-ing 
 again to their use, by the occasional application of the eye 
 water. But I need not have resorted to the use of the eye 
 water again, had I not done in study, as I do in all things 
 else, that is, wben I have anything to do, I do it with all 
 my mighl. I read steadily, day by day, sixteen hours — 
 more than five other students, read altogether, who roomed 
 at the same house. Yet this counted in the fnd; for when 
 ;he class began to inquire and look around, near the end of 
 the term, for one to deliver the Valedictory, on their behalf, 
 which is the custom in the Eclectic Medical Institute, I re- 
 ceived that, the first honor of the class. I do not mention 
 this to boast, by no means, but to show the necessity, as well 
 as the advanCages, of hard study, especially to those who 
 begin their studies late in life, and are obliged to pay their 
 way with their own hands, and support a family also. This 
 was my case exactly. In the commencement of my medi- 
 cal studies, I worked ail day, reading half of the night, 
 copying oflF the latin terms, with their significations, on a slip- 
 of paper, which I carried in my pocket during the next day, 
 looking at two or three of the terms at a time, through the 
 day, until all were committed. And thus I accomplished, 
 no more than ^ at any other man may do, if he goes at it 
 with a will, and does as I did;- and that sme one may be- 
 stimulated to this course is the only object of this recital. 
 See " Advice to Young Men." 
 
 2 . Dr. Raymond, of Grass Lake, Mich., who obtained 
 the above prescription of me, adds to each ounce of water 
 used, one grain of morphine, and he tells me he has great 
 success with it; the addition of the morphine making it 
 nearly resemble the celebrated prescription used by the Eng- 
 lish surgeons in India, which is as follows ; 
 
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 3. Imdia PaucBipnoN roR Sorb Eybb. — Sulphate of zinc, 2 gn.; 
 tincture of opium (laudanum) 1 dr.; rose water 2 oos. ; mix. Put 
 a drop or two in tlie eye, 2 or 3 times daily. 
 
 4. An Etk Doctor, of Xeaia, O., makes great use of 
 
 the following : 
 
 Sulphate of zinc, acetate of lead, and rock salt, of each 1-1 os.; 
 loaf sugar 1 oz.; soft water 1? ozs.; mix without heat, and uie aa 
 other eye waters. 
 
 6. Dr. Cook, of Ashtabula, 0., makes and sells large 
 qatkntities, under the head of " Cook's Eye \^ ater." It is 
 as follows; 
 
 Sulphate of zinc 1 oz ; sugar of lead 1-2 oz.; precipitated car- 
 bonate of iron 1-2 oz. ; salt and sugar, of each 1 table-spoon ; the 
 whites of 2 eggs ; soft water 82 ozs. ; mix the whites of the eggs, 
 zinc, salt, lc«d, sugar, and iron, well together, then add the 
 water. 
 
 6. Foe Exokssivb Inflammation op the Eybs.— Poultice by 
 boiling a handful of hops in water, putting in from 1-2 to 1 dr. of 
 opium, while boiling ; when still warm lay the hops over the 
 eyes, and keep them wet with the water iu which they were 
 boiled. 
 
 A lady who had been blistered and starved, according to 
 the old plan, in this disease, was soon cured by this poul- 
 ticing and washing the eyes often with the liop- water con- 
 taining the opium, with generous diet, <fec., contrary to the 
 expectations of friends, and the predictions of enemies, to the 
 plan, 
 
 7. If sore eyes shed much water, put a little of the oxide of 
 zinc into a vial of water, and use it rather freely— it will soon 
 cure that difficulty. 
 
 8. CoppBEAS and water has cured sore eyes of long standing ; 
 and used quite strong it makes an excellent application in erysip- 
 elas. ' 
 
 9. Garden Rhubarb. — The juice of the root applied 
 to the eye, has cured bad cases. 
 
 10. Boil an egg, remove the yolk, and have ready equal parts 
 of sulphate of zinc and loaf sugar, pulverized ; fill the place oc- 
 cupied by the yolk, and squeeze out the oil through a linen cloth, 
 while hot, and apply as needed. If too strong, add a little rain 
 water. 
 
 I sold a book to a Mrs. Johnston, in Wayne Co., Mich., 
 ■who had used this preparation very successfully for several 
 years, and had I not have already had it in mj book, I 
 
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 could not have purchased it of her for lew than five dollars, 
 and she regretted very much that I was taking from her a 
 source of profit by selling the books in her neighborhood 
 containing the recipe. 
 
 11. Bailors' Etb Pebpabation. — Bum alum, and mix It with 
 the white of eggs, and put between two cloths and lay it upon the 
 eves ; taking salts and cream of tartar, eqaal parts, to cleans* 
 the blood. 
 
 This was given to me, and very highly recommended, by 
 an old Scotch sailo:, with whom I have had much enjoy- 
 ment, talking over the sufferings of the sea, he having used 
 it many timos in places where nothing else could be ob- 
 tained. 
 
 12. Father Pinknkt's Prsparation for Vbry Bad Sobi Etbs. — 
 Castile soap, scraped fine, and half the quantity oi very finely 
 pulverized chalk ; wet them up to a paste with strong juice of 
 tobacco ; when desired to apply to the eye, drop two or three drops 
 of brandy into the box of paste ; then talce out a bit of it where 
 the brandy was dropped, equal in size to the fourth of a grain of 
 wheat, to ihe diseased eye ; wet it on a bit of glass, and put it 
 into the eye with a camel's hair pencil. 
 
 Apply it twice daily at first, and from that to only once 
 in two days, for from one to weeks, will and has cured 
 wretched bad cases; so says old Father Pinkney, of Wayne 
 Co., Mich., who has used it over fifty yeai-s, he being over 
 ninety yeare of age. His only object in giving it an in' er- 
 tion here is to do good to his fellow creatures; and also for 
 animals, it being equally applicable to horses or cattle. 
 
 13. Indian Etb Watbr, — Soft water 1 pt. ; gum arabic 1 oz. ; 
 white vitriol 1 oz. ; line salt 1-2 teaspoon ; put all into a bottle 
 and shake imtil dissoxved. Put into the eye just as you retire to 
 bed. 
 
 I paid Mre. Pinny, south of Ypsilanti, Mich., fifty cents 
 for this prescription. She would not, however, let her own 
 family know its composition. Her husband had removed 
 films from hoi-ses' eyes with it, and cured Mr. Chidister, a 
 merchant of Ypsilanti, by only two applications, as the say- 
 ing is, after he had '* tried everything else." It came from 
 an old Indian, but my knowledge of the articles would lead 
 me to say for common, at least, it would require to be re- 
 duced one-half, 
 
 14. Tobacco Etb Watbr. — Fine cut tobacco the sijse of a 
 
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 common hickory nut ; sugar of lead equal in bulk ; rain water 2 
 on ; opium the aiae of a pea. Reduce it with more water if neces- 
 sary. 
 
 15. ViiRDiaBU AND HoNir hffve cured inflamed eyes, by using 
 inat sufficient verdigris to color the water a grass color, then mak- 
 ing it one third hooey. It is also said to prevent scars by using 
 upon bums. 
 
 16. Raw Potato Poultick. for inflamed eyes, is one of the very 
 best applications in recent cases, scraping fine and applying fre- 
 quently. 
 
 17. SLippiRT.Etif PouLTiois are also an excellent application, 
 used as above. 
 
 18. Films— To Rimove ^eom thb Eyb. — Wintergreen leaf, bruised, 
 and stewed in a suitable quantity of hens' oil to make the uu 
 (Strong of the wintergreen — strain and apply twice daily. 
 
 i \ The above cured a boy of this city, and I am satisfied 
 that the hens' oil has cured recent cases, without the winter- 
 green, but with it, it has cured beasts also. For cases of a 
 year or two's standing, however, it is best to use the follow- 
 ing: 
 
 19. Limb Watbb 1 pt. ; finely pulverised verdigris ^ oa ; set on 
 embers for 1 hour, then strain and bottle tight. Touch the film 
 over the pupil, or on the speck, 2 or 8 times daily, by putting the 
 point of a smail camel's hair pencil into the preparation, then to 
 the eye, holding away the lids for a short time by placing the 
 thumb and finger upon them for that purpose. 
 
 ; It will be found necessary to persevere for two or three 
 months with this application, and also to use one of the Al- 
 teratives to cleanse the blood. This course, pursued for 
 three months, gave sight to a young lady who had not seen 
 light for two years, which doctors could not do, nor were 
 willing for othere to do. 
 
 20. Etb^alvb. — ^Take white precipitate 1 teaspoon, and rub it 
 into a salve with 3 teaspoons of fresh lard, and applied upon the 
 outside of the lid of the worst chronic [long continued] sore eyes, 
 has cured them when they were so bad that even the eyelashes 
 [cilia] had fallen out from the disease. 
 
 A physician was cured with this eye salve when he could 
 not cure himself. If red precipitate will cure the itch, why 
 should not the white cure disease of the eye. 
 
 21. Sore Eyes — ^To Remove the Graitolations. — Orystalized ni- 
 trate of silver 2 grs. ; morphia 1 gr.; blue vitriol 1 gr. ; sal- 
 ammoniac 1 gr.; pulverize each one separately, and mix. Ap- 
 
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 ply once daily, by putting a small bit of the niixture npon a piece 
 of glass, moistening it with a little water, and putting into the 
 eye by means of a small camel's hair pencil. 
 
 22. Another Mbthod. — If to take a stick of tag-al<le)r about 2 
 feet long, boring a hole nearly through the middle of the stick, 
 orosawise, filling it with salt, and plugging it up ; then put ono 
 end into the fire and cl^arr it nearly to the salt, then the other 
 end, the same way and finally pulverizing and applying the salt, 
 the same as the anove, once daily only. 
 
 In either case after the graaiUations (little lumps) are re- 
 moved from the eye, or eye«, finish the cure by using any of 
 the foregoing eye waters whijh you may choose; all the 
 time using some of the alteratives for cleansing the blood. 
 
 FEVER SORES- PLASTER, SALVES, &c ---Black Salvk.— 
 Sweet oil, linseed oil, and r"d lead pulverized, of each 1 oz. [or 
 in these proportions.] Put all into an iron dish over a moderate 
 fire, stirring constantly, until you can draw your finger over a 
 drop of it on a board when a little cool, without sticking. Spread 
 on cloth and apply aa other salves. 
 
 My brother, J. M. Chase, of Caneadea, N. Y., says he has 
 useti this salve about Jlifteeen years, and knows it to be one 
 of the best in the world for all kinds of old sores, as ulcers, 
 fever sores, and all inflamed parts, cleaning, or taking out 
 l-edness or inflammation, causing a white, healthy appearance 
 in a short time, and a certain preventive of mortification, &c., 
 (fee, as well aa to prevent soreness in more recent cuts and 
 bruises, also; and from my own knowledge of a salve which 
 is very similar, I hav« introduced it into this work, feeling 
 assured that whoever may have occasion to try it, will not 
 regret the space it occupies, especially after reading the fol- 
 lowing : A gentleman said to me during the past summer, 
 ♦• I will give you one of the most valuable salves in the world, 
 for I cured a man's hand with it which was so swolen that 
 it looked more like a ham than a hand ; and two Doctora 
 said it must be cut ofi^, also ulcerated." When he told me 
 how it was made, I opened my book to the above salve, 
 which was precisely the same as the one he used. 
 
 2. Red Salve. — Some prefer to prepare ihe salvo as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 Red lead I lb. ; beeswax and rosin, of each 2 ozs. ; linseed and 
 sweet oils, of each 3 tablespoons ; spirits of turpentine 1 teaspoon ; 
 melt all, except the first and last, together, then stir in the lead 
 and stir until cool, adding the turpentine. 
 
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 160 
 
 DR. CHASE S RECIPES. 
 
 Used upon fever and all other sores of an inflammatory 
 character; at the same time taking the following pill to 
 purify the blood. 
 
 3, Mandrake root, dried and pulverized, 1-2 oz. ; blood root, 
 in the same way, 1-4 oz. ; form into pills with extract of dandelion. 
 DosB— 'ihree pills may be taken at bed-time, for 2 or 8 days, 
 then add another pill, and at the end of a week take any cathar- 
 tic you choose ; then take iodide of potash 10 grs., and put it into 
 a vial with 1 oz. of water, and take 20 or 30 drops of it in a little 
 more water, instead of the mandrake pill, for 3 or 4 days ; then 
 that pill again, as at first. 
 
 By the time you have gone around three or four times, 
 the blood will be pretty thoroughly cleansed — do not be 
 afraid of the mandrake pill, as it will not act as a cathartic, 
 but simply work upon the blood — if it does, reduce the 
 number. You will be pleased with the method of puri- 
 fication. 
 
 4. Indian Cure. — G, A. Paterson, of Ashtabula, 0., 
 was cured by an Indian physician, in Cleveland, of one of 
 the worst fever sores almost ever known. The muscles of 
 his leg were so contracted that no u.^ could be made of his 
 leg in getting about. Four months, and the following treat- 
 ment, did the work. 
 
 A syrup of Wahoo (Euonymus Atropurpureus) — and here let 
 me say that the Wahoo is the great Indian remedy for purifying 
 the blood — was made by boiliaj? very strong, then molasses and 
 rum added to make it palatable and keep it from souring ; this 
 wag used sufficient to keep the bowels solvent, sometimes chew- 
 ing the bark of the root from which the syrup is made, prefer- 
 ring it a part of the time to the syrup. The sore was dressed 
 with the following salve : rosin 1 lb "; mutton tallow 1 lb. ; bees* 
 wax 1 lb. ; linseed oil 1 pt. ; ambrosial (highly flavored) soap 1 1-2 
 02S. ; to make it, mix in an iron kettle and eimmer 2 hours, stir- 
 ing all the time. Spread on a cloth and apply as needed. The 
 contracted muscles are anointed with skunk's oil only. 
 
 Mr. Patterson also extols it very highly for all common 
 purposes. And as I have a few othei' recipes for fever sores 
 which have been so highly recommended by those who have 
 used them, I cannot omit their insertion, and I would espe- 
 cially reconr,mend the next one following, called : 
 
 6. Kitridob's Salve. — Bitter-sweet and sweet elder roots, of 
 each 1 1-2 lbs. ; hop vines and leaves, and green plantain, top and 
 root, of each 1-2 lb. ; tobacco 1 tbree-ceut plug. Boil all in rain 
 water to get out the strength j then put the herbs in a thick cloth 
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 161 
 
 
 and presfl out the juice, and boll down carefully tol pt.; then add 
 unaalted butter 1 lb ; bee>wax and rosin, of each 1 oz., and aim- 
 mer over a slow fire until the water is all out. 
 
 I obtained the above from S. B. Newton, a farmer doctor 
 near Mooreville, Mich., who bad cured fever sores with it 
 of thirty-five years' standing; used it also on swellings in 
 every case, once upon a boy who had an eye kicked out and 
 swelled very bad; he 'eeps it in his stable all the time for 
 wounds of horses and onttle, in castration, &c., &c. I know 
 it must be a very valuable salve. 
 
 6. Fever Sobk Poultice. — Sassafras, bark of the root, dried and 
 pulverized very fine ; make a bread and milk poult\ce quite thin, 
 and stir in of the above powder to make it of proper consist- 
 ence, applying 3 times in the 24 hours for 3 weeks ; then heal 
 with a salve made by thickening honey to a salve with wheat 
 flour. 
 
 If there are loose bones it will be quite sore while they 
 are working out, but persevere. A case was cured by it of 
 twelve years' standing; the same man cured eight other 
 cases, never having a failure, and it has proved successful on 
 an abscess of the loins also. 
 
 7. Yeast Poultice — Fresh yeast, the thick part, thickened 
 with flour and applied to fever sores has proved very valuable, 
 continuing it for several weeks, touching any points, which does 
 not heal readilv, with finely pulverized verdigrii: rubbed up with 
 a little lard ' then putting the poultice directly over the whole 
 again. 
 
 This heals, leaving the parts white and natural, instead of 
 dark, as I have seen many cases which had been cured. 
 
 8. Salve foe Fever Sores, Abscesses, Broken Breasts, &c. — 
 Thoroughly steep tobacco J oz., in soft water 1 pt., strain- 
 ing out from the tobacco and boiling down to 1 gill ; then have 
 melted, lard, rosin and beeswax, of each ^ oz., simmering to a 
 thick salve, then stining in 1 gill of old rum, and, if necessary, 
 continuing the simmering a little longer. To be used as other 
 salves. 
 
 9. Ointment. — Sweet clover [grown in gardens] stewed in lard ; 
 then add beeswax and white pine turpentine, equal parts, to form 
 an ointment, iu highly recommended. 
 
 10 'Salve for Fever Sores, Cuts, &c. — Spirits of turpentine 
 and honey, of each J pt., simmered over a slow fire until they 
 unite by stirring ; then set aside to cool until you can put in the. 
 yolk of an egg without its being cooked by the heat ; stir it in 
 and return it to the five, adding camphor gum J oz., simmer and 
 stir until well mixed*. 
 
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 162 
 
 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 By putting in the egg. when cool, it combines with the 
 other, but if put in while the salve is hot it cooks, but does 
 not combine. This is very highly recommended, as above 
 indicated. 
 
 11, William Howell, a farmer living about six miles 
 from Jackson, Mich., says he bad a fever 9ore on his shin 
 •for twenty years, sometimes laying him up for months, and 
 at one time preparations were made to cut off the limb, but 
 an old man in New Jei-sey, told him to: 
 
 Scrape a fresh turnip and apply it every 4 hours, night and day, 
 •until healed, which cured him. 
 
 And he feels assured from u^ing it in other cases, that all 
 ■will be pleased with it who have any occasion for its use. 
 Apply it oftener if it becomes too offensive. 
 
 SALVES. — Geben Mountain Salvb. — Rosin 5 lbs.; Burgundy 
 pitch, beeswax, and mutton tallow, of each J lb. ; oil of hemlock, 
 balsam of fir, oil of origanum, o I of red cedar, and Venice tur- 
 pentine, of each I oz.; oil of wormwood J oz.; verdigris, very 
 finely pulverized, 1 oz ; melt the first articles together, and add 
 the oils, having rubbed the verdigris up with a little of the 
 oils, and put it in with the other articles, stirring well ; then 
 pour into culd water, and work as wax, until cool enough to 
 roll. 
 
 This salve has no equal for rheumatic pains, or weakness 
 in the side, back, shoulders, or any place where pain may 
 locate itself. Where the skin is broken, as in ulcera and 
 "bruises, I use it without '.he verdigris, making a white salve, 
 ^ven superior to '' PalegV^hite's old salve." It is valuable in 
 Dyspeosia^ to put & piaster of the green salve over the sto- 
 mach, and wear it ae long as it will stay on, upon the back 
 -also, or Kny place whore pain or weakness may locate. In 
 ^uts. hnv^H; abr».^ions, &c., spread the white salve upon 
 cloth rtud ap, ly it ;i8 a sticking plaster until well; for rheu- 
 raatlHin or weakness, spread the green salve upon soft leather 
 and apply, letting it remain on as long as it will stay. For 
 eorns, spread the green salve upon cloth and put upon the 
 <orn, letting it remain until cured. It has cured them.^ 
 
 A gentleman near Lancaster, O., obtained one of my 
 books having this recipe in it, and one jitar afterwards he 
 -told me he had sold over four thousand rolls of the salve, 
 .curing an old lady of rheumatism in six weeks, who had 
 
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 been confined to her bed for seven weeks, covering all tbe 
 large joints with the salve, without other treatment. For 
 rolling out salves, see the cut beluw. 
 
 2. Comkum's Cklebrated Salve. — Rosin 4 lbs.; bees- wax, bur- 
 gnndy pitch, white pine turpentine, and mutton tallow, each \ lb. ; 
 camphor gum and balsam of fir, of each \ oz. ; sweet oil ^ oz. ; and 
 alcohol i pt. Melt, mix, roll out, and use as other salve&v 
 Wonders have b*;en done with it. 
 
 3 Balm of Qilead Salve. — Mutton tallow Jlh.; balm of gilead 
 buds 2ozg.; white pine gum 1 oz ; red precipitate I oz.; hard 
 soap I oz. ; white sugar 1 table-spoon. Stew the buds in the taJlow 
 until the strength is obtained, and press out or strain, scrape the 
 soap and add it with the other articles to the tallow, using suffi - 
 cient unsalted butter or sweet oil to bring it to a proper consis- 
 tence to spread easily upon cloth. When nearly cool, stir in the 
 red precipitate, mixing thoroughly. 
 
 This may be more appropriately called en ointment. It 
 is used for cuts, scalds, bruises, <fec., and for bums by spread- 
 ing very thin — if sores get proud flesh in them, spnnkle a 
 littie burned alum on the salve before applying it. It has- 
 been in use in this county about forty yeare, with the great- 
 est success. 
 
 4. Adhesive Plastrk, or Salve, for Deep Wounds, C!ut?, &c , 
 IN Place of Stitcee-s. — White rosin 7 oz ; bees- wax and mutton 
 tallow, of each J oz. ; melt all together, then pour into cold water 
 and work as wax until thoroughly mixed, then roll out into suita« 
 ble sticks for use. 
 
 It may be spread upon firm cloth and cut into narrow 
 strips. In case of deep wounds, or cuts, it will be found to 
 firmly hold them together, by first pressing one end of » 
 strip upon one side of the wound until it adheres, then draw 
 the edges of the wound closely together, and press dow» 
 the other end of the strip until it adheres also. The strips^ 
 should reach three or four inches upon each side of the cut,- 
 and run in difiiBrent directions across each other, lo draw 
 6very part of the wound firmly in Contact. It will crack 
 easily after being spread until applied to the warm fle^h, yet 
 if made any softer it cannot be depended upon for any 
 length of timp, but as it is, it has been worn as a strength- 
 ening plaster, and remained on over a year. 
 
 6. Peleg White's Old Salve. — This, formerly cele- 
 brated, salve was composed of only three very simple articles- 
 
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 DR. chase's BBOIPES 
 
 Our " Green Mountain Salve" is far ab«ad of it, yet fof 
 the satisfaction of its old freuds, I give you it« composi- 
 tioo: 
 
 Rosin 8 lbs. ; mutton tallow and beeswax, of each \ lb. ; melted 
 together and poured into cold water, then pulled, and worked a« 
 shoe-makers' wax. 
 
 It was recommended for old sores, cuts, bruises, rheu- 
 mi^tic-plasters, &>^., &c. 
 
 II- 
 
 The apparatus for making salves and lozenges consists of a 
 board prepared with strips upon it of the desired thickness 
 for the diameter of the rolls of salve, also a piece of boar4 
 with a handle, with which to roll the salve when properly; 
 cooled for the purpose. The salve is laid between tha 
 strips, which are generally one inch thick, then with tha 
 handle piece, roll it until that board comes down upon the 
 strips which makes the rolls of one size, use a little tallow to 
 prevent sticking to the boards or hands; then cut off tha 
 desired length and put a label upon them, to prevent them 
 sticking to each other. 
 
 A roller and tin cutter is also necessary to complete the 
 apparatus, with which, and another board, having thin 
 strips upon it to correspond with the thickness of lozenges 
 required, you can roll the mass down until the roller touches 
 the strips ; and thus you can get them as well as the salve, 
 of uniform thickness ; then cut out with the cutter, laying 
 them upon paper until dry. •» 
 
 VERMIFUGES.— Santonin Lozengbs —Santonin 60 gre. ; pul- 
 verized sugar 6 ozs ; mucilage of gum tragicanth sufficient 
 to make into a thick paste, worked carefully together, that the 
 santonin shall be evenly mixed throughout the whole miiBS; 
 
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 then, if not in too great a hnrry, cover up the mortar in which 
 you have rubbed them, and let stand from 12 to 24 hours to tern- 
 per; at which time they will roll out better than if done imme- 
 diately; divide into 120 lozenges. See apparatus, above, for 
 rolling, and cutting out. Doaa— For a child I year old, 1 
 loaenge, night and morning; of 2 yean, 2 loaenges; of 4 years, 
 5; of 8 years, 4; of 10 years or mort,, 6 to 7 lozenges; in all 
 cases, to be taken twice doily, and continuing until the worms 
 start on a voyage of discovery . 
 
 A gentleman came into the drag store one morning, with 
 the remark, " Do you know what your loaenges have been 
 ■doing ?" As though they had kil'ed some one, the answer 
 was, no, is there anything wrong; he held up both h^nds 
 together, scoop shovel style, saying, " They fetched away 
 the worms by the double handful." It is needless to at- 
 tempt to give the symptoms by which the presence of worms 
 might be distinguished ; for the symptoms of nearly every 
 other disease is, sometimes, manifested by their presence. 
 But if the belly be quite hard, and unusually large, with a 
 peculiar and di8agree?»ble breath, in the morning foul or 
 furred tongue, upper lip swollen, itching of the nose and 
 anus, milky white urine, bowels sometimes obstinately cos- 
 tive, then as obstinately loose, with a craving appetite, then 
 ioathing food at times; rest assured that worm medicine 
 will not be amiss, whether the person be child, or adult. It 
 would be well to take a mild cathartic after four to six days 
 use of the lozenges, unless the worms have passed off suffi- 
 ciently free before that time, to show their general destruc- 
 tion. Very high piaise has also been given to the follow- 
 ing: 
 
 2. Vbrmifuok Oil— Prof. Frkbman's. — In the May. 
 number of the Eclectic Medical Journal of Cincinnati, 0, 
 I find so valuable a vermifuge from Prof. Z. Freeman, that 
 I must be excused for its insertion, as the articles can always 
 be obtained, whilst in some places you might not be able to 
 get the santonin called for in the lozenges. His remarks 
 following the recipe will make all needed explanations, and 
 give confidence in the treatment. 
 
 The explanations in brackets are my own, according to 
 the custom through the whole work. 
 
 " Take oil of chenopodii, k oz. (oil of worm seod); oil of ter- 
 «binth, 2 drs. (oil of turpentine); oil of ricini, 1^ ozs. (castor 
 

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 DR. chase's recipes* 
 
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 oil,] ; fluid extract of spigelia, ^ oz. [pink] hydrastin 10 grains ; 
 svrup of mebth. pip. ^ oz [syrup of peppermint.] Dobb — To a 
 child 10 years of age, a tea-spoon 8 times a day, 1 hour before 
 each meal ; if it purges too freely, give it less often. 
 
 <' This is an excellent vermifuge, tonic and cathartic, and 
 
 has never failed (as well as I can judge,) to eradicate worms, 
 
 if any were present, when administered for that purpose. 
 
 I have given no other vermifuge for the last five years, and 
 
 often one tea-spoon has brought away from three to twenty 
 
 of the lumbrica. Only a few days ago I prescribed one 
 
 fluid drachm of it, (about one tea-spoon,) and caused the 
 
 expulsion of sixty lumbricoids, and one fluid drachm, taken 
 
 a feV days afterwards, by the same child, brought away 40 
 
 iDore, some of them six inches in length. Where no worms 
 
 are present, it answers the purpose of a tonic, correcting the 
 
 condition of the mucus membrane of the stomach and 
 
 bowels, improving the appetite and digestion, and operating 
 
 as a mild cathartic ." • 
 
 8. WoKH Tea. — Carolina pink-root, senna leaf, manna, and 
 American worm-seed, of each 1-2 oz.; bruise and pour on boiling 
 water 1 pt., and steep without Ijoiling. Sweeten well, add half 
 as mnoh milk. Dosb — A child of five years may take one gill 
 three times daily, before meals, or sufficient to move the bowels 
 rather freely. 
 
 If this does not carry off any worms, wait one day and 
 repeat the operation ; but if the bowels do not move by the 
 first day's work, increase the dose and continue to give it 
 until that end is attained before stopping the medicine. 
 This plan will be found an improvement upon the old^ 
 where the lozenges or oil cannot be obtained, as above. 
 
 4. WoBH Oakk— Enocis'i Bbhkbt.— Wheat flour and jalap, 
 of each 1-2 lb ; calomel, grain-tin, and ginger, of each 1 oz. Mix 
 thoroughly and wet up afi dough, to a proper consistence to roll 
 out ; then roil out as lozenge cakes, to three- sixteenths of an inch 
 in thickness ; then cut out 3-4 inch square and dry them. Dosh — 
 For a child ftom 1 to 2 years, 3-4 of a cake ; 4 to 5 years, 1 cake ; 
 from 5 to 7 years, 1}^ cakes ; from 7 to 10, 1 1-2 ; from 10 to 12, 
 IJ; from 12 to 14 2; from 14 to 17, 2 J; from 17 to 20 years, 
 and all above that age, 2 1-2 cakes, but all men above that age 3 
 cakes 
 
 " Children may eat them, or they can be shaved off very 
 fine and mixed in a little treacle, honey or preserves. If 
 After taking the first dose, they do not work as you desire 
 
 
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 167 
 
 iocrease the dose a little. The patient to take the medicine 
 twice a week — Sundays and Wednesdays. To be taken in 
 the morning fasting, and to be worked oflF with a little warm 
 tea, water gruel, or warm broth. N. B, — Milk must not be 
 used in working them off, and be careful of catching cold.— 
 Smodin, Printer, Oakham, Ung" 
 
 I obtained the above of an English family who praised it 
 very highly as a cathartic for common purposes, as well as 
 for worms. And all who are willing to take calomdy I have 
 no doubt, will be pleased with its operations. 
 
 TAPE-WORM — SiMPLK, BUT Effectual Remedy — 
 This very annoying and dictressing worm has been removed 
 by taking two ounce doses of common pumpkin seeds, pul- 
 verized, and repeated every four or five hours, for four or 
 five days; spirits of turpentine, also in doses cf one-half to 
 two ounces, with castor oil, have proved very eflecltial ; the 
 root of the male fern, valerian, bark of the pomegranate 
 root, (fee, have been used with success. But my chief object 
 in speaking upon this subject is to give the suoeesses of Drs. 
 Beach, of New York, and Dowler, of Beardstown, 111., from 
 their singularity and perfect eradication of the worm, in both 
 cases : The first is from " Beach's American Practice, and 
 Family Physician," a large work of three volumes costing 
 Twenty Dollars, consequently not generally circulated; 
 whilst the latte is taken from the " Eclectic Medical and 
 College Journal," of Cincinnati, and therefore only taken 
 by pli'sicians of that school. The last was first published 
 by thu '' New Orleans M '1 and Surgical Journal." First 
 then, Dr. Beach says : 
 
 ** The symptoms of a tape-woriii, iis related to me by Miss 
 Dumouline, who had suffered with it for twenty-five years, 
 are in substance as follows : It commenced at the age of 
 ten, and afflicted her to the age of thirty-five. The worm 
 often made her distressingly sick at the stomach ; she would 
 sometimes vomit blood and be taken suddenly ill, and occa- 
 sionally while walking. It caused symptoms of many other 
 diseases, great wasting of the flesh, (fee. Her appetite was 
 very capricious, being at times good, and then poor for 
 months, during which time her symptoms were much aggra- 
 vated ; sickness, vomiting, great pain in the chest, stomach 
 
168 
 
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 and side, motion in the stomach, and also in the bowels, with 
 pain, a sense of fulness Of swelling, and beating or tbrob- 
 oing in the same, dizziness, heaviness of the eyes: — and she- 
 was altogether so miserable that she feared it would de- 
 stroy her. When she laced or wore anything tight, it pro- 
 duced great distress. The worm appeared to rise up In her 
 throat and sicken her. Her general health was very bad. 
 At intervals, generally some time after taking medicine^ 
 pieces of the worm would pass from the bowels — often as 
 many as forty during the day, all alive, and would swim in 
 water. 
 
 "Tebatmknt., — Miss Dumouline stated that she had employed 
 twenty physicians, at difftirent periodfi, and taken a hundred dif- 
 ferent kinds of medicine without expelling the worm. She had 
 taken spirits of turpentine, but could not retain it upon the 
 stomach. Under these circumstances I commenced my treatment. 
 Cowage stripped from the pod, a small teaspoon three times a day, 
 to be taken, fasting, in a livile arrow-root jelly ; then occasionally 
 a purgative of mandrake. In connection with this, I directed her 
 to eat freely of garlic and common fine salt. I gave these under 
 the belief that each article possessed vermifuge properties, 
 without ever -having administered them for the tape-worm. — 
 After having taken them for some time, all her unfavorable 
 symptoms ceased, and subsequently the remaining portion of 
 the worm passed lifeless from her — an unprecedented circum- 
 stance. 
 
 " She immediately recovered, and hais since retained her 
 h^th, and there is no evidence that thei'e is any remaining^ 
 The patient stated that the worm which passed from her 
 during the time she was afflicted with it, would fill a peck 
 measure, and reach on« mile in length. Her relief and 
 gratitude may be better imagined than described. I have a 
 portion of this worm in my possession. When once the 
 tape-worm begins to pass the bowels, care must be taken not 
 to break it off, for it will grow again — it has this peculiar 
 property. " 
 
 2. Sboondlt, Dr. Dowler says : ** The subject of this ' 
 notice is a daughter of Mr. E. Fish, of Beardstown, 111., 
 about six years old. The only point of special interest in 
 the case consists in the eflBciency of the remedy — to me 
 wholly new, and accidentally brought to my notice — which 
 was used in its treatment. 
 
 " I was treating a brother of this patient ; a part of my 
 
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 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 prescription for whom was, as a drink, the mucilage of elm 
 bark, made by putting pieces of the solid bark into water. 
 The girl was seen to be frequently eating portions of the 
 bark during the day; the next morning after which, upon 
 my visiting the boy, the mother, with much anx'ety, showed 
 me a vessel containing something that had that morning 
 passed the girlV bowels, with bits of the elm bark, enveloped 
 in mucilage, which, upon examination, proved to be abo^t 
 three feet of tape- worm. As I supposed the paAsage of tbt 
 worm W88 accidental, and had occurred from the looseness 
 ■cauFyod by the bark, I proceeded to prescribe what I sup- 
 pased a much more potent authelmintic, a large dose of tur- 
 pentine and castor oil. The turpentine and oil were given 
 «everal times during the thiee consecutive days, causing 
 pretty active purging, but with no appearance of any por- 
 tions of the worm. The girl being slender, and of irritable 
 temperament, I was forced to desist from further activt 
 medications; and partly to allay irritation of the bowels, and 
 partly to test the influences of the bark on the worm, I di- 
 rected that she should resume the use of the bark as before, 
 by chewing and swallowing in moderate quantities. 
 
 " On visiting her tht> succeeding morning, [ was showa 
 portions of tha worm, mostly in separate joints, that had 
 been passed over night. Feeling now some confidence in 
 the anthelmintic powers of the elm bark, I directed the con- 
 tinued use of it in the solid form, as before, while there 
 should be any portions of worm passing. In my daily calls 
 for some days, I had the satisfaction to learn that portions 
 of the worm cootinued to pass, from day to day, and some- 
 times several times a day. 
 
 *' I now ceased to visit my little patient, intending only 
 an occasional visit ; but my confidence in the efficacy of the 
 'Clm bark being so well established, I advised its use to be 
 continued for even two or three days after any portions of 
 the worm should be seen in the evacuations. The portions 
 of the worm expelled — even the separate joints — were alive, 
 fihowing more or less motion; a sense of their presence in 
 the rectum, from their action, seemed to urge the patient to 
 go to stool for their removal. 
 
 '' Having given direction for the links or joints to be 
 counted, care was taken to do bo, by the mother; and from 
 
170 
 
 DR chase's recipes. 
 
 jny notes of the case, I find that during about seven weeks 
 of the intervening time, there had been expelled, by esti* 
 mate, (taking the average lengths of the joints,) about /or<y- 
 five feet of worm. At this i,iuie there had been no portions 
 of the worm passed for two weeks, during which time the 
 use of the bark had been omitted.' The head of the worm, 
 with about fifteen inches of the body attached, had been 
 expelled ! But thinking that all portion of the worn or 
 worms might not have been removed, I advised that the 
 patient should resume the usd of the bark. Very soon the 
 next day, at er doing so, further portions commenced com- 
 ing away, among them one about iix feet long, tapering to 
 a thread like termination. 
 
 " The next time I took notes of the case, my estimate of 
 the entire length of the worm that had been expelled, foot- 
 ed up one hundred and thirty-five feet, whether one or 
 more worms, I am unable to say, as in the portions I saw, 
 there were a head and tail, of what I supposed one worm. 
 Since the last estimate, there have been joints occasionally 
 evacuated. 
 
 " This patient, when first treated, was thin in flesh — had 
 been grrowing so for some two years — attended with the 
 usual nervous symptoms, starting out of sleep, variable ap- 
 petite, etc., but with no great departure from good health. 
 
 " As to the influence of this very blank agent in the dis- 
 lodgment of the tape-worm, in this case, I think there can 
 be no doubt, whatever may be the theory of its action. 
 
 " The passage of portions of the worm, so promptly, on 
 the use of the bark, and the ceasing to do so on the dis- 
 continuance of its use — aven while active purgative anthelmin- 
 tics were used — leave no ^oora to doubt its effectiveness in 
 at least this case as a worm expelling agent. 
 
 •' It seems probable that the bark, with its thick mucil- 
 age, so interposes between the animal and th-^ inner surface 
 of the bowels, as to prevent its lateral grasp on their surface, 
 in consequence of which it is compelled to yield to the forces 
 naturally operating, and is carried out with the discharges. 
 But as my object was simply to state the practical facts in 
 this case, I will offer no further reflections. 
 
 COUGHIi.— CouoH LozBNOw.— Powdered epecacuanha 26 
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 171 
 
 Ion 
 
 lis- 
 
 lin- 
 
 in 
 
 26 
 
 giB. ; kermes mineral 60 gn ; lulphate of morphia, 8 gn. ; powder- 
 ed white sugar, gum arable, and extract of licorice, of each Ik 
 0Z8. ; oil of anice 20 drops; syrup of tolu sufficient to work into 
 mass form; roll out and cut into 160 lozenges. Doss— One loz- 
 enge 3 times daily . — Parish's Pharmacy. 
 
 The above is the prescription of the '* regulars," but theie 
 are those, perhaps who would prefer the more rational pre* 
 scription of the '• irregulars," next following; and there are 
 those who would prefer the " Cough Candy" in place of 
 either of the lozenges. By the insertion of the variety, all 
 can plea«e themselves. 
 
 2. CocQH LozBNOEs. — Another valuable lozenge is made as fol- 
 lows: Extract of blood-root, licorice, and black cohosh, of each 
 \ oz. ; tinctures of ipecac and lobelia, with laudanum, of each ^ 
 oz.; cayenne, powdered, 10 grs.; palverized gum arabio and 
 starch, of ' ach | oz. ; mix all together, and add pulverized sugar 
 3 ozB If this should be too dry to roll into lozengeg, add a thick 
 solution of gum arable to give it that consistence; and if it should 
 be yet too moist, at any time, add more sugar. ' Divide into 320 
 lozenges Dosb— One, 3 to tt times daily, as needed. 
 
 3. Pdhiomio Wafbes. — Pulverized sugar 7 ozs.; tincture o 
 ipecac 8 drs. ; tincture of blood-root and syrap of tolu, of each 
 2 drs.; tincture of thoroughwort ^ oz.; morphine H grs. Dis- 
 solve the morphine in water \ tea-spoon, having put in sul- 
 phuric acid 2 drops; now mix all, and add mucilage of comfrey 
 root or gum arable, to form a suitable paste to roll and cut 
 into common sized wafers or lozenges. Dirbctions. — Allow 1 
 to dissolve in the mouth for a dose, or dissolve 6 in 3 table- 
 spoons of warm water, and take ^.oi a spoon 6 times daily, or 
 oftener if need be. 
 
 4. Coughs from Rbcent Colds — Remkdt. -Linseed-oil,, honey, 
 and Jamaica rum, equal parts of each; to be shaken when used. 
 
 This has given very general satisfaction in recent coughs, 
 but the following will probibly give the most general satis- 
 faction : 
 
 5. Cough Mixture for Recent Colds. — Tincture of 
 blood-root, syrups of ipecac and squills, tincture of balsam • 
 of tolu, and paregoric, equal parts of each. Dose. — Half 
 of a tea-spoon whenever the cough is severe. It is a very 
 valuable medicine. 
 
 6. CocQH Candt. — ^Tincture of squills 2 ozs.; camphorated 
 tincture of opium, and tincture of tolu, of each \ oz ; wine of 
 ipecac ^ oz. ; oilu of gultheria 4 drops, sassafras 3 drops, and of 
 anise-seed oil 2 drops. The above mixture is to be put into & 
 
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 172 
 
 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 lbs. of candy which is just ready t«> take from Ihe fire, continuing- 
 the boiling a little longer, so aa to ^form into itlcka.—Pari»h'$ 
 Pharmacy. 
 
 Druggists will get confectioners to make this fnr a trifle 
 on tho pound over common candies, they, of course, furniBh- 
 ing their own compound. 
 
 7. CouoH Strup.- Wahoo, Imrk of the root, and elecampane 
 root, of each 2 ozs. ; spikenard root, and tamarack bark (iinroriBed, 
 but the moHs may bo brushed off,) of each 4 ozs. ; mandrake 
 root Joz ; blood root \ oz. ; mix alcohol 1 pt, with Butlicient 
 water to cover all handsomely, and let stand 2 or 8 davs ; then 
 pour off 1 qt., putting on water and boiling twice, striuning the 
 two waters and boiling down to 8 pints ; when cool add 3 lbs of 
 honey, and alcoholic fluid poured off, with tincture of wine of 
 ipecac IJ oz. ; if the cough should be very tight, double tho 
 ipecac, and wash the feet daily in warm water, rubbing them 
 thoroughly with a coarse towel, and, twice a week, extending the 
 WHahing and rubbing to the whole body. t)oeB.— One tablespoon \ 
 8 to 6 times daily. <^ 
 
 If the cough is very troublesome when you lie dowa at 
 night or on waking in the morning, put tar and spirits of 
 nitre, of each one tcsk-spoon into a four ounce vial of water, 
 shaking well; then atthei^ tin es just sip about a tea-spoon 
 from the bottle without shaking, which will allay the tick- 
 ling sensation, causing the cough. 
 
 I have cured a young lady, during the past winter, with 
 the above syrup, whose cough had been pretty constant for 
 over two years; her friends hardly expected it ever to be 
 any better, but it was oiily necessary to make the above 
 amount of syrup twice to perform the cure. 
 
 8. Cough Tincture. — Tincture of blood-root and bal- 
 sam of tolu, of each four ounces; tinctures of lobelia and 
 digitalis, of each two ounces; tincture of opium ^laudanum) 
 one ounce; tincture of oil of anise (oil of anise one-half 
 tea-spoon in an ounce of alcohol,) one ounce. Mix. Dc3e- 
 — About one-half tea-spoon three times daily, in the same 
 amount of honey, increasing to a tea-spoon if needed to- 
 loosen and lessen the cough. It has raised cases which 
 doctors said must die, causing the patient to raise matter 
 resembling the death smell, awful indeed. It will cure 
 cough, not by stopping it, but by loosening it, assisting the 
 lungs and throat to throw off the offending matter, which 
 causes the cough, and thus scientifically making the cure- 
 
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 perfect; while most of the cough remeHies kept for sale, 
 stop the cough by their anoHyne and constringing effects, 
 retaining the mucus and all offending matters in the blood, 
 causing permanent disease of the lungs. 
 
 But, notwithfttanding the known value of this " Cough 
 Tincture," where the tamarack and other ingredients can he 
 obtained, I must give my preference to the "Cough Syrup," 
 No. 7. 
 
 9. CotjOH PitL. — Extmct of hyoscyarauB, hn\m of gilend buds, 
 with pulverized ipecac, or lobelia, and balsam of fir, of each J o».; 
 oil of anise a few drops to form into common sized pills. Dose— 
 One or two pills 3 or 4 times daily. 
 
 Dr. Beach says he endeavored for more than twenty-five 
 yeare to obtain a medicine to fulfil the indications which 
 are effected in this cough pill, particularly for ordinary colds 
 and coughs; and this admirably answers the intention, ex- 
 celling all others. It alla}s the irritation of the mucus 
 nlembrahe, the bronchial tubes, and the lungs, and will be 
 fdnnd exceedingly valuable in deep-seated coughs and all 
 diseases of the chest. The bad effects of opium (so much 
 uted in coughs) are in this pill entirely obviated, and it is 
 altogether better than the Cough Drops, which I now dis- 
 pense Yr'ith,— Beach* s American Practice. 
 
 WHOOPING COUGH— Svarp.— Onions and garlics sliced, of 
 each 1 gill ; sweet oil 1 gill ; stew them in the oil in a covered 
 dish, to obtain the juices ; theu strain, and add huney 1 gill ; 
 paregoric and spirits of camphor, of each } oz.; bottle 'and cork 
 tight for use Dosb — For a ciiild of 2 or 3 years, 1 teaspoon 3 or 
 4 times daily, or whenever the cough is troublesome, increasing 
 or lessening, according to age, 
 
 This is a granny's preset iption, but I care not from what 
 source I derive information, if it gives the satisfaction that 
 this has done upon experiment. This lady has raised a 
 laTg€i family of her own children, and grand-children in 
 abundance. We have tried it with three of our children 
 also, and prescribed it in many other cases with satisfaction, 
 for over seven yeare. It is excellent also in common colds, 
 attended with much cough. This is from experience, too, 
 whom I have found a very competent teacher. 
 
 It is said that an European physician has discovered that 
 the dangerous symptoms of whooping cough are due tosup- 
 
 r., 
 
 
174 
 
 DR. chase's BECIPES. 
 
 pressed cutaneous eruptions, and that an external irritant 
 
 or artificial rash, is a sure remedy. See •♦ Small Pox." 
 
 2- Dailky's Whooping Cough Strup. — Take the strongest West 
 India rum 1 pt.; auise oil 2 ozs. ; honey 1 pt.; lemon juice 4 ozs.; 
 mix. Dose— For adults, 1 table-spoon 3 or 4 times a day, — 
 children, 1 tea-spoon, with as much sugar and water. 
 
 He says that he has successfully treated more than one 
 ?iundred cases with this syrup. 
 
 3. Soreness or Hoarseness from Coughs. — Kembdt.— Spikenard 
 root, bruised and steeped in a tea-pot, by using half water and 
 half spirits; then inhaling the steam, when not too hot, by 
 breathing through the spout, will relieve the sorencrfs and hoarse- 
 ness of the lungs, or throat, arising from much coughing. 
 
 IN-GROWING TOE NAI. — To Cure.— We take the 
 following reme ly for a very oommon and very painful afflic- 
 ition, from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal: 
 
 " The patient on whom I first tried this plan was a young 
 
 lady who had been unable to put on a shoe for several 
 
 months, and decidedly the worst I have ever seen. The 
 
 edge of the nail was deeply undermined, the granulations 
 
 formed a high ridge, partly covered with the skin ; and pui 
 
 .eonstantly oozed from the root o^ the nail. The whole toe 
 
 •was swollen and extremely painful and tender. My mode 
 
 . of proceeding was 1 his : 
 
 " I put a very small piece of tallow in a spoon, and heated it 
 
 nntil it beciime very hot, and poured it on the granulationfj. 
 
 The effect was almost magical. Pa'.i and tenderness were at 
 
 once reliev.ed, and in a few days the granulations were all gone, 
 
 I the diseased parts dry and destitute of all feeling, and the edge 
 
 of the nail exposed so as to admit of being pared away without 
 
 ;any inconvenience. The cure was complete, and the trouble 
 
 laever returned. 
 
 •" I have tried the plan repeatedly since, with the same 
 ftalisfactory results. The operation causes but little pain, if 
 the tallow is properly heated. A repetition in some cases 
 might be necessary, although I have never met with a case 
 that did not yield to one application." It has now been 
 proven, in many other c<i8es, to be effectual, accomplishing 
 ,5n one minute, without pain, all that can be effected by the 
 painful application of nitrate of silver for several weeks." 
 
 OILS — British Oil.— Linseed and turpentine oils, of each 8 02s.; 
 «ils of an? ber and juniper, of each 4 oas.} Bturbadoes tarSoa.; 
 «enneca oil 1 oz.; Mix. 
 
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 17^ 
 
 This is an old prescription, but it is worth the whole- 
 cost of this book to any one needing an application for cuts, 
 bruises, swellings, and sores of almost every deacription, on 
 persons, horses, or cattle ; so k the following also : 
 
 2. Balm of Gixsad Oil. — Bahn. of (lilead buds, any quaatity ; 
 place them in a suitable dish for stewing and pour upon them 
 sufficient sweet oil to juat cover them ; stew thoroughly and press 
 out all of the oil from the buds, and bottle for use. 
 
 It will be found very valuable as a healing oil; or lani 
 can be used in place of the oil, making an excellent ointment 
 for cuts, bruisee, &c, 
 
 3. Harlem Oil, or Welch Medicamentum. — Sublimed or flowers 
 of sulpher and oil of "amber, of each 2 oz3. ; linseed oil 1 lb. ; 
 spirits of turpentine sufficient to reduce all to the consistence of 
 thin molasses. Boil the sulphur in the linseed oil until^it is dis- 
 solved, then add the oil of amber and turpentine. Dose- --fr on* 
 16 to 25 drops morning and evening. 
 
 Amongst the Welch and Germans it is extensively usecl 
 for strengthening the stomach, kidney?, liver and lungs, 
 asthma, shortness of breath, cough, inward or outward 
 sores, dropsy, worms, gravel, fevers, palpitation of the heart, 
 giddiness, headache, <fec., &c., by taking it internally ; and 
 for ulcere, malignant sores, conkers, &c., anointing externally 
 and wetting linen with it and applying to burns. In fact, if 
 one-half that is said of its value is true, no other medicine 
 need ever be made. It has this much in its favor, however 
 — probably uo other medicine now in use has been in use 
 half so long — over IGO years. The dose for a child Is one 
 drop for each year of its agx3, 
 
 4. Oil of Spike. — The genuine oil of spike is made from the la" 
 vendula spica (broad If aved lavender), but the commercial oil of spike 
 is made by taking the rock oil, and adding 2 ozs. of spirits of tur- 
 pentine to each pint. 
 
 The rock oil whi^h \.. obtained in Ohio, »"inr Warren, i» 
 
 thicker and better than any other which I h rer used. 
 
 6. Blaok Oils — Best alcohol, tincture of arnica, oritish oil and 
 oil of tar, of each 2 ozs , and slowly add culphuric acid 1-2 oz. 
 
 These black oils are getting into extensive use as a lini- 
 ment, and are indeed valuable, especially in cases attended 
 with much inflamn^ation. 
 
 6. Amothkr MBTHOD--is to take sulphuric acid 2 ozs.; nitikr 
 acid 1 oz.; quicksilver 1-2 oz,; put them together in a quart hot- 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 tie, or an open crock until dissolved; then slowly add olive oil 
 and spirits of turpentine, of each ^ pt , puttini;; in the oil first. 
 Let the work be done out of doors to avoid the fumed arising from 
 ihe mixture; when all is done, bottle and put in all the cotton 
 cloths it wUl dissolve, when it is fit for use. 
 
 The mixture becomes quite hot, although no heat is used 
 ^n making it, from setting free what is called latent, or 
 insensible heat, by their combining together. Rev. Mr. 
 "U ay, of Plymouth, Mich., cured himself of sore throat, 
 hj taking a few drops of this black oil upon sugar, letting 
 it slowly dissolve upon the tongue, each evening after 
 preaching, also wetting cloths and binding upon the neck. 
 It will be necessary to a^ oid getting it upon cotton or linen 
 'which you would not wish to show a slain. A colt which 
 had a fistulous opening between the hind legs, from a snag, 
 as supposed, which reduced him so that he had to be lifted 
 up, when down, was cured by injecting twice only, of this* 
 oil to fill the diseased places. Also a veiy bad fever sore, 
 upon the leg, ah ! Excuse me, upon the limb of a young 
 lady, which baffled the scientific skill of the town in which ^ 
 flhe lived. In case they bite too much in any of their ap- 
 plications, wet a piece of brown paper in water and lay it 
 over the parts. 
 
 OPODELDOC— Liquid. — Best braudy 1 qt.; warm it and add 
 gum camplior 1 oz. ; salammouiac and oil of wormwood, of each J 
 oz. ; oils of origanum and rosemary, of each J oz. , when the oils 
 are dissolved by th^ aid of the heat, add soft soap 6 oz. 
 
 Its uses are too well known to need further description 
 
 DIARRHEAS— Cordial. —The best rhubarb root, pulverized, 1 
 oz.; peppermint leaf 1 oz., capsicum J oz ; cover with boiling 
 water and steep, thoroughly, strain, and add bi-carbonate of potash 
 and essence of cinnamon, of each ^ oz ; with brandy (or good 
 whiskey) equal in amount to the whole, and loaf sugar 4 oz. Doaji 
 — For an adult 1 to 2 table-spoons; for ». child 1 to 2 tea-spoons, 
 from 3 to 6 times per day, until relief is obtained. 
 
 This preparation has been my dependence, in my travels , 
 and in my family for several years, and it has never failed ' 
 us ; but ir extremely bad cases it might be well to use, after 
 each passage, the foilowing: 
 
 2. Injbotion Foa Chronic Diabrhka.— New milk, with thick 
 mucilage of slippery elm, of each 1 pt. ; sweet oil 1 gill; molasses 
 ^ pt; salt 1 oz.; laudanum 1 dr. Mix, and inject what the bowels 
 wDl retain. 
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 17!! 
 
 Very many children, as well as grown persons die, annu- 
 ally of this disease, who might be saved by a proper use of 
 the above injection and cordial. The injection should 
 never be neglected if there is the least danger apprehended. 
 
 Although I believe these would not fail in one case out 
 of one hundred, yet I have some other prescriptions which 
 are so highly spoken of, I will give a few nijre. The first 
 from Mr. Hendee, of Warsaw, Indiana, for curing Diarrhea, 
 ■or Bloody Flux, as follows : 
 
 3. DiARBHKA TiNCTURK.— Compound tincture of myrrh 6 
 OZ3. ; tincture of rhubarb, and spirits of lavender, of each 6 ozs. ; 
 tincture of opium 3 ozs. ; oils of anise and cinnamon, with gum 
 camphor and tartaric acid, of each J oz. Mix. Dosk— One 
 teaspoon in i a tea-cup of warm water sweetened with loaf 
 f ugar ; repeat after each passage. 
 
 He says he has cured many cases after given up by phy- 
 sicians. It must be a decidedly good preparation. Or, 
 again : 
 
 4. DiARRHKA Drops. — Tincture of rhubarb, and compound 
 spirits of lavender, of each 4 oza. ; laudanum 2 ozs. ; cinnamon 
 oil 2 drops. Mix. Doss ■ One tea-epoon every 3 or 4 hours. 
 According to the severity of the case. 
 
 This speaks from ten years successful experience. 
 
 5. Diarrhea Syrup. — Fob Cases bbouoht on by Lono Contincbd 
 Use OF CA1.OMBI1. — Boxwood, black cherry and prickly ash barks, 
 with dandelion root, of each two ozs ; butternut bark 1 oz. ; boil 
 thoroughly, strain and boil down to 1 qt. ; then add .loaf sugar 2 
 lbs., and alcohol 1 gill, or brandy ^ pt Dose— A wine-glass from 
 3 to 6 times daily according to circumstances. 
 
 This regulates the bowels and tones up the system at the 
 same time, no matter whether loose or costive. In one case 
 of costiveness it brought a man round all right who had 
 been sowed up tight for twelve days. On the other hand, 
 it has regulated the system after months of calomel-diarrhea. 
 
 6. WiNTBROBKEN Berries have been found a valuable corrector 
 of Diarrhea brought on by the long continued use of calomel in 
 cases of fever, eating a quart of them in three days time 
 
 The gentleman of whom I obtained this item t< , me 
 that wintergreen essence has done the same thing, when the 
 berries could not be obtained. In the first place, ''every- 
 thing else," as the saying is, had been tried in vain, and the 
 man s wife, in coming across the woods, f jund these berrie.* 
 
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 and picked some, which when the husband saw, he craved, 
 and would not rest without them, and, notwithstanding the 
 fears of friends, they cured him. Many valuable discove- 
 ries are made in a similar manner. 
 
 7. Dkikd Whortleberries, steeped, and the juice drank 
 freely, has cured Diarrhea and Bloody Flux, both in children and 
 adults. 
 
 8. Diarrhea and Canker Tea — Pulverized hemlock bark, 
 (it is generally kept by Druggists,) 1 table-spoon, steeped in half 
 a tea-cup of water. 
 
 For young children, in Diarrhea, or Canker, or when they 
 are combined feed a tea-spoon of it, or less, according to 
 the child's age, two or three times daily, until cured. To 
 overcome costiveness, which may arise from its use, scorch 
 fresh butter, and give it in place of oil, and in quantities 
 corresponding with oil. Children have been saved with 
 three cents worth of this bark which *' Alopath" said must 
 die. If good for children, it is good for adults, by simply 
 increasing the dose. 
 
 9. Sqmac boba, steeped and sweetened with loaf sugar, has 
 been found very valuable for Diarrhea; addng in very severe 
 cases, alum pulverized, a rounding tea-spoon, to 1 pt. of the 
 strong tea. Dosk — A tea, to a table-spoon, according to the age 
 of the child, and the severity of the case. 
 
 It saved the life of a child when two M. D.'s (Mule Dri- 
 vers,) said it could not be saved. 
 
 CHOLERA llNCTURE.— Select the thinnest cinnamon bark, 
 cloves, gum. gauiac, all pulverized, of each 1 oz. ; very best 
 brandy 1 qt. Mix, and shake occasionally for a week or two. 
 DosB — A tea-spoon to a table-spoon for an adult, according to 
 the condition and robustness or strength of the system. It may 
 be repeated at intervals of 1 to 4 hours, if necessary, or much 
 more often, according to the condition of the bowels. 
 
 This I have from an old railroad boss, who used it with his 
 men during the last Cholera in Ohio, and never lost a man, 
 whilst other jobbers left the road, or lost their men in abund- 
 ance, thinking the above too simple to be of any value. 
 
 2. Isthmus ChotiEra Tincture. —Tincture of Rhubarb, cayenne, 
 opium, aud spirits of camphor, with essence of peppermint, 
 equal parts of each, end each as strong as can be made. Dosi — 
 From" ^^ to 30 drops, or even to GO, aud repeat until relief is 
 obtained, every 5 to 30 minutes. 
 
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 C. H. Cuyler, who was detained upon the Isthmus during 
 the cholera period, v«as saved by this proscription, as also 
 many others. 
 
 3. Cholera Peevkntive, — Hoffman's anodyne and essence of 
 peppermini, of each 2 oza.; tincture of ginger 1 02.; laudanum, 
 spirits of aimphor, and tincture of cayenne, of each J oz. ; mix. 
 Dose— For an adult, from a tea to a table-spoon, according tc 
 symptoms. 
 
 4. Cholera CoRmAii. — Chloroform, spirits of camphor, lauda- 
 num and aromatic spirits of ammonia, of each 1 dr. ; cinnamon 
 water 2' oz.; mix. Dosb — Frcfm 1 tea to a table-spoon, to be well 
 shaken, and taken with sweetened water. 
 
 5. German Cholera Tinoturb — Sulphuric ether 2 ozs. ; and put 
 it intiO castor and gentian, of each \ oz ; opium and agar'i, each 
 1 dr ; gum camphor 1-2 oz.; let them stand 2 days, then add alco- 
 hol 1 qt., and let stand 14 days, when ii is ready for use. Do.se -- 
 One teaspoon every 15 or 20 minutes, according to the urgency of 
 the case. 
 
 I procured this prescription of a German at Lawrence- 
 burgh, Ind., who had done very much good with it during 
 the last cholera period in that place. 
 
 6. Egtptian Curb for Cholera.- Best Jamaica ginger root, 
 bruised, 1 oz.; cayenne, 2 teaspoons ; boil all in 1 qt. of water to 
 1-2 pt., and add loaf sugar to form a thick syrup. Dose — One 
 table spoon every 15 minutes until vomiting and purging ceases, 
 then follow up with a blackberry te.\. 
 
 The foregoing was obtained of a physician who practiced 
 in Egypt (not the Illinois Fgypt) during the great devas- 
 tation of the cholera there, with which he saved many 
 lives. 
 
 7. India Prbsobiption for Cholera.— First dissolve gum cam- 
 phor \ oz , in 1 1-2 ozs. of alcohol--. Second, give a teaspoon of 
 spirits of hartshorn in a wine glass of water, and follow it every 5 
 minutes with 15 drops of the camphor in a teaspoon of water, for 
 S doses, then wait 15 minutes, and commence again as before, 
 and continue the camphor for 30 minutes, unless there is returning 
 heat. Should this be the case, give one more dose and the cure 
 is effected ; let them perspire freoly (which the medicine is de- 
 signed to cauBc) as upon this the life depends, but add no addi- 
 tional clothing. 
 
 Lady Por onby, who had spent several years in India, 
 
 and had proved the efficacy of the foregoing, returned to 
 
 Dublin in 1832, and published in the Dublin Mail, for th« 
 
 benefit of her countrymen, declaring that she never knew it 
 
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 I would say, be very sure you have ihe cholera, as the 
 
 tea-spoon of hartshorn would be a double dose for ordinary 
 
 cases of disease. 
 
 8. Natuhk'b Cholbba Mbdicinr. — Laudanum, spirits of cam- 
 phor, and tincture of rhubarb, equal pirts of eacti. Doss- One 
 table-spoon every 15 to 80 minutes until relieved. 
 
 In attacks of cholera, the patient usually feels a general 
 uneasineas and heat about the stomach, increasing to actus.l 
 distress and great anxiety, finally sickness, with vomiting 
 and purging, surface constringed, the whole powers of the 
 system concentrated upon the internal organs, involving the 
 nervous system, bringing on spasms, and in the end death. 
 Now, whatever will allay this uneasiness, drive to the sur- 
 face, correct the discharges, and sooth the nerves, cures 
 the disease. The laudanum does the firat and the last, the 
 camphor drives to the surface, and the rhubarb corrects 
 the alimentary canal; and if accompanied with the hot 
 bath, friction, &c., is doubly sure. And to shew what may 
 be done with impunity in extreme cases, let me say that 
 Meriitt Blakely, living near Flat Rock, Mich., came home 
 from Detroit during the last cholera season, having the 
 cholem in its last stage, that is, with the vomiting, purging 
 and spasms; the foregoing medicine being in the house, 
 the wife, in her hurry and excitement, in place of two-thirds 
 of a table spoon, she read two thirds of a tea-cup ; and 
 gave it according'y; and saved his life ; whilst if taken in 
 the spoon doses, at this stage of the disease, he would most 
 undoubtedly never have rallied from the colapse into which 
 he was fast sinking; yet in the commencement they would 
 have been as effectual ; so, mistake, would be generally ac- 
 credited for saving the patient. I say Providence did the 
 work. 
 
 Five to ten drops would be a dose for a child 2 to 5 years, and 
 in this dose it saved a child of 2^ years in a bad case of bloody 
 flux. 
 
 If any one is permitted to die with all these prescriptions 
 before them, it must be because a proper attention is not 
 given; for God most undoubtedly works through the use of 
 means, and is best pleased to see his children wear out^ 
 rather than break by colisiou of machinery on the way. 
 
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 —Cholera morbus arises from a diseased condition of the 
 bile, often brought on by over-'ndulgence with vegetables, 
 especially unripe fruits; usually commencing with sickness 
 and pain at the 8tomach,,followed by the most excruciating 
 pain and griping of tbo bowels, succeeded by vomiting and 
 purging, which soon prostrate the patient. The person finds 
 himself unavoidably drawn into a coil by the contraction of 
 the muscles of the abdomen and extremities. Thirst very 
 great, evacuations first tinged with bile, and Anally, nearly 
 all, Very bilious. 
 
 Tbbatment. — The dificnlty arises from the acidity of the bile : 
 then take snleratus, peppermint lenf, and rhubarb root, pulverized, 
 of each a rouudiug tea-spoon, put into a cup, which you can 
 cover, and pour upon them builiog water J pt. ; when nearly cold 
 add a table-spoon of alcohol, or twice as much brandy or other 
 spirits. DosB — Two to 3 tablespoons every 20 or 30 minutes, as 
 often and as long as the vomiting and painful purgations con- 
 tinue. If there should be long continued pain about the navel, 
 use the " injection " as mentioned under that head, in connection 
 with the above treatment, and you will have nothing to fear. If 
 the first dose or two should be vomited, repeat it immediately , 
 until retained. 
 
 The above preparation ought to be made by every family, 
 and kept on hand by bottling; for diseases of this character 
 are as liable to come on in the night as at any other time ; 
 then much time must be lost in makmg fires, or getting the 
 articles together with wuich to make it. 
 
 2. Common Colic. — There is a kind of colic which 
 some peraons are aflSicted jprith from their youth up, not 
 attended with vomiting or purging. I was afflicted with it 
 from my earliest recollection until I was over twenty years 
 of age, sometimes two to three times yearly. 
 
 In one of these fits, about that age, a neighbor woman came in, 
 and as soon as she found out what was the matter with me, she 
 went out and pulled up a bunch of blue vervain, knocked the 
 dirt from the roots, then cut them off and put a good handful of 
 them into a basin, and poured boiling water upon them, and 
 8teepe(] for a short time, poured out a saucer of the tea and gave 
 me to drink, asking no questions, but simply saying : " If you 
 will drink this .te.1 every day for a month, you will never have 
 colic agHin as long as you live." I drank it, and in 16 minutes 
 I was perfectly happy ; the transition from extiem^ pain to imme- 
 diate and perfect reief, ig too grt i to allow one to fiud words 
 adequate to describe the difference. 
 
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 T continued ite use as directed, and have not had a colic 
 pain since, nearly thirty years. I have told it to others, 
 with the same result. It also forms a good tonic in agues, 
 and after fevers, &c. 
 
 CARMINATIVES.— For the more common pains of the 
 stomach, arising from accumulating gas, in adults or child- 
 ren, the following preparation will be found very valuable, 
 and much better than the plan of resorting to any of the 
 opium mixtures for a constant practice, as many unwisely, 
 or wickedly, do . See the remarks after " Godfrey's Cordial," 
 and through this subject. 
 
 Compound spirits of lavender, spirits of camphor, and tinc- 
 ture of ginger, of each ^ oz.; sulphuric ether and tincture of 
 cayenne, of each J oz. Mix, and keep tightly corked. Dosb — 
 For an adult, one tea-spoon every 16 minutes, until relieved; for 
 a child of 2 years, 5 drops; and more or less, according to 6^e 
 and the severity of the pain. '* 
 
 2. Carminative foe Children — Angelica and white roots, 
 of each 4 oz.4. ; valerian and sculcap root, with poppy beads, of 
 each 2 ozs. ; sweet flag-root | oz ;_ anise, dill, and feunel seed, 
 with catmint leaves and flowers, motherwort and mace, of each 
 1 oz.; castor and cochineal, of each 1-2 oz ; camphor gum 2 scru- 
 ples, hennoic acid (called flower of benzoin) | oz. ; alcohol and 
 water, of each 1 qt , or rum, or brandy 2 qts.; loaf or crushed 
 sugar 1 lb. Pulverize all of the herbs and roots, moderately fine, 
 and plfice in a suitably sized bottle, adding the spirits, or alcohol 
 and water, and keep warm for a week, shaking once or twice 
 every day; then filter or strain, and add the camphor and ben- 
 zoin, shaking well; now dissolve the sugar in another quart of 
 water, by fieat, and add to the spirili tincture, and all is complete. 
 Dose — For a very young child, from 3 to 5 drops; if 1 year old, 
 about 10 drops, and from that up to 1 tea-spoon if 2 to 5 years old 
 &c. For adults, from 1 to 4 tea-spoons, according to the severity 
 of the pain — to be taken in a cup of catmint or catnip tea for 
 adulfs, and in a spoon of the same for children. It may be 
 repeated every 2 to 6 hours, as needed. 
 
 Uses. — It eases pain, creates a moderate appetite and 
 perspiration, and produces refreshing sleep; is also excel- 
 lent for removing flatulency or wind colic, and valuable in 
 hysteria and other nei*vou8 affections, female debility, &c., in 
 place of the opium anodynes. 
 
 SEIDLITZ POWDFRS— Gbnuinb.— Rochelle salts 2 drs ; 
 bi-carbonate of soda 2 scruples; put these into ^a blue paper, and 
 put tartavic acide 85 grs. into a white paper. To use, put each 
 
 
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 into different tumblers; fill ^ with wat«i, and put a little loafsus^ar 
 in with the acid, then pour together and drink. 
 
 This makes a very pleasant cathartic, and ought to be 
 used more generally than it is, in place of more severe 
 medicines. Families can buy three ozs. of the Rochelle-saltp, 
 and 1 oz. of the bi- carbonate of soda, and mix evenly to- 
 gether, using about 2 tea-spoons for 1 glass, and have the 
 tartaric acid by itself, and use a little over ^ a tea-epoon of 
 it for the other glass, with a table-spoon of sugar, all well 
 dissolved, then pour together and drink while effervescing; 
 and they will find this to do just as well as to have them 
 weighed out and put up in papers, which cost three times as 
 much, and do no ^eMer. Try it, as a child will take it 
 with pleasure, as a nice beverage, and ask for more. 
 
 A lady once lost her life, thinking to have a little sport, 
 by drinking one glass of this preparation, following it 
 directly witn the other; the large amount of gas, disen- 
 gaged, ruptured the Ptoraach immediately. 
 
 DIPTHERIA — Dr. Phinney's Remedy, of Boston 
 — Dr. Phinney, of Boston, furnishes the Journal of that 
 city, with a recipe fo'* diptheria, which has recently been 
 re-published by the Detroit Daily Advertiser, containing 
 so much sound sense, and so decidedly the best thing that 
 I have ever seen recommended for it, that I cannot forbear 
 giving it an insertion, and also recommend it as the de- 
 pendence in that disease. 
 
 He says •' the remedy ^n which I chiefly de^nd is the 
 
 Actea Racemosa, or blacK snake-root, which is used both 
 
 locally as a gargle and taken internally. 
 
 As a gargle, 1 tea-spoon of the tincture is added to 2 table- 
 spoons of water, and gargled every hour for twenty-four hours, or 
 till the progress of the diesease is arrested; after which the intervals 
 may be extended to an hour and a half, or more, as the symptoms 
 may justify. In coni'ScMon with the use of the gargle, or separ- 
 ately, the adult patient should take internally to the amount of 
 two or three tea-spoonr^ of the tincture in the course of twenty-four 
 hours, 
 
 "In addition to the foregoing, give 10 drops of the muriated 
 
 tincture of iron 8 times in the 24 hours, and a powder from 8 to 5 
 
 grains of the chlorade of potash in the intervals. 
 
 •* Under this treatment a very decided improvement takes 
 place within the first twenty four hours, the ash colored 
 
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 membrane disappears usually within two days, and the 
 patient overcomes the malignant tendency of the disease. 
 
 ••The foregoing doses are for adults, for children they 
 should of course be diminished according to age, <kc It 
 will be observed that great importance is attached to the 
 frequent use of the gargle — that is, every hour — in order to 
 overcome the morbific tendency of disease by a constantly 
 counteracting impression. In order to guard against a re- 
 lapse, an occasional use of the remedies should be continued 
 for several days after the removal of the membrane and 
 subsidence of unpleasant symptons. To complete the cure, 
 a generous diet and other restoratives may be used^ as the 
 intelligent practitioner shall direct."'* 
 
 CATHARTICS.— Vboktablb Pyhsio.— Jalap and peppers mt 
 leaf, of each 1 oz. ; senna 2 ozs. ; pulverize all very finely, and' 
 sift through gaase, bottle it and keep corked. Dobb— Put a round- 
 ing tea-spoon of the powder and a heaping tea-spoon of sugar into 
 a cup, aud pour three or four spoons of boiling water upon them ; 
 when cool stir it up and drink all. The best timf; for taking it is 
 in the morning, not taking breakfast, but drinking freely of corn- 
 meal grael. If it does not operate in S hours, repeat half th*) dose 
 until a free operation is obtained. 
 
 Dr. Beach first brought this preparation, nearly in its 
 present proportions, to the notice of the Eclectic practition- 
 ers, who have found it worthy of very great confidence, and 
 applicable in all cases where a general cathartic action is re- 
 quired. It may be made into syrup or pills, if preferred. 
 
 2. Ikpi4P Cathartic Pills. — AIom and gamboge, of each 1 oz. ; 
 mandrake and blood-root, with gum myrrh, of each \ oz. ; gum 
 camphor and cayenne, of each lA drs. ; ginger 4 ozs. ; all finely 
 pulverized and thoroughly mix,ea, with thick mucilage (made by 
 putting a little water upon equal quantities of gum arabic and 
 gum tragacanjbh,) into pill mass ; then formed into common sized 
 pills. DosB— Two to 4 pills; according to the robustness of the 
 patient. 
 
 Families should always have some of these cathartics, as 
 well as other remedies, in the house, to be prepared for acci- 
 dent, providence, or emergence, whichever you please to call 
 it. They may be sugar coated, as directed under that head, 
 if desired. 
 
 TOOTHACHE AND NEURALGIA REMEDIES.— MAONWie 
 ToOTU Cordial and Pain Kiixbr. — Best altohol 1 oz } 
 lau(kinum I o?. ; chloroform, liquid measure, f oz. ; gum cam- 
 
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 phor } OE.; oU of cloves, \ dr.; Bulphuric eti «r } oz.; and oil of 
 
 laveuder 1 dr. If there ig a nerve exposed this will quiet it. 
 
 Apply with lint. Rub also on the gums and upjn the face against 
 
 the to<jth, freely. 
 " The ragtnK toolnache why . v endure, when there te found a perfect cure, 
 Which saves the tooth and stops the pain, and gives the sufleror «a.HO again." 
 
 In the case of an ulcerated tootn at Georgetown, Ohio, 
 Mr. Jenkins, the proprietor of the " Jenkins' House," had 
 been suffering for eight days, and I relieved him by bathing 
 the face with this preparation, using a sponge, for two or 
 three minutes only, taking a tea-spoon or two into the mouth, 
 for a minute or two, as it had broken upon the inside. The 
 operation of the cordial was really magical, according ta 
 old notions of cure. 
 
 I offered to sell a grocer a book, at Lawrenceburgh, Ind. 
 He read until he saw the •' Magnetic Tooth Cordial" men- 
 tioned, then he says, *« If you will cure my toothache, I 
 will buy one." I applied the cordial, it being late Saturday 
 evening, and on Monday morning he was the first man on 
 hand for his book. 
 
 The SheriflF of Wayne Co., Ind.,5at Centreville, had beea 
 suffering three days of neuralgia, and I gave him such de- 
 cided relief in one evening, with this cordial, that he gave 
 me a three-dollar piece, with the remark, •* Take whatever 
 you please." 
 
 In passing from Conneatville, Pa., upon" a canal boat, the 
 cook, (who wat- wife of one of the steersmen,) was taken, 
 after supper, with severe pain in the stomach. There be- 
 ing no peppermint on board,* and a» strange as it may appear,, 
 no spirits of any kind whatever; I was applied to as a phy- 
 sician to contrive something for her relief; I ran my mind 
 over the articles I had with me, and could not hit upon any 
 other so likely to benefit as the " Tooth Cordial," arguing^ 
 in my mind that if good for pain where it could be applied 
 to the spot externally, I could apply it to the point of pain 
 internally in this case, (the stomach,) as well. I gave her a 
 tea-spoon of it in water, and waited five minutes without 
 relief, but concluding to go '* whole hog or none," I re- 
 peated the dose, and inside of the next five minutes she was 
 perfectly cured. Her husband, the other steersman also, 
 and one of the drivers, bought each a book, and the next 
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 her recommendation ; since which myself and agents have 
 freely used it, and recommend it for similiar conditions with 
 «qual success. 
 
 The cases are too numerous to mention more. I mention 
 
 these to give confidence to purchasei-s, that all, who need it, 
 
 will not fail to give it a tri^ . It is good for any local pain, 
 
 wherever it can be applied. Pain will not long exist ander 
 
 its use. 
 
 2. HoMBOPATHic Tooth Cobdial. — Alcohol } pt.; tinctaro of 
 arnica and chloroform, of each 1 oz. ; oil of cloves ^ oz. Mix and 
 apply as the other. 
 
 There are many persons who would prefer this last to the 
 
 foregoing, from the 'presence of arnica ; and it is especially 
 
 valuable as a liniment for bruises involving effusion of blood 
 
 under the skin. 
 
 8. NiuBALQiA— Internai Bbmedt — Sal-ammoniac } dr,; dissolve 
 in water 1 ob. Dosb — One table-spoon every three minutes for 20 
 minutes, at the end of which time, if not before, the pain will 
 have disappeared. 
 
 The foregoing is from a gentleman who had been long 
 afflicted with the disease, who found no success with any 
 other remedy. Instead of common water, the "Camphor 
 Water" or " Mint Water" might by some be preferred. The 
 ammonia is a very diffusable stimulant, quickly ex- 
 tending to the whole system, especially tending to the sur- 
 face. 
 
 4. EiNG«or Oils, fob Nscbalqu and Rhbumatisii. -^Burning 
 fluid 1 pt. ; oils of cedac hemlock sateafraa, and origanum, of each 
 2 0Z8.; carbonate of ammonia, pulverized, 1 oz.; mix. Dibbotioits. 
 — Apply freely to the nerves and gums, around the tooth ; and to 
 the face, in neuralgic pains, by wetting brown paper and laying on 
 the parts, not too long, for fear of blistering, — to the nervjs of 
 teeth by lint. 
 
 A blacksmith, of Sturgis, Mich., cured himself and 
 others, with this, of neuralgia, after physicians could give no 
 relief. 
 
 5. Skvbral years ago, I was stopping for a number of 
 weeks at a hotel near Detriot ; whilst there toothache was 
 once made the subject of conversation, at which time the 
 landlady, a Mrs. Wood, said she had been driven by it, to 
 an extreme measure — no less than boiling wormwood herb 
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 boiling hot, immediately dosing the mouth, turning the 
 head m such a way as to bring the alcohol into coniact with 
 all of the teeth, then spitting it out, and taking the second 
 immediately, in the same way, having the boiling kept up 
 by sitting the tin containirg it on a shovel of hot coals, 
 bringing it near the mouth. She said she never had tooth- 
 ache after it, .nor did it injure the mouth in the least, but 
 for the moment she thought her head had collapsed, or the 
 heavens and eai-th come together. And although the la- 
 dy's appearance and deportment was such as to gain gen- 
 eral esteem, I dared not try it, or recommend it to others. 
 But during the last season I found a gentleman who had 
 tried the same thing, in the same way, except he took four 
 spoons in his mouth at a time, and did not observe to keep 
 his mouth closed to prevent the contact of the air with the 
 alcohol, the result of which was a scalded mouth, yet a per- 
 fect cure of the pain, and no recurrence of it for twelve 
 years up to the time of conversation. And I do not now 
 give the plan expecting it to become a general favorite, but 
 more to show the severity of the pain, forcing patients to 
 such extreme remedies. It would not be applicable only in 
 cases where the pain was confined entirely to thtb teeth. 
 
 6. Horse-radish Root, bruised^ and bound upon the 
 face, or other parts where pain is located, has been found 
 very valuable for their relief. And I think it better than 
 the leaf for drafts to the feet, or other parta. 
 
 7. Tbbth — Extracting with little or ko Pain.— Dr. 
 Dunlap, a dentist of Chillicothe, 0., while filling a tooth 
 for me, called my attention to the following recipe, given 
 by a dental publication, to prevent pain in extracting 
 teeth. He had used it. It will be found valuable for au 
 who must have teeth extracted, for the feeling is sufficiently 
 unpleasant even when all is done that can be for its re^ 
 lief: 
 
 TwoTURi of aconite chloroform, and alcohol, of each 1 oz.; 
 morphiDe 6 grs., mix. Mannbr of Appuoation — Moisten iwo 
 pledgets of cotton with the liquid, and apply to the gums on each 
 side of the tooth to be extracted, holding them to their place with 
 pliers or some other convenient instrument for 5 to 15 minutcM, 
 nibbing the gtun freely inside and out. 
 
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 My wife has bad six teeth taken at a sitting, but the la^ 
 two she wibhed to have out, she could not make up her 
 mind to the work until I promised her it should not hurt 
 in the extraction, which I accomplished by accompanying 
 her to Dr. Porter's dental office, of this city, and adminii|- 
 tering chloroform in the usual way, just to the point of 
 nervous stimulation, or until its effects were felt orc^; the 
 whole system, at which ti le the teeth were taken, not 
 causing pain^ she says, equal to toothache for one minutqu 
 Not the slightest inconvenience was experienced from th« 
 effects of uie chloroform. I consider this plan, and so 
 does Dr. Porter, far preferable to administering it until 
 entire stupefaction, by which many valuable lives have b^n 
 lost. 
 
 8. Dmntbificb which BiatovKS Tabtabeous Adbbsioms, Abbisi^ 
 
 DbOAT, AMD InDUOBS A HbALTHT ACTION OF THB GUMS. — 
 
 JDiHSolve 1 OB. of borax in 1^ pints of boiling wftter, and when a 
 little coq], add 1 tea-spoon of the tincture of inyrrh and 1 table- 
 spoon of the spirit*} of camphor, and bottle for use. Dibboiions. — 
 A^ bedtime wash out the mouth with water ; using a badger's 
 hair brush (bristle brushes tear the gums and should never be 
 used) ; then take a table-spoon of the denirifice with as much 
 warm water, and rub the teeth and gums well, each night until the 
 end is attained. 
 
 9. Tooth- Wash— To ^bvovb Blacknbss— Pure muriatic acid 1 
 oz. ; water 1 oz ; honey 2 uzs.; mix. Take a tooth brush and wet 
 it freely with this preparation, and briskly rub the black teeth,, 
 and in a moment's time they will be perfectly white ; then im- 
 mediately wash out the mouth with water, that the acid may not 
 act upon the mamd of the teeth. 
 
 It need not be used often, say once in three or four 
 months, as the teeth become black again, washing out 
 ■quickly every time. Without the washing after its use it 
 would injure the teeth, with it, it never will. This blackness 
 is hard to remove, even with the brush and tooth powder. 
 
 10. Dr. Thompson, of £van&vi]le,.lnd., gives the above 
 in twenty drop doses, three times daily, for laryngitis or 
 bronchitis, taken in a little water, throwing it back past the 
 teeth. 
 
 11. Tooth Powdbb— Exokllbnt.— Take any quantity of 
 4nely pulverized chalk, and twice as much finely pulverized 
 oharcoal ; make very fiine ; then add a very little suds made 
 with Castile soap, and sufficient spiiits of camphor to wet all to 
 
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 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 « thick paste. Apply with the finger, Tttbbing thoroughly, And 
 it will whiten the teeth better thiui aay tooth powder yon can 
 buy. 
 
 I noticed the past season, a piece going the rounds of the 
 papers, " That charcoal ought not be used on the teeth." 
 I will only add that a daughter of mine has used this pow> 
 ■der over six years, and her teeth are very vrhite, ana no 
 damage to the enamel, as yet. Six years would show up 
 the evil, if d^jtth u/os in the pot. Coal from basgwood or 
 other soft wool i&^ the easiest pulverized. 
 
 E3SICNCES. — Druggists' rules for making eiss^nees is to 
 
 use one ounce of oil to one quart of alcohol, but many of 
 
 them do not use more than half of that amount, whilst most 
 
 of the peddlars do not have them made of over one-fourth 
 
 that strength. I would hardly set them away if presented. 
 
 'I have always made them as follows: 
 
 PeppermlDt oil 1 oz ; best alcohol 1 pt. And the same amotut 
 of any other oil for any other essences which you desire to make. 
 DosB — A dose of this strength of essence will be only from 10 
 to 30 drops. 
 
 With inost essences a man can drink a whole bottle with- 
 out danger, or benefit. Peppermint is coloMtd with tincture 
 of tumeric, cinnamon with tincture of red sandal or ttanders 
 wood, and wintergreen with tincture of kino. There is no 
 color, however, f )r essences, so natural as to put the gre«n 
 leaf of which the oil is made into the jar of essence, and 
 let it remain over night, or about twelve hours; then pour 
 off, or filter if for sale. But if faraili -s are making fo/ 
 their own use they need not bother to color them at all. 
 Bvit many believu if they are high colored they are neces- 
 sVily strong, but it has no effect upon the strength whatr 
 «ver, unless colored with the leaf or bark, as here r^om-r 
 mended. Cinnamon bark does in place of the leaf. See 
 " Extracts." ^ 
 
 TINCTURES. — In making any of the tinctures in com- 
 mon use, or in making any of. the medicines called for in 
 this work, or in works generally, it is not only expected, but 
 absolutely necessary, that the roots, leaves, barks, uc, 
 should be dry, unless otherwise directed; then: 
 
 Take the root, herb, bark, leaf or gum called for, 2 ozs. ; and 
 bruise it, then pour boiling water ^ pt , upon it, and when cold 
 
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 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 
 
 add beet alcohol ^ pt., k eping warm for from 4 to 6 days, or let- 
 ting it stand 10 or 12 days without warmth, shaking once or twice 
 daily ; lilter or strain ; or it may stand upon the dregs and be 
 carefully poured ofi ag needed. 
 
 With any person of common judgment, the foregoing 
 directions are just as good as to t8,ke up forty times as much 
 space by saying — take lobelif»,herb and seed, 2 ozs. ; alcohol 
 i pt. ; boilinvf water ^ pi., — then do the same thing, over 
 and over again, with every tincture, which may be called for 
 or at least those who cannot g-r* ahead with the foregoing in- 
 structions, are not fit to handle medicines, at all. ; so I leave 
 the subject with those for whom the given information is 
 sufficient. 
 
 In making compound tinctures, you can combine the 
 simple tinctures, or make them by putting the difierent arti- 
 cles into a bottle together, then use the alcohol and water it 
 would require if you was making each tincture separately. 
 
 TETTEL, HINGWORM, AND BARBER'S ITCH— To Cuas.— 
 Take the best Cuba cigars, smoke one a sufficient leagth of time 
 to accumulate i or J inch of ash38 upon the end of the cigar ; 
 now wet the whole surface of the sore with the saliva from the 
 mouth, then rub the ashes from the end of the cigar thoroughly 
 into, and all over the sore ; do this three times a dayj and in- 
 side of a week all will be smooth and well. 
 
 I spieak from extensive experience; half of one cigar 
 cured myself when a barber would not undertake to shave 
 me. It is equally successful in tetters on other parts of the 
 body, hands, <fec. 
 
 Tobacco is very valuable in its place (medicine) — like 
 spirits, however, it makes slaves of its devotaes. 
 
 2. Narrow-Lb AVED (yellow) dock root, sliced and soaked 
 in good vinegar, used as a wash, is highly recommended as 
 a cure for tetter, or ring-worm. 
 
 BALSAMS.— Dr. R. W. Hutohins' Indian Healino, roRMiRLT 
 PiOKHAu's CouoH Balsau.— Clear, pale rosin 8 lb., and melt it, 
 adding spirits of turpentine 1 qt.; balsiim of toiu 1 oz ; bal- 
 sam of fir 4 ozd.; oil of hemlock, origanum, with Venice tur- 
 pentine, of each 1 oz.; strained honey 4 ozs ; mix well, and 
 bottle. DosB— Six to 12 drops ; for a child of six. 8 to 5 drops, 
 on a little sugar. The dose " ^ be varied according to the 
 ability of the stomach to bear it ud the necessity of the case. 
 
 It is a valuable preparation for coughs, internal pains, or 
 straioBi aad works benignly upon the kidneys^ 
 
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 191 
 
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 or 
 
 2. Doctor Mitchel's Balsam, for Cum, Bbuises, &c. — Fenugreek 
 flticd and gum myrrh, of each 1 oz ; saesafras root bark, a good 
 httndM ; iUcoliol 1 qt. Put all into a bottle, and keep warm for 
 6 days. 
 
 Dr. Mitchel, of Pa., during his life, made great use of 
 this balsam, Ibr cuts, bruises, abrasions, &c., and it will be 
 found valuable for such pui-poses. - • 
 
 ARTIFICIAL SKIN— For Burns, Bruwks, Abrasioot.&c, Proof 
 AOAiNST Water. — Take gun cotton and Venice tuipentine, equal 
 parts of each, and dissolve them in 20 times as much sulphuric 
 «tber, dissolving the cotton first, then adding the turpentine ; 
 keep it corked tightly. 
 
 The object of the turpentine is to prevent pressure or 
 pinching caused by evaporation of the ether when applied 
 to a bruised surface. Water does not affect it, hence its 
 value for cracked nipples, chapped hands, surface bruises, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 DISCUTIENTS— To Scattrr Swkllings, —Tobacco and cicuta 
 (water hemlock) leaves, of each 2 ozs. ; stramonium (jimpsom), 
 and Bolanum nigrum (garden night shade, sometimes erroneously 
 called " deadly " night shade,) the leaves, and yellow dock root, 
 of each 4 ozs. ; bittersweet, bark of the r ;ot, 3 ozs. Extract the 
 strength by boiling with water, pressing out and reboiling, strain- 
 ing and carefully boiling down to the consistence of an ointment, 
 then add lard 18 ozs., and simmer together. 
 
 It will be used for stiff joints, sprains, bruises attended 
 with swelling, when the skin is unbroken, for cancerous 
 lumps, scrofulous swellings, white swellings, rheumatic 
 swellings, &c. It is one of the best discutients, or scattev- 
 ers in use, keeping cancers back, often for months. 
 
 SMALL POX — To Prevent Pitting the Face. — A 
 great discovery is reported recently to have been made by a 
 surgeon of the English army in China, to prevent pitting or 
 marking the face. Th^, mode of treatment is as follows: 
 
 When, in small-poji, the preceding fever is at its height, and 
 just before the eruption appears, the chest is thoroughly rubbed 
 with Croton Oil and I'artaremetic Ointment. This causes the 
 whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body to the 
 relief of the rest. It also secures a full and complete eruption, 
 and thus prevents the disease from attacking the internal organs. 
 This is said to be now the established mode of treatment in the 
 English army in China, by general orders, and is regarded as per- 
 fectly ^nctual. 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 It 18 a well known fact, tbat disease is most likely to- 
 make its attack upon the weakest parts, and especially upon 
 places in the system which have been recently weakened by 
 previous disease ; hence, if an eruption (disease) is caused 
 t»y the application of croton oil mixed with a little of the 
 Taitar emetic Oiotment, there is every reason to believe that 
 the eruption, in small pox, will locate upon that part instead 
 of the face. The application should be made upon the 
 breast, fore part of the thighs, Ac, not to interfere with the 
 posture upon the bed. 
 
 It has been fiuggested that a similar application will re- 
 lieve whooping cough, by drawing the irritation from the 
 lungs; if so, why will it not halp to keep measles to the 
 surface, especially when they have a tendency to the inter- 
 nal organs, called, striking in. It is worth a trial, in any (>f 
 these cases. See " Causes of Inflammation,"' under the 
 head of •* Inflammation." 
 
 2. Common Swrllinos, to Rkduob. — Toi^-weed pounded »o 
 as to mash it hornughly and bound upon any common Hwelling, 
 will very soon reduce the parts to their natural size. 
 
 This weed may be known from its annoyance to sheep 
 raisers, as it furnishes a small burr having a dent on one 
 lide of it. There are two species of it, but the burr of the 
 other kind has no dent — is rou ad. It will be found very 
 valuable in rheumatisms attended with swellinars. 
 
 WENS— To Curb. — Dissolve copperas in water to make it 
 very strong; now take a pin, needle, or shaip knife and prick 
 or cut the vrea in about a dozen places, just sufficient to cause it 
 to bleed; then wet it thoroughly with the copperas water, once 
 daily. 
 
 This, followed for four weeks, cured a man residing within 
 four miles of this city, who had six or eight of them, some 
 of them on the head as large as a hen's egg. The prepa- 
 ration is also valuable as a wash in erysipelas. 
 
 BLEEDINGS — Internal and External — Sttpttc 
 
 Balsam — For internal hemorrhage, or bleedings from the 
 
 liiDgs, stotnach, nose, and in excessive menstruation or 
 
 bleeaing from the womb is made as follows : 
 
 Put stllphuric acid 2J drs. by weight, in a Wedgewood mortar 
 Mid slowly add oil of turpentine 1 fluid dr. , stirring it oonstantly 
 with the pestle; then add slowly again, alcohol 1 fluid dr., and 
 
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M££ICAL DEPABTMEltT. 
 
 1.93 
 
 oo&iiDue to stir m long aa any famM . arise from the mixture, 
 then bottle in glass, frround stoppered, bottles. It should b« » 
 clear red color, like dark blood, bui, if made of poor irateriahi 
 it will be a pale, dirty red, and unfit for use. Dose— To be 
 given by putting 40 drops into h tea-cup and rubbing it thorough- 
 ly with a tea-spoon of brown sugar, and then stir in water until 
 the cup is nearly full, and drink immediately — repeat every hour 
 for 8 or 4 hours but its use should be discontinued as soon as no 
 more fresh blood appears. Age does not injure it, but a skin 
 forms OQ the top which is to be broken through, using the medi- 
 cine below it. 
 
 This preparation was used for thirty year?, with uniform 
 success, by Dr. Jas. Warren, before he gave it to the pub- 
 lic ; since then, Dr. King, of Cincinnati, author of the Ec- 
 chctic Dispensatory, has spread it, through that Vork, and 
 many lives have been saved by it. It acts by lessening the 
 force of the circulation, (sedative power,) as also by ite as- 
 tringent effects in contact with the bleeding vessels. And 
 the probability is that no known remedy can be as safely 
 depended upon for more speedy relief, or certainty of cure, 
 especially for the lungs, stomach, or nose ; but for bleedings 
 from the womb, or excessive menstruation, I feel to give 
 preference to Prof. Piatt's treatment as shown in the recipe 
 for ** Uterine Hemorrhages." No relaxation from business 
 need.be required, unless the loss of blood makes it necessary, 
 nor other treatment, except if blood has been swallowed, oi* 
 if the bleeding is from the stomach, it would be well to give , 
 a mild cathartic. Bleeding from the stomach will be dis- 
 tinguished from bleeding from the lungs by a sense of weight, 
 or pain, and unaccompanied by cough, and discharged by 
 vomiting, and in larger quantities at a time than from the 
 lungs. The blood will be darker also, and often mixed witb 
 particles of food. 
 
 Exercise in the open air is preferable to inactivity ; and if 
 any symptoms of returning hemorrhage show themselves, 
 begin with the remedy without loss of time, aod^Tea^on^ 
 able hope of cure may be expected. 
 
 2. ExTKBKAL Sttttic Rbmcivibs —Take a glazed euihea 
 vessel that will stand heat and put into it water 2^ pts. ; tincture 
 of beneoin 2 on. ; a!um \ lb., and boil for 6 hours, replacing the 
 water which evaporates in boiling, by pouring in boiling water 
 so as not to stop the boiling process, constantly stirring. At the 
 end of the six hours it is to be filtered, or carefully strained and 
 bottled, also in glass stoppered bottles. Appuoatioii- Wet litvk 
 
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 DB. chase's BEGIPES 
 
 Mid lay upon the woand, binding with bandages to prevent the 
 thickened blood (coagula) from being removed from the months 
 of the vessels, keeping them in place 'for 24 to d8 hours will be 
 •officieut. 
 
 If any doubt is felt about this remedy, pour a few drops 
 of it into a vessel containing human blood — the larger the 
 quantity of the atyptic the thicker will be the blood mass, 
 until it becomes black and thick. Pagliari was the first lo 
 introduce this piej aration to public notice. — Eclectic Dis- 
 pensatory . 
 
 3. SxTPTio TisoTUBB-ExTEBNAL APPLICATION. — Best braiidy 2 ozs. ; 
 finely scraped Castile soap 2 drs.; potash 1 dr.; mix all and shake 
 well when Applied. Apply warm by putting lint upon the cut, 
 wet with thu mixture. 
 
 I have never had occasion to try either of the prepara- 
 tions, but if I do it will be the '' Balsim '' or " External 
 . Styptic " first, and if they should fail I would try the " Tinc- 
 ture," for I feel that it must stop blood, but I also am cer- 
 tain that it would make a sore, aside from the cut; yet, 
 better have a sore than lose life, of couree. These remedies 
 are such that a physician might pass a lifetime without oc- 
 (a^/ion to use, but none the less important to know. 
 
 • BUONOHOCELE -EjJtAKGEi) Neck— To Cubb.— Iodide of potas- 
 sium (often called hydriodate of potash) 2 drs.; iodine 1 dr.; water 
 2| Oils,; mix aiul tihake a few minutes, and pour a little into a viai 
 for internal uhc. Dosk — Five to 10 drops before each meal, to be 
 taken in a little water. Extsrmai. Application. — With a feather 
 wet the enlarged neck, from the other bottle, night and morning, 
 Wfttil well. 
 
 It will cause the scarf skin to peel off several times be- 
 fore the cure is peifect, leaving it tender ; but do not omit 
 the application more than one day at most, and you may 
 rest assured of a cure, if a cure can be performed by any 
 means whatever; many cures have been performed by it,. 
 Aod there is no medicine yet discovered which has pro?e<i 
 oae-hundredth part as suocessful. 
 
 2. But if you are willing to be longer in performing the cure, to 
 •Toid xhe soreness, dissolve the same articles in alcohol 1 pt., and 
 vw the same way, as above described, (i. e.) both internal and 
 ^oicnmal. 
 
 PAIN KILLER— Said to bi PBaaT Davis'.— Alcohdl 1 qt.; gum 
 -fiiaiao 1 o2 ; gums myrrh and camphor, and cayenne pttlver- 
 iaed, of each \ oe.; mix. Shake occasionally for a week 9r 
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMBNT. 
 
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 10 days and let Alter and settle for use. Apply freely to Burfaoe 
 pains, or it may be taken in tea-spoon doaes for internal pain«i and 
 repeat accord!, g to net-oesities. 
 
 tf any one can tell it from its namesake, by its looks or 
 
 actions, we will then acknowledge that the old minister, from 
 
 /hom it was obtained, was greatly deceived, although h« 
 
 was perfectly familiar for a long time with Mr. Davis, and 
 
 his mode of preparing the pain-killer. 
 
 POISON'S— Antidotb.— When it becomes known that a poiMpi 
 had been swallowed, stir salt and ground mustard, of each a heaping 
 tea-spoon, into a glass of water, and have it drank immediatelly. 
 It is the quickest emetic known. 
 
 It should vomit in one minute. Then give the whites of 
 two or three eggs in a cup or two of the strongest coffee. 
 If no coffee, swallow the egg in sweet-cream, and if no- 
 cream, sweet-milk, if neither, down with the egg. 
 
 I have used the raustard, with success, in the case of 
 my own child, which had swallowed a " Quarter " beyond 
 the reach of the finger, but remaining in the throat, which» 
 to all appearances, would have soon suffocated him. I first 
 took " granny's plan" of turning the head down and pattii^ 
 on the back ; failing in this, I mixed a heaping tea-spoon 
 of mustard m sufficient water to admit its being swallowed 
 readily ; and in a minute we had the quarter, dinner, and 
 all ; without it we should have had no child. 
 
 I knew the mustard to work well once upon about twenty 
 men in a boat-yard, on Belle River, Kewport, Mich. I 
 had been furnishing them with " Switchel " at twenty 
 cents per bucket, made by putting about a pound of sugar, 
 a quart of vinegar, and two or three table-spoons of ginger 
 to the bucket of water, with a lump of ice, An old man, 
 also in the grocei-y business, offered to give it to them at 
 eighteen pence per bucket, but, by some mistake, he piit in 
 mustard instead of ginger. They had a general vomit, 
 which uiade them think that Cholera had come with the 
 horrors of '• Thirtjj-Two," but as the downward effects wew 
 not experienced, it passed off with great amusement, safi^ 
 establishing my custom at the twenty cents per bucket. 
 
 INFLAMMATORY DISEA8ES--DK8CiiiPTioN.----B«- 
 fore I attempt to speak of the inflammation of pailicubr 
 organs, I shdl make a few remarks upon the subject in gevh 
 
196 
 
 DB. CHASE'S RECIPES. 
 
 «ral, which will throw out the neceBsary light for those not 
 already informed ; and I would be glaa to extend mj treat- 
 ment to all of the particular organs of the body, but ihe 
 limits of the work only allowt me to speak of Pleurisy, In- 
 flammation of the lungs, Sk., yet, Edectie ideas of inflam- 
 mation are such, that if we can, successfullyf treat inflam- 
 mation in one part of the system, (body,) we can, with but 
 little modification, pucceed with it in all its f^rms : And 
 my general remarks shall be of such a nature as to enable 
 avy judicious person to, suoceffifully, combat with infl&miiis- 
 tions in eveiy part of the system. Then : 
 
 First. — Inflammation is, generally, attended with pain^ 
 increased heat, redness, and swelling. Some, or all of th«e 
 signs always accompany it, according to the structure of 
 the organ aflected. 
 
 Second. — The more loose the structue of the organ, 
 tike less seN'ere will be the pain ; and the character of the 
 structure also modifies the character of the pain. In mucotu 
 membranes, it is burning or stinging. In serous membranes 
 it is lancinating, and most usually very sharp and cutting. 
 In fibrous structures it is dull, aching, and gnawing. . In 
 nervous structures, it is quick, jumping, and most usually 
 excruciatingly severe ; and in nearly all structures more or 
 less soreness is soon present. 
 
 Third. — To make the foregoing information of value, 
 it becomes necessary to know the structure of the various 
 parts of the system. Although the ultimate poilions of 
 muscle or flesh, as usually called, is fibrous, yet, there is a 
 loose cellular structure blended with it, which fills up and 
 rounds the form to its graceful beauty— -hence, here, we 
 have more swelling, and less severity of pain. With the 
 rose, or red of the lips, commences the mucous membiane, 
 which forms the lining coat of the mouth, stomach, (&c., 
 through the whole alimentary canal, also lining the uretha, 
 bladder, ureters, vagina, womb, fallopitft tub^, Ac, hence 
 the heat always felt in inflammation of these organs. The 
 whole internal surface of the cavity of the body is lined bj 
 SL serous membrane, which is also reflected or folded upon 
 the lungs — here called pieura, Tthe side,) hence pleurisy, 
 (inflammation of the pieura or sido,) and aho folded upon 
 
MBDIGAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 197 
 
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 the upper side of ihe diapbragin ; the diaphragm fhrmiog a 
 partition between bhe upper and ^iwer portions of the cavity 
 of the body, the upper portion containing the langHj heart, 
 large blood veflsels, &c., called the chest, more commonly the 
 br^t — the lower portion containing the stomach, Hver, 
 kidneys, intestines, bladder, (bo., called *:he aldomm — more 
 commonly the bowels. The sides of the abdomen are cov- 
 ered with a continuation of this serotu membrane, which ie 
 also reflected upon the lower side of the diaphragm, Kver, 
 stomach, small and large intestines, bladder, (fee. — h^re calljd 
 peritoneum^ (to extend around) in all places it ffeeretes 
 (furnishes) a moistening fluid enabling one organ of the 
 body to •move upon itself or other organs without friction. 
 This scous memorane is thin, but very firm, hence the 
 sharpness of the pain when it is inflamed, as it cannot yield 
 to the pressure of the accumulating blood. 
 
 Fourth. — The ligaments or bands which bind the differ- 
 ent parts of the body together at the joints, and the grace- , 
 fully contracted ends of the muscles (called tendons) which 
 pass the joint, attaching themselves to the next bone above 
 or below, and the wristlet-like bands which are clasped 
 around the joints through which these tendons play, as over 
 a pully, when the joint - bent, are all of a fibrous construe^ 
 tion. hence the grinding or gnawing pains of rheumatism 
 (inflammations), and injuries of or nea^ joints, and it also 
 accounts fc . that kind of pain in the latter stages of intestinal 
 inflammations, as the stomach, intestines, (fee, are composed 
 of three coats, the external, serous — middle fibrous, internal^ 
 mucous, and when inflammation of the external, or inter- 
 nal, coats are long continued, it generally involves the middle 
 —fibrous layer, 
 
 Fifth, — The greatest portion of the substance of the 
 ^.ungs is of fihrow tiseue, consequently, dull or obtuse pain 
 only, is experienced when inflamed. 
 
 LA£^^T. — The 'fcervous system, although of a Jibrom 
 character, is so indescribably fine in its atpjLcture that, like 
 the telegraph wire, as soon as touched, it answers with a 
 bound to the ca^l ; quick as thought, whether pain or pleasure, 
 jumping, bounding, it goes to the grand citadel (the brain) 
 which overlooks Ijhe welfare of the whole temple. 
 
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 DB OHASB's recipes. 
 
 In genera], tbe inienBity of the pain attending inflamma- 
 tions will surely indicate the violence of the febrile (sympa- 
 thetic) reaction; for instance, in inflammation of the bron- 
 chial tubes, the j/3in is not very severe, conseque ^j not 
 much fever, (reaction) ; but in inflammation of the pleura 
 f pleurisy) the pain is very severe, consequently the febrile 
 reaction exceedmgly great. 
 
 . Causes of Inflammation. — In health, the blood is 
 carried evenly, in proportion to the size of the blood vessels, 
 to every part of the body. And the vessels (arteries and 
 veins) are proportioned in size to the necessity of the sys- 
 tem ror vitality, nutrition and reparation. Whatever it may 
 be that causes the blood to recede from the surface, or any 
 considerable portion of it, will cause inflammation of the 
 weakest portion of the system ; and whatever will draw the u 
 blood unduly to any part of the system, will cause inflamma- '^ 
 tion of that part, — for instance, cold drives the blood from 
 the surface, consequently, if sufficiently long continued, the 
 internal organ least able to bear the accummulation of blood 
 upon it will be excited to inflammation — a blow upon any 
 part, if sufficiently severe, will cause inflammation of the 
 injured part'. Also mustard poultices, drafts to the feet, (be, 
 hence the propriety of their proper use to draw the blood 
 away from internal organs which are inflamed. ,A check of 
 perspiration is, especially, liable to excite inflammation, and 
 that in proportion tg the degree of heat producing the per- 
 spiration and the length of time which the person may be 
 exposed to the cold. The object of knowing the cause of 
 disease is to avoid suffering from disease, by keeping clear 
 of its cause ; or thereby to know what remedy to apply for 
 its cure or relief. 
 
 . There'is a class of persons who claim that causes will have 
 their legitimate effects, physical or moral ; physicians know 
 that it is absurd physically; that is, when philosophically 
 and scientifically combated with, — for instance, a p^i-son is 
 •xposed to cold ; the blood is driven i% upon the internal 
 'drgans, and the one which is the least able to bear the pres- 
 fdre gives way before the invading enemy, and an inflamma- 
 tion IS the result; which, if left to itself, wiU terminate in 
 death ; but heat and moisture are applied to the constringed 
 surface — the blood is brought back and held there, and a 
 
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MEDICAL DEPABTMENT. 
 
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 cnre w speedily effected — the natiiral or physical ^eet of 
 the cause is obviated or avoided. 
 
 Then why should it be thought impossible with Ood that 
 Amoral remedy should be provided against moral evils? 
 Thanks be to God, it has been provided to the willing and 
 obedient, through our Lord Jesus Christ, but only to th« 
 willing and obedient, morally as well as physically, for if a 
 person will not permit a proper couree to be pursued to over- 
 come the consequences arising to his body from cold, h« 
 must suffer, not only the inflammation to go on, but also 
 guilt of mind for neglecting his known duty. The same is 
 true in either point of view, only it looks so curious that 
 there should be those who can reason of physical thingti, 
 but utterly refuse to give up their moral blindness ; the con- 
 sequences be upon their own heads. 
 
 Just in proportion to the susceptibility of an organ to tak« 
 on diseased action, is the danger of exposure; for example, 
 if a person has had a previous attack of pleurisy, or inflam- 
 mation of the lungs, those organs, or the one which has been 
 diseased.will be almost certain to be again prosti'ated,u8ually 
 called relapse; which is in most cases, ten times more severe 
 than the first attack ; then be very careful about exposures 
 when just getting better from these, or other disease. 
 
 Inflammation terminaXes by resolution, effusion, suppura- 
 tion or mortification. By resolution is meant that the part« 
 return to their natural condition ; by effusion, that blood 
 may be thrown out from the soft parts, or from : \ucoui 
 membranes — that lymph, or serum, a colorless part of th« 
 blood may be thrown out by serous membranes, which often 
 form adhesions, preventing the after motions of the affected 
 partsi — and here what wisdom is brought to light, in th« 
 fact that whatever is thrown out from, the miucus surfao* 
 never, or at least very seldom adhere <yt grow up; if it did, 
 any part of the alimentary canal from the mouth to the atom* 
 ach, and so on through the intestines, would be constantly 
 adhering ; so, also, of the lungs; for these various organs ar« 
 more frequently affected by inflammations than any oth«r 
 parts of the body — by «i<pj9tira/ton,when ahctsses are formed 
 containing pus (matter), or this may take place upon ih« 
 surface, when it is usually called canker, or corrodiog ulcen, 
 oancers, &c.; by gangrene ^mortification) when death of 
 
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 the parts take place; in this case, if the part is sufficiently 
 exteiisivet or if it is an internal part, death of the whole 
 body, if not relieved, is the result. 
 
 The metiiods of inflammatory termination is believed to 
 result from the grade of inflammation— for instance, at the 
 ciicumference of a boil, the inflammation is weak, serum is 
 thrown out; near the centre, where the inflammation is a 
 little higher, lymph is poured out and adhesion takes place; 
 — next pm — at the centre, mortification and consequent 
 sloughing takes place. 
 
 In b.ms, the tendency is to suppuration; in carbuncles, the 
 tendency is to mortification; but in rheumatistn, mumps, 
 (fee, there is a strong tendency to resolution ; and it is often 
 very difficult to avoid the natural terminations. 
 
 The five different tissues of the body also modify the in- 
 flammation according to the tissue inflamed, viz : th« cellular 
 (fleshy) tissue, is characterized by great swelling, throbbing 
 pain, and by its suppurating in cavities — not spreading all 
 over that tissue. Inflammation of the serous tissue, has 
 sharp lacinating pain, scarcely an} swelling, but much 
 reaction (fever), throws out lymph, and is very liable to 
 form adhesion — not likely to terminate in mortification, ex- 
 cept in peritonitis (inflammation of the lining membranes of 
 the abdominal cavity), which sometimes terminates thus in 
 a few houi-s, showing the necessity of immediate action. 
 Inflammation of the mucous tissue, is characterized by 
 burning heat, or stinging pain (hence the heat of the stora- 
 SMjh, bowels, <fec.) — without swelling, not much febrile re- 
 action, and never terminates in resolution (health) without 
 a copious discharge of mucous, as from the nose and lungs, 
 in colds, catarrhs, coughs, <fec. Inflammation of the dermoid 
 (skin) tissue, as in erysipelas, is characterized by burning 
 pain — spreads irregularly over the surface, forming blisters 
 containing a yellowish serum, but never forms adhesions, 
 nor suppurates in cavities but upon the surface. Inflamma- 
 tion of the Jibrous tissue, or rheumatic inflammation, is 
 characterized by severe aching or gnawing pain—^is not 
 liable to terminate in suppuration nor mortification — nearly 
 always throwing out a gelatinous serum, often causing stiff- 
 joints, Of depositing earthy matter, as in gout — is jpeculiarly 
 liable to change its place, beipg very dangerous if it changes 
 
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 to any of the vital organs, as the brain, heart, stomach, <be«, 
 and in the acute form the febrile reaction is usually quite 
 seveie. Internal inflammation will be known by the oon< 
 "^ant pain of the inflamed part, by the presence of fever, 
 ..hich does not generally attend a spasmodic or nervous 
 paiu, and by the position chosen by the patient, to avoid 
 pressure upon the afflicted organs. 
 
 Inflammation is known under two heads,acu^« and chronic. 
 The first is generally rapid and violent in its course and 
 characteristics. The last is usually the result of the first — 
 is more slow and less dangerous in its consequences. 
 
 Tteatmknt. — Sound philosophy (Eclecticism) teaches, 
 that if cold has driven the blood (consequently the heat) 
 from the surface, heat will draw it back ; and thus relieve 
 the internal engorgements (over-full organe)^ and if held 
 there, sufficiently long, entirely cure the difficulty (inflam- 
 mation) ; upon the same ground, if a person is cold, wai'm 
 him ; if wet and cold, warm and dry him ; if hot, cool him ; 
 if dry and hot, wet and cool him— equalize the circulation 
 and pain or disease cannot exist. 
 
 The foregoing remarks must suffice for general directions ; 
 but the following special application to pleurisy and inflam- 
 mation of the lungs shall be sufficiently explicit to enable 
 all to make their general applications. 
 
 2. Plsurist. — Pleurisy is an inflammation of the ietottt 
 membrane invelopiug (covering) the lungs, which is also re- 
 flected (folded) upon the parieties (sides or walls) of the 
 chest, [but I trust all will make themselves familiar with 
 the description of *' Inflammation in General," before they 
 proceed with the study of. pleurisy,] attended with sharp, 
 lancinating pain in the side, difficult breathing, fever, with 
 a quick, full, and hard pulse, usually commencing with a 
 chill. In many cases the inflammation, consequently the 
 pain, is confined to one point, most commonly about the 
 short ribs; but often gradually extends towarils the - 
 shoulder and forward part of th« breast; the pain increas- 
 ing, and often becoming very violent. It may not, but 
 usually is, attended with cough, and the expectoration is 
 seldom mixed with blood, or very free, but rather of a glairy 
 or mucous character. As the disease adTaQce3,,the pain if 
 comparecl to a stab with a sharp instrumentf full breathing 
 
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 Bot being indulged, fmm* ita increasing tbe difficulty; the 
 cough aiiio aggravates the pain ; great prostratien of strengtli, 
 the countenance expressing anxiety and suffering. The 
 -breathing is short, hurried, and catching, to avoid increase 
 6f pain; in some cases, the cough is only slight. It m«y 
 be complicated with inflammation of the ]ung9, or bronchial 
 tubes, and if so complicated, the expectoration will be 
 mixed or streaked with blood. Yet it makes but very little 
 difference, as the treatment is nearly the same — with ihe 
 exception of expectorants, quite the same; although ex- 
 pectorants are not amins in pleurisy, but absolutely neces- 
 sary in inf ammation of the lungs. Even Mackintosh, of 
 the " Regulars," says : •* li must be recollected that pneu- 
 monia" (inflammation of the lungs) ** and pleuritis" (pleu- 
 risy^ " Frequently co-exist" /'exist together) ; ' But neither 
 is that circumstance of much consequence, being both 
 inflammatory diseases, and requiring the same general 
 remedies." ' But there I stop with him, for I cannot go the 
 bleeding, cal nel, and antimony. I have qnoted his words 
 to satisfy the people that the " Regulars" acknowledge the 
 necessity of a > liar treatment in all inflammatory diseases, 
 the difference between the two branches of the profession, 
 «xisting only in the remedies used. 
 
 Causes of Pleurisy. — Cold, long applied, constringea 
 (makes smaller) the capillaries ('hair like blood-vessels) 
 which cover as a netrwork the whole surface, impairing the 
 circulation, driving the blood internally, causing congestion 
 (an unnatural accumulation of bloodj upon the pleura, hence 
 pleurisy. Exposures to rains, especially cold rains, cold, 
 wet feet, recession ('striking in) of measles, scarlet fever, 
 rheumatism, &c., often causes inflauimation of this char* 
 aeter. 
 
 Indications. — Relax the whole surface, which removes 
 the obstructions — restore, and maintain, an equal circulation, 
 and the work is accomplished. The temperature of the 
 surface and extremities is much diminished, showing that 
 the blood has receded CgoneJ to the internal, diseased, or- 
 gans, the temperature of which is much increased ; for with 
 the blood ^ des the vitality (he&t) of the body. This condi- 
 tion of the uyKtem clearly indicates the treatment, viz. : the 
 application of the heat to the surface in such a way as to 
 
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 able to keep it there uctU nature is again capable of carry- 
 ipg on her own work, in her ow» way. v 
 
 iTEiATmRT. — It has '.been toond that the qnickest and lea* 
 t^ublesome j^way in which heat could be applied to the whole 
 urfitce, is by means of bnrning alcohol, forraerly called a " Boia 
 w6at," because rum was stronger than at present, and more 
 ■ plenty than alcohol; but now alcohol is the most plenty, and 
 much the strongest and cheapest. It should always be in the 
 house (the 98 per cent.) ready for use as described under the head 
 of " Sweating with Burning Alcohol," (which see,) or if it is day 
 time, and fires are burning, you can give the vapor-bath-sweat, 
 by placing a pan, half or two-thirds full of hot water, under the 
 chair, having a comforter around you; then putting into it 
 occasionally a hot stone or brick, until a free perspiration is 
 produced and held for from 16 to 30 minutes, according to the 
 severity of the case; and if this is commenced r:A soon as the 
 attack is fairly settled upon the patient, in not more than one 
 case out of ten will it be necessary to do anything more; but if 
 fairly established, pr it of a day or two's standing, then, at the same 
 time you are administering the sweat, place the patient's feet in 
 water as hot as it can be borne; have also a strong tea made of 
 equal parts of pleurisy-root and catnip, (this root is also called 
 white root— Doctors call it asclepias tubefosa)— into a saucer of 
 this hot tea put 2 tea-spoons of the " Sweating Drops," drinking 
 all at one time, repeating the dose every hour for 5 or 6 
 hours, using only 1 tea-spoon of the drops at other times, except 
 the first, giving the tea freely once or twice between doses. As 
 soon as the sweating is over, place the patient comfortably in bed 
 so as to keep up the perspiration from 6 to 12 hours, or until the 
 pain and uneasiness yield to the treatment If necessary, after 
 the patient takes the bed, place bottles of hot water to the feet 
 and along the sides, or hot bricks, or stones wrapped with flannel 
 wet with vinegar, to help keep up the perspiration. Mustard 
 may also be placed over the seat of pain, and upon the feet, also 
 rubbing the legs and arms with dry flannel, which very much luds 
 the process when the attack is severe. If the pain continues 
 severe, and perspiration is hard to maintain, steep cayenne, or 
 common red peppers in spirits, and rub the whole surface with it, 
 well and long, and I will assure the blood to come out soon, and 
 see what is golog ou externally. Keep the patient well covered 
 all the time, and avoid draft? of cold air. As the painihl symp- 
 toms begin to ^^ubside, the doses of medicine may be lessened, and 
 the time between doses lengthened, until the disease is fairly under 
 control; then administer a dose of the " Vegetable Physic," or 
 some other cathartic, if preferred, or if that is not at hand, this 
 course may be repeated or modified to meet returning oi changing 
 symptoms. 
 
 Wetting the surface daily, with alcohol and water, equal parti, 
 will be found an excellent assistant in treating any disease, espe- 
 Hally internal inflammations, as Pleurisy, Inflammation of tho 
 Lungs, Consumption, Bronchitis, &c., &e. 
 
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 The pleurisy root w almoet a specific in pleurisy or in- 
 fltmmation of the lungs; no other known root or herb is 
 equal to it for producing and keeping up perspiration (drug- 
 gists usually keep if,) nut if it cannot be got, pennyroyal, 
 lage, Ac, or ono of tjie mints, must b^ used in its place. 
 The only objection to the foregoing treatment is this, the 
 Doctors say : 
 
 Heigh I I gae88 he wa.<in't very sick ; 
 For a^e I he's round in " double qulclc :'* 
 Biit alopath holds 'em for weelcs, six or seven, 
 When bleeding, calomel, and antimony are given. 
 
 To illustrate : I awoke one night with severe pain in the 
 left side (I had been exposed to cold during the afternoon), 
 oould not move or draw a full breath without very much, 
 increasing the difficulty; the night was cold and fires all 
 down , I studied my symptoms for a few minutes, and also 
 reflected upon the length of time which must elapse, if I \\ 
 waited for fires to be built; than awoke my wife, saying do 
 not be frightened, I have an attack of Pleurisy; you will 
 get me a cpmfoi-ter, saucer, and the alcohol, and return to 
 bed without disturbing any one; with persuasion, or almost 
 compulsion, she did so; for she desired to build a fire and 
 make a more thorough work of it ; but I had made up my 
 mind and resolved to carry out the experiment upon myself, 
 iind now had the only chance. I arose and poured the 
 saucer nearly full of alcohol, and set it on the fire; wrapping 
 the comforter around me, I sat down upon the chair, over 
 it, and continued to sit until the alcohol was all burned out, 
 and I in most profuse perspiration; the pain and dif&- 
 eult breathing having neariy all subsided ; I then returned 
 to bed, the perspiration continuing for some considerable 
 longer, by retaining the comforter around me to avoid 
 checking it as I returned to bed, during which time I again 
 fell asleep. When I awoke in the morning I could just 
 realize a little pain, or rather uneasiness, upon taking a 
 full breath, but did nothing more, being very careful about 
 exposure however, through the day ; but at bed time I took 
 another alcohol sweat, and that was the last of the pleurisy. 
 
 Again : Mr. , a medical student rooming in the 
 
 same house where I lived, awoke in the night, attacked 
 Itith pleurisy, the same as myself, after exposure; but as 
 he was attending the lectures of alopathic professors, of 
 
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 course, he must have one of them to attend him; one was 
 called, three pints of Mood were taken, calomel and antimoiij 
 were freely given, and in about three or four days the dis- 
 ease gave way to time, jor ' the treatment; but a calomel- 
 Diarrhea set in, and came very near terminating his life, and 
 kept him from college and his studies over six weeks ; and 
 he said if he was ever calomelized again, he would prosecute 
 the doer to the end of his life ; but he graduated in that 
 school of medicine, and no doubt is now expecting to go and 
 do the same thing. » Choose ye your servant. Shall he be 
 reason, with common-sense results, or shall he be silver-slip- 
 pered fashion, with his health-destroying policy? It nedd 
 not be argued that these were not parallel capes, for I had 
 the pleurisy when young, and was treated in the fashionable 
 style, and was constantly liable to, and had frequent attacks 
 of it during my earlier life. 
 
 In chronic cases, which sometimes occur, and frequently 
 under other treatment, it will be necessary not only to use 
 the foregoing treatment, but to add to it an emetic about 
 once a week, alternating with the sweating process, with 
 much external friction, occasionally, with the pepp'^r and 
 .spirits, to hold the l>lood to the surface. 
 
 Since the first r ublication of the foregoing, I have seen 
 a statement going the rounds of the " Papers," that a bad 
 case of burning had taken place in N. Y., by the alcohol 
 process of sweating, calling it new; but it has been in use 
 more than forti/ years ; I have used it, I speak safely, more 
 than a hundred times, and never before heard of its injuring 
 any one ; but still it is possible that some accident may have 
 occurred in its use, or that some one has undertaken it who 
 was not capable of prescribing ; but if calomel would claim 
 one year's use under its moat accomplished prescribers with 
 only one case of injury, I would say, let it be continued ; but 
 in place of one it is hundreds; farther comment is unneces- 
 sary. 
 
 But those who prefer, or from the absence of alcohol, 6t 
 other necessities, can take " grandmother's plan," ». e., placi 
 the feet into hot water, and drink freely of pennyroyal, sage, 
 or other hot teas, for fifteen to twenty minutes ; then gdt 
 into bed, continuing the teas for a short time, remaining in 
 bed for a few hours; which, if commenced e n after th« 
 
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 attack of colds, or even more severe diseases, will, in nine 
 •ut of ten cases, not only relieve, but prevent days, perbap« 
 weeks, of iuocrvonience ar:l sufiFering. 
 
 Where there are complications with the substance of thi 
 Itings, you will find explanations under the next head. 
 
 ^. Inflammation of thb Lungs — Is usually, by phy- 
 sicians, called Pneumonia, from the Greek, Pneumon, the 
 LuDj^. It may involve the whole [angmon one or both sides, 
 but is more guneraily confined to one side, and to the lowei' 
 portion, than to the whole lung. 
 
 Causes. — Exposures to cold, wet, cold feet, drafts of air, 
 especially if in a perepiration, recession of eruptive diseases, 
 Ac, and consequently more liable to come on iu the winter, 
 ^•or cold wet changes of spring, than at any other time; and 
 upon those whose lungs are debilitated by previous attacks, 
 or are predisposed to, or actually suflfering under disease, 
 
 Symptoms.— Inflammation of the Lungs, like other dis- 
 eases of an inflammatory character, nearly always commen- 
 ces with a chill, soon followed by fever, more or less violent, 
 aecording to which, the severity of the case may be some- 
 what predetermined, unless of a congestive character; in 
 which case, instead of a hot and fevered surface, there will 
 be a cold, clammy feel to the hand, as well as unpleasant to 
 the patient. There will be difficulty in taking full breaths, 
 as well as an increased number of breaths to the minute, 
 which in healthy persons is generally about twenty. Dull 
 p»ain, with a tightness of the chest, short and perpetual hack- 
 ing cougb, scanty expecioration, which is tough, and sticks 
 to the vessel used as a spitton, and is more or less streaked 
 with blood, or more like iron rust in color, and may have so 
 nuch blood in it as to make it a brighter red. The pulse is 
 variable, so much so that but little confidence can be placed 
 4n it. The tongue soon becomes dry and dark; but a dry, 
 4ad glossy tongue, with early delirium, are con8idere4 dan- 
 gerous symptoms, that is, under *• Old School Treatment." 
 But with our rational treatment we vory seldom have a fatal 
 icurmination, yet it is occasional, and really wonderful that it is 
 aot more frequent, when we take into account the neglect of 
 •»mo physicians and imprudence of many patients. 
 
^ MBDIOAL DEPARTMEHT. 
 
 U-IvDiOATioHfi.— 'A* the blood has receded from the sar- 
 noe and centered upon the lungs; the indications are to 
 return it to its original vessels,* by judiciously applying heat 
 flind moisture, which is 8ure to relax their constringed condi- 
 tion, instead of cutting a hole and letting it run out [bleed- 
 ing], which prostrates the patinnt and retards his re- 
 covery. 
 
 TRBATmNT.— The ticatmcnt of Inflaroraation of the Lun^ in 
 recent csBes, will be at first the same as for " Pleurioy," that is to 
 produce free perspiration — soak the feet in hot water while admin- 
 istering the ''Alcohol Sweat," or Vapor Bath, as there d' «!cted, 
 with the white-root tea and " Sweating Drops," for severa. u'-urs, 
 with bottles of hot water or hot bricKS to the feet and sides, mus* 
 tard-drafts to the feet also, as they can be bon^e ; and after 6 or 8 
 hours, the "Vegetable," or other cathartic should be adminis- 
 tered, and great care not to expose the patient to drafts of air dur- 
 ing its operation, especially if in perspiration. If this course is 
 faithfully persevered in, it will call the blood to the surfuce — 
 prevent congestion of the lungs (unnatural accumulation of blood) 
 — lessen the fever— ease the pain, and aid expectoration. But if 
 the expectoration becomes difficult, and the disease should not 
 seem to yield in from 8 to 12 hours at farthest, or by the time the 
 cathartic has freely operated, then, or soon after, give the "' Elclec- ' 
 tic," or " Lobelia-seed Emetic," a« directed under that head ; and 
 if called to a case which is already confirmed, it is best to begin 
 with the emetic, then follow up as above directed in recent cases. 
 An expectorant, in confirmed (established) cases will be needed — 
 lot it be composed of tincture c .' lobelia 1 oz. ; tincture of ipecac } 
 01.; tincture of blood-root J oz.; simple syrup or molasses 2 ozs.; 
 mix. DosK-One te-ispoon every 2 hours, alternately with the 
 white-root tea and " Sweating Drops," except the first dose may 
 be 2 teaspoons. The case must then be watched car(3fully ; and 
 any part or all of the treatment may be repeated, lessened, 
 increased, or modified, to suit retarning or remaining symp- 
 toms. 
 
 Persons having this book in the house, and being governed 
 by it, navingalso the leading medicines on hand; and com- 
 mencing with this disease, or inflammation of any other 
 organs, modifying the treatment by common sen^e, according 
 to the remarks on " General Inflammation/' will not have 
 to repeat the coui-se in one case out of ten. 
 
 In inflammation of the stomach, known by heat, accord- 
 ing to the degree of the inflammation, drinks of slippery-elm 
 water, or mucilage of gum arabic &c., may be freely 
 taken ; and in inflammation of other organs, other modifi- 
 cations will be required ; as for Dysentery, which is an ia- 
 
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 flammation of tlie lar^o intestines, the " Injection" mu 
 
 l>e freely used, as also uie perspiring processes in all case.?. '' 
 
 lu chronic inflanriination, the emetic should be givtki 
 
 once a week, and some other time during the week, the 
 
 sweating should be gone through also, with dry friction to 
 
 the whole surface, by means of a coarse towel, for fifteen to 
 
 twenty minutes each time, twice daily; and if the feet are 
 
 ^habitually cold, wash them in cold water and wipe them 
 
 4vy at bed time, then rub them with a coarse cloth, or the 
 
 ■<Iry hand until they are perferctly warm and comfortable; 
 
 and it may be expected tnat these long-standing cases will 
 
 «oon yield to this rational course. 
 
 Fkmalk DBDiLixr AND Irrboularitibs. — It is a self- 
 tvident fact that the finer the work, and the more conpli- 
 eated a piece of machinery, the more liable it is to become 
 deranged, or out of order; and the more skillful must be 
 the mechanic who undertakes to make any necessary re- 
 pairs. 
 
 Upon this consideration I argue that the system of the 
 female is the finer and more complicated, having to perform 
 a double work, (child-bearing), yet confined to the same or 
 less dimensions than the male. And to perform this double 
 function of sustaining her own life, and giving life to her 
 species; it becomes necessary in the wisdom of God to give 
 her such a peculiar formation, that between the ages of 
 fourteen and forty-five, or the child-bearing period, she 
 should have a sanguineous (blood-like) monthly discharge, 
 from the organs of generation, known under the various 
 names of monthly sickness, menses, catamenia, courses, 
 menstrual ion, &c. Why it should have been so arranged, 
 •r necessary, none can tell, We are left to deal with the 
 simple fact ; and it would be just as wise in us to say that 
 it was not bo, as to say there was no one which planned it, 
 or any other thing, because we cannot see and fully under- 
 stand the great first cause. The blood discharged usually 
 amounts to from four to six ounces, and should continue 
 only from four to five days. And as this book will ^11 
 to very many families who will have no other medical work 
 for reference upon this subject, it will not be amiss for m« 
 to give the neceasary instructions here that all may b« able 
 k> quajjfy themselves to meet the exigencies (demand j of 
 
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 all <ilfwes. Previous to menstruation, pain or uneasinaM is 
 felt in the back, loins, thighs, and a sense of heavinesi in 
 the iromb, which lies in the lower part of the obdonaen. 
 Som<l are very nervous at these periods, others with flushed 
 face, accompanied with dizziness and headache, sickness at 
 the stomach, <&c. In young girls these new feelings pro- 
 duce uneasiness, for wan^ of knowledge as to their cause 
 and result, and should lead them to seek maternal advice 
 and counsel, unless they have some book of this kind which 
 explains the whole matter. The breasts, at this period, en- 
 large and often become the seat of uneasiness, or actual 
 pain. Let no real danger be apprehended ; for these un- 
 pleasant sensations will continue until in healthy young 
 females there will be a few drops of reddish fluid, resem- 
 bling blood, pass from the genital organs, affording imme- 
 diate relief, not from its quantity, but from the accomplish- 
 ment of their natural work. Owing to their l>etter general 
 health, which is improved by the style of living, some girls 
 menstruate a few months, or a year, perhaps, earlier toati 
 others. When they take an active part in the labors of 
 the house, freely romping, playing, «c., their health and 
 strength becomes fully developed, and menstruation comes 
 on a little earlier, and is more healthy and regular. 
 
 Allow me here to give a word of caution about taking 
 cold at this period. It is very dangerous. I knew a young 
 girl, who had not been properly instructed by her mother 
 upon this subject, to be so afraid or ashamed of Wng found 
 with stains upon her clothes, which she did not know 
 the meaning of, that she went to a brook and washed her- 
 self and clothes — took cold an,d immediately became insane 
 — remaining so as long as I knew her. Any mother wh6 
 so neglects her duty to her child, in not explaining these 
 things, is verily guilty. 
 
 After this discharge takes place, the unpleasant feelings 
 naturally subside, and the health again becomes good for the 
 month, when all the foregoing sensations recur .again, 
 with a larger flow and longer continued, recurring every 
 four weeks, and is then called menseis or monthly courses. 
 
 The function of the female System, from the fineness 
 and complication of the structures is very liable to become 
 deranged in various ways. 
 
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 It may be entirely stopped, called aminorrhea {(reen 
 ftickness, luppremion of the rnenMS, Sec.,) — it may becoin* 
 paiiifiil and imperfect (dytmenorrhea) — it may be veiy free 
 or excessive [menorrkagia], like hemorrhage; or it ra»y be 
 irr^:ular in its recurrence and duration [iucorrhea]. 
 
 Hut as this monthly discharge is absolutely necessary to 
 kealth, between these periods of life — its suppression — 
 painfulness — excessive flow, or irregularity, will soon produce 
 general female debility. 
 
 Causes. — The female organism is such that what affects 
 the general system of the male, much more frequently af- 
 fects the organs peculiar to her system only. No reason can 
 be given for it, except the wisdom of the Creator, or the 
 necessities of her construction. But this debility and irreg- 
 nlarity are so interwoven together that what causes one must 
 necessarily affect the other. 
 
 In the good old grandmother-days, of girls helping with 
 the work of the household ; warm but loose clothing, plain 
 food, good thick-soled shoes, and absence of novels to excite 
 sexual thoughts, <fec., such a thing as a feeble, debilitated 
 woman or girl was hardly known; but now sedentary habits^ 
 stimulating food, overy conceivable unphysiological style of 
 dress, paper-soled shoe?, checking perspiration, excitable 
 reading, repeated colds by exposure going to and from par- 
 ties thinly clad, standing out talking with supposed friends 
 [real enemies] when they ought to be by the fire or in bed, 
 masturbation, excessive co-habitation, miscarriages, &c., all 
 tend to general debility; and the real wonder is that there 
 are so few cases. 
 
 Symptoms — The very word debility, shows plainly the 
 leading symptom, weakness. She appears pale, especially 
 about the ears, lips, nose, <fec., with a bluish circle about the 
 eyes, which appear rather sunken from the fact that the 
 countenance is generally bloated, leading her friends to feel 
 not over-anxious about her, supposing her m be in good 
 health, P9 she still appears in good flesh ; out if ypu take 
 hold of it, it will be found soft and flabby; she feels dull, 
 languid, and drowsy, stomach out of order, nausea, ofte.i 
 with fluttering about the heart ; the nervous system some- 
 times becoming so much involved as to bring on fits of de- 
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 in talsing their own lives. The feet And limbs may become 
 swollen, restless in sleep, often craving unnatural food, as 
 clay, lofl stonod, tea-grounds, Ac. There may be a dis* 
 charge from these organs, of a glairy or whitish fluid, resem- 
 bling the white of an egg, the disease taking the name, ia 
 this complication of Whites, Jluor albm or Lmcorrhea, Ac.; 
 it is more common among married females, but often occurs 
 before marriage. There may also be a sensation of bearing 
 down, or even falling of the womb (prolapsus uteri) which 
 ^8 much the most common also amongst the married . The 
 boWels usually costive, but often griping pains which cause 
 much suffering. Pains may occasionally be experienced in 
 the head and back; but instead of being looked upon as 
 unfavorable, they rather show that nature is trying to bring 
 about the natural discharge, and needs the assistance of 
 rational remedies. 
 
 It is not to be supposed that every patient will experience 
 all Oi these symptons, at one, or all of the time ; but they 
 cOi iipence as poitxted out, and if allowed to go on without 
 proper correction they will increase in severity until they may 
 be all experienced in a greater or less degree. 
 
 Indications. — The symptoms indicate (point out) the 
 treatment, that is, if there is debility, tonics are required : 
 paleness shows that the blood has left the surface and must 
 be brought back by heat, friction, «kc. The softness of th* 
 flesh indicate a more nutritious diet. The dullness and drowsy 
 languid ness indicate active exercise. Stomach and heart in- 
 dicate an alterative cathartic. The nerves require soothing 
 and quieting remedies, travel, agreeable company, &c., to 
 draw the mind away from self. The glairy mucus discharge, 
 indicates an inflammation, and calls for washings of the parts 
 by cooling and astringent injections, both as an act of clean- 
 liness, as also of cure. The falling of the womb points out 
 the necessity of a pessary support, until the general treat- 
 ment relieves the difiiculty. Costiveness points out laxatives, 
 vihilst nature^s efforts, shown by pains in the head, baek 
 <lbc., clearly indicate the whole general remedies ab«Te 
 pointed out; and which shall be a little more particularige4 
 in the following : 
 
 TB8ATMKNT. — FoT the Weakness and general debility of the 
 patient, let the 'Tonic Wine Tincture" be freely taken ia son- 
 
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 nection with iroq to strengthen and invigorate the gystem; beth- 
 root, [often called birth-root, Indian-balm, groi^d-UlF* ^>] ^^^ 
 root is the part U8<^, Solomon's seal and columbo. spilunard, 
 «pa.i«7, gentian, the roots, with jamomile ^uvf^ers, of each 1 oz. ; 
 with a little white oak bark, may be added to^ the wine iinp- 
 ture to adapt it to these particular cases, taking a wine-glass, if 
 it can be home, from 3 to 6 times daily. Domestic wine may be 
 used ia plaoe of the Port. The best way to take the iron is to 
 liaTe a foot or two of nail rod heat, then filled up, mixing with it 
 •s much ground ginger, rubbing them thoroughly together. 
 i)oRS— Half of 1 tea-spoon 3 times daily, in a little honey or 
 molasses, increasing or lessening the dose to produce a black- 
 ness of the stools; and continue these preparations for 2 or S 
 months at least, or until well. Using for the paleness, warm 
 bathing once or twice a week with dry hard rubbings of the 
 whole surface, night and morning, which brings the blood to the 
 •nrface, re' ^ving the engorged internal oi^ans. Moderate quan- 
 tities of broiled pork, roast beef, mutton, &c., with cold bread 
 and roast or baked potatoes, to overcome the softness of the 
 flesh, and give strength for the necessary exercise which will 
 romove the dullness and drowsy languid feelings. This exercise 
 may be labor about the house, but better to be out of doors, as 
 gardening, romping swinging, singing and riding, or running 
 when it can be borne, with ajtreeable company, travel, &c. For 
 the rttomach, heart, and costiveness, make the following : 
 
 2. Female Laxative Pill. — Aloes, macrotin, and cream of tar- 
 tar, of each 2 drs.; podophylln 1 dr. ; make into common sized 
 pills by using oil of peppermint 15 to 20 drops and thick solution 
 of gum mucilage. Dose— One pill at bed-time, and suSSciently 
 often to keep the bowels just in a solvent condition. 
 
 If the aloes should not agree with any, they may use the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 8 Female Laxative and Anodyne Pill. — Macfotin and rhubarb 
 of each ten grs ; extract of byoscyamus 10 grs. ; Castile soap 40 
 ozs., scrape the soap and mix well toertther forming into common 
 sized pills with gum solution. Dose— One pill as the other, or 
 suflRciently often to keep the bowels solvent, but not too free. The 
 byoscyamus tends to quiet the nerves without constipating the 
 bowels. 
 
 To sooth and quiet the nervous system and pains, if very vio- 
 lent, when the courses commence or during their progress, make 
 the following : 
 
 4. Pill foe Painful Mbnstbcation— Anodyne — Extract of 
 stramonium and sulphate of quinine, of each 16 grs. ; macrotin*^ 
 8 grs. ; morphine 1 gr.; make into eight pills Dose -One pill, 
 repeating once or twice only, 40 to 60 minutes apart, if the pain 
 does not subside before this time. The advantage of this pill is 
 that costiveness u not increased, and pain must subeide under its 
 use. 
 
 * Non.— Macrotin, Podopbylin, &c, are kept by all EcleUic Phyeiclani 
 
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 5. TiA— Imjkction for Lkucobrhka.— When the glairy muctti 
 discharge is present, prepare a tea of hemlock, inner hark, ana 
 witch hazel, (often called spotted alder) leaves and bark, have 4 
 female syringe sufficiently large to fill the vagina ; and inject the 
 tea, twice daily ; and occasionally, in bad cases, say twice a week, 
 inject a syringe of the following : 
 
 6. b^JBonoN FOB CHEomo, Female Complaints— White vitrol 
 and sugar of lead, ^ oz,; common salt, loaf sugar, and pulverised 
 alum, of each ^ dr. ; soft water 1 pt. Simmer all over a slow fire 
 for 10 or 16 minutes, when cool strain and bottle for use, keeping 
 well corked. Inject as mentioned in the paragraph above, hold- 
 ing the syringe in place for a minute or two at least. 
 This injection is valuable for C — p, with males, as also, for 
 females. 
 
 7. In cases of falling of the womb ; not only the cheapest, but 
 the best pessary will be found to be a piece of fine, firm sponge, 
 cut to a proper size to admit, when damp, of being pressed up the 
 vagina to held the womb to its place. The sponge should have a 
 stout piece of small cord sewed two or three times through its 
 centre, up and down, and left sufficiently long to allow of its being 
 taken hold of to remove the sponge, once a day or every other 
 dsiy at farthest, for the purpose of w^ishing, cleaning, and using 
 the necessary injections ; and this must be done while the patient 
 is lying down to prevent the womb from again falling or prolaps- 
 ing. After having injected some of the " Tea" as above, wet the 
 sponge in the same and introduce it sufficiently high to hold the 
 womb to its place. 
 
 But in the less complicated cases, when the pain in the head, 
 back, loins, &c., indicate that nature is making an effort to bring 
 on the courses ; besides the tonic bitters, iron-filings, tepid bath- 
 ing and friction, exercise, &c.. the difficulty being more in the 
 constiinged nditlon of the vessels of these organs, I would say, 
 a few days before the period when the menses should appear, have 
 prepared, tha following : 
 
 8. Emenaoooub Tinctcbb. — Alcohol 1 pt.; red oxide of Iron 1 oa.; 
 oils of juniper and savin, of each \ oz.; oil of tanzy ^ oz ; tincture 
 of ergot 3 drs.; tincture of Spanish flies J oz. ; mix all and shake 
 when taken. Dose— One tea-spoon three times daily, to be 
 taken in mticilage of slippery elm or gum arable and drink 
 freely of th^ mucilage al' -, through the day. Or the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 9. Emenagogue Pill. —Precipitated carbonate of iron and gum 
 myrrh, of each 2 drs.; aloes, and tincture of Spanish flies, of 
 each 1 dr.; and oil of savan ^ dr. All to be pulverized and made 
 into one hundred pills by usmg thick gum solution. Pose— One 
 pill, from one to 3 times daily, but not to move the bowels un- 
 pleasantly. 
 
 If the patient is troubled, in the least, with piles, the 
 
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 DB. OHABB'S BECIPES. 
 
 *♦ Tincture " of the preceding recipe will be preferable ; if 
 Qot, the " Pill " is best. 
 
 One thing is very evident in these cases of debility; the 
 blood is deficient in iron ; consequently that article $|hould 
 enter largely in^o any medicine intended for its relief; and 
 in most cases the iron filings and ginger will be found, con- 
 tinued for two or three months, all the medicine required ; 
 and that must not be omitted nor neglected, in anj case 
 whatever. Iron is the mainspoke in these female wheels, 
 and very vaulable in general debility of males as well as 
 females. 
 
 For real hemorrhage, which may be known by the coagu- 
 lation [clotting] of the blood, as the menstrual fluid does not 
 •oagulate but is absorbed into the clothes, see *' Uterine He- 
 morrhage," or the " Styptic Balsam," but for profuse or long 
 continued flowing or wasting, use the following: 
 
 10. PowDBR FOB KxcKHSivE Fu>o»iNQ. — Gums kioo and <;atecbii, 
 •f each 1 dr.; sugar of lead and alum, of each i dr.; pulverize all 
 and thoroughly mix, thea divide iato 7 io 10 grain powders. 
 DosB— One every 2 to 3 hours until checked, then less often, 
 sierely to control the flow. 
 
 If any female into whose hands this book shall come, will 
 carefully study and use the foregoing remarks and prescrip- 
 tions, and is not an hundred times oetter pleased with the 
 results than she would have been by calling half the physi- 
 cians of the day, I should be very much disappointed, and 
 I would be sure that the remedies did not have their com-~ 
 mon effects ; v ' 'ch I feel will not be the case from the great 
 good they have many times already done; besides, they 
 save the delicacy of exposures, in many instances, and always 
 »ave the delicacy of convening with and explaining their 
 various feelings and conditions, to one of the opposite sex. 
 So highly important is this fact, and that the information 
 •houki become general, every girl over thirteen years of age 
 ought to be furnished with one of Dr. Chase's books. * 
 
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 TA'NNER't, SHOE, AND HARNESS MAKER'S 
 
 DEPARTMENT. 
 
 00tX)R8- T Ck)LOB FOE Boot, Shob, and Harnsss Edob, 
 AKD Ink w; cannot Febfzb.— Alcohol 1 pt.; tincture of iron lA 
 oi.; extract x/« logwood 1 oz ; nutgalle, puiver.zed. 1 oz.; sok 
 water ^ |>t.; mix. Or: 
 
 2. Takr alcohol I pt. ; extract of logwood and tincture of iron, 
 of each 1 oz. ; nutgalls, pulverized, 1 oz. ; and sweet oil ^ oz. ; 
 mix. 
 
 I have found shoemakers using these colors, each think- 
 ing he had the best color in the world. The sweet oil i* 
 believed to prevent the hot iron from sticking, and to make 
 a bettor polish. 
 
 The first one makes a very passable ink for winter use, , 
 by carrying a quick hand to prevent it froi.i spreading in 
 the paper, from the presence of the alcohol, which, of course^ 
 is what prevents it from freezing, and that is the only argu- 
 ment in favor of it as an ink for writing purposes. 
 
 3. Cheap Color for tHb Edge. — Soft water 1 gal.; extract of 
 logwood 1 oz.; and boil them until the extract is dissolved, then 
 remove from the fire and add copper^ 2 ozs ; bichromate of pot- 
 ash and gum arable, of each J oz.; all to be pulverised. 
 
 This makes a cheap and good color for slioe or harness 
 edge, but for cobbling or for new work, upon which you do 
 not wish to use the '• hot kit," but finish with heel-ball, you 
 will find that if^as you pour this out into the bottle to use, you 
 put a table-spoon of latnb-bJack to each pint of it, it will 
 jnake a blacker and nicer finish. It makes a good color for 
 cheap work, but for fine work, nothing will supersede the 
 first colors given. This also mikes a very good ink for 
 writing, purposes, if kept corked to avoid evaporation, which 
 makes it guratny or sticky. See also " Grain Side Blacking." 
 
 4. Sizing for Boots and Shoes, in Treeing -out. —Take water 
 1 qt. and dissolve in it, by heat, isinglass 1 oz., adding more 
 water to make up for evaporation; when dissolved, add starch 
 () 02. ; extract of logwood, beeu-wax, and tallow, of each 2 oz. ; 
 and continue the heat until all is melted and we 1 mixed. Rub 
 the starch up first, by pouring on sufficient boiling water for that 
 purpose. 
 
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 It makes boots and sboes soft and pliable, applying it 
 "wben treeing-out, and is especially nice to clean up work 
 whicb bas stood long on tbe sbelvee. 
 
 6, WAna-PBOOF Oh-Pabtb Blaoking. — ^Take camphene 1 pt., 
 and put into it all the India-rubber it will dissolve ; when dis- 
 solved, add currier's oil 1 pt.; tallow 6 lbs,; lamp-black 2 ozs. ; 
 mix thoroughly by heat. 
 
 Tbis is a nice thing for old harness or carriage-tops, as 
 
 well as for boots and sboes. Or you can dissolve the rubber 
 
 in tbe oil by setting tbem in ratber a bot place for a day or 
 
 two ; and save tbe expense of campbene, as that is of no use 
 
 only as a solvent to tbe rubber. Tbere are those, bowever, 
 
 who do not like to use the rubber, tbinking it rots tbe 
 
 leatber; tben use tbe following: 
 
 6. Wat«r-Peoof Pasts Without Rubbir. — Take tallow 1 Ih.;*^ 
 beeswax } lb. ; castor or neat's foot oil ^ pt. ; and lamp-black i oz. ; 
 mix by heat. Or: 
 
 1, Nkat'sFoot Oil, brougbt to a proper consistence with 
 a little beeswax and tallow ; colored witb lamp-black, will be 
 found proof against snow or water. 
 
 8. Some, bowever, may prefer tbe following manner of 
 preserving their boots and sboes, from a cori'espondent of 
 tbe Mechanics' Gazette; but if tbey do tbe boots must be 
 made large, from tbe fact tbat tbe preparation has a ten- 
 dency to shrink tbe leatber. He says : ** I bave bad only 
 tbree pairs of boots for tbe last six years (no sboes), and I 
 think I sball not require any more tbe next six years to 
 come, tbe reason is, tbat I treat tbem in tbe following man- 
 ner: 
 
 " I put 1 lb. of tallow and J lb of rosin in a pot on the fire ; 
 when melted and mixed, I warm the boots and apply the hot stuff 
 with a painter's brush, until neither the sole nor the upper will 
 soak in any more. If it is desired that ILe boots should immedi- 
 ately take a polish, dissolve 1 oz of wax in spirits Of turpentine, 
 to which add a teaspoon of lamp-black. A day after the boots 
 have been treated with the tallow and rosin, rub over tbem this 
 wux in turpentine, but not before the fire. 
 
 "Tbus, tbe exterior will bave a coat of wax alone, and 
 will sbin^ like a mirror. Tallow or any otber gi*ease becomes 
 rancid, and rots tbe stitcbing as well as tbe leatber, but tbe 
 rodn gives it tbat antiseptic quality wbicb pre<er\'e8 tbe 
 wbole. Boots and sboes snould be made so large as to ad- 
 
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 mit of working cork soles. Cork is so bad a conductor of 
 heat, that with it in the boots, the feet are always warm on 
 the coldest stone floor." 
 
 9, Black Vabnish fob Edgb.— Take 98 per cent alcohol 1 pt. ; 
 shellac 8 ozs. ; rosin 2 ozs. ; pine turpentine 1 oz. ; lampblack \ 
 oz. ; mix, and when the gums are all cut, it is ready to use ; but 
 bear in mind that low proof alcohol will not cut gums properly, 
 for any varnish. 
 
 This applied to a boot or shoe edge, with a brush gives 
 it the shining gloss resembling much of the Eastern work. 
 It is also applicable to wood or cloth requiring a gloss, after 
 having been painted. 
 
 10. Vabnish fob Habnxss, thb Bbst in Usi. — Take 98 per cent 
 alcohol 1 gal. ; white pine turpentine Ik lbs. ; gum shellac 1^ 
 lbs. ; Venice turpentine 1 gill. Let this stand in a jug in the sun 
 or by a stove until the gums are dissolved, then add sweet oil 1 
 gill, and lamp-black 2 ozs.; rub the lamp-black first with a liitle 
 of the varnish. 
 
 This varnish is better than the old style, from the fact 
 that its polish is as good, and it does not crack when the 
 harness is twisted or knocked about. 
 
 If you wish a varnish for fair leather, make it as the 
 above, in a clean jug, but use no lamp-black. Tbe pine 
 turpentine and sweet oil make it pliable, yet not sticky. 
 
 TANNING, BLACKING, AND FINISHING.— Pbockss fob 
 Caup, Kip, and HabnbSs, in from Six to Thirty Days. — For a 12 
 lb. calf skin, take terra-japonica 8 lbs. ; common salt 2 lbs. ; alum 
 1 lb. ; put these into a copper kettle with sufficient water to dis- 
 solve the whole by boiiing. 
 
 The skin, or skins, will firat be limed, haired, and treated 
 in every way as for the old process; then it will be put 
 into a vessel with suflScient water to cover it, at which time 
 you will put in one pint of the composition, stirring it well ; 
 adding the same amount each night and morning for three 
 days, when you will add the whole; handling two or three 
 times dally all the time tanning; you can continue to use 
 the tanning liquid by adding naif the quantity each time, 
 of new liquor, and by keepmg these proportions for any 
 amount, and if you desire so give tbe leather the appearance^ 
 of bark color, you will put in one pound of Sicily sumac 
 
 Kip skins will require about twenty days, light horse 
 hides for harness, thirty days, to make good leather, while 
 
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 DB. chase's recipes. 
 
 calf skins will ouly lequire from six to ten days al most. 
 The japonica is put up in large cakes of about one hundred 
 and fifty pounds, and sells, in common times, at about four 
 cents per pound in New York. 
 
 Byron Rose, a tanner, of Madison, 0., says that one 
 <iuart of oil of vitriol to fifty sides of leather,with the japon- 
 ica and alum, as above, leaving out the salt, will very much 
 improve it ; the acid opens the pores, quickening the process 
 without injury to the leather. 
 
 2. Canadian Process. — The Canadiano make four 
 
 liquors in using the japonica : 
 
 The FIK8T liquor is made by dissolving, for 20 sides of upper; 
 16 lbs. of terra japonica in sufficient water to cover the upper 
 being tanned. The second liquor contains the Hame amount of 
 japonica and 8 lbs. of saltpetre aleo. The THinn contains 20 lbs. 
 of japonica and 4^ lbs of alum The fourth liquor contains only 
 15 lbs. of japonica, and 1^ lbs of sulphuric acid ; and the leather 
 remains 4 days in each liquor for upper ; and for sole, the quanti' 
 ties and time are both doubled. They count 50 calf skins in place 
 of twenty sides of upper, but let them lie in each liquor only 
 3 days. 
 
 3. Deer Skins— Tanning and Boffing for Qioves.— For each 
 ijkhi take a bucket of water, and put into it 1 qt. of lime ; let the 
 skin or skins lay in from 3 to 4 days ; then rinse in clean 
 water, hair' and grain ; then soak them in cold water to get out 
 the glue ; now scour or pound in good soap suds, for half an 
 hour ; after which take white vitriol, alum and salt, 1 table- 
 spoon of each to a skin ; these will be dissolved in suf&cient water 
 to cover the skin and remain in it for 24 hours ; wring out as 
 dry as convenient ; and spread on with a brush ^ pt. of carrier's 
 oil, and hang in the sun about 2 days ; after which you will 
 scour out the oil with soap suds, and hang out again until per- 
 fectly dry ; then pull and work them until they are soft ; and if 
 a reasonable time does not make them soft, scour out in suds 
 again as before, until complete. The oil may be saved by ponr< 
 ing or taking it from the top of the suds, if left standing a short 
 time. The buff color is given by spreading yellow ochre evenly 
 over the surface of the skin, when finished, rubbing it> in well > 
 with a brush. 
 
 The foregoing plan was pursued for a number of years by, 
 a brother of mine, and I have worn the gloves and know . 
 the value of the recipe; but there are plans of ueing acid, 
 and if the quantity is not too great there is no reason in the 
 world why it may not be used , the only caution necessary is 
 to see that the strength of acid does not kill the nature of 
 
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 LEATHBB-WOBKTNG DEPABTMENT. 
 
 219 
 
 tbe leather; in proper quantities it tans only, instead of 
 destroying the fiber . I will give a couple of the most 
 raluable methods. . , 
 
 4. Tanmino with >oid. — After having remored the hair, 
 sconrmg, soaking, and pounding in the suds, &c. , as in the last 
 recipe, in placo of the white vitriol, alum, and salt, as there men- 
 tioned, talce oil of vitriol, (sulphuric acid) and water, equal parts, 
 of each, and thoroughly wet the flesh-side of the skin with it, hj 
 means of a sponge or cloth upon a stick; then folding up the sldu 
 letting it lie fur 20 minutes only, having ready a solution of sal- 
 soda and water, say 1 Ih. to a bucket of water, and soak the skin 
 or skins in that for 2 hours, when you will wash (in clean water 
 and apply a little dry salt, letting lie in the salt over night, or 
 that length ot time; then remove the flesh with a blunt knife, or, 
 if doing business on a large scale, by meane 'tf the regular beam 
 and flesh-knife; wnen dry, or nearly so, soften by pulling and 
 rubbing with the hands, and also with a piece of pumice-stone. 
 This, of course, is the quickest way of tanning, and by only wet- 
 ting the skins with the acid, and soaking out in 20 minutes, they 
 are not rotted. 
 
 5. ANOTHKa Mbthod.— Oil of vitriol 1 oz.; salt 1 teacup; milk 
 sufficient to handsomely cover the skin, not exceeding 2 qts.; 
 warm the milk, then add the salt and vitriol, stir the skin in the 
 liquid 40 minutes, keeping it warm; then dry and work it as 
 directed in No. 4. 
 
 6 . T4NNIV0 Sheep-Skins, Applicable for Mittens, 
 y Door-Mats, Robes, <fco, — For mats, take two long-wooled 
 skins, make a strong suds, using hot water ; when it is cold 
 wash the skins in it, carefully squeezing them between the 
 hands to get the dirt out of the wool ; then wash the soap 
 out with clean cold water. Now dissolve alum and salt, of 
 each half a pound, with a little hot water, which put into a 
 tub of cold water sufficient to cover the skins, and let them 
 soak in it over night, or twelve houi*a, then hang over a pole 
 to drain. When they are well drained, spread or stretch 
 carefully on a board to dry. They need not be tacked if 
 you will draw them out, several times, with the hand, while 
 drying. When yet a little damp, have one ounce, each, 
 of saltpetre and alum, pulverized, and sprinkle on the flesh- 
 side of each skin, rubbing in well ; then lay the ftesh-sidea 
 together, and hang in the shade for two or three days, turn- 
 ing the under skin uppermost every day, until perfectly dry. 
 Then scrape the flesh-side with a blunt knife, to remove any 
 remaining scraps of flesh, trim off projecting points, and rulv 
 
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 tm. chase's recipes. 
 
 the flesh side with pumace or roiteo stone, and with the 
 hand ; they will be very white and beautiful, suitable for 
 a foot-mat, also nice in a sldgh or waggon of a cold day. 
 They also make good robes, in place of the buffalo, if col- 
 ored, and sewed together. And lamb-skina, (or sheep-skins, 
 if the wool is trimmed off evenly to about one-half or three- 
 fourths of an inch in length) make most beautiful and warm 
 mittens for ladies and gentlemen. 
 
 V. Tanning Fur and Other Skins. — Fifty Dollar. 
 Bbcipe. — First, Remove the legs and other usieless parts, 
 and soak the skin soft; then remove the fleshy substances 
 sad soak in warm water for an hour ; now : 
 
 '^ Take for each skin, borax, saltpetre, and glauber-salts, of each A 
 oz., and dissolve or wet with warm water sufficient to allow it to to 
 spread on the flesh side of the skin. 
 
 Put it on with a brush, thickest in the eentre or thickest 
 part of the skin, and double the skin together, flesh-side in, 
 keeping it in a cool place for twenty-four houra, not allow- 
 ing it to freeze, however. 
 
 Second, — Wash the skin clean, and then : 
 
 Take sal-soda 1 c?,.; borax ^ oz.; refined soap 2 oz«.; (Colgate's 
 white soap is recommended as the best, but our "White Hard 
 Soap" is the same quality); melt them slowly tor-^ther, being' 
 careful not to allow them to boil, and apply the mixture to the 
 flesh-side as at first— roll up again and keep in a warm place for 
 2i hours. 
 
 Third, — Wash the skin clean, as above, and have salera- 
 
 ius two ounces, dissolved in hot rain water sufficient to well 
 
 saturate the skin, then : 
 
 Take alum 4 ozs.; saltSozs.; and dissolve in hot rain water; 
 when sufficiently [cool to allow the handling of it without scald- 
 ing, put in the skin for 12 hours; then wring out the water and 
 hang up, for 12 hours more to dry. Repeat this last soaking and 
 drying from 2 to 4 times, according to the desired softness ot the 
 skin when finished. 
 
 Lastly, — Finish by pulling, working. &c., and finally by 
 rubbing with a piece of pumice-stone and fine sand-paper. 
 
 This works admirably on sheep-ekins as well as on fur- 
 skins, dog, cat, or wolf-skms also, making a durable leather 
 well adapted to washing. 
 
 A tnan in our county paid fifty dollara for this recipe, and 
 
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 221 
 
 ^08 raade his money out of it many times. It is very val- 
 uable. 
 
 8. Tanning Dbkk a»» Woodchdok Skins Km Whips, Stbinos, Ac. 
 —Prepare the skin according to the last recipe, then : 
 
 Take oil of vitriol 1 oz. ; salt 1 pt. ; milk 8 qts. ; mix. 
 
 Now dip the skin in warm rain water, having snfficient 
 saleratus in it to make it rather strong, or as in the third 
 head of last recipe, and work and squeeze it well for a few 
 minutes, then wring dry as convenient and put it into the 
 vitriol mixture for fifty minutes, stirring all the time; now 
 wring out and soak awhile; and finally dry and work until 
 soft. 
 
 9. Qbain-bidb BiACKiNG, YOE TsN CcNTS A Bahvkl — Take a 
 battel and put into it quite a quantity of old iron, castor wrought, 
 then fill neaily full of soft water, and add 1 pt of oil of vitriol ; 
 stir it up well, and in a month or two you have just as good 
 blacking for the grain-side as could be made by using vinegar in 
 place of water. 
 
 This makes good blacking for boot, shoe, or harness edge, 
 also. The acid used is so trifling that no injury will arise 
 to the leather. 
 
 Tanners will, of course, first apply the urine before ftp- 
 plying the blacking, saving fr »m ten , to twenty dollars 
 yearly, in this way, instead of the old plan of using vin- 
 egar. 
 
 10. French Finish, for Leather. — Take a common 
 wooden pail of scraps, ('the legs and pates of calf-skins are 
 the best) and put a handful each, of salt and pulverized 
 alum amongst them and let them stand three days ; then boil 
 them until you get a thick paste*, in using you will warm 
 it ; in th% first application, put a little tallow with it, and 
 for the second, a little soft soap, and use it in the regular 
 way of finishing, and your leather will be soft and pliable, 
 like the French calf skin. 
 
 I have no doubt that this would make a good preparation 
 for shoemakers to use in treeing-out, leaving a soft pliable- 
 ness, not otherwise obtained. 
 
 11, French Patent Leather. — The process which has 
 been so successfully adopted by the French artizans in glaz- 
 ing leather, so as to give it the repute for superior quality 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 and benuty which it now universally suatains," w as follows : 
 
 Work into the akin with appropriate tools three or four succes- 
 iire ojatings of drying yarnlsh, made by boiling linseed oil, with 
 white- lead and litli rge, in the proportion of one pound of each of 
 the latter to a gallon of the former, and adding a portion of chalk 
 or ochre— each coating being thoroughly dried before the applica- 
 tion of the next Irory black is then substituted for the chalk or 
 ochre, the rarnish thinned ^th spirits of turpentine, and five 
 additional applications made in the same manner as before, except 
 that it is put on thin and not worked in. The leather is rubbed 
 down with pumice-stone, in powder, and then placed in a room at 
 90 degs., out of the way of dust. The last varnish is prepared by 
 boiling ^ lb. of asphaltum with 10 lbs. of the drying oil used in 
 the first step of the process, and then stirring in 5 lbs. of copal var- 
 nish and 10 lbs. of turpentine. 
 
 It must have a month's ""age before it is 'fit for use, in 
 ' Wder to exhibit its true characteristics. — U. S, Gazette. 
 
 7 • 
 
 PAINTER'S DEPARTMENT. 
 
 DRYING OILS— To Prbpaeb for Carbiagb, Wagon, and Floor 
 Paditino. — Take linseed oil 1 gal., and add gum shellac 2 lbs.; 
 litharge J lb.; red lead J lb.; umber 1 oz. Boil slowly, 2 or 3 
 hours, until the gums are dissolved. 
 
 Qrind your paints in this fany colorj and reduce with 
 turpentine. Yellow ochre is used for floor painting . This 
 dries quick and wears exceedingly well. 
 
 2 Drtinq Oiii, Equal to thb Patent Drybrs. — Linseed oil 2 
 gals., and add litharge, red-lend, aud umber, of each 4 ozs., and 
 sugar of lead and sulphate of zinc, of each 2 ozs. 
 
 Boil until it will scorch a feather. Use this or either of 
 
 the othere, in quantity to suit the object of the ^ork being 
 
 done. 
 
 3. Japan Dryer ot the Best Quality. — Take linseed oil 1 gal., 
 and 'put into it gum shellac fib.; litharge and burned Turkey 
 Hmber, of each ^ lb ; red-lead * lb., and sugar of lead 6 ozs. 
 Boil in the oil until all are dissolved, which will require about 4 
 hours; remove from the fire, and add spirits of turpentine 1 gal., 
 and it is done. 
 
 While in Princeton, Ind., after selling one of my books 
 to T, (fe J. T. Ewing, extensive cairiage manufacturers of 
 
7 ^ 
 
 PAINTEBB DIPABTMENT. 
 
 32S 
 
 with 
 This 
 
 th^t place, I obtained the foregoing recipe. It was pob- 
 Uahed in a work printed iu Colurobus, O., devoted to th« 
 art of painting. From this fact, and also that the gentle- 
 men from whom I obtained it, bad tested it, and wete usiug 
 it, I have not myself tried it, but know, from the nature of 
 the articles used, that nothing better will be required. 
 
 4. Anothbr. — Another dryer is made by taking linseed oil & 
 gals., and adding red-lead and litharge, of each 84 )b«i. ; raw 
 umber li^ Iba.; sugar of lead and sulphate of zinc, of each ^ lb.; 
 pulveri>» ali the articles tof^retber, and boil in the oil until dis- 
 solved ; when u little cool, add turpentine, 6 gals., or to make it 
 of a proper consistence. 
 
 The gentleman of whom I obtained this recipe paid ten 
 dollars for it He was using it successfully, and said he 
 used two or three drops of it to a quart of varnish also, and 
 especially when the varnish did not dry readily. 
 
 OIL-PAINT— To Reduce WITH Watch. --Take gum shellac 1 lb.; 
 sal-soda I lb.; water 3 pts. ; put all into a suitable kettle and boil, 
 stirring till all is dissolved. If it does not all dissolve, add a little 
 more sal-soda ; this, when cool, can be bottled for use. If it 
 smells bad when opeacd it does not hurt it. 
 
 Directions fob Using. — Mix up two quarts of oil paint 
 as usual, except no turpentine is to be used — any color de- 
 sired. Now put one pint of the gum shellac mixture with 
 the oil paint when it becomes thick, and may be reduced 
 with water to a proper consistence to lay on with a brush. 
 Two coats will be required, and with the second coat, sand 
 may be applied if desired. I used this upon a picket-fence 
 with white lead and yellow ochre for the body and a little 
 lamp-black, to give it a dark shade, putting on sand with 
 the second coat. It is still firm and good, the work being 
 done nearly four years ago. 
 
 The sand was applied with a tub-hke box, with many 
 small holes to allow the even spreading of the sand, as with 
 a pepper-box. I do not regret using this kind of paint, nor 
 the sanding, as it adds much to the durability of any out- 
 door painting. But a better plan of sanding is represented 
 in the *' Painter's Sanding Apparatus " below. 
 
 2. Anotheb Method. — ^Take soft water 1 gal., and dissolve in it 
 pearlash 3 ozs. ; bring to a boil, and slowly add shellac 1 lb. ; when 
 cold it is ready to be added to oil-paint, in equal proportions. Th« 
 ' expense of these is only one-third of oil-paint. 
 
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 224 
 
 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 Some persons may think it bad policy to learn painters to 
 reduce oil-paint with water, but I think every man shoald 
 be told of the plan, who is going to have a job of work 
 done, and if he makes up his mind to try anything of the 
 kind, it is then bis own business; and I am perfectly sincere 
 in recommending it, for if there was any great fault in it, 
 four years would show it. 
 
 3. Painter's Sanding Apparatus. — It is made of tin^ 
 the tube enters upon the nozzle of a small bellows ; the sand 
 is put into the funnel, which stands perpendicular upon the 
 apparatus when the broad mouth-piece is held level in 
 using. The funnel discharges the sand, Just before the noz- 
 zle of the bellows; and by working the bellows the sand is 
 blown evenly upon the freshly put on paint, through the 
 mouth-piece, the escape oi-ifice not boing over the sixteenth 
 part of an inch in depth, and may ba made two and a half 
 or three inches wide. 
 
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 Many peraons like the plan of sanding generally, after 
 painting, but from the fact that when it is desired to renew 
 the paint, brushes cannot last long upon the sand, I think it 
 only proper to sand fences or fronts, where boy's knives 
 would be too freelv used. 
 
 PAINT-SKINS- -To Savb and Rkduoi to Oil.— Dissolve sal-soda 
 J lb., in rain water 1 fral. 
 
 The skins that dry upon the top of paint, whioh has been 
 left standing for any length of time, may be made fit for use 
 again by covering them with the sal-soda-water and soaking 
 them therein for a couple of dayc ; then heat them, adding 
 oil to reduce the mixture to a proper consistence for paint- 
 ing, and straining. Painters wno are doing extensive busi- 
 ness will save many dollars yearly by this simple process. 
 
painters' department* 
 
 «,; NEW TIN ROOFS— Valuable Proorbs for Paiwt-^ 
 
 -190. — Scrape off the rosin as clean as possible and 8WM||^ 
 
 the roof; now: 
 
 Diasolve sufficient sal-soda In a bucket of water to -nake ft qnflte- 
 •trong; wash the roof thoroughly with the Boda-water, and \H H- 
 remain until it is wanhed off by the rainn or after a few Ik>«iv^ 
 washing off with clean water, rinsing well. 
 
 When dry ffive it one coat of pure Venetian-red, mixetf 
 with one-thira boiled, and two-thirds raw linseed-oil; tli»- 
 •eeond coat may be any color desired. The soda-water dm^ 
 •elves the rosin remaining after scraping; destroys it • 
 .greasy nature of the solder, and of the new tin, so that tberw 
 -will be sufficient " Grip " for the paint to adhere firmly.. 
 The pure Venetian-red is one of the most durable paints for 
 metallic-roofs, but is often rejected on account of its oolqr^ 
 The above mode of painting will set aside this difficulty. 
 
 2. Fiaa-Paoor Paint— foe Roofs, Ac— Slack stone-Ilnw By 
 jRitting it into a tub, to b«i coxrered, to keep in the steam. Wheni^ 
 wackea, pass the powder through a fine sieve; and to each 6- <|l»- . 
 .bt it add 1 qt of rock-salt, and water 1 gal. ; then boil and skinaiH 
 -<$Iean. Co each 6 gala, of this add pulverized alum 1 lb. ; pulver- 
 ised copperas } lb. ; and still slowly add powdered potash i Ih.^ 
 ihen flue sand or hie! ^v ashes 4 lbs. 
 
 Now add any desiied color, and apply with a brush — ^TofAs^ 
 better than paint, and is as durable as slate. It stops small 
 ■leaks in roofe, prevents moss, and makes it incombustible^ 
 •and renders brick impervious to wet. — Maine Farmer, 
 
 3. WATKE-PaooF, OiuBuBBER Paint. — Dissolve about 6 Ibo, af 
 rindia rubber in 1 gal. of boiled linseed oil, by boiling. If tliis Im- 
 too thick, -reduce with boiled oil; if too thin, use more rubbtr. 
 
 Especially applicable to cloth, but valuable for any otber 
 tnaterial. / 
 
 Frostino Glass. —The frosty appearance of glass, whrofr 
 
 ire often see where it is desired to keep out the sua, or 
 
 "'Man's observing eye," is done by using a paint composed 
 
 as follows : 
 
 Sugar of lead well ground in oil. applied as other paint; tbei» 
 -pottiraed, while freah, with a wad of batting held between ldb«? 
 •thumb and finger. 
 
 After which it is allowed to partially dry; then witb u 
 -tAraJght^edge laid upon the sash, you run alohg by the 
 
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 226 
 
 DB. chase's BECIPBS. 
 
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 of it, a stick sbarpened to tbe width of line you wish to ap- 
 pear in the diamonds, figures, or squans, into which you 
 choose to ]ay it off; most frequently, howevei, straight lines 
 are iuaU an inch or more from tbe sash, according to the 
 size of light, then the centre of the light made into dia- 
 monds. 
 
 ORn.NTAL — Crystal Painting. — The colors used 
 are Prussian-bine, crimson, white, and yellow-lakes, Ros- 
 sean, white-zinc, and No. 40 carmine. Druggists keep them, 
 in pmali tubes. Thev must be mixed with Demar-varnish, 
 Tubbing with a table-knife or spatula upon glass. 
 
 DiRscmoNB KOR Makino Various Rhadbs, or Compound Coi.os8.»< 
 Proportion them about as follows— ^ for green 1 6 blue, 4-6 yellow — 
 purple, 1 6 blue, 5 6 crimson— orange, J crimson, f yellow — wioe- 
 colcr, 1 12 blue, 11-12 crimson -pink, add a little crimson to 
 white-zinc; brown, mix a dark purple and add yellow according 
 to the shade desired; black, add crimson to dark green until the 
 shade suits you; to make the compound colorti lighter, add the 
 lightest color in it, and make darker by using more of the darkest 
 eolor in the compound. For Itackgrounds, white, white-rfuc, or 
 pink white with turpentine and boiled linseed oil and Demar- 
 Tarnieh; black, lump-black, with asphaltum-varni^h and boiled 
 Hnseed-oil .and turpentine in equal quantities; flesh^color, white- 
 xinc with a small p)OTtion of crimson and chrome yellow to suit. 
 For sketching out the figures on the ground-work, use a little 
 lamp black ^'ith asphaltum-Tamish, turpentine and boiled linseed 
 ttil to make it flow freely. 
 
 DiRBCTioNs FOR Paintinq. — Make your glass perfectly 
 •lean, and place it over the picture you wish to copy; then 
 with the sketching preparation, trace on the glass all the 
 lines connected with the figures of the picture which you 
 are copying, being cai-eful to sketch vir&«4 very distinct; 
 when the sketching is done and dry, proceed to lay on the 
 backgrounds insi'Je of the sketched lines until all the sketch- 
 ing is closed ; and when the background is dry, proceed to 
 put on the colors, commencing with gre«Uj if any in th« 
 figures, ending ^ith yellow. When the colors are all 'aid, 
 put the background upon the balance of the glass; and 
 when all is dry have tin foil crumpled very much in your 
 hand, and then pailly straightened out. and lay it over thd 
 figure, and keep it in its place by pasting paper over it in 
 such a manner that it cannot slip away, letting the paper 
 •over the whole back, of the glass, pr a wpod-b^ck can b!9 
 
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PAINTEBS' DEPABTMENT. 
 
 227 
 
 placed behind tbe glaas, and all is complete, and will look 
 well or i I, according to the practice and taste of the ^intcr 
 
 2. Fancy Green. — Unscorched, pulveriz«w coflFee, put 
 
 into the white of an egg will, in twenty-four hours, produce 
 
 a very beautiful green for fancy painting — proof of poison, 
 
 in unbrowned coffee. 
 
 BKETCfflNG PAPER— To Pekpam.— Bleached lin»eed-dfl, 
 turpentine and balsam of fir, equal parts of each; mix. 
 
 Have a frame of a little less size than the paper to b« 
 prepared, and apply paste or thick gum solution to one side 
 and the outer edge of it ; wet the paper in clean water and 
 lay it upon the frame and press it aown upon the pasted 
 side of the frame, and turn the outer part of the paper over 
 the outside of the frame upon the paste there, which holds 
 it firm; and when it becomes dry it is tight like a drum- 
 head ; whilst in this condition, with a brush saturate it with 
 the above mixture ; three or four coats will be needed, giv- 
 ing each one time to dry before applying the next. Only 
 sufScient is needed t.o make it transparent, so that when yo« 
 wish to sketch a rose, or other flower or leaf, from natui'e, 
 the paper can be placed upon it like the glass in the " Ori- 
 ental Painting;" then trace the lines and finish it up in the 
 same way also, af> there described; or that you may see 
 through it in taking perepective views of distant scenery. 
 
 DOOR PLATES -To Make.— Cut your glass the right siae, 
 and make it perfectly cleaD with alcohol or soap: then cut a 
 strip of tin-foil sufficiently long and wide for the name, and with 
 a piece of ivory or other burnisher rub it lengthwise to make it 
 smooth; novi wet the glass with the tongue, (as saliva 1% \the best 
 sticking substance), or if the glass is very large, use a woak 8olu-< 
 tion of gum arable, or the white of an egg in half a pint of 
 water, and lay on the foil, rubbing it down to the glass with a bit 
 of cloth, then also with the burnisher; the more it is burnished 
 the better will it look; now mark the width of the foil which is 
 to be the height of the letter, and put on a straight-edge and hold 
 it firmly to the foil, and with a sharp knife cut the foil and take 
 off the superfluous edges; then either lay out the letters on the 
 back of the foil, (so that they uhall read correctly on the front) by 
 your own judgment or by means of pattern-letters, which can be 
 
 Eurchased for that purpose; out with the knife, carefully holdr 
 )g down the pattern or straight edge, whichever you use; then 
 rub down the edge of all the letters with the back of the knife, 
 or edge of the burnisher, which prevents the black paint or 
 japan which jou next put over the back of the plate, from g^ 
 
MH 
 
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 DB. chase's BBOIPES. 
 
 ^oMg UDder the foil; having put a line above and one below the 
 
 rnfuae, or a border arouud the whole plate or no^, as you bargain 
 
 (for the job. The japan is made by dissolving asphaltum in just 
 
 • e&ough turpe^|«ine to cut it (see " Asphaltum Varnish"); apply 
 
 with a brush asother paint over the back of the letters and orer 
 
 the glass, forming a background. This is used on the iron frstne 
 
 -otthe plate also, putting it on when the plate is a little hot, and 
 
 as soon as it cools it is dry. A little lamp-black may be rubbed. 
 
 ^iado it if you desire it any blacker than it is without it. 
 
 ttf f ou choose, you can remove every other foil letter, 
 
 :difter the japan is dry, and paint in its place, red, blue, or 
 
 other colored letters, to make a greater variety out of which 
 
 for your customers to chaos6, as the one they desire you to 
 
 ^low in getting up their plate. Tin foil being thicker 
 
 than silver or gold foil, will not show the paint through it 
 
 in iitde spots as they do; but if these foils are desired to 
 
 ■;l)e used, you can put on two thicknesses by proceeding as 
 
 ulbllows, which prevents the paint from showing through 
 
 tlhflm : Lay on the first coat of these foils the same as di- 
 
 fteeted for the tin-foil, and smooth it down by rubbing on 
 
 the front of the glass; then breathe on it until a dampness 
 
 m caused^ now put on the second and burnish well, having 
 
 paper over it ; but instead of the knife to cut around your 
 
 jpattern or straight ege, take a sharp needle, using the point, 
 
 make lines through the leaf around the pattern letter t>r 
 
 -Straight-edge; then with a bit of Jewelers* wood, or other 
 
 lurd wood, made to a narrow and sharp point, remove all 
 
 mp to the lines, both in and around the letters, as these 
 
 ioih have not the substance to peel off as the tin-foil, japan- 
 
 .fUAg over them the same as the other letters. Paper letters 
 
 ^ja be cut out of advertisements and put on by wetting the 
 
 ^1as8 the same as for the foil, japanning over them, and 
 
 when dry, removing them and painting the places put of 
 
 which they came with various colors as desired, as the japan 
 
 ^11 not peel, but makes a sharp and distinct <Hlge; and 
 
 •^jtUeee painted letters look well, in this way ; and by taking 
 
 ^vant^e of printed letters, saves the skill and time neces- 
 
 ciary to form them. 
 
 To illustrate: in the name given below, A may be gold- 
 
 4AI; W will be blue; C, red; H, black; A, gold-foil; 8, 
 
 S|il««V ^f >'<^« ^) black; and again D, goid-foil, which any 
 
 .^ma «an see makes a more showy plate than if all ware of 
 
 4>4>m foil, or one color. 
 
 
PAINTERS* DBPARTMBNt. 
 
 229 
 
 Set your glass in the frame witli putty, and put a thm 
 coat of putty over the whole plate, as the plaster of Paris 
 filling which is generally used soon eats out the japan or 
 paint, and spoils the job. Persons with any ingenuity can 
 very soon make a nice plate if they will pay attention to the 
 above rules, as well as to pay five dollars for instructions, 
 as a little practice must be had to become perfect, even if 
 you do pay five dollars for an hour or two's telling and 
 showing. Shellac varnish colored with lamp-black is good 
 in place of the japan. See *' Varnish — Transparent, for 
 Wood." 
 
 irrCHING AND GBINDING UPON GLASS— Fob Siom, ok 
 SiBX Lights. — Take the " Asphaltum Varnish," and with a small 
 pencil lay ont the name or design, not putting the vamieh upon 
 the letters, but around it, leaving the space which the letters of 
 the sign ate to occupy, free and clear. The varnish is to cover 
 the black surface in Uie sign or name. When the varnish is dry, 
 have some melted bees-wax, and as it begins to cool, with a knife 
 take some of it up and scrape it off upon the edge of the glass, 
 being etched, so as to form a wall to hold the acid upon the glass 
 while etching; now lay the glass flat and pour a little flouric acid 
 on to the name, letter, or lesign thus prepar d, and let it remaim 
 on for one hour, not alk'Wing the glass to be touched or moved 
 for that time; then pour off the acid into your bottle, and it can 
 be used again. The asphalt prevents the acids from eating or 
 etching only the letter, and the wax wall prevents the acid from 
 flowing off and being wasted. When you pour off the acid, wash 
 the glass with a little water, scrape off the wax, and remove th« 
 ^ sphalt wtth a little turpentine, and all is done. 
 
 The above directions are for plain glass; but if you desire, 
 you can gild the letter which is etched (eat out,) or you can 
 gild all except the letter, if desired, as described in the recipe 
 for " Door Plates," or you can grind the sur&ce of the glass 
 
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 230 
 
 DR. chase's BEGIPES. 
 
 f I 
 
 as described under the head of " Glass-grinding for Signs, 
 Shades," <kc. This applies equally well to *• flashed," or jv^ 
 what is called " stained glass," worked in the same way as 
 above, putting the design or letters upon the stained side, 
 which eats away the color and leaves the design clean and 
 white; or you can etch only a part f the way through the 
 stain, which shows up the letter or flower lighter in coloi. .^^ 
 than the rest of the glass, which makes it look very beauti- 
 ful for side-lights in halls, lamps, druggists' windows, <&c. 
 
 There are two kinds of colored glass — one is called '' Pot- 
 metal," the other ** Flashed." The pot-metal glass is made 
 by mixing the stain or coloring with the melted glass, while 
 making, and consequently is alike all the way through. 
 The stained glass is made by applying the color to one side 
 of the glass after it is made, then applying suflicient heat 
 to allow it to take hold of the glass only — the color is all on 
 one side; this is the kind desired. 
 
 If it is desired to etch upon druggists* or other jars, it 
 can be done by preparing the name to be put on, with the 
 varnish and wax ; then have a lead box without top or bot- 
 tom; in shape on the lower edge to fit the shape of the jar, 
 and press this down upon the wax to make it tight; then 
 pour your acid into the box which keeps it in its place the 
 same as the wax does on a flat surface. Ornaments or 
 flourishes can be put on as well as letters. 
 
 The old plan was to cover the whole surface with wax, 
 then remove it from the letter, which was very slow and 
 troublesome, and if a oit of wax remained upon the bottle, 
 the acid could not cut where the wax remained, then to 
 hold the glass over the fumes of the acid, instead of put- 
 ting the acid upon the glass. , 
 
 2, GLAss-GmNDiNG FOR SiNQS, Shadks, <fec. — After 
 you have etched a name or other design upon uncolored 
 glass, and wish to have it show off to a better advantage by 
 permitting the light to pass only through the letters, you 
 can do so by : 
 
 Taking a piece of flat brass sufficiently large not to dip into 
 the letters, but pass over them when gliding upon the surface of 
 . Hxe glass; then with flour of emery, and keeping it wet, you can 
 grind the whole surface, very quickly, to look like the ground 
 glass globes, often seen upon lamps, except the letter which is 
 eaten below tiie general surfsce. 
 
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PATNTEBS DBPARTMBNT. 
 
 231 
 
 >r Signs, 
 bed," or 
 way as 
 led side, 
 lean and 
 )ugh the 
 in color 
 •y beauti- 
 I7S, <&c. 
 ed " Pot- 
 is made 
 ass, while 
 through. 
 oQe side 
 nent heat 
 ir is all on 
 
 er jars, it 
 with the 
 )p or bot- 
 )f the jar, 
 ight; then 
 place the 
 aments or 
 
 with wax, 
 slow and 
 the bottle, 
 d, then to 
 ad of put- 
 
 fee— After 
 
 uncolored 
 
 vantage by 
 
 letters, you 
 
 to dip into 
 e sarface of 
 'et, you can 
 
 the ground 
 ber which is 
 
 Whole liq^hts of gla« can be ground in this way instead 
 
 cf frosting, or the fronting can be done hero in place of the 
 
 grinding, if preferred. 
 
 8. Flcobio Aorn, To Maki ?oa Btohino PuK?08Bg.— Ton 
 can make your o'vn flaorie (s-imetiiuos called hydro fluoric) acid, 
 by getting the fluor or Dorbyshire 8p%r, pulveriidng it and put- 
 ting all of it into sulphuric acid which the acid will cut pr dis- 
 solve, 
 
 Druggists through the country do not keep this acid gen- 
 erally, but they can get it in the principal cities and furnish 
 it for about seventy-five cents per ounce, and that ounce will 
 do at least fifty dollars worth of work. It is put up in 
 gutta-percha bottles, or lead bottles, and must be kept in 
 them when not in use, have corks of the same material. 
 Glass, of course, will not hold it, as it dissolves the glass, 
 otherwise it would not etch upon it. 
 
 PORCELAIN FINISH— Vbry Haed and Whitb, for Parlohs.— 
 To piepare the wood for the finish, if it be pine, give one or two 
 coats of the " Varnish— Transparent for Wood," which prevents 
 the pitch from oozing out cautung the finish to turn yellow ; next, 
 give the room, at least, four coats of pore zinc, which may be 
 ground in only sufficient oil to enable it to grind properly, then 
 mix it to a proper consistence with turpentine or naptha. Qive 
 each coat time to dry. When it is dry and hard, sand-paper 
 it to a perfectly smooth surface when it is ready to receive the 
 finish, which consists of two coats of French zinc ground in, and 
 thinned with Demar- varnish, until it works properly under the 
 brush. 
 
 Mr. Miles, of this city^ one of our scientific painters, has 
 been sufficiently kind to furnish me this recipe prepared ex- 
 pressly for this work, therefore, the most implicit confidence 
 may be placed in it, yet any one can judge for, themselves^ 
 from the nature of the articles used, that it must be white 
 and hard. He goes on to say that if the French zinc in 
 varnish cannot be procured, the varnish may be whitened 
 with zinc ground in oil as a very good substitute, being care- 
 ful not to use too much, in which case it will diminish the 
 gloss, and be more liable to turn yellow. A little turpen- 
 tine or naptha may be added, if too thick to work well, but 
 in no instance should oil be used to thin the paint . 
 
 This finish, if properly applied, is very beautiful, and al-^ 
 though purely white, may be kept clean more easily than 
 other kinds of painting by simply using a dusting brush ; or* 
 
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 if soiled, a sponge wet in cold soft water without soap, 
 the better way. 
 
 N. B. — Not a particle of white-lead ahould be used where 
 this finisih is to be applied, either in the priming or any sub- . 
 seKjfueDt coats , or a brush used that has been in lead without 
 being thoroughly cleansed, as a yellow hue will soon present 
 itself, which is caused by a chemical change taking place 
 between the lead and zinc. 
 
 PAINTERS' ECONOMY IN MAKING COLORS.— Pkussian 
 BfAJ*. — Ist. Take nitric acid, any quaatity, and as much iron 
 shaviaga from the lathe as the acid will dissolve ; heat the iron as 
 hot as oaa be handled with the hand ; then add it to the acid in 
 small <)uantitie8 as long as the acid will dissolve it, then slowly 
 add doittWe the quantity of soft water that there was of add, and 
 put in iron ||gain asj lopg as the add will dissolve it. 2nd. Take 
 imissiate of potash, diasolve it in hot water to make a strong soln- 
 tion, and make sufficient of it with the first to give the depth of 
 tintdesiced. and th« blue is made. Or: 
 
 ■ 2. AifoiHSR BibBiaOD.-- A very passable Prussian blue is made by 
 liAiag sulphate of Iron (coj^ras) and prassiate of potash, equal 
 parts of each, and duuolvipg; ^)^ separately in water, then mixing 
 
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 8. CAitoMa TiBi^w,— Ist. Take sugar of Lead and Paris white, 
 of each 5 lbs. ; dissolve them in hot water. 2nd. Take bi-ohromate 
 of po^h 6| ozs., and dissolve it in hot water also, each article to 
 be dissolirea separatelv, then mix all tof;etber, putting in the bi- 
 chromate last, liet stand 24 hours. 
 
 4. Chbomh Grbkn. — Take Pcuris white 6^ lbs.; sugar of lead and 
 blue vitriol, of each 3^ lbs.; alum 10^ ozs. ; best soft Prussian blue 
 and chrome yellow, of each 3^ lbs. Mix thoroughly while in fine 
 powder «Bd add water 1 gal., atirring well, aad let stand 3 or 4 
 hours. 
 
 5. Gasiujr, DuaABi.B amd Chba.p. — Take spruce yellow and color 
 it with a solution of chrome yellow and Prussian blue, until you 
 give it.tilie shade you wish. 
 
 6. Paris Gbum.— Take unslacked lime of the beet quality,slack 
 it with hot water ; then take the finest part of the powder and add 
 alnm water as strong as can be made, sufficient to form a thick 
 papte, ti^en color it with bi-chromate of potash and sulphate of 
 oppper, until the color suits your fancy. N. B. — ^The sulphate of 
 copper gives the color a blue tinge— ^the bi-chromate of potask -» 
 y«*ow. Observe this and you will never fiul. 
 
 7. Akothbb MsmoD —Blue vitriol & lbs. ; sugar of lead 6( lbs. ; 
 araenic 2t^ lbs. ; bi-chromate of potash i^ ozs. ; mix them thoroughly 
 ifii.ilpLe lewder, and add water 8 pts , mtxing well again and lei 
 s|M^ul 8 pE Vl^awp. 
 
blacksmiths' DBPARTlliajT. 
 
 2d8 
 
 soap, 
 
 IS 
 
 d where 
 iny sub- 
 without 
 present 
 ig place 
 
 Prussian 
 luch iron 
 le iron as 
 e acid ia 
 in slowly 
 idd, and 
 ad. Take 
 ong sola- 
 depth of 
 
 madebj 
 sh, equal 
 sn mixing 
 
 ris white, 
 ohromate 
 article to 
 n the bi> 
 
 lead and 
 Bsian blue 
 lie in fine 
 id 3 or 4 
 
 and color 
 until you 
 
 iiity,slack 
 r and add 
 a a thick 
 ilphate of 
 ilphate of 
 potasl a 
 
 ide^lbs.; 
 loroughly 
 ana let 
 
 ^. Pea BbowiI. — Ist. Ti^e suli^ati* of copper, any qnontltf^ azid 
 dissolve it in hot water. 2d. Take prassiate of potash; dituiive 
 it in hot water to make a strong solution ; mix of the two 8oia« 
 tions, as in the blue, and the ccior is made. 
 
 9. Boss Pink —Brazil wood 1 lb., and boil it for 2 hours haT" 
 ing 1 gal. of water at the end : then strain it and boil alum 1 lb. 
 in the same wa4«r until dissolved ; when sufficiently cool to admit 
 the band, add muriate of tin f oz. Now have Paris white liU Ibe., 
 moisten up to a salvy consistence, and when the first is cool stir 
 them thoroughly together. Let stand 24 hours. 
 
 When any of the above mixtures have stood as meiitrotidd 
 in their respective recipes, all that is necessary is to drain 
 off the water by placing the preparations into mitaKn bagt 
 for that purpose, and then exposing the mixture to the^u* 
 to dry for use. 
 
 Glass, stone, or wood vessels only should be iised aa- the 
 acids soon work upon iron, tin, copper, Ac., g^Ting you a ting* 
 not desired in the color, and always observe that if water is 
 to be mixed with strong acids, it mUst be addied slowly, es- 
 pecially if in light vials, or you will break the veM^ by 
 means of the great heat which is set free by tho <^ombina- 
 tiofi. Painters can use their own judgment about mAking, 
 these colors; but if theiy do not do it fo^ profit therci will W 
 pleasure in testing them, even in vials-full only, as the chem- 
 ical action is just as fine in small as in large quantitieii. 
 
 01 
 
 BLACKSMITHS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 FILES AND RASPS— To Rb-Cut bt a ChkMical Pifecws.— 
 Dissolve salaratUB 4 ow., to water 1 qt., sufficient to cover the 
 files, and boil them in it f jr half an hour ; then take out, wash 
 and dry them, now stard them in a jar, filling it np with raitt- 
 water and sulphuric acid, in the proportion of water 1 qt., to acid 
 
 4 028. 
 
 If the files are coarse, they will need to remain in about 
 twelve hours; but for fine files, six or eight hours will i)a 
 all-sufficient. When you take them out, wash them cleai, 
 dry quickly, anl put a little sweet oil upon them* to preveAt 
 rust. 
 
 This plan is applicable to blacksm'ths, gun-smiths, tin- 
 ners, copper-smiths, machinists, drc. <bc. Copper and tia 
 
1 1 
 
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 284 
 
 DR. chase's BEOIPES. 
 
 workers will only require a short time to take the articles 
 out of their files, as the soft metals with which they become 
 filled, are soon dissolved, leaving the files about as good as 
 new. For blacksmiths and saw-mill meu, it will require the 
 full time.. 
 
 They may be i-e-cut two or three times, making in all 
 more service thau it took to wear out the file at first. 
 
 The preparation can be kept and ufted as long as you see 
 action take place upon putting the file into it. Keep it 
 covered when not in use. 
 
 If persons, when filing, would lift up the fi'e, in carrying 
 back, there would be no necessity of a re-cutting, but in 
 drawing it back they soon turn a wire-edge, which the acid 
 removes. It also thina the tooth. Many persons have 
 doubted this fact ; but I know that the common three-square 
 file (used for sharpening saws), when worn out and thrown 
 by for a year or two, may be again used with nearly the 
 same advantage as a new one. The philosophy of it is this 
 — the action of the atmosphere acts upon the same principle 
 of the acid, corrodes (eats off) the surface, giving anew, a 
 square, cutting edge. Try it, all ye doubtful ; I hava tried 
 both, and know their value. Boiling in the saleratus- 
 water removes grease, and allows the acid to act upon the 
 steel. 
 
 VARNISHES— To Pebvent Rust on Irox or Steel. —Tallow 2 
 0Z8. ; rosin 1 oz. ; melt and strain while hot, » 
 
 Apply a light coat of this, and you can lay away any' ar- 
 ticles ' not in constant use, for any length of time, such as 
 knives and forks, or machanics' tools which are being laid 
 by or much exposed. But for axes or other new tools, 
 which are exposed to the air before sold, you will find the 
 following varnish preferable : 
 
 2. TaANSPARBNT, FOR TooLS, Plows, &o. — Beat alcohol 1 gal.; 
 gum saadiriich 2 lbs; gum miistlc ^ lb. Place all in a tin can 
 which admitrt of being corKeJ ; corli it tight, and shake it fre- 
 quently, occasionally placing the Oiin in hot w*ter. When dis- 
 solved it is ready for use. 
 
 Thi8> ra<»ke9 a very nice varnish for new tools, which are 
 
 exposed to dampness; the air, even, will soon (more or less) 
 
 tarnish new work. 
 
 2. Sabk-mu-Fabther, fob Ibon or Stbel.— Take best copal 
 
blacksmiths' depabtment. 
 
 235 
 
 he articles 
 ey become 
 ig grood as 
 require the 
 
 dug in all 
 rat. 
 
 as you see 
 Keep it 
 
 n carrying 
 ng, but in 
 ih the acid 
 [•sons have 
 tire6-<»quare 
 ud thrown 
 
 nearly the 
 of it is this 
 le principle 
 ig anew, a 
 
 havd tried 
 3 saleratus- 
 ;t upon the 
 
 —Tallow 2 
 
 ray any ar- 
 
 le, such as 
 
 being laid 
 
 new tools, 
 
 11 find the 
 
 hoi 1 gal.; 
 
 in a tin can 
 
 lake it fre- 
 
 When dis- 
 
 which are 
 ore or less) 
 
 best copal 
 
 yamiRh, and add sufBcieut olive oil to make It feel a little 
 greasy ; then add nearly as much spirits of turpentine as there is 
 of varnish, and you will probably seek no farther. 
 
 4. Teanspabint Blui, tor Stbbl Pm)W8.— Take De mar- 
 varnish i gal. ; finely ground Prussian blue ^ oi. ; mix thor- 
 oughly. 
 
 For gronnd steel plows, or other ground steel, one or two 
 coats of this will be found sufficient to give a nice blue ap- 
 pearance, like highly tempered steel ; some may wish a little 
 more blue; if so, add the Prussian blue to your liking. 
 Copal varnish is not so transparent as the demar, but if you 
 will have a cheap varnish, use No. 4 . 
 
 6 Black, Havimo a Polish, toe Iron— Pulverized gum im*;;!*]- 
 tum 2 lbs. ; gum benaome \ lb. ; spirits of turpentine 1 gal.^ ; to 
 make quick, keep in a warm place and shake often ; shade to suit 
 with finely ground ivory black. 
 
 Apply with a brush. And it ought to be used on iron 
 exposed to the weather as well as on in^de work desiring a 
 nice appearance or polish. Or: 
 
 7. YARinsH TOR Iron.— Asphal torn Slbs. ; melt it in an iron 
 kettle, slowly adding boiled linseed-oil 6 gals. ; litharge 1 lb. ; and 
 sulphate of zinc ^ lb. ; continuing to boil for three hours ; then add 
 dark gum amber 1^ lbs., and continue to boil 2 hours longer. 
 When cool reduce to a proper consistence, to apply with a brush, 
 with spirits of turpentine. 
 
 8. I WISH here, also, to state a fact which will benefit 
 those wishing to secure vines or limbs of trees to the side of 
 a white house, with nails, and do not wish to see a streak of 
 rust down the white paint, as follows: 
 
 Make a hole, in which to start the nail, patting a little strip 
 of zinc into the hole, and drive the nail in contact with the 
 nnc. 
 
 The electrical action of the two metals, in contact, pre- 
 vent rust, proven by over eight years trial. 
 
 WELDINO— Cast Stikl Without Borax.— Copperas 2 ozs. ; 
 saltpetre 1 oz. ; common salt 6 ozs ; black oxide of manganese 
 1 oz. ; Prutisiate of potash 1 oz. ; all pulverized and mixed with 
 nice welding sand 8 lbs.; and use it the same as you would 
 sand . 
 
 Higher tempered steel «an be used with this better than 
 with borax, as it welds at & lower heat — such as pitchfork 
 tines, toe-corks, <kc. The pieces should be held together 
 while heating. I have found some blacksmiths using it 
 
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 m 
 
mm 
 
 mm 
 
 II 
 
 256 
 
 DR. OHASE'S ItBCIPES 
 
 without the mangaDa<ie ; but from what I know of the pun- 
 fjiDg properties of that arlicle upon iron, I am sure it must 
 be preferable with it, as tbatjs the principal purifyer in the 
 next recipe. 
 
 POOR IRON— To Iiipaova— Black oxide of manganese 1 part ; 
 oopperc^, and commoa salt 4 parts each ; dissolve in soft water 
 and boil until dry ; when cool pulverize and mix quite freely with 
 p.ice welding sand. 
 
 When you harr poor iron which you cannot aflFord to 
 throw away, heat it and roll it in this mixture, working for 
 a time, re-heating, (fee, v^ill soon free it from all impurities, 
 which is the cause of its rottenness. By this process you 
 can make good horse-nails, even out of only common iron. 
 
 WRITING UPON Iron ob Steel, Silver ob Gold, not to Cost the 
 Tenth Pabt of a Cent pbb Lhttbr. — Muriatic acid 1 oz. ; nitric 
 acid ^ ob. Mix, when it is ready for use. 
 
 DiRBOTiONS — Cover the place you wish to mark or write 
 upon, with melted bees-wax; when cold, write the name 
 plain with a file point or an instrument made for the pur- 
 pose, carrying it through the wax and cleaning the wax all 
 out of the letter ; then apply the mixed acids with a feather, 
 carefully filling each letter ; let it remain from one to ten 
 minutes, according to the appearance desired ; then put on 
 some water, which dilutes the acids and stops the process. 
 Either of the acids, alone, would cut iron or steel, but it 
 requires the mixture to take hold of gold or silver. After 
 you wash off the acids il is best to apply a little oil. 
 
 MILL-PICKS-To Tbmpeb.~To 6 qts of soft water, put in 
 pulverized corroisive sublimate 1 oz. and two hands of common 
 gait ; when dissolved it ia ready for use. The first gives tough- 
 ness to the steel, whilst the latter gives the hardness. I have 
 found those who think it better to add sal-ammoniac, pulverized, 
 2 ozs., to the above. 
 
 DiRBCTioNS. — Heat the picks to only a cherry red and 
 plunge them in and do not draw any temper. In working^ 
 mill-picks, be very careful not to over-heat them, but work 
 them at as low a heat as possible. The reason why so many 
 fail in making good picks, is that they don't work them at 
 as low a heat as they should. With care upon that point, 
 and the above fluid, no trouble will be experienced, even 
 upon the best diamond burrs. Be sure to keep the prepara- 
 
blacksmiths' dbparthbnt. 
 
 sfir 
 
 f the pun- 
 re it must 
 'yer in the 
 
 686 1 part ; 
 I soft water 
 freely with 
 
 ; afiford to 
 orking for 
 
 mpuntieis 
 occas you 
 mon iron. 
 
 ro Cost thk 
 oz. ; Ditiic 
 
 Ic or write 
 Lhe name 
 r the pur- 
 le wax all 
 a feather, 
 >iie to ten 
 BO put on 
 process, 
 el, but it 
 r. After 
 
 r, pat in 
 [ common 
 es tough- 
 i. I have 
 ulreriised, 
 
 red and 
 working^ 
 but work 
 80 many 
 them at 
 at point, 
 ed, even 
 prepara- 
 
 I 
 
 t^on covered when not in use, as it is poison. Pigs or dogs 
 mi^ht drink of it if left uncovered . This it the mixtniv 
 which has gained me the name of having the best prep«»' 
 tion in use for mill-picks, and the certifiicates ou thissubjectp^ 
 but as I have some others which are very highly spokea ofv 
 I give you a few oth rs. 
 
 2. An English miller, after buying my book, gave nm* 
 the following recipe, for which he paid ten dollars. He 
 had used it all his life, or frond the time he began business 
 ♦for himself (about thirty years), and he would use no- 
 other. ' < 
 
 Salt 1-2 teacup ; saltpetre 1-2 oz. ; alum, pulverized, 1 teasfiooiy; 
 toft water 1 gal. ; never heating over a cherry red, nor drawin|( 
 any temper. 
 
 8. Salt^itrb, sal-ammoniac, ahd alum, of each 2oz9.; salt I l-2t 
 lbs; water 8 gails.jAnd drnw no teihper. 
 
 There must be .something in this last, as th^ next one F 
 
 obtained at least five hundred miles from where I did thiv 
 
 and both from men who knetiv their value, and yet they r^^- 
 
 sembie 6ach other near enough to be called ** the twins. 
 
 4. MiLL-PiOKs AND Saw Gumwies, TO Tbmpbb. — Saltpetre andF 
 alum, each 2 ozs.; Sfil-amraoniac 1-2 oz ; salt 1 1-2 lbs.; soft water 
 8 gals. Heat to a cherry red and plucgt them in, and draw no • 
 temper. 
 
 The steel must never be headed above a cheny-red, and iv» 
 working and drawing the picks there ought to be quite at*- 
 amount of light water-hammering, even after the ste^ ia 
 quite cool. Once more and I ain done; y^t it may be pos^ 
 sible that the last in this case m«ty be the best; read it. 
 
 6. MiMrPiCK TSMPRBINO AS DoNB BT OhUECH, OP AnN ArBOB.— ^ 
 
 Water 8 gals ; salt 2 qts.; sal-ammoniac and saltpetre, of each ST 
 ozB.; ashes from white ash baik 1 shovel, which causes the picks' 
 to scale clean and white as s.lver. 
 
 I obtained this recipe of a blacksmith who paiJ ybnttg" 
 Mr. Church five dollara for it, he coming into the shop anoi 
 showing him how to work the picks, as al»o the compo»- 
 tion— his instructions, were not to hammer too cold, to avoidT 
 flaws; not to heat too high, which opens the pores of the- 
 steel, nor to heat more than one or two inches of the pick 
 when tetapering. The gentleman says, if care ia taken inr 
 heating and working, that no other tempering liquid wili 
 
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238 
 
 DB« CHASE'S RECIPES. 
 
 
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 1! 
 
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 iii; 
 
 •qual it, yet be spoiled the first batch by over-heating, even 
 after Mr. Church had taken all pains to show him. They 
 (the Messrs. Church) have picks sent to theoi for tempering, 
 urom Illinois and even Wisconsin. 
 
 BUTCHER KNIVES— SpRiNa-TBMPicR and BaAUTiFirL 
 Edob. — In forging out the knife as you get it near to its 
 proper thickness, be rery careful not to heat it too high, and 
 to water-hammer as for mill picks; when about to temper, 
 heat only to a cherry red ana hold it in such a way that you 
 «an hold it plumb as you put it in the v»ater, which prevents 
 it from sprinrtfing — put it plumb into the water and it will 
 eome out straight 
 
 Take it from the water to the fire and pass it through the blase 
 vntil a little hot ; then rub a candle over it upon both sides, and 
 back to the fire, passing it backward and forward in the blaze, 
 turning it over often to keep the heat even over the whole surfkce, 
 until the tallow passes off as though it went into the steel ; then 
 take out and rub the candle over it again (on both sides each time) 
 and back to the fire, passing it as before, until it sto^ into a 
 UatBe, with a snap, being careful that the heat is even over the 
 whole length &nd width of tlie tool, then rub the tallow over it 
 again and back, for three times, quickly, as it bums off; and 
 lastly nib the tallow over it again and push it into the dust of the 
 Ibrge, letting it remain until cold. 
 
 If these directions are followed with dexterity you will 
 Bare thB temper alike from edge to back; and the edge will 
 tie- the best you ever saw; as Davj Crockett used to say, " It 
 will jump higher, dive deeper," shave more hogs, bend far- 
 ther withont breaking, and give better satisfaction than all 
 ©ther knives put together. 
 
 It works equally well on drawing-knives and other thin 
 
 tools; and for trap-springs which are to be set on dry 
 
 ground ; but if set in water, " pop goes the weasel" the first 
 
 time the trap is sprung ; but the following is the plan for 
 
 tempering springs for general trapping. 
 
 2. TRAP-SPRINag— To Thmpbb.— For tempering cast steel trap 
 springs, all that is necessary is to heat them in the dabk just that 
 you may see it is red, then cool them in lukewarm water. This 
 tt-a short recipe, but it makes long-lasting springs. 
 
 The reason why darkness is required to temper springs is 
 
 llat a lower degree of heat can be seen in the night than by 
 
 -?ayligbt; and the low beat and warm water give the desired 
 
 semper. 
 
' 
 
 "-'MR^.: 
 
 blacksmiths' department. 
 
 23f 
 
 SILVER PLATING— For Oabeiaob WoHK.-Flr»t, let the 
 parta which are to receive the plate be filed very smooth ; then 
 apply over the surface the muria^ of xinc, wliich U made by 
 dW)lvinK 2inc in muriatic acid ; now hold this part over a disk 
 containinK but Hoft solder, (puwter solder iii probably the softest.) 
 and with a swab apply the solder to the part, to which it ad- 
 heres ; arash off all supurfluous solder, so as to leave the surface 
 smooth ; you will now take No. 2 f.iir, silver plate, of the right 
 size to cover the surface of the part prepared with solder, and lay 
 the plate upon it. and rub it down smooth witu a clotti which is 
 moistened with oil, then, with a soldering-iron, pass slowly over 
 all the surf ice of the plate, which melts the solder underneath it, 
 and causes the plate to adhere as firmly as the sotdei dues to the 
 iron ; then polish the surface, fiuitihing with buckskin. 
 
 The soMerirtjy-irons must be tinneil, an-l ali^o kept very 
 smooth, and uaed at about the same heat as for solderio^ 
 tin. 
 
 IRON— To PaKVBNT Wrldinq. —Where it ia desired to weld tw» 
 bais of iron together, for making axletrees or other purposes, 
 through which you wish to have a bolt hole, without punching 
 out a piece of the iron, you will take a piece of wet pasteboard, 
 the width of the bar and the length you denire not to weld, and 
 place it between the two pieces of iron, and hold them firmly upoa 
 the pasteboard while taking the heat, and the iron will weld up 
 to the pistebjard, but not wiiere it is ; then open the hole, witk 
 SweJge and punch, to the desired size. 
 
 In this way bl wksraith?' tongs may be relaiJ, without th« 
 trouble of cutting the joints apart and making a new jaw. 
 Simply fit two pieces of iron, the thickness you wish to add 
 to the jaw of the tono^, have them of the right length and 
 width also, then take them both between the jaws and heat 
 them so you can pound them together, that they will fit 
 closely for a weld ; now put a piece of the wet pasteboard 
 between the pieces wliich you are to weld, having the 
 handles of the tongues stand aufiiciently apart that you may 
 put on a link or ring to hold all firmly; then put into tha 
 fire, and take a good welding heat; and yet they do not 
 well where the paper was between them ; if they stick a 
 little at the end, just put them on the swedge and give them 
 a little tap with the hammer, and they wih fly right apart 
 as nice as new. I am told that the du4 from the ground 
 or floor of the I'lacksmiih shop is as good as the pasteboard, 
 yet I have not seen that tried; but I know there is no mii- 
 
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 DR. chase's BBCIPBB« 
 
 ;?Uke rathe Other; and yet I have found on« blacksmith 
 who declared he would not believe it could be done, even if 
 i^lia flaw it. 
 
 CAST-IRON— To Ca8»-Habdw.— Cast-iron may be case- 
 (^hardened by heating to a red heat, and then rolling it in a corn- 
 it position composed of equal parts of prussiate of potash, sal- 
 Ammoniac, and saltpetre, all pulverized and thoronghly mixed, 
 4Aien plunge while yet hot, into a bath containing 2 ozs. of the 
 \ prussiate, and 4 ozs., of the sal-ammoniac to each gal. of cold 
 
 waiex.—Sdentsfic Artiaan. 
 
 38 Cast-Iron — The Habihsst, to ^mxt loa DKuxiKra.— Heat to 
 
 A^aiehefiry red, having it lie level in the fire, then with a pair of 
 
 •« coldtengviAR, put on a piece of brimstone, a little less in size tbui' 
 
 yoa wish fthe hole to be when dri]led, and it softens entirely 
 
 through tbe piece ; let it lie on the fire until a little cool, when it 
 
 v is ready to drill. 
 
 "Sleigh-shoes have been drilled, by this plan, in five mih- 
 uies, after a man had spent half a day in drilling one- 
 fourth of an inch into it. It is applicable to any article' 
 ^ «r)hich can be heat without injury. 
 
 WROUGHT-IRON— To Ca»-Habdbnv— To case-harden wrought. 
 > Iron, take the prussiate of potash, finely pulverised, and roll that 
 ::>.«iu3ld£lei jn it, if its shii>pe admits of it, if not, sprinkle the powder 
 «ipf0n'4t1reely, while the iron is hot. 
 
 This is applicable to iron ^letreea, by heating the axle- 
 ttee and rolling the bottom of it in 4>ae powder, spread, out 
 for that purpose, turning it up quickly and. pouring cold- 
 water upon it, getting it mto the tub of cold water aa quick 
 s» possible. They wjll wetir for years without showing, 
 vvear. 
 
 '3.. Welding a Sma:.l Piece of Iron Upon a Larqk 
 ^0MB, WITH Only a Light Heat — It is often desirable, 
 t to weld a small bit of iron upon a large bar, when the large 
 « piece must be heated equally hot as tbe small one. To 
 .save this: 
 
 Take borax 1 lb. ; red oxide of iron 1 to 2 oas ; melt them to- 
 gether in a crucible; and when cold, pulverize and keep the 
 j»owder dry for use. 
 
 When you want to perform the operation, just bring th« 
 
 large piece to a whi'e heat, having a good welding heat up- 
 
 won the small slip; take the large one from the fire, and 
 
 ^flpvinkle some of the powder upon the place, and bring th* 
 
blacksmiths' department. 
 
 241 
 
 othev upon it, applying- the hammer smartly, and the weld 
 -will be as good as cmild be made with the ^eat*r heot 
 T^ithout the powder. 
 
 BBONZING^FoE Iron ob WooD.—Firet, make a bladt paint { 
 then pat in a little chrome yellow, only sufficient to give ii-a dark 
 greon shade ; apply a coat of this to the article to be bnuued; 
 when, dry give it a coat of varnish, and when the varnish is a little 
 dry, dust on brooise by dipping a piece of velvet into the bronce 
 and shaking it upon the varnish ; then give it another coal of 
 varnish, and when dry all is complete. 
 
 Cast-iron bells, which are now being extensively intro- 
 d need to the farming community, will be much improved in 
 their 'appearance by this bronzing, and also protected from 
 rust, without injury to its sound. Iron fences around yards, 
 porches, verandas, &c., will be much improved by it. It 
 may also be applied to wood if desired. 
 
 TRUSS SPRINGS — Dirbctions fob Bi.aok8mith8 to 
 Makx^ — BxTTKR THAN THB PiTiNT Trussbb. — After having 
 tried the various kinds of trusses, over two years, having to 
 wear one upon each side, I gav« them all up as worse tnan 
 useless. 
 
 To 
 
 I then went to a blacksmith and had springs made. They were 
 bent to suit the shape of the body, and to press upon' the 
 body only sufficient, after the pads are put on to hold back 
 that which would ^'herwise protrude. The pad upon the baek 
 end of the spring i make of sole leather, covered with cot- 
 ton or liuen cloth, haviog stuped in a little batting to make 
 it rest as easy as possible. Tl. ; front pad I make by having a 
 piece of wood turned the shape and size of a small hen's egg, 
 sawing it through the centra lengthwise, putting two screws into 
 it througu holes perforated in the end of the spring for 
 that p'jrpose. 'ITie back pad is secured by one screw only. The 
 spring ill oiled, then covered with sheep skin, to prevent rusting. 
 Then it is secured arotmd the body with a leather strap and 
 
up 
 
 242 
 
 DB. chase's recipes. 
 
 buckle, or with a piece of cloth sewed into a string of suitable 
 width to ait easy where it bears upoa the hip, in passing to tie upon 
 the other end of the spring, just back of the front pad The bend 
 which is given tbe spring, before it is l)ent to the shape of the 
 body, gives it room to rise when the leg is raised, without lifting 
 the pad from its position, saving the necessity of another strap to 
 pass around unr/er the thigfi, as with the patent truss, which is 
 very annoying to the wearer. Malie tbe springs of spring steel, 
 about J or | of an inch in width, and about 1-16 in thickness, and 
 of sufficient length to have a bearing just short of the spine. 
 
 I now speak from eight years parsonal experience, which 
 ought to be a sufficient length of time for an experiment to 
 be well established. 
 
 ifli 
 
 ' III 
 
 TINNERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 BLACK VARNISH— For Coal Buckets.— Asphaltum 1 lb.; 
 iamp-black ^ lb. ; rosin ^ lb. ; spirits of turpentine 1 qt. 
 
 , Dissolve the asphaltum and rosin in the turpentine; then 
 rub up the lamp-black with linseed-oi!, only sufficient to 
 form a paste and mix with the others. Apply with a brush. 
 
 JAPAN FLOW FOR TIN -All Coloes.— Gum sandarach 1 lb.; 
 balsam of fir, balsam of tolu, ami acetate of lead, of each 2 ozs.; 
 linseed-oil k pt.; spirits of turpentine 2 qts. 
 
 Put all into a suitable kettle, except the turpentine, over 
 a alow fire, at first, then raisa to a higher heat until all are 
 melted; now take from the fire, and when a Iit:l6 cool, stir 
 in the spirits of turpentine and strain throui^h a fine cloth. 
 This is transparent; but by the following modifications any 
 or all the various colors are ma Je from it. 
 
 2. Black. — Prussian blue J oz ; asphaltum 2 ozs.; spirits of tur- 
 pentine ^ pt 
 
 Melt the asphaltum in the turpentine; rub up the blue 
 with a little of it, mix well and strain; then, add the whole 
 to one pint of the Jlrst, above. 
 
 BtuB.— -Indigo and Prussivu Hue, both finely pulverized, of each 
 ' 1 oz. ; spirits of turpentine I pt. Mix well ani strain. 
 
 Add of this to one pint of the Jirst until the color suits. 
 
 it 
 
)f suitable 
 to tie upun 
 The bead 
 ape of the 
 >ut lifting 
 sr strap to 
 8, which is 
 >riaj? steel, 
 kness, aud 
 pine. 
 
 ce, which 
 iriineat to 
 
 am 1 lb.; 
 
 tifie; then 
 ifficient to 
 th a brush. 
 
 limch 1 lb. ; 
 each 2 uzs. ; 
 
 itine, over 
 itil all are 
 cj cool, stir 
 fine cloth, 
 ations any 
 
 irits of tur- 
 
 p the blue 
 the whole 
 
 Bed, of each 
 dor suits. 
 
 tinners' department. 
 
 243 
 
 4. RsD.— Take spirits of turpentine ^ pt.; add cochineal ^ oz.; 
 let stand 15 hours, and strain. 
 
 Add of this to the first to suit the fancy. 
 
 6. Ytsaaw — Take 1 oz of pulverized root of curcuma, and stir 
 of it into 1 pt. of the first, until the color pleases you, let stand a 
 few hours and strain. 
 
 6. Grbbn.-— Mix equal parts of the blue and yellow together, 
 then mix with the first until it suits the fancy. 
 
 7. Obanob. — Mix a little of the red. with more of the yellow, 
 and then with the first as heretofore, until pleased. 
 
 8. Pink -—Mix a little of the blue to more in quantity of the red, 
 and then with the first until suited. 
 
 In this simple and philosophical way you get all the 
 rarious colors. Apply with a brush. 
 
 GOLD LA.CQ11ER FOR TIN.— Tkanspab,knt, Au, Coiabs.— Al- 
 cohol in a flask ^ pt. ; add gum shellac 1 oz. ; turmeric ^ oz. ; red- 
 canders ^ oz. Set the flask in a warm place, shake frequently for 
 12 hours or more, then strain off the liquor, rinse the bottle and 
 return it, corking tightly for use. 
 
 When this varnish is used, it must be applied to the work 
 freely and flowing, or, if the work admits of it, it may be 
 dippied into the varnish, and laid on the top of the stove to 
 dry, which it will do very quickly ; and tney must not be 
 rubbed or brushed while drying; or the article may be hot 
 when applied. One or more coats may be laid on, as the 
 color is required more or less light or deep. This is applied 
 to lanters, <&c. If any of it should become thick from 
 evaporation, at any time, thin it with alcohol. And by the 
 following modifications, all the various colors are obtained. 
 
 2. RosH Color.— Proceei as above, substituting \ oz. of finely 
 ground, best Iak3, in place of the turmeric. 
 
 8. BtiUB. — The blue is made by substituting pulverized Prussian 
 blue ^ oz. in place of the turmeric. 
 
 4. PuBPLB. — Add a little of the blue to the first. 
 
 6. Obben. — Add a little of the rose-color fo the first. 
 
 Here again philosophy gives a variety of shade? with 
 
 only a slight change of materials or combinations. 
 
 LACQUER FOR BRASS.— Transpabbnt.— Turmeric root, ground 
 fine, 1 oz ; best dragon's blood i dr.; put into alcohol 1 pt.; place 
 in a moderate heah, shake well for several days. It must be 
 strained through a linen cloth, and put back into the 
 bottle, and add powdered gum shellac 8 ozs.; then keep as be- 
 
244 
 
 DB. CHASE'S BBCIPES* 
 
 y 
 
 fore|lii a warm place for geveral days, freqtilshtly sbakeii; ^hen 
 again strained, bottled and corked tight. 
 
 , Lacquer is put upon metal for improving its appearance 
 and preser-ring its polish . It is applied with a brush when 
 the metal is warm, otherwise it will not spread evenly. 
 
 IRON— To Tin toe Sou>ERiNa ob OrapE Pueposks.— Take any 
 quantity of muriatic acid, and dissolve all the zinc in it that it will 
 cut; then dilute it with one-fourth as much soft water as of acid, 
 and it is ready for use. 
 
 This rubbed upon iron, no matter how rusty, cleansss it 
 and leaves some of the zinc upon the surface, so that solder 
 readily adheres to it, or copper as mentioned below for cop- 
 periog iron or steel. 
 
 2. Iron, Ieon Wire, or Steel, to Copper the Svbfaok. -'Rain 
 water 8 lbs. ; sulphate of copper 1 lb. Dissolve. 
 
 Have the articles perfectly clean ; then wash it with this 
 solution, and it imrtiedialely exhibits a copper surface. 
 
 Lettering on polished steel is done in this way ; flowei*- 
 ing or ornamenting can also be done in the same way. 
 Sometimes dilute muriatic acid is used to clean the suiface; 
 the sui-face must be clean by filing, rubbing, or acid ; then 
 cleaned by wiping off. 
 
 COPPER~To Tin vpu Stew-Dishes oe Other PueposBb.— Wash 
 the surface of the article to be tinned, with sulphuric acid; and 
 rub the surface well, so as to have it smooth and free of blackness 
 catised by the acid; then sprinkle calcined and finely pulverized 
 ■al-ammoniac upon the suiface, holding it over a fire where it will 
 become sufficiently hot to melt a bar of solder which is to be rubbed 
 over the surface; if a stew-dish put the solder into it and swab it 
 about when melted. 
 
 You will wipe off any surplus solder, and also for the 
 purpose of smoothing the 8urfac«, by means of a tow or cot- 
 ton awab, tied or tacked to a rod. In this way any diah or 
 copper article may be nicely tinned. 
 
 BOX-METAL — ^To Make foe Machinery. — Copper 4 parts; lead 
 1 part — zinc is sometimes substituted for the lead — either makes 
 a durable box for journals. 
 
 Printers' worn out type, in place. of the 1^, makes an 
 improvbment. 
 
 SOLDERS — For Brazing. — Copper 3 parts; zinc 2 parts, or sheet 
 brass 8 parts; zinc 1 part. 
 
 2. Solder Foit Lead. —Take tin 1 part; lead 2 parts. 
 
 3. SoLDBB FOR TiN.— Lead 10 parts; tin 7 parts. 
 
TINNBES' DEPABTMBNT. 
 
 245 
 
 peRrance 
 ksh when 
 ily. 
 
 Take any 
 hat it will 
 s of acid, 
 
 leansas it 
 
 ;at Bolder 
 
 for cop- 
 
 lok. -'Rain 
 
 with this 
 ice. 
 
 r; flower- 
 ime way. 
 ) surface ; 
 cid; then 
 
 Hs. — Wastii 
 acid; and 
 ' blackness 
 pulverized 
 lere it will 
 ►be nibbed 
 ad swab it 
 
 for the 
 )W or cot- 
 ly dish or 
 
 )aTt8; lead 
 tier makes 
 
 [uakea an 
 e, or sheet 
 
 '■4. Souama. ior BmncAMirfA.— Biamtith | of one part; tiqi 1 part; 
 1«mI 1 part. 
 
 BRITANNIA— To Uw uid umtAXt o» Biaok Tik, nr Sommib.— 
 Take <^ Britannia and melt it; and while hot sprinkle sulphHr 
 rrer it and stir for a short time. « 
 
 This burns out the other articles in it, and leaves th& 
 block tin, which may now be used for makiog solder as good 
 as new tin. 
 
 TIN -To Peabl, ok Chrtbtalizb. — Sulphuric acid 4om.; soft 
 water 2 to 3 oz;}., according to strength of acid; salt 1 oz.; mix. 
 
 Heat the tin quite hot over a stove or heater ; th^u with 
 a sponge wet with the mixture, washing off direcvly with 
 dean water. Dry the tin ; then varnish it with Demar- 
 varnish. 
 
 This brings out the crystalline nature of the tin. Used 
 in making water-coolei-s, spittoons, <fec. 
 
 2. TnmiNO Flcx— Improvkd.- It has been customary for tinners 
 to use the muriate of zinc only; but if you take I lb. of muriatic 
 add, and put in all the zinc it will cut; then put in 1 oz. of sal- 
 ammoniac, you will have no more trouble with old dirty or greasy 
 seams. 
 
 Sometimes I think it is still improved by adding to it an 
 «qual amount of soft water. 
 
 3. Liquid Gldw, for I abkllino Upon Tin. — Boiling 
 water one quait; borax, pulverized, two ounces; put in the 
 borax; then add gum shellac four ounces, and boil until 
 dissolved. 
 
 Labels put upon tin with common 0:lue or common paste 
 will not St' long. But this preparation obviates the diffi- 
 culty entirely. 
 
 SCOURING LIQUID -Fob Brass, Doob-Knobs, &o.— Oil ol 
 vitriol 1 «)z ; Kweet oil 1-2 eill ; pulverizei rotten stone 1 gill; 
 rain water 11-2 pts. ; mix all, and uhake as used. 
 
 Apply wiih a rag, and polish with buck skin or old wool- 
 len This makes as good a preparation as can be purchased, 
 and for lops than half the money. It does not give a coat- 
 ing, but is simply a scourer and polisher. The foUowiog 
 gives it a silver coating: 
 
 SILVERING POWDER- -Fob Copprb ob Wobn Platbd Goons- 
 Nitrate of* silver ami common shIC, of each oO grs ; crenm 
 of tartar 8} drs., pulverised finely, mix thoroughly and bottle 
 for use. 
 

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 246 
 
 DB. chase's BECIPES. 
 
 When desired to re-silver a worn spoon or other article, 
 first clean them with the " Scouring Liquid;" then moisten 
 a little of the powder and rub it on thoroughly with a piece 
 of buck-skin. For Jewelry, see *• Jewelry Department/' 
 
 OIL 
 For 1 
 
 ? 
 
 6 
 10 
 16 
 
 CANS. — Sizi or Shtot, 
 
 gallon, 7 by 20 inches 
 10 by 28 " 
 12 bv 40 " 
 14 b, 40 " 
 20 by 42 
 30 by 42 
 
 This includes all the laps, seams, <&c., which will be found 
 sufficiently correct for all practical purposes. 
 
 K 
 l< 
 l< 
 (I 
 l< 
 
 
 FOR FROM 1 TO 100 OaUAKS. — 
 
 25 gallons, 80 by 66 inches 
 
 40 " 36 by 68 " 
 
 50 " 40 by 70 " 
 
 76 ■" 40 by 84 " 
 
 100 " 40 by 98 " 
 
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 QUNSMITHINQ DEPARTMEEiT. 
 
 GUN-BARRELS— BaowKiNQ Pkocbbs.— Spirits of nitre 1" lb.; 
 alcohol 1 lb. ; corrosive sublimate 1 oz ; mix in a bottl« and keep 
 worked for usa. 
 
 Directions. — Plug both ends of the barrel, and let the 
 plugs stick out three or four inches, to handle by, and also 
 to prevent the fluid from entering the barrel, causing it to 
 fUst; polish the barrel perfectly; then rub it well witk 
 quick-lime by means of a cloth, which removes oil or 
 grease ; now apply the browning flui' with a clean white 
 -cloth, apply one coat and set in a warm, dark place, until a 
 red rust is formed over the whole surface, which will re- 
 quire, in warm weather, from ten.to twelve hours, and in cold 
 weather, from fifteen to twenty hours, or until the rust be- 
 comes red ; then card it down with a gun-maker's card and 
 rub off with a clean cloth; repeat the process until the- 
 color suits, as such coat gives a darker shade. 
 
 2. Qdiokbr and less LaborIou PRocsss.-^'While ii 
 Evansville, Ind., I sold one of my books to C. Keller, a 
 man who carries on gunsmithing, extensively. He gave 
 me the following, which he was using, and says it makes a 
 dark brown, with but little labor compared with the first. 
 
 Soft water 1 qt., and dissolve it in blue vitriol 2 ozs.; corrosive 
 
gunsmith's department 
 
 247 
 
 sublimate 1 oz. ; and add 1 oz. of spirits of nitre. Hare the hekT- 
 rel bright and put on one coat of the mixture ; and in i hour 
 after, put on another, and let the barrel stand 1 2 hours ; then oil 
 it and rub it with a cloth, of cour»e having *he ends of the bar- 
 rel tightly plugged, as in the first case. 
 
 But Mr. Sutherland, the gunsmith of this city, says the 
 brown from this recipe will scon rub ofF; none being per- 
 manent unless carded down properly, as directed wlLh the 
 first recipe, that mixture being also superior. 
 
 3. Browning for Twist Barrels. — Take ppiiits of nitre f oz. ; 
 tincture of steel f oz. ; (if tlie tincture of steel cannot be obisiined, 
 the unmedictited tincture of iron may be used, but it is not so 
 good) black briiastoae \ oz. ; blue vitriol J oz. ; corrosiv*? subli- 
 mate J oz ; nitric acid 1 dr. , or 60 drops ; copperas \ oz. ; mix 
 with 1^ pts. of rain water, keep corked, also, as the other, and 
 the process of applying is also the Bame. 
 
 You will understand this is not to make an imitation of 
 twist barrels, but to be u^ed upon the real twist barrels, 
 which brings out the twist so as to show ; but if you use 
 the first upon the real twist barrels, it will make the whole 
 surface brown like the common barrel. 
 
 CASB-HARDE?TINa— For Lock- work.— Take old boots and 
 shoes and lay them on a tire, and burn them until charred ; now 
 put them into a clean kettle and pulverize thum coarsely, 
 while hot ; be careful not to get any wood coals mixed with 
 them. 
 
 Directions, — Take the pulverized leather and place in a 
 sheet-iron box, placing the articles to be hardenel in th 
 centre of the box, or amongst the pulverized leather, and 
 cover with a sheet iron cover ; or make the box so as to 
 shut up ; now blow up a fire of very dry charcoal ; the 
 coarser the charcoal the better ; then open the fire and place 
 the closed box in the centre, cover it up and let stand from 
 forty no sixtv minutes, not blowing ; but if the coals burn 
 off and leave the box exposed, you will put no more ; at the 
 expiration of the time, take the box and pour its contents 
 into clean, moilerately cool or cold water — never use warm 
 water ; these articles will now be found very hard, and will 
 easily break ; so you will draw the temper to suit, 
 
 BROKEN SAWS "To Mrnd PBaM.uiRNTLT — Pure fiilver 19 
 parts; pure copper one part; pure brisn tw » pirts ; all are to be 
 filed into pow.hsr and intimitely mixed. If the saw u not re- 
 cently broken, apply the tinning preparation of the next recipe. 
 

 \ 1 
 
 1^ 
 
 DB OHASB's RBCIPB0. 
 
 Plaoe the 8\w level upon the anvil, the broken ed^tts in 
 Jose contact, and hold then) so; no^ put a small hne of 
 the mixture along the seam, covering it with a larger bulk 
 of powdered charcoal; now, with a spirit lamp and a i^wel- 
 'eis blow-pipe, hold the coal-dust in place, and blow sufficient 
 to melt the solder mixture; then with a hammer set the joint 
 smooth, if not already so, and file away any supurfluous 
 solder; and you will be surprised at its strength. The heat 
 upon a saw does not injure its temper as it does other tools, 
 from the fact that the temper is rolled in, in place of by 
 heat and water. 
 
 TINNING — SuPBRioE TO Tn Ou> Paooiss. —Take first, the same 
 as the old way ; that is, muriatic acid 1 pt., and as much pure 
 block or sheet dnc as it nvill cut, in an open dish, a bowel, ot 
 somethiug of that ch -acter, as much heat is set free and bottllM 
 are often broken by it ; now take sal-ammoniac 4 oas., pnlveriae 
 it and add to the other, and boil ten minutes in a copper kettle — 
 bear in mind, only copper is to be used to boil in. 
 
 You will find this will cause the solder to flow rights 
 along without difficulty. Keep corked tight when notw,, 
 
 VABMISH AND P0U8H FOR STOCKS— GanMAH— Gum shel*^ t 
 lac 10 OKs. ; gum sandaraoh 1 ob. ; Venice turpentine 1 dradmii'.^i , 
 alcdiol, 95 to 98 proof , 1 gal. ; shake the jng occasionally for a 
 day or two, and it is rmdy for use . 
 
 After using a few coats of this, you can have a German 
 polish, by simply leaving out 8 ozs. of the shellac ; and a 
 coat or two of the polish makes an improvement on the 
 varnish, and does not require the rubbing, that it would if 
 the full amount of shellac was used, in the last coat or two. 
 It is recommended also to put upon cuts, sores, &,q., burns 
 excepted. ' 
 
 JEWELERi^' DEPARTMEMT. 
 
 ,^ .-■, r-fyj; ■; . 
 
 GALVANIZING- -Without a Battkrt.— Di«oVe cyanuret of 
 potassium 1 oz., in pure rain or snow water 1 pint, to whiph 
 add a 1 dr. bottle o' the chloiide of geld, ani it is ready to usb. 
 8<x)ur the article to be plated, from all dirt and grease, wHh 
 whiting, chalk, or rotten stone, pulverized, and put in alcohol,. 
 
JEWBLBRS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 24r 
 
 using a good brnah— orthe "Polishing Compound," No. 8; if 
 there are cracks it mtiy be neoesearj to put the article in a solu- 
 tipo of .caustic potash — at all events, every particle of grease and 
 dirt must be removed ; then suspend the article to be plated in 
 the cyanuret of gold solution, with a small strip of zinc cut about 
 tiM width of a common knittng needle, hooking the top over 
 a stick which will reach across the top of the jar holding the solu- 
 tipn. 
 
 Ev^ry five to ten minutes, the article should be taken out 
 and brushed over with the scouring preparation; or on 
 smooth surfaces it may be rinsed off ana wiped with a piece- 
 of cotton cloth, and return until the coating is sufficiently 
 to suit. 
 
 ^ hen the plating fluid is not in use, bottle it, keeping it 
 eorkedj and it is always ready for use, bearing in mind that 
 it is as poison aa arsenic, and must be put high out of the 
 way of children, and*labeled — Potsout although you will 
 hate no fears in using it; yet accidents might arise if its 
 nature were not known. The zinc strip, as far as it reached 
 into the fluid, will need to be rubbed occasional!} , until it i» 
 bright. . 
 
 2. Galvanizinq with a Shilling Battkry. — I have 
 found some persons who thought it much better to use a 
 simple battery, made by taking a piece of copper rod about 
 three-eighths of an inch in thickness* and about eighteen or 
 twenty inches long, and " ad it as directed below : 
 
 n- ■ 
 
 The rod should be about 4 or 5 inches in the circle or bend, 
 then run parallel, having 6 strips of sheet zinc, an inch wide and 
 to 8 ioiches long, bent in their centre around the copper, vith a 
 riv«t 4|icQugh them, close to the rod, as shown above ; these strips 
 of zinc are to be placed into tumblers, the rod resting on top of 
 the tumbletg, which are to be nearly filled with rain water ; wen 
 pour iiato each tumbler a little oil of vitriol, until you see thai it 
 Deglns to work a little on the sdnc. 
 
.Ii ?l 
 
 \'\ 
 
 250 
 
 DB. chase's recipes. 
 
 The article to be plated is to be suspended upon the strip 
 
 of zinc fa<)tened upon the long end of the rod, which is to 
 
 be placed as before spoken of, in a jar containing the gold 
 
 solution, instead of having it upon the stick spoken of when 
 
 plating witliout the battery. And all the operations are the 
 
 same as before described. 
 
 JBWELRY- Clbaning and Polibhino Cojipoimi). — Aqua ammo- 
 nia 1 oz ; prepared ohalk | oz ; mix and keep corked. 
 
 To use for ring„ or other smooth-surfaced jewelry, wet a 
 bit of cloth with the compound, after having shaken it, and 
 rub the article thoroughly ; then polish by rubbing with a 
 silk handkerchief or piece of soft buckskin. For articles 
 which are rough surfaced use a suitable brush. It is appli- 
 cable for gold, uilver, bra&s, britannia, plated goods, <bc. 
 
 FARRIERS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 COLIC — Curb for Horses or Pbrsons. — Spirits of 
 turpentine 3 ozs.; laudanum 1 oz.; mix, and give all for a 
 dose, by putting it into a bottle with half a pint of warm 
 water, which prevents injury to the throat. If relief is not 
 obtained in one hour, repeat the dose, adding half an ounce 
 of the best, powdered aloeo, well dissolved together, and 
 have no uneasiness about the result 
 
 Stmptoms. — The horse often lies down, suddenly rising again, 
 with a spring ; strikes his belly with his hind feet, stamps with 
 his fore feet, and refuses every kind of food, &c. I suppose there 
 is no mediciue in use, for colic, either in man or horse, equal to 
 this mixture. 
 
 For persons, a dose would be from 1 to 2 teaspoons ; children or 
 weak persons, less, according to the urgency of the symptoms ; to 
 be taken in warm water or warm tea. I have been familiar with it 
 fot about 6 years, and know that it has been successful in many 
 cases, all where it h is been used. Many think it the, best colic re- 
 medy in the world. 
 
 2. Anothbr.— Laudanum ^ oz.; sulphuric ether 1 oz. Mix, and 
 for a horse give all at a dose, in warm water as above. Dose for a 
 person, as the first. 
 
 A Mr. Thorpe, of whom I obtained this recipe, tells me 
 he has cured colic in horses, in every case, with the first 
 
farriers' department.' 
 
 251 
 
 - 
 
 doBOj eAC<^pt one, and in that case by repeating the dose 
 thirty minutes after the first. There is no question but 
 what it is good, and^some would prefer it to the turpentine. 
 I know it is valuable. 
 
 BOTS — SuBB Remedy — When a horse is attacked with 
 bots it may be known by the occasional nipping at their own 
 sides, and by red pimples or projections on the innei- sur- 
 face of the upper lip, which may be seen plainly by turn- 
 ing up the lip. 
 
 FiBST, then, take new milk 2 qts.; molasses 1 qt.; and give the 
 horse the whole amount. Second, 15 minutes afterwards, give 
 rerr warm sage tea 2 qts. Lastlt, 80 minutes after the tea, you 
 will give of currier's oil 3 pts., (or enough to operate as phyric). 
 Lard has been used, when the oil could not be obtained, with the 
 same success. 
 
 The cure will be complete, as the milk and molasses cause 
 
 the botA to let go their bold, the tea puckers them up, and 
 
 the oil carries them entirely away. If you have any doubt, 
 
 one trial will satisfy you perfectly. In places where the 
 
 currier's oil cannot be obtained, substitute the lard, adding 
 
 three or four ounces or nalt with it; if no lard, dissolve 
 
 a double handful of salt in warm water three pints, and 
 
 give all. 
 
 RING-BONE AND SPAVINS— To CcEB.™Egyptic*cum and wine 
 vinegar, of each 2 ozs,; water of pure ammonia, spirits of turpen- 
 tme and oil of origanum, of each 1 oz. ; euphorbium and canthar- 
 ides, of each ^ oz. ; g'ass made fine and sitted through gauze 1 dr. ; 
 put them in a bottle, and when used let them be well shaken. 
 This is to be rubbed upon the bone enlargement with the hand or 
 spatula, for half an hour each morning, for six or seven mornings 
 in succession. Let the horse be so tied that he cannot get his 
 mouth to the place for 3 or 4 hours, otherwise he will blister his 
 mouth and blemish the part. Then let him run until the scab 
 comes off of itself without scraping, which injures the roots of the 
 hair. Then repeat as before, and fcjllow up for 3 or 4 times blis- 
 tering, and all bone enlargements will t^ re-absorbed, if not of 
 more than a year or two's standing. 
 
 It is also good for callous sinews, and strains of long 
 standing, spavins, big-head, «fec., but if there are ring-bones 
 or spavins of so long standing that this does not cause their 
 cure, you wil! proceed aa follows : 
 
 2. Add to the above compound, corrosive sublimate in powder 
 ) oz,; oil of vitriol } oz.; and common salt ^ oz.; when it is again 
 
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 252 
 
 DR. chase's BEGIPBS. 
 
 ready for use, always bhaking well as yon nse either preparation. 
 Now clip ihe hair and prick the bono or callous pari aa 
 full of holes as you can with a pegging-awl, which is just 
 long enough to break through the callous part only. Or a 
 better way to break up this bony substance is to have a han- 
 dle like a p^ging-awl handle, with three or four awls in H, 
 then tap it in with a stick and give it a wrench at the same 
 time, which does the hurting part with more speed. This 
 done, bathe the part with vinegar, until the blood stops 
 flowing; then apply the double compound as at first, for four 
 or five mornings only, repeating again if necessary ; and 
 ninety-nine out of every hundred ring bones or spavins will 
 be cured ; and most of them with only the first preparation. 
 The Egyptacum is made as follows: 
 
 3. Take verdigris and alum in powder, of each 11-2 ozs. ; blue 
 yitriol, powddred, 1-2 oc. ; corrosive sublimate, in powder, 1*8 o>.; 
 
 boil oyer a slow fire until of a 
 up well, as a 
 
 vinegar 2 1-2 ozS. ; honey 1-2 lb. 
 
 proper consistence. When used it must be stirred 
 
 sedement will deposit of some of the articles. 
 
 If the hair does not come out again after using the last 
 
 bli&ter, use the " Good Samaritan Liniment" freely, on the 
 
 part, but the first will never disturb the growth of hair. 
 
 It is best always to commence this kind of treatment early 
 
 in the season, so as to effect a cure before cold weather 
 
 comes on. 
 
 4, 0. B. Bangs' Curb roa Rino-Bomb and Spavin.— Take of 
 cantherides pulverized, British oil, oils of origanum, and amber, 
 and of spir'ts of tuvpentine, of each, 1 oa. : olive oil 1-2 02. ; oil 
 of vitriol 8 drs. ; put all, except the vitriol, into alcohol, stir the 
 mixture, then slowly add the vitriol and continue to stir until the 
 mixture io complete, which is known by its ceasing to smoke. 
 Bottle for use. 
 
 D1RBOT10K8. — Tie a pice of sponge upon a stick and rub 
 
 the preparation by this meantl^upon the spavin or ring-bone 
 
 as long as it is absorbed into the parts ; twenty- four hours 
 
 after, grease well with lard ; and in twenty-four hours more, 
 
 wash ofTwell with soap-suds. Mr. Bangs lives at Napoleon, 
 
 Mich., and has sold books for me nearly two years, H« 
 
 says one applicatign will generally be sufficient for 8pavins$6 
 
 but may need two ; ring-bones always require two or three 
 
 applications, three or four days apart, which prevents ^he 
 
 Jof38 of hair ; if not put on oftener than once in three or 
 
FABRISBS' OEPABTMBNT. 
 
 253 
 
 four days, the hair not coming out at all. Bakd to curt 
 wind-galls, eplintH, <!kc. He obtained five dollars fur curing 
 a neighbor's horse of ring-bone with this preparation; stop- 
 ping all lameness, but not removing the lump. 
 
 5. In very bad cases of long standing, he thinks it prt- 
 ferable to first apply the followmg : 
 
 Take alcohol 1 pt.; sal-ammuniac, corrosive sublimate, and oil 
 of spike, of each 1 os.; mix. 
 
 Apply, by washing ofi* and using lard afterwards, as abov« 
 directed, washing also forty -eight hours after ; and when dry 
 apply the first liniment once or ttvice, accoraing to directions. 
 The object of this l^st is to open the pores of the skin and 
 avi'ien the lump, 
 
 6. RiHG-BoNi RraraDT. — Pulverised cantharides, oils of spike, 
 ori^a)»im, amber, cedar, Barbadoes tar, and British oil, of each 2 
 OSS. ; oil of wormwood 1 02. ; spirits of turpentine 4 ons. ; common 
 potash 1-2 oz ;'tiitrio acid 6 ozs.; and oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid) 
 4 ozs. ; lard 8 lbs. 
 
 DiRBCTiONs. — Melt the lard and slowly add the acids, 
 stir well and add the others, Ettirring until cold. Clip off 
 the hair and apply by rubbing and heating in ; in about three 
 days, or when it is done running, wa^h off" with suds and 
 apply again. In old cases it may take three or four weeks, 
 but m recent cases two or three applications have cured. It 
 has cured long standing cases. 
 
 7. Rawson's Ring-Bonb and Spavw Ccrb. — Venice turpentine 
 and Spanish flies, of each 2 ozs. ; euphorbium and aqua ammonia, 
 of each 1 oz. ; red precipitate 1-2 oz ; corrosive sublimate \ os. ; 
 lard 1 1-2 lbs. Pulverize all and put iuto the lard ; simmer 
 slowly ovev coals,. not scorch or burn, and pour oft' free of sedi- 
 ment. ' 
 
 DmscTioNS. — For inng-bones, cut oflf the hair and rub 
 the ointment well into the lumps once in forty-eight hours. . 
 For spavins, once in twenty-four hours for three mornings, 
 has perfectly cured them. Wash well ieach application, with 
 suds, rubbing over the place with a smooth stick to squeesse 
 out a thick yellow matter. 
 
 Mr. Rawson, of Eawsonville, Mich., has cured some ex- 
 ceedingly bad cases of ring-bones, one as thick as a roan's 
 arm; and spavins as unpromising in size. If properly 
 cooked it will foam like boiling su^r. 
 
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 254 
 
 DR. chase's REOIPEg, 
 
 8. Ikbian Mkthod.— Bind a toad upon it ; or tyro, if one does 
 not ooYfer it, and keep it on from 8 to 10 days. 
 
 An Indian cured a horse in this way, near St. Louis, for 
 which he coveted, and received a rifle. The cure proved 
 permanent. 
 
 9. BoNi-SPAmfs— Fbbhou Pa8T»~$800 Rbcim.— Corrosive sub- 
 limate, quicksilver, and iodine, of each 1 oz.; with lard only suf- 
 ficient to form a paste. 
 
 Directions. — Rub the quicksilver and iodine together, 
 then adding the sublimate and finally the lard, rubbing 
 thoroughly. 
 
 Shave off the hair the size of the Ttone enlargement ; 
 then grease all around it, but where the hair is shaved off ; 
 this prevents the action of the medicine,only upon the spavin; 
 now rub in as much of the paste as will lie on a three cent 
 piece only, each morning for four mornings only ; in from 
 seven to eight days the whole spavin will come out ; then 
 wash out the wound with 8uds,soaking well.for an hour or two, 
 which removes the poisonous effects of the medicinefi and facil- 
 itates the healing, which will be done by any oi the healing 
 salves ; but I would prefer the green ointment to any other 
 in this case. 
 
 Mr. Andrews, lite of Detriot, who during his life, knew 
 a good horee, and also desired to know how to take good 
 care of them, did not hesitate to pay three hundred dollars 
 for this recipe after seeing what it would do ; he removed 
 a spavin from a mare's leg with it, and she afterwards won 
 him more than the expense . 
 
 10. Bone-Spa viNS — Norwegian Cure. — S. B. Mar- 
 shall, the Champion Horse-Shoer, and Farrier, of White 
 Pigeon, Mich>, obtained this plan of an old Norwegian Far- 
 rier, and also his plan of curing poll-evil, which see, and 
 assures me that he had been very successful with them. I 
 obtained them of him for the purpose of publication, and 
 sincerely think I can recommend them to all who need 
 them : 
 
 Take do(?'8 grease 1-2 pt.; best oil of or^num 1 1-2osjs ; pulver- 
 ized cantharides 1-2 oz. Mix, and apply each morning, for three 
 mornings , heating it in with a hot iron each time ; then ski p 3 
 morning, and apply ng^in, as before, uutil it has been applied 9 
 times ; after which wait about ten days, and if it is not all gone, 
 go over again in the same way. 
 
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 farriers' department. 
 
 255 
 
 one does 
 
 )ui8, for 
 proved ^ 
 
 give 8ub- ' 
 only Buf- 
 
 togetber, 
 rubbing 
 
 reraent ; 
 ived off ; 
 e spavin; 
 hree cent 
 ; in from 
 at ; Iben 
 ur or two, 
 \ and facil- 
 be bealing 
 any otber 
 
 life, knew 
 take good 
 ed dollars 
 I removed 
 vards won 
 
 B. Mar- 
 of Wbite 
 Bgian Far- 
 lb see, and 
 tbem. I 
 cation, and 
 , wbo need 
 
 0Z8 ; pulver- 
 ig. for three 
 then skip 8 
 ea applied 9 
 not all gone, 
 
 He says it does not remove tbe bair, but tbat it cures tbe 
 largest and worst cas^s. He gives a teat for good oil of 
 origanum, saying tbat mucli of it is reduced with turpen- 
 tine ; and if so jreduced, tbat it will spread on the skin, like 
 .turpentine; but if good, tbat it does not spread on the skin, 
 but stands, like other oil, where a drop is. put on. I am 
 pot certain about tbe genuineness of this test; yet I find 
 quitQ a difference in the spreading ' the oils; for that 
 which IS known to contain turpentine spreads fast and 
 freely; whilst that which is believed to be pure, spreads 
 very, slowly, yet does finally spread. The pure is of a da-k 
 wine color, whilst the poor is of a lighter shade, and some- 
 what cloudy. 
 
 11 SpAViN LiKiMENT. — Oils of spike, origaaum, cedar, British 
 and spirits of turpentine, of each 1 oz ; Spanish-flies, pulverized 
 } oz. 
 
 Apply once in six to nire days only — remove tbe lump 
 of spavins, splints, curbs, &c., if of recent occurrence; and 
 the man of whom I obtained it, s jys he has scattered poll- 
 evils before breaking out, with cedar oil, alone. 
 
 12. Another — Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each J pt.; 
 gum camphor, laudanum, and oil of cedar, of each 1 oz.; oils of 
 hemlock and rhodium, and balsam of fir, of each ^ oz. ; iodine 1 
 dr.; mix. 
 
 Apply night and morning, first washing clean and rub- 
 bing dry with a sponge; then rub the liniment into the 
 spavin with the band. It caui^es a gummy substance to 
 ooze out, without injury to tbe hair — has cured ring-bones, 
 also removing the lumps in recent cases. It cuied the 
 lameness in a case of three years standing. 
 
 18. Splint and Spavin Liniment. — ^Take a large mouthed bottle 
 and put into it oil of origanum 6 ozn. ; gum camphor 2 ozs.; mer- 
 curiad ointment 2 ozs.; iodine ointment ioz. ; mult by putting 
 the bottle into a kettle oi hot water. 
 
 Aj)ply it to bone-spavins or splints twice daily, for four 
 or five days. The laraenere will trouble you no more. I 
 have bad m n cure their horses with this liniment and re- 
 mnrk tbat this recipe ak>ne was worth more Iban tbe price 
 of the book. 
 
 14. — L,.^ Spavin and Wind-Gau. Ointment, aiso oood »ob 
 Chbbs, hpuMTS, RiNG-BONXB, AND BoNE BPAVix. — Hake pulver- 
 ized cantharides 1 oz.; mercurial ointment 2 ozs.; tincture of 
 
mmm 
 
 iMPim 
 
 S56 
 
 DR. 
 
 chase's recipes. 
 
 It 
 
 iodine 1} oz. ; spirits of turpentine 2 Ozs. ; corrosive sublimate- 
 1^ drs. ; lard 1 lb 
 
 Mix well, and when desired to apply, first cut off the 
 bair, wash well and anoint, rubbing it in with the hand 
 or glove^ if preferred. Two days after, grease the part with 
 lard, and in two days more, wash off and apply the oint- 
 ment again. Repeat the process every week, as long as 
 necessary. 
 
 SWEENY. — liiNiHBRT. — Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of 
 •ach 8 ozg. ; camphor gum, pulverized cantharides, and capsicum, 
 of each 1 oz. ; oil of spike 3 ozs.' Mix. 
 
 Perhaps the best plan is to tincture the capsicum firsf, 
 and use the tincture instead of the powder, by which means 
 you are free of sediment ; bathe this liniment in with a hot 
 iron. The first case has yet to be found where it li^s not 
 cured this disease when faithfully followed. 
 
 2. Anothbk.- -Sal-ammoniac 2 ozs. ; corrosive sublimate 1 oz ; 
 aloohol 1 qt. ; water 1 qt., pulverize and mix. 
 
 This last case cured many cases of sweeney, and also kid- 
 ney complaints, known by a weakness in the back, of horses 
 or cattle. Bathe the loins with it; and give one to two 
 table spoons at a dose, daily. 
 
 POLL-EVIL AND FISTULA— PosmvB CuftK.— Common pot- 
 ash ^ oz. ; extract of belladona ^ dr. ; gum arable \ oz. Dissolve 
 the gum in as little water as practicable ; then having pulverized 
 the potash, unless it is moist, mix the gum water with it and it 
 will soon dissolve ; then mix in the extract and it is ready to use ; 
 and it can be used withoi.t the belle' lona, but it is more .painful 
 without it, and does not hav^ quite as good an effect. 
 
 Directions. — The best pbn to get this into the pipes is 
 by means of a SL^all syringe, after having cleansed the sore 
 with soap-suds; repeat, once in two days, uatil all the cal- 
 icos pipes and hard iiSr^jus l:»ase around the poll-evil or fis- 
 tula, is completely desiroyed. Mr. Curtis, a merchant of 
 Wheaton, 111 , cured a poll-evil with this preparation, by 
 only a single application, as the mare estrayed and was not 
 found for two months— then completely sound ; but it will 
 generally require two or three applications. 
 
 This will destroy corns and waii», by putting a little of 
 it upon the wart or corn, letting it remain from five to ten 
 urinates, then wash off and apply oil or rinegar* not aqueez- 
 rng them out, but letting nature remove theoou 
 
 > ' ! :l 
 
 i'W 
 
 
fm'v 
 
 'TRT 
 
 subMioater 
 
 it off the 
 ,he hand 
 jart with 
 the omt- 
 } long aB 
 
 dentine, of 
 oapsicum, 
 
 ich iqeaiiB 
 ith a hot 
 it hf» not 
 
 late 1 oz ; 
 
 L also kid- 
 :, of horses 
 ne to two 
 
 mmon pot- 
 i. Dissolve 
 5 pulverized 
 ih it and it 
 
 sady to use ; 
 lore ^painful 
 
 ihe pipes is 
 jed the sore 
 all the cal- 
 -evil or fis- 
 nerchant of 
 saration, by 
 tnd was not 
 but it will 
 
 jM- 
 
 FARRIERS DEPARTMENT. 
 
 257 
 
 a little of 
 
 five to ten 
 
 not aqueez- 
 
 2. Potash, to Make. — If you cannot buy the potaish, called for 
 in the last recipe, you can make it by leachinK best wood ashes 
 and boilint; down the ley to what is called black salts, and con- 
 tinuing the heat in a thick kettle until they are melted ; the heat 
 bums out the black impurities and leaves a whitish gray substance 
 called potash. 
 
 This potash, pulverized and put into all the rat holes 
 about the cellars causes them to leave in double quick time, 
 as mentioned in the " Rat Exterminator." The black salts 
 will do about as well for rats, but is not quite so strong. 
 They get their feet into it, which causes a biting woi-se than 
 their own, and they leave without further ceremony. 
 
 Potash making in timbered lands is carried on very ex- 
 tensively ; using the thick, heavy potash kettle to boil and 
 melt in ; then dipping it out into three and five pail iron 
 kettles to cool. , 
 
 3. Poui-Eviii AND Fistula — Norwegian Cube. — Cover the head 
 and neck with two or three blankets ; have a pan or kettle of the 
 best warm cider vinegar ; holding it under the b'ankets ; then 
 steam the parts by putting hot stones, brick, or iron, into the vin- 
 egar, and continue the operation until the horse sweats freely , 
 doing this 3 morning.^ and skipping 8, until 9 steamingg have been 
 accomplished. 
 
 Mr. Marshall says, the pipes by this time, will seem to 
 have raised up and become loose, except t,be lower end, 
 which holds upon the bone or tendons, like a sucker^s 
 month ; the apparent rising being caused by the going down 
 of the swelling in the parts; now tie a skein of silk around 
 the pipes and pull them out; washing the parts with weak 
 copperas water until the sore heals up and all is well. He 
 told me that he cured, in this way, a horse which had inter- 
 fered until jv pipe had formed at the place of interference, 
 upon the leg, that when drawn out was as long as his finger. 
 See the " Norwegian Cure for Bone-Spavin." 
 
 4. Anotiibe. — Rock salt and blue vitriol, of each 1 oz. ; copperas 
 Joz. ; pulverize all finely and mix well. 
 
 Fill a goose quill with the powder, and push it to the 
 bottom of the pipe, havmg a stick in the top of the quill,, 
 so that you can push the powder out of the quill, leaving it 
 at the bottom of the pipe; repeat again in about four days, 
 and in two or three days from that time you can take hold 
 of the pipe and remove it without trouble. 
 
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 258 
 
 DB chase's recipes. 
 
 \m 
 
 5. Poll Evil, to Scattkr.— Take a quantity of manlrakie root 
 maah, and boil it ; strain and boil down until rather thick ; then 
 form an ointment by simmering it with sufficient laid for that 
 purpose. 
 
 Anoint the swelling once a day, for several days, until 
 well. It 'las cured them after they were broken out, by 
 putting it into the pipes a few times, also anointing around 
 the sore. * 
 
 6. Anothtbb. — Poll-evils and Fistulas have been cared by pushing 
 Apiece of lunar caustic into the pipe, then filling the hole with 
 currier's oil. Or: 
 
 7. Anothbr.— Corrosive sublin^ate, the size of a common beau 
 pulverized and washed in tissue ^.^per, and pressed to the bottom 
 of the pipes, leavins^ it in eight days, then take out, and 
 Applying tlie blue ointment (kept by druggists), has cured them. 
 Or: 
 
 8. AKOTraER. — Arsenic, the size of a pea, treated in the sam^ 
 way, has cuiod the same disease. But if the Norwegian plan will 
 woric as recommended, it is certainly the best of all. 
 
 9. Anothbu.— Oil of vitriol put into the pipes has cured many 
 poli-evils. 
 
 I found one mtTi, also, who had cured poll-evil by placing 
 a barrel of water about fifteen feet high, on a platform, upon 
 two trees — administering a shower bath daily upon the sore; 
 drawing the water by a faucet, through a dinner horn placed 
 little end down; tying the hoise so as to keep him in posi- 
 tion until the water all runs out. Fifteen or twenty baths 
 cured him, but it broke out again the next season, when a 
 f<ew more baths made a final cure. 
 
 LOOSENERS OE SCOURING IN HORSES OR CATTLE -In Usb 
 OVER Skventv Years — Tormentil root, powdered. Dose for a 
 horse or cow 1 to 1 1-2 oz. It may be stirred in 1 pt. of milk a id 
 given, or it may be steeped in 1 1-2 pts. of miik, then given from 
 3 to 5 tim<'S daily until cured. 
 
 It has proved valuable also for persons. Dose for a per- 
 •on would be from one-balf to one teaspoon steeped in milk; 
 but if used f.^- persons I should recommend that half as 
 much rhubarb be combined with it. 
 
 An English gentleman, from whom it was obtained, had 
 been familiar with its use nearly eighty years, and never 
 knew a failure, if taken in any kind of seasonable time. 
 The tormentil, or septfoil, is an European plant, and very 
 jBStringent. 
 
 
farriers' department. 
 
 269 
 
 2. Bbb? bonk foe Scouas — Burn the bones thoroughly, and 
 pnlverize finely; then give one table-spoon in some dry feed, 8 
 times daily, until checked. 
 
 This preparation has thirty years experience of an Amei* 
 lean gentleman, near Feutonville, Mich., to recommend it to 
 general favor. 
 
 3. Scouas ANO Pm-WoBM3 of Horses and Cattlb. — White 
 ash bark, burnt to ashes, and made into rather a strong ley; then 
 mix ^ pt. of it with warm water 1 pt., and give all, 2 or 3 timet 
 daily. 
 
 "Whenever it becomes certain that a horse or cow ii 
 
 troubled with pin-worms, by their passing from the bowels 
 
 it is best to administer the above, as they are believed to be 
 
 the cause, generally, of scours, and this remedy carries off 
 
 the worms, thus curing the inflammation by removing the 
 
 cause. 
 
 HORSE OINTMENT -Db Gray or Sloan's.— Rosin 4 ozs.; 
 bees-wax 4 ozs ; lard 8 ozs.; honey 2 ozs. Melt these articles 
 ilowly, gently bringing to a boil, and as it begins to boil, remove 
 from the fire and slowly add a little less than a pint of spirits 
 of turpentine, stirring all the time this is being added, and stir 
 until cool. 
 
 This is is an extraordinary ointment for bruises, in flebh or 
 hoof, broken knees, galled backs, bites, cracked heels, <fec., 
 (fee. ; or wh«m a horre is gelded, to heal and keep away flies. 
 It is excellent to take fire out of burns or scalds in iiuman 
 flesh also. 
 
 CONDITION POWDERS- Said to bk St. John's.— F< nugreek, 
 cream of tartar, gentjitm, sulphur, saltpetre rosin, black antimony, 
 and ginger, equal quantities of each, say 1 oz.; all to be finely 
 pulverized; cayenne also flue, half the quantity of any one of the 
 pthero, say ^ oz. Mix thoroughly. 
 
 It is used in yellow water, hidebound, coughs, colds, dis- 
 temper, and all other diseases where condition powders are 
 generally administered. They carry off gross humors and 
 purify the blood. Dose — In ordinary cases give two tea- 
 spoons once a day, in feed. In extreme cases give it twice 
 daily. If these do not give as good satisfaction as St. 
 John's or any other condition powder that costs more thao 
 double what it does to make this, then I will acknowledge 
 tb&t travel and btudy are of no account in obtaining infor- 
 mation. 
 
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 260 
 
 DR. chase's BECIPES. 
 
 2. Cathartic Conmtiok Powdhk. — Gamboge, alam, saltpetre, 
 rosin, copperas, ginger, aloes, gum myrrh, salts, and salt, and if 
 the horse is in a very low condition, put in worm-wood, all the same 
 'Quantities, viz , 1 oz. each. Doss — One table-spoon in bran twice 
 daily; not giving any other grain for a few days; then once a dajr 
 with oats and other good feed. 
 
 This last is more applicable for old worn-dbwn horses 
 which need cleaning out and starting again into new life; 
 and in such cases, just the thing to be desired. 
 
 HORSE LINIMENTS— Fob Stiff-Neck from Poll 
 
 Evils. — Alcohol one pint; oil of cedar, origanum, and 
 
 gum-camphor, of each two ounces ; oil of amber one ounce ; 
 
 use freely. 
 
 2. English Stable Linihent — Very Strong — Oil of spike, aqua 
 ammonia,, and oil of turpentine, of each 2 ozs. ; sweet oil and oil 
 of amber, (;f eticU^ 1^ ozs.; oil of origanum 1 oz. Mix. 
 
 Call this good for any thing, and always keep it in the 
 stable a8i a strung liniment; the Englishman's favorite for 
 
 Soll-evilfj, ring-bones, and all old lameness, inflammations, 
 :c. ; if much inflammation, however, it will fetch the hair, 
 but not destroy it. 
 
 8^. Nbrvk and Bone Liniment. — Take beefs gall 1 qt.; alcohol 
 1 pt.; volatile liniment 1 lb.; spirits of turpentine 1 lb.; oil of 
 origanum 4 ozs ; aqua ammonia 4 ozs. ; tincture of cayenne ^ pt. ; 
 oil of aixibur 3 ozs. ; tincture of Spanish flies 6 oz. ; mix. 
 
 Uses too well known to need description. This is more 
 particularly applicable to horse flesh. 
 
 4. Liniment for One Shilling a Quart.— Best vinegar 2 qts.; 
 saltpetre, pulverized ^ lb.; mix and set in a warm glace until 
 dissolved. 
 
 It will be found valuable for spavins, sprains, strains, 
 bruises, old swellings, &c 
 
 BROKEN LIHBS — Tbbatme.mt, Instead of Inhuhanlt 
 Hhooting the Horse. — In the greater number of fractures it is 
 only n«ce?SAry to partially sliner the horse by means of a broad 
 piece of sail or other strong cloth, (as represented in the figure,) 
 placed under the animal's belly, furnished with two breechings 
 and two breast-girths, and by means of ropes and pulleys at- 
 tached to a cross-beam above, he is elevated or lowered, as may be 
 required. 
 
 It would seldom be necessary to raise them entirely off 
 of theii feet, as they will be more, quiet, generally^ wl^et 
 
FABBISBS' DEPARTMENT. 
 
 261 
 
 allowed to touch, the ground or floor. The head-stall should 
 be padded and ropes reaching each way to the stall, as well 
 as forward. Many horses will plunge about for a time, but 
 soon quiet down , with an occasional exception ; when they 
 become quiet, set the bone, splint it well, paddiag the splints 
 with batting, securing carefully, then keep wet with cold 
 water, as long as the least inflammation is present, using 
 light food, and a little water at a' time, but may be given 
 often. 
 
 The use of the different buckles and straps will be easily 
 understood. 
 
 If he is very restive, other opes can be attached to the 
 corner rings, which are there for that purpose, and will 
 afford mucu additi \al relief to the horse. 
 
 I knew a horse's thigh to crumble upon the race-course, 
 without apparent cause, which lost him the stake he would 
 have easily won ; he was hauled mil^ upon a sled, slung, 
 and cured by his humane owner. Then let every fair 
 means be tried, before you consent to take the life, even of 
 a broken-legged horse. 
 
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 262 
 
 mmmmw. 
 
 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 WOUND BALSAM— Foa Hoksb or Human Flesh.— Gum ben- 
 zoin, in powder, 6 ozs. ; bali^am of tolu, in powder, 8 ozs. ; gun» 
 storax 2 ozs. ; frankincense, in powder, 2 ozn. ; gum myrrh, in 
 powder, 2 ozs. ; Socotorine aloeu, in powder, 8 oas. ; alcohoi 1 gal. 
 Mix them all together and put them in a digester, and give them 
 a gentle heat for three or four days ; then sttain. 
 
 A better medicine can hardly be found in the Materia 
 . Medica for healing fresh wounds in every part of the body, 
 particularly those on the tendons or joints. It is fr quent- 
 Jy given internally along with other, articles, to great ad- 
 vantage in all colds, flatulency, and in other debilities of 
 the stomach and intestines. Every gentleman, or farmer, 
 ought to keep this medicine ready prepared in his house, as 
 a family medicine, for all cuts, or recent wounds, t;ither 
 among his cattle or any of his family. Thirty or forty 
 drops, on a lump of sugar, may be taken at any time, for 
 flatulency, or pain at the stomach; and in old age, wher» 
 nature requires stimulation. — Every Man his Own Farrier. 
 
 GREASE-HEEL AND COMMON SCRATCHES.— To Curb.— 
 Ley made from wood ashes, and boil white-oak bark in it until it 
 is quite strong, both iu ley and bark ooze ; when it is cold, it ig 
 rea dy for use. 
 
 First wash ofi" the hoiWs legs with dish water or castile 
 Boap ; and when dry, apply the ooze with a swab upon a 
 stick which is sufficiently long to keep out of his reach, a» 
 he will tear around lik(3 a wild horse, but you must wet all 
 well once a day, until you see the places are drying/up. 
 The grease-heel, may be known from the common scratches 
 by the deep cracks which do not appear in the common 
 kind. Of couree this will fetch off the hair, but the disease 
 has been known to fetch off the hoof; then to bring on th» 
 hair again, use salve made by stewing sweet elder bark in 
 old bacon; then form the salve by adding a little rosin ac- 
 cording to the amount of oil when stewed, about a quarter 
 of a pound to each pound of oil. 
 
 2. Another. — Verdigris i oz. ; whisky 1 pt., are highly recom- 
 mended for gtease heel. 
 
 8 Common Scratches.— Use sweet oil 6 ozs ; borax 2 oz ; sugar 
 of lead 2 ozs. ; mix, and apply twice daiiy, after washing ofif with 
 dish-water, and give time to allow the legs to dry. 
 
 These plans have been used for years, by Geo. Clemm, 
 of Logansport, Indiana, and he assured me that the worst 
 oases will be cured> of either disease, in a very few days. 
 
FABRIEBS^ DEPARTMENT. 
 
 268 
 
 4. Another. — Copperas and chamber-ley are known to be good 
 for common Hc-ratches, applied, as the lant, after washing with 
 dish-water and drying. I'his last can be trie>l first, as it U easily 
 obtained, and if it does not succeed you will not fail with the 
 other. 
 
 SADDLE >ND HARNESS GALLS— BRtrisBa, Abrasions, &c.™ 
 BBMia}Y. — White lead and linseed oil mixed as fur paint, U almost 
 invaluable in abrasions, or galls from the saddle or collar, or from 
 any other cause, it will speedily aid the part in healing. 
 
 Applied with a brush to the leg of a horse, the outer 
 coating of hair and skin of which was torn off, caused it to 
 heal and leave no scar. It is good for scratches and all 
 flores upon horses, or other animals, and equally good for 
 men. It forms an air-tight coating, and soothes pain. 
 Every farmer should keep a pot and biush ready for use. 
 White lead is the carbonate of the metal, and when pure is 
 very white. That having a greyish tint is impure, being 
 generally adulterated. For use as a paint, a lead color is 
 produced by adding lamp-black, and a drab or stone color, 
 by adding burned umber. 
 
 In applying it for scratches, first wash them clean with 
 soap and water, then apply. Some persons prefer lamp-oil. 
 If that is used, you will mix both together until the oil as- 
 sumes a light straw color. When the horse comes in at 
 night his legs should be washed perfectly clean and rubbed 
 perfectly dry. Then apply the mixture, rubbing it well to 
 the skin. Two or three applications are sufficient to eflfect a 
 perfect cure> no matter how bad the case may be. — Corres- 
 pondence of the Co^intry Oentleman, 
 
 To give confidence in this, I would say that a lat!y, at 
 Lafayette, Ind., told me she cured herself of salt-rheum 
 with white-lead and sweet oil only. 
 
 2. Anothbr.— Alcohol and extract of lead, of each 2 obs.; soft 
 water 4 ozs ; spirits of sal-ammuniac 1 oz.; white copperas ^ oz.' 
 Mix all, and shake as used. 
 
 " Knowlson's Complete Farrier " speaks very highly of 
 
 this last prepru'ation, which can be tried, should the first 
 
 above fail. 
 
 8. Sorbs from Chafing of the Bm.— Chloroform and sulphuric 
 etiior, equal parts of each. Keep closely corked. 
 
 Sponge off the mouth with water every time the bits ara 
 
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 264 
 
 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 taken out; then wet well with the mixture. It will also 
 
 be found valuable to remove soreness from any cause, on 
 
 man or horse. 
 
 4. ANontEB. — White ashes and spirits of tu> pontine, of each 
 1 1-2 table-spoons ; black pepper, ground, 1 table-spoon ; lard to 
 make 1 pt. of all, mix Well and anoint. 
 
 HE AVE8. — Great Relief — Heaves, the icommon name 
 for any difficulty in the breathing of a horse, is susceptible 
 of great alleviation by attention to the character and quan- 
 tity of food to be eaten by the animal, as every one 
 knows. If a horse suffering from this disease, is allowed to 
 distend his stomach at his pleasure, with dry food entirely, 
 and then to drink cold water, as much as he can hold, he is 
 nearly worthless. But if his food bo moistened, and he be 
 allowed to drink a moderate quantity only at a time, the 
 disease is much less troublesome. 
 
 A still further alleviation may be obtained from the use of bal- 
 sam of fir aad balsam of copabia 4 ozs. each ; and mix with 
 calcined magnesia sufficiently thick to make it into balls ; give a 
 middling liaod ball night and morning, for a week or ten days. 
 This gives good satisfivction, and is extensively sold by Eberbach 
 & Co., druggists, of this city. 
 
 2. Another. — An old Farrier assures me that lobelia 
 one tea-spoon, once a day, in his feed, for a week, and then 
 once a week ; that you can hardly tell whether the horse ever 
 had the heave? or not. 
 
 3. Another. — H. Sisson, another Farrier, gives me a 
 
 cure which somewhat resembles the ball fii-st given under 
 
 this head, and thus each one supports the other. 
 
 He takes calcined masrnesia, ba'sam of fir, and balsam of 
 copabia, of each 1 ox ; spirits of terpentine 2 ozs. ; and puts them 
 all into one pint of cider vinegar, and drives for a dose 1 table- 
 spoon in his feed, once a day for a week ; then every other day for 
 two or three months. 
 
 The horse will cough more at first, but looser and looser 
 
 Wet his hay with brine, and also wet hi« 
 
 until cured, 
 feed. 
 
 4 4notiibr. — Mr. Bangs, highly recommends the following : 
 Lobelia, wild turnip, elecampane, and skunk cabliag'}, equal parts 
 of each. Make into balls of common size, and give one for a dose, 
 or make a tincture, by putting four ounces of the mixture into 2 
 qts. of spirits ; and after a week put 2 table-spoons into their feed, 
 on ce a day for a month or two. % 
 
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 5. Anothui. — Oyster shelld 1 peck ; burn \hto lim) and pulver- 
 h^ ; mix a single handful of it with } gill of aIcoh>I, than mix 
 it with the oats each morning until all given. 
 
 This, for bellows heavee, has done very much good. Horse 
 radish grated and put in with the feed has benefitted. Cab- 
 bage, as common feed, is good to relieve, or any juicy food, 
 like pumpkins, &c., &c., will be found to relieve very much. 
 Farmers who have their horses always at home can keep 
 them comfortable with some of the foregoing directions; 
 but broken-winded hor^jes might as well be knocked in the 
 head as to attempt to travel with them, exr <^cting any satia* 
 faction to horse or driver. 
 
 6. Another. — A correspondent of the Country Oeaile- 
 
 man says that *• heaves may bii greatly alleviated by feeding 
 
 raw fat pork. 
 
 " Commence with a piece of pork, aay a cubic inch, chopped 
 very fine, and mixed with the wetted grain or cut feed, twice a 
 day. for two or three days. Tden from day to day increase the 
 quantity and cut less fine, until there is given with each feed such 
 a slice as usually by a farmer's wife is cut for frying—nearly as 
 large as your hand, cut into fitteen or twenty pieces. 
 
 " Continue this for two weeks, and the horse is capable of 
 any ordinary work without distress, and without showing 
 the heaves. I have experience snd observation for the past 
 ten years as proof of the above." — [»/., of Burlington^ Vt. 
 
 DISTEMPER— To Distinguish and Curb.— If it is 
 thought that a horsa has the distemper, and you do not 
 feel certain, wet up bran with rather strong weak ley — if 
 not too strong they will eat it greedily ; if they have the 
 distemper a free discharge from the nostrils and a consequent 
 <5are will be the result, if continued a fev.' days; but if only 
 a cold, with swellings of the glands, no change will be dis- 
 covered. 
 
 SHOEING HORSES— For Winter Travel.— N. P. 
 
 Willis of the Home Journal, in one of his recent Idlewild 
 
 lettera says : 
 
 " You have discovered, of course, that you cannot have unin- 
 terrupted winter riding with a horse shod in the ordinary way. 
 The sharp points of the frozen mud will wound the frog of the 
 ^oot ; aad with snow on the ground, the hollow hoof soon col* 
 lectf« a hard ball, which makes the footing very insecure. But 
 
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 266 
 
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 thoM erils are remedied by a piece of aole leather oailed on under 
 the ahoe-a prutecti'Ni to the hoof wliich makeu a ■urprising dif- 
 ference la the cunfldence and sure-footedaess of the animal'* 
 •tep." 
 
 FOUNDER---RBMBDT.— Draw about 1 gal. of blood from the 
 neck ; then drench the liorge with linseed oil 1 qt. ; now rub th« 
 fore legs long and well, with water aa hot as can l>e boine without 
 scalding, 
 
 This remedy entirely cured a horse which had been 
 foundered on wheat two days before the treatment began. 
 
 PHYSIC— Ball fob Horses.— Barbndoes aloes from 4 to 6 or ft 
 dra. (according to the size aud strength of the horse) ; tartrate of 
 potasiia 1 dr.; ginger and castilo soap, of each 2 drs. ; oil of anise 
 or peppermint 20 drops; pulverize, and malce all into one ball 
 with thick gum solution. 
 
 ' Before lapving a horse physic, he should be prepared for 
 it by feeding scalded bran, in place of oats, for two days at 
 least, giving also water which has the chill taken off, and 
 continue this feed and drink, during its operation. If it 
 should not operate in forty-eight hours, repeat half the dose. 
 
 2. Physio for Cattle. --For cattle, take half only of the dose, 
 above, f>>r a horse, and add to It gliiul)er salts 8 oz8.; dissolve ail 
 in gruel 1 qt.,*aud give as a drench; for cattle are not easily 
 managed in giving bulls, neither is their construction adapted to 
 dry medicine. 
 
 There is not the need of preparation for cattle, generally, 
 as for hoi-ses, from the fact of their not being kept up io 
 grain, if they are, ho^^ever, let the same precautions be ob- 
 served as in " Physic Ball for Horses." 
 
 HOOF- AIL IN SHEEP— Sorb Remedy.— Muriatic acid and but- 
 ter of antimony, oi each 2 ozs.; white vitriol, pulverized, 1 oz. 
 Mix. 
 
 Directions. — Lift the foot and drop a little of it upoD 
 the bottom. It will need to be applied only once or twice 
 a week — as often only as they limp, which shows that the 
 foot is becoming tender again. It kills the old hoof, and a 
 new one soon takes its place. Have no fears about the re- 
 sult; apply the medicine as often^aa indicated,, and all is 
 safe. ' . ^ 
 
 It has proved valuable in growing oflF horse's hoofs, when 
 
 snagg^, or contraction made it necessary. 
 
 EYE WATKR— For Horsks and Cattle —Alcohol 1 table-spoon r 
 extract of lead 1 teaspoon ; rain water 1-2 pt. 
 
 
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 267 
 
 Wa«h the eye freely, two or three times dni'y. But I 
 prefer tho *• Eye Water" as prepared for persons; anl allow 
 me here to say that what is good for man, in the line of 
 medicine, is good for a horse, by increasing the dose to cor* • 
 respond. 
 
 TAmING — Prinoiplbs Applikd to Wild and Vi- 
 cious Horses —I have thought, in closing up this De- 
 partment, that T cculd not devote a page to a neUer pur- 
 pose than to the so-called secret of taming. For it is a 
 secret, but it lies in a different point from what is generally 
 believed, which I will attempt to show. 
 
 Several persons are advertising books for t amine wild 
 horses, and other persons are going abo'.« teaching the art 
 to clssses in private. Probably the pupils get their money's 
 worth. But, why do so many fail? Tho whole secret lies 
 in this, that many persons can never handle a horse, with all 
 the instruction in the world — it is not in them. They cannot 
 establish a sympathy between themsdvea and the horse, 
 and if they become horse trainers, they have only mistaken 
 their calling, and the money they laid out i.^t perhaps aa 
 «heap a way as they could be taught their mistake. 
 
 To be a successful horse tiainer, he must have a sympa> 
 thy with the horse, and a personal power of control. This 
 reminds us of an old gentleman's reir arks on the subject 
 •of sweeny. He said : " There were a great many recipes 
 of penetrating oils, applications, etc., but the great secret 
 was in faith, without which no person will peraevere a 
 suflBcient length of time with either of them. This holds 
 good in all diseases, as well as in handling or taming a 
 horse. 
 
 The mystery or secret, then, is in knowing how, and hav- 
 ing the stamina (power) to do it. 
 
 Aa for recipe', they consist in using the horse-castor or 
 wart, which grows upon the inside of the leg, grated finp, 
 oil of cumin, and oil of rhodium, kept separate in air-tight 
 bottles; these all possess peculiar properties for attracting 
 aud subduing animals. 
 
 *• Rub a little oil of cumin upon your hand, and approa3h 
 the horse in the field, on the windward aide, so that he cjm 
 smell the cumin. The horse will let you Von'.e up to him 
 without trouble. 
 
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 268 
 
 DR. chase's I^ECIPES. 
 
 " Immediately rub your hand gently on the horse^s nose, 
 getting a little of the oil on it. You can then lead him 
 any where. Give him a little of the castor on a piece of 
 loaf sugar, apple, or potato. 
 
 *♦ Put eight drops of the oil of rhodium into a lady's 
 thimble. Take the thimble between the th umb and mid- 
 dle finger of you right hand, with the fore finger stopping 
 the mouth of the thimble to prevent the oil from running 
 out whilst you are opening the mouth of the horse. 
 
 '* As soon as you have opened the horse's mouth, tip the 
 thimble over upon his tongue, and he is your serxant. He 
 will follow you like a pet dog. Very doubtf< 1, — Author. 
 
 *' Ride fearless and promptly, with your knee pressed to 
 the side of the hoi*8e, and your toes turned in and heels out; 
 then you will always be on the alert for a shy or sheer from 
 the horse, and he can never throw you. 
 
 " If you want to teach him to lie down, stand on his nigh 
 or left side; have a couple of leather straps, about six feet 
 long ; string up his left leg with one of them around his 
 neck; strap the other end of it over his shoulders; hold it 
 in your hand, and when you are ready, tell him to lie down, 
 at the same time g' ntly, firmly, and steadily pulling on the 
 strap, touching him lightly with a switch. The horse will 
 immediately lie down. Do this a few times, and you can 
 make him lie down without the 8tra})8. 
 
 " He is now your pupil and friend. You can teach him 
 anything, only be kind to him — be gentle. Love him and 
 he will love you. Feed him before you do yourself. Shel- 
 ter him well, groom him yourself, keep him clean, and at 
 night always give him a good bed." 
 
 It will be perceived, by reference to the following 
 item from BelVs Life, that the secret for taming horses, by 
 which Mr. Rarey has made himself so rich and famous, 
 instead of being a divination of his own, was probably ob- 
 tained by him through some accidental contact with an old 
 /olume, which had long disappeared from observation, and 
 hardly held a place in public libraries: 
 
 A c:)rrespondent sends us the following : "In *he Gen- 
 tlemen's Farriery, by Bartlett, (sixth edition) published in 
 1762, {'one hundred years ago,) page 293 is the following: 
 * The method proposed by Dr. Bracken is to lie up one of 
 
 
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 CABINET makers' DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 the fore feet close, and to fasten a cord or small rope about 
 tlie other fetlock, bringing the end of it over chehoi-aes 
 shoulders; then let him be hit or kicked wiih your foot 
 behind tbat knee, at the same time pulling his nose down 
 strongly to the manger. You will bring him upon his 
 knees, where he should be held till he is tired, which can- 
 not be lorg, but if he does not Jle down soon, let him be 
 thrust sideways against his quarters, to throw him over; by 
 forcing him down several times in this way, you may teach 
 him to lie down, at the same words you first used for that 
 ptirpose." You will see that Mr. Rarcy's system is exactly 
 
 iho samCi i » .i. 
 
 From the foregoing it will be seen that he obtained the 
 knowledge, and naturally possessing the firmness, fearless 
 onfr^y and m«sc/c sufficient to back the whole, he has be- 
 come tJie horse tamer of the world. 
 
 Without all these qualifications no one need undertake 
 the business, no matter how often he pays five dollars hx 
 recipes or instructions. 
 
 CiABINET MAKEIfti' DEPARTMENf. 
 
 POLISH. — For New I'dbnitore. — Alcohol, 98 per cent, 1 pt. ; 
 gums copal and shellac, ox each 1 oz. ; dragon's blood ^ oz Mix 
 and dissolve by setting in a warm place. 
 
 Apply with a sponge (it is best in the sun or a warm 
 room) about three coats, one directly after the other as fast 
 as dry, say fifteen to twenty minutes apart ; then have a 
 small bunch of cotton batting tied up in a piece of woollen ; 
 wet this in alcohol and rub over the surface well ; now go 
 over the surface with a piece of tp" w, then dust on rotten- 
 stoi*' 'rom a woolen bag and rub it with, what is often ♦^''I'^d, 
 the hetsi of the hand ; now wipe it off" with cotton clotl i 
 the more you rub with this last cloth, the better will be .ne 
 potish. 
 
 Although this professes to be for new work, it does not 
 hurt the looks of old, not tL ^ least bit; try it all who want 
 their furniture to show a gloss and answer the place of look- 
 ing glasses. 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
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 If soldiers will tiy it on their gun-stocks, they will find it 
 just the thing desired. 
 
 2. POLIBH FOB RBVIVINa OhD FxfRmiVWt, EqUAI. to THl 
 
 "Brother Jonathan."— Take alcohol 1 1-2 ozs. ; spirits of salti 
 
 [muriatic acid] 1-2 oz. ; linseed oil 8 ozs. ; best vinegar 1-2 pt. ; 
 
 And butter of antimony 11-2 ozs. ; mix, putting in the vinegar last. 
 
 It is an e.xcellent reviver, making furniture look nearly 
 
 (equal to new, and really giving polish to new work, always 
 
 shaking it as used. But if you cannot get the butter of 
 
 ;iintimony, the following will be thd next best thing: 
 
 8. Polish fob Removing Stains, Spots an© Mildew, from Furni- 
 TcaK. — Take of 98 per cent alcohol 1-2 pt. ; pulverized rosin and 
 gum si ellac, < f each 1-4 oz Let these cut in the alcohol ; then 
 Add linseed oil 12 pt. ; shalce well and apply with a sponge, 
 ferush or cotton flannel, or an old newspaper, rubbing it well 
 after the application, which gives a nice polish. 
 
 These are just the thing for new furniture wh^n sold and 
 
 about to be taken out of the shop ; removing the dust and 
 
 ^giving the new appearance again. 
 
 4. Jet, or Polish for Wood or Lkathfk, Black, Rkd, or Blub. 
 --Alec hoi [98 per cent] 1 pt. sealing-wax, the color desired, 3 
 sticks ; dissolved by heat, and have it warm when applied. A 
 sponge is the best to apply it with. 
 
 For black on leather it is best to apply copperas water 
 first to save extra coats; and paint wood the color desired 
 also, for the same reason . On smooth surfaces, use the tal- 
 low and rotten ston^ as in the first polish. It may be ap- 
 plied to carriage-bodies, cartridge boxes, dashes, fancy-baa- 
 kets, straw bonnets, straw hats, &c. 
 
 F J RN ITU RE.— Finishing With only 0;,is Coat oi Varnish. 
 HOT Using GIlub, Paste, or Shellac— Take boiled linseed-oil and 
 give the furniture a coat with a brush ; then immediately sprinkle 
 dry whiiing upon it and rub it in well with your hand, or a brush 
 which is worn rather short and stilf, over all the surface, the 
 whiting absorbs the oil ; and the pores of the wood are thus filled 
 with a perfect coat of putty, which will last for ages ; and water 
 will not spot it nor have any eifdct upon it. 
 
 For mouldings and deop creases in turned work, you can 
 mix th ,m quite thick, and apply tuera together, with the 
 old brush, but on smooth surfaces, the hand and dry whit- 
 ing are best. If black walnut is the wood to be finished, 
 you vijl put a trifle of burned umber in the whiting — if 
 for cherry, a little Venetian red; beech or maple will re- 
 
 
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 quire less red. Only sufficient is to be use'l, in either case^ 
 to make the whiting the color of the wood, being finished. 
 Bedstead-posts, bannisters, or standards, tor bedsteads and all 
 other turned articles can have the finish put on in the lathe, 
 in double quick time ; spreading a newspaper on the' lathe 
 to save the scattering whiting, a[)plying it with the hand or 
 hands, having an old cloth to rub off the loose wbiting 
 which does not enter the pores of the wood ; the same with 
 smooth 8ui faces also. 
 
 This preparation is cheap ; and it is a wonder that furni- 
 ture men have not thought of it before. Three coats of 
 varnish without it is not as level as one with it. From the 
 fact that some of the varnish enters the pores of the wood 
 and does not dry smooth; but with the pores filled with this 
 preparation, of course it must dry smooth and level, with- 
 out rubbing down. 
 
 STAINS — Mahogany on Waijjut, Natural as Naturb. — 
 Apply aqua fortia by meaus of a rag tacked to a stick ; for if you 
 use a brush it will very soon destroy it. Set the furniture in the 
 hot sun to heat in the aqua fortis, if no sun, heat it in by a stoves 
 or fire. 
 
 It is better if heated in, but does quite well wichout heat- 
 ing. Finish up in every other way as usual. 
 
 This finish is applicable to fancy tables, stands, lounges, 
 coffins, <fec., and equally beautiful on knots and crotches, 
 giving walnut the actual appearance of mahogany, and as 
 it is appearances only that most people depend upon, why 
 will this not do as well as to transport , timber from beyond 
 the seas. 
 
 Rose- Wood Stain, Very Bright Shade— Used Cold. — Take al- 
 cohol 1 gal. ; camwood 2 ozs. ; let them stand in a warm place 24 
 hours ; then add extract of logwood 3 ozs. ; aquafortis 1 oz. ; an! 
 when dissolved it is ready for .use ; it makes a very bright ground, 
 like the most beautiful rose-vvood — one, two or more coats, as you 
 desire, over the whole surface. 
 
 This part makes the bright streaks or grains ; the dark 
 Cines are made by applying, in waves the following: 
 
 Take iron turnings or chippings, and put vinegar upon them ; 
 let it stand a few hours and It is ready to apply over the other, 
 by means of a comb made for graining ; or a comb made from 
 thinnirth India rubber ; the teeth should be rather good length ; 
 say half an inch, and cut close together or further apart, as de- 
 uired ; and with a little practice, c:icell':nt imitation will be made. 
 
372 
 
 DB. chase's BECIFES. 
 
 . This, for chairs, looks very heautiful to apply the darken* 
 ing mixture by means of a flat, thin-haired brush, leaving 
 only a little of the red color in sight; and if you want to 
 make the cringles, as sometimes seen in rose-wood, it is 
 done with a single tooth or pen, bearing on sometimes hard 
 and then light, Slc, &c. All can and must be got by prac- 
 tice. 
 
 The above stain is very bright. If, however, you wish a 
 
 Jowei' shade, use the next recipe. 
 
 3: RoBH-wooD Stain -LiQirr Shadb. — Take equal parts of iog- 
 'wood aad redwood chips, and boil well la just sufficient water to 
 make a strong stain ; apply it to the furniture while hot, 1 or 2, 
 •or even 3 coats may be put on, one directly after th6 other accor- 
 •dlng to the depth of color desired. 
 
 For the dark lines use the iron chippings as in the above 
 a'ecipe. Or, if a rose-pink is desired, use the following: 
 
 4. RosE-PiNK, Stain and Varnish, amo Ussd to Imitatb Rosb^ 
 Wood. — Put an ounce of potash into a quart of water, with red 
 Sanders 1} oz. ; extract the color from the wood and strain ; then 
 »dd gum shellac J lb. ; dissolve it by a quick fire—used upoa 
 i^wooJ stain for rose- wood imitation. 
 
 5, Black Walnut Stain. — Whenever persons are using 
 walnut which has sap edges, or if two pieces are being glued 
 too^ether which are different in shade, or when a poplar 
 pannel, or other wood is desired to be used to imitate black 
 walnut, you will find the following to give excellent satis- 
 faction : 
 
 Spirits of turpentine 1 gal. ; pulverized gum asphaltum 2 lbs. 
 Put them into an iron kettle and place upon a stove, which pre- 
 vents the possibility of fire getting at the turpentine, dissolve by 
 heat, trequently stirring until dissolved. Put into a jug or can 
 while hot. 
 
 When desired to uae any of it, pour out and reduce with 
 turpentine to the right shade for the work being stained. 
 With a little practice you can make any shade desired If 
 used with a brush over a red stain, as mentioned in the i*08e- 
 wood stain recipes, especially for chairs and bedsteads, it 
 very nearly resembles that wood. Mixing a little var^iish 
 with the turpentine when reducing it, prevents it from spot- 
 ting, and causes it to dry quicker. By rubbing a little 
 lainp black with it you can make it a perfect black, if do- 
 •ired. 
 
 
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CABINET makers' DEPARTMENT 
 
 278 
 
 
 6. CfUEBRT Sfain. — ^Take rain water Sqts.; anotta4 oz. ;boil 
 in a copper kettle until the anotta is dissolved ; theu pat in a 
 piece of pocash the size of a common walnut, and keep it on the 
 fire about half an hour long*"-, and it is ready for use. Bottle 
 for keeping. 
 
 This makes poplar and other light-colored woods so near 
 the color of cherry that it is hard to distinguish ; and even 
 improves the appearance of light colored cherry, 
 
 VARNISHES— Black, with Asphamum.— Spirits of turpentine 
 1 gal ; pulverized gum asphaltum 2^ Ibd. ; diisolve by heat over a 
 stove fire. 
 
 It is applied to iron, frames of door plates, back-grounds 
 in crysul painting, etching upon glass, and also for fence- 
 wire, or screens which are to go into water above uiiUs to 
 turn leaves and di'ift-wood, &c. 
 
 2. Patbkt Vaknish, foe Wood or Oamvass.— Take spirits of tui- 
 pentine I gal. ; atiphaltxim 2\ lbs. ; but them into an iron kettle 
 which will fit upon a stove, and dissalve the gum by heat. When 
 dissolved and a little cool, add copal varnish 1 pt., and boiled 
 linseed-oil ^ pt. : when cold it is ready for use. Perhaps a little 
 lamp-black would make it a more perfect black. 
 
 If done over a common fire, the turpentine will be very 
 likely to take fire and be lost ; and, perhaps, fire the house 
 or your clothes. 
 
 This is valuable for wood, iron or leather ; but for cloth 
 first make a sizing by boiling flax seed one quart, in water 
 one gallon ; applying of this for the fivot. coat ; the second 
 coat of common thick blac^i paint ; and lastly a coat of the 
 varnish. Some think that sperm oil, the same quantity, 
 makes a little better gloss. 
 
 3. Varnish, Transparent, for Wood, — Best alcohol 1 gal., nice 
 gum shellac 2 1-2 lbs. Place the jug or bottle in a situation to 
 keep it just a little warm, and it will dissolve quicker than if hot, 
 or left cold. 
 
 This varnish is valuable for plows, or any other article 
 where you wish to show the grain of the wood, and for pine, 
 when you wish to finish up rooms with white, as the " Por- 
 celain P'inish ;'' a coat or two of it eflfectually pa'events the 
 pitch from oozing out, whi«h would stain the fini^. 
 
 If this stands in an open dish, it w'U become thick by 
 evaporation ; in such cases add a little more alcohol, and it 
 is as good as before. Some do use as much as three and a 
 
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 DR. CHASES RECIPES. 
 
 hulf pounds of shellac, but it is too thick to spread well ; 
 better apply two or more coats, if necessary. When a 
 black varnish is wanted, you can rub lamp black with this, 
 for that purpose, if preferred before the asphaltum, last 
 given. 
 
 BARBERS' AND TOILET DEPARTMENT. 
 
 HAIR DYE— In Two Numbers.— No. 1 Take pfallic acid J oz.; 
 alcohol 8 ozs.; soft water 16 ozs. ; put the acid in the alcohol, 
 then add the water. 
 
 No, 2. Take for No. 2, crystalized nitrate of ©Iver 1 oz ; ammo- 
 nia, strongest kind, 3 ozs. ; gum arable i oz. ; soft water 6 ozs. 
 Observe, in makina: it, that the silver is to be put into the ammo- 
 nia, and not corked until it is dissolved ; the gum is to be dis- 
 solved in the water, then all mixed, and it is ready for use. 
 
 •^ Barbers will probably make this amount at a tince, as it 
 comes much cheaper than in small quantities; but if fami- 
 lies or others, for individual use, only wish a little, take 
 drachms instead of ounces, which, you see will make only 
 one-eighth of the amount. 
 
 Directions for A^pplying — First, wash the whiskers or 
 hair with the "shampoo," and rinse out well, rubbir-t/ with 
 a towel until nearly dry; then with a bnj.^h apply No. 1^ 
 wetting completely, and use the dry towel a^-ain to remove 
 all superfluous water, then with another briisli (tooth-brushes 
 are best), wU every part with No. 2, and it becomes instan- 
 taneously black; as soon as it becomes drv, wash off with 
 hard water, then with ooap and water; apply a little oil, 
 and all is complete. 
 
 The advantages of this dye are; that if you get any stain 
 upon the skin, wipe it off at the time, and the washing re- 
 moves all appearances of stain , and the whisker or hair 
 never turn red, do not crock, and are a beautiful biack. 
 
 However, cyanuret of potassium 1 dr., to 1 oz. of water, 
 will take off any stain upon the skin, arising from nitrate of 
 silver; but it is poison, and should not touch sore places nor 
 b« left where children may get at it. 
 
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barbers' and toilet department. 
 
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 Persons whose hair is prematurely gray, will find dye 
 less trouble in using, than the restoratives; for when once 
 applied, nothing more needs being done for several weeks; 
 whilst the res'oratives are only slow dyes, and yet need 
 «everal applications. But that all may have the chance of 
 choosing for themselves, I give you some of the best resto- 
 ratives in use. 
 
 EAIR RESTORATIVES AND INVIGORATORS.— Equal to 
 Wood's, for a Trifmnq Cost. — Sugar of lead, borax, and lac- 
 «ulphur, of each 1 oz ; aqua ammonia J oz.; alcohol 1 gill. 
 These ar+icles to stand mixed for 14 houre ; then add bay rum 1 
 gill ; fine table salt 1 table-spoon ; soft water 8 pts. ; essence of 
 bergamot 1 oz. ^ 
 
 This preparation not only gives a beautiful gloss, but will 
 cause hair to grow upon bald heads arising from all common 
 causes, and turn gray hair to a dark color. 
 
 Maxnkr of Application. — When the hair is thin or 
 
 bald make two applications daily, until this amount is used 
 
 up, unless the hair has come out sufficiently to satisfy you 
 
 before that time ; work it to the roots of the hair with a 
 
 soft brush or the ends of the fingers, rubbing well each 
 
 time. For gray hair one application daily is suflScient. It 
 
 is harmless, and will do all that is claimed for it, does not 
 
 cost only a trifle in comparison to the advertised l>estora 
 
 tives of the day ; and will be found as good or better than 
 
 most of them. 
 
 2. iNvraoRATOR. — Vinegar of. cantherides 1 oz. ; cologne-water 
 1 oz. ; and rose-water 1 oz ; mixed and rubbed on the roots of 
 the hair, until the scalp smarts, twice daily, has been very highly 
 recommended for bald heads, or where the hair is frtlling out. 
 
 If there is no fine hair on the scalp, no restorative, nor 
 
 invigorator on earth can give a head of hair. See remarks 
 
 after No. 8. 
 
 >* 3. Anothrr. — Lac-fiulphur and sugar of lead, of each 1 dr. ; 
 tannin and pulverized copperas, each 32 grs. ; rose-water 4 ozs. ; 
 wetting the hair once a day for 10 or 12 days, then once or twice 
 a week will keep up the color. 
 
 h-' If it is only desired to change gray hair to a dark color 
 
 the last will do it ; but where the hair is falling out or haa 
 
 already fallen, the first is required to stimulate the scalp to 
 
 healthy action. 
 
 4. ANOTHBrv.— Lac-sulphur and sngar of lead of each 1 oa.; 
 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 pulverized litharge, (called lithrago) 1 1-2 ozs. ; rain water 1 qi p 
 applying 3 mornings and skipping 3, until 9 applications — gives a 
 nice darlc color. 
 
 I obtained this of one of the Friends, at Richmond, Ind., 
 and for turning white or jsjray hair, it is a good one. The 
 litharge sets the color as the sulphate of iron does in the 
 next. There is bu- little choice between them. 
 
 5, Akothbr — Rain water 6 ozs ; lac-sulphur 1-2 oz. ; t"igar of 
 lead 1-4 oz. • sulphate of iron [copperas,] 1 8 oz. ; flavor with ber- 
 gamot essence, if desired ; and apply to the hair daily until suffi- 
 ciently dark to please. 
 
 All the foregoing restoratives will change, or color the 
 gray or white hair black, or nearly so ; but let who will tell 
 you that his restorative will give your hair its original color, 
 just let that man go for all he is worth at the time; for as 
 time advances his worth will be beautifully leas. 
 
 6. Ha.ir Inviqorator. — A Wheeling barber makes use 
 of the following invigorator to stop hair from falling out, or 
 to cause it to grow in ; it is a good one, so is the one follow- 
 ing it : 
 
 Take bay rum 1 pt. ; alcohol 1-2 pt. ; castor oil 1-2 oz. ; carbo- 
 nate of ammonia 1-4 oa. ; tincure of cantharidea 1-2 oz. Mix, and 
 shake when used. Use it daily, until the end is attained. 
 
 7. Another. — Carbona'e of ammonia 1 oz. ; rubbed up in 1 pt. 
 of sweet oil. Apply d:diy until the hair stops falling out, or is 
 sufficiently grown out. 
 
 This laat is very highly spoken of in England, as a pro- 
 ducer of hair, •' Where the hair ought to grow," and dce» 
 not. 
 
 8. Strong sage tea, as a daily wash is represented to stop . 
 hair from falling out ; and what will stop it from falling, is 
 an invigorator and consequently good. 
 
 There is not a liniment mentioned in this book, but which 
 if well Bubbed upou the scalp daily for two or three months, 
 will bring out a good head of hair; when the scalp has be- 
 come glossy and shining, however, and no fifie hair growing, 
 you niay know that the hair follicle or root is dead ; and 
 nothing can give a head of hai- in such cases, any more 
 than grain can grow from ground which has had none scat- 
 tered upon it. This condition may be known by the shin- 
 ing or glistening appearance of the scalp. 
 
 
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 All heads as woll as hodies should be often washed with 
 soap and clean water; but if that is neglect6d too long, it be- 
 comes necessary to use something ptrongcy to remove the 
 grease and HandrufF — then the following will be found just 
 the thing to be desired. 
 
 SHAMPOOING MIXTUKES— For Fivb Cbnts per Qhart.— 
 Purified carbonate of potash, commonly called saltsof tartar, 1 oz. ; 
 rain water 1 qt. ; Mix, and it is ready for use. 
 
 Apply a few spoons of it to the head, rubbing and work- 
 ing it thoroughly ; then rinse out with clean soft water, and 
 dry the liair well with a coarse, dry towel, applying a little 
 oil or pomatum to supply the natural oil which has been 
 saponified and washed out by th^ operation of the mixture. 
 A barber will make at least five dollars out of this five centi^ 
 worth of material. 
 
 Another excellent nhampoo is made by using aqua ammonia 8 
 ozs. ; salts of tartar 1-4 oz. ; alchol 1-2 6z. ; and soft water 2 1-2 
 pts., and flavoring with bergamot. In applying, rub the head 
 until the lather goes down ; then wash out. 
 
 The next recipe also makes as good a shampoo mixture 
 
 as I wish; for it kills so many birds at one throw that I do 
 
 not wish to throw any other. 
 
 BENOVATING mixtures— For Grbase ..-^ots, Shampooing, 
 AND KiiiLiNO Bkd-BuG3. — Aqua ammonia 2 ozs. ; soft water 1 qt. ; 
 saltpetre 1 teaspoon ; variegated shaving soap 1 oz., or one 8 cent 
 cake, finely shaved or scraped ; mix all. shake well, and it will be 
 a little better to stand a few hours or days before using, which 
 gives the soap a chance to dii*8olve. 
 
 Directions. — Pour upon the place a sufficient amount 
 to well cover any grease or oil which may get spilled or 
 daubed upon coats, pants, carpets, &c., sponging and rub- 
 bing well, and applying again if necessary to saponify the 
 grease in the garment; then wash ofi" with clear cold water. 
 
 Don't squirm now, for these are not half it will do — 
 some people fly entirely off the handle when a preparation 
 is said to do many things — for ray part, however, I always 
 admire an article in proportion to the labor which can be 
 performed by it or with it. This preparation will shampoa 
 like a charm ; raising the lather in proportion to the amount 
 " d dandruflPin the hair. It will remove --'—'■ 
 
 grease 
 
 parnt^ 
 
 even from a board, I care not how long it has been applied, 
 if oil was used in the paint— and yet it does not injure the 
 
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 finest textures, for the simple reason that its afBDitj is for 
 grease or oil, changing them to soap, and thus loosening 
 any substance with which they may be combinec. 
 
 If it is put upon a bed-bug he will never step afterwards; 
 and if put into their crevices, it destroys their eggs and 
 thus drives them from the preniisps. 
 
 A cloth wet with it will soon remove ail tbe grease and 
 dirt from doore which are much opened by kitcheu-hands. 
 
 ,2. Rbnovatino Cl«thb8— Gbntlemen's Wbar. — ^To warm soft 
 water 4 gals., put in 1 beefs gall; saleratua ^ lb. Dissolve. 
 
 Lay the garment on a bench and scour every part 
 thoroughly by dipping a stiff brush into the mixture: spots 
 of grease and the collar mu.st be done more thorough, and 
 longer continued than other parts, and rinse the garment 
 in the mixture by raising up and down a few times, then 
 the same way in a tub of soft cold water; press out the water 
 and hang up to dry ; after which it needs brushing tbe way 
 of the nap and pressing well under a damp cloth. 
 
 Beefs gall will set the color on silks, woollen, or cotton — 
 one spoon to a gallon of water is suflBcient for this purpose. 
 Spotted bombazine or bombazette washed in this will als* 
 look nearly equal to new. 
 
 8. Faded and Worn Garments— To Renew the Color. — 
 
 To alcohol 1 qt., add extract of logwood J lb.; loaf sugar 2 oz. ; 
 
 blue vitriol ^ oz. : heat gentlv until all aie dissolved; bottle for 
 use. 
 
 Directions. — To one pint of boiling water put three or 
 four tea-spoons of the mixture, and apply it to the garment 
 with a clean brush; wetting the fabric thoroughly; let dry; 
 then suds out well and dry again to prevent crocking; brush 
 with the nap to give the polish. This may be applied to 
 silks and woollen goods having colors; but is most apphcable 
 to gentlemen's apparel. 
 
 COLOGNES — Imperial. — Take oils of bergamot 1 oz. ; re- 
 roli 1 d!.; jesamine \ oz ; garden lavender 1 dr.; cinnamon 5 
 drops; tincture of benzoin IJ ozs. ; tincture of musk Joz.; de- 
 odorized or cologne alcohol 2 qts.; rose water 1 pfc. Mix. 
 
 Allow the preparation to stand several days, shaking oc- 
 casionally, before filtering for use or bottling. This is rather 
 expensive, yet a very nice article. S^e " Rose Water." 
 
 2. CoLOQNB FOR FAMILY UsB— Chkapbr— Oils of roscmary 
 
BARBERS AND TOILET DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 and lemon, each | ojs. ; ber^amot and lavender, each 1 dr.; cin- 
 namon 8 drops ; clove and rose, each 15 drops ; common alcohol 
 2 qts. Mix, and shake 2 or three times daily for a week. 
 
 Colognes need only be used in v y small quantities; the 
 
 same is true of highly flavored oiU or pomndes; as too much 
 
 even of a good thing soon dipgu&ts those whom they were 
 
 intended to please. 
 
 HAIR OILS— New York Babbkhs', Star.— Castor oil 6 J pts ; 
 alcohol 1^ pts. ; oil of citronella ^ oz ; lavender \ oz. ; mixed and 
 i^haken when used, makes one of the finest oils for the hair in 
 use. 
 
 I have been told that this amount of alcohol does not cut 
 the oil. Of course, we know that ; that is it does not be- 
 come clear, neither do we waut it to do so; it combines with 
 the oil, and destroys all the guraminess and flavor peculiar 
 to ca8tv>r oil, by which it becomes one of the best oils for 
 the hair which can be applied. Gills, spoons or a' y other 
 measure will do as well, keeping the proportion of flavoring 
 oils; and if the citronella cannot be. got, use some oth ^ oil 
 in its place; none are equal to it, however. 
 
 2. Macassar, OR RitsE. —Olive oil 1 qt ; alcohol 2 J ozs. ; rose 
 oil ^ dr.; tie cbipped-alkanet root 1 oz., into 2 or 3 little muslin 
 bags ; let them lie in the oil uatil a beautiful red is manifested ; 
 then hang them up to drain, for if you press them you get out a 
 sediment yoa do not wish in the oil. 
 
 3. Fragrant, Homk-Made.— Collect a quantity of the leaves 
 of any of the flowers that have an agreeable fragrance or fra- 
 grant leaves, as the rose geranium, &c. ; card thin layeiB of cot- 
 ton, and dip into the finest sweet oil ; sprinkle a small quanticy 
 of salt on the flowers ; a layer ol cotton and then a layer ot flowers 
 until an earthen- ware vessel, ot a wide mouthed glass bottle i» 
 full. 
 
 Tie over it a piece of a bladder; then place the ves-el in 
 the heat of the sun ; and in fifteen days a fragrant oil 
 may be squeezed out, re.sembling the leaf used. Or, an ex- 
 tract is made by putting alcohol upon the flowers or leaves, 
 in about the same length of time. These are very suitable 
 for the hair, but the oil is undoubtedly the best. 
 
 4. Pomade — Ox-Marrow. — One of the most beautiful 
 
 pomades, both in color and action is made as follows : 
 
 Take beefs marrow 1 lb.; alkenet root, not chipped, I oz.; put 
 them into a suitable vessel and stew them as you would render 
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 then add, of castor oil \ lb. ; bay rum 1 gill ; which takes away 
 the peculiar freshoesd of the marrow ; then use the extract of thf 
 oommon rose-gerraneum to give it the flavor desired. 
 
 Half as much suet as marrow, also makes a very nice 
 article ; and can be used where the marrow is not easily ob- 
 tained. 
 
 BALM OF A THOUSAND FLOWERS.— As strange 
 as it may seem, some of the most astonishingly named arti- 
 cles, are the most simple in their composition. Although 
 thousands of dollars have been made out of the abore 
 named article it is both cheap and simple : 
 
 Deoderizcd alcohol 1 pt. ; nice white bar soap 4 ozs. ; shave the 
 soap when put in ; stand in a warm place until dissolved ; then 
 add oil of citromella 1 dr. ; and oils of neroli and rosemary, of 
 each 1-2 dr. A 
 
 It is recommended as a general perfume; but it is more 
 particularly valuable to put a little of it into warm water, 
 with which to cleanse the teeth. 
 
 RAZOR STROP PASTE.— Take the very fiuest superfine flour 
 ot emery and moisten it with sweet oil ; or you may moisten the 
 sqrface of the stiop with the oil, then duitthe flour of emery upon 
 it, which is perhaps the best way. 
 
 Nothing else is needed. You must not take any of the 
 coarse flours, nothing but the finest will do. It is often 
 
 mixed ^vith a little oil and much other stuff which is of no 
 use, and put up in little boxes and sold at two shillings, not 
 having more than three cents worth of emery. 
 
 BAKERS' AND COOKINO DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Remarks. — It may not be considered out of place to 
 make a few remarks here, on the art, as also on the princi- 
 ples, of cookery. For nearly all will acknowledge cooking 
 not only to be an art, but a science as well. To know how 
 to cook economically is an art. Making money is an art. 
 Now is there not more money made and lost in the kitchen 
 than almost any where else? Does not many a hard-work- 
 ing man Lave his substance wasted in the kitchen ! DoeB 
 
BAKERS' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 281 
 
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 It. 
 
 not m&xij, a ebiftlefis man have his substance saved in the 
 kitchen ? A careless cook can waste as much as a man cau 
 earn, which might as well be saved. It is not what w<» 
 earn as much as what we save, that makes us well off. A 
 long and happy life is the reward of obedience to nature's 
 laws; and to be independent of want, is not to want what 
 we do not need. Prodigality and idleness constitute a crime 
 against humanity. But fnigality and industry, combined 
 with moral virtue and intelligence will insure individual 
 happiness and national prosperity. Economy is an insUtute 
 of nature and enforced by Bible precept : " Gather up the 
 fragments, that nothing be lout." Saving is a more diffi- 
 cult art than earning; some people put dimes into pies and 
 puddings, where others oply put in cents; the cent dishc* 
 are the most healthy . 
 
 Almost any woman can cook well, if she have plenty with 
 which to do it ; but the real science of cooking is to be able 
 to cook a good meal, or dish, with but little out of which 
 to make it. This is what our few recipes shall assist you in 
 doing. 
 
 / 8 to the principles of cooking, remember that water 
 cannot be made more than boiling hot — no matter how 
 much you hanten the fire, you cannot hasten the cooking" 
 of meat, potatoes, <fec., one moment; a brisk boil is suffi- 
 cient. When meat is to be boiled for eating, put it into 
 boiling water at the beginning, by which its juices are pre- 
 served. 'But if you wish to extract these juices for soup or 
 broth, put the meat, in small pieces, into cold water, and let 
 it simmer slowly. 
 
 The same principle holds good in baking, also. Make* 
 the oven the right heat, and give it time to bake through, 
 is the true plan ; if yo;i attempt to hurry it, you only burn, 
 instead of cooking it done. 
 
 If you attetdpt tho boiling to hurry, the wood only is wasted. 
 
 Eat, in attempting the balcing to hurry, the (bod, as well, isn't fit to be tasted. 
 
 CAKES— Femeai. Cakk— Flour 21-2 lbs. ; pulverized white 
 fc'agar 1 1-4 lbs. ; fresh butter 10 ozs. ; 6 eggs well beat«n ; carbon, 
 ate of ammonia ^ oz. ; water 1-2 pt., or milk is best, if you have it. 
 
 Grind Hown the ammonia, and rub it with the sugar. 
 Bub the butter into the flour ; now make a bowl of the 
 flour, (unless you choose to work it up in a dish,) and put 
 
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 in the eggs, milk, sugar, &c., and mix well, and roll out to 
 about a quarter of an inch in thickness ; then cut out with 
 a round cutter, and place on tins so they touch each other; 
 and instead of rising up thicker, in baking, they fill up the 
 space between, and make a square looking cake, all attached 
 together. While they are yet warm, drench over with 
 white coai-sely pulverized sugar. If they are to be kept in 
 a show-case, by )akei*s, you can have a board as large as the 
 tin on which you bake them, and lay a dozen or more tins- 
 fttl on top of each other, as you sprinkle on the sugar. I 
 ■cannot see why they are called " Federal,'' for really they 
 are good enough for any " Whig. " 
 
 Ammonia should be kept in a wide mouthed bottle, 
 tightly corked, as it is a very volatile salt. It is knowi;t by 
 various names, as " volatile salts," '* sal-volatile," " harts- 
 horn," •* hartshorn-shavings," <fec., <fec. It is used for smell- 
 ing bottles, fainting, as also in baking. 
 
 2. 
 
 ItouaH-AND-RsADT Cakb. — Butter oi lard 1 lb.; mol^ses 1 
 •qt.; soda 1 oz. ; milk or water 12 pt ; ground giuger 1 table- 
 spoon ; and a little oil of lemon ; flour sujQ^cient. 
 
 Mix up the ginger in flour, and rub the butter or lard in 
 also; dissolve the soda in the milk or water; put in the mo- 
 lasses, and use the flour in which the ginger and butter is 
 rubbed up, and sufficient more to make the dough of a 
 proper consistence to roll out ; cut the cakes out with a long 
 and narrow cutter, and wet the top with a little molasses 
 and water, to remove the flour from the cako; turn the top 
 down, into pulverized white sugar, and place in an oven suf- 
 ficiently hot for bread, but keep them in only to bake, not 
 to dry up. This, and the '* Federal," are great favorites in 
 Pennsylvania, where they know what is good, and have 
 the means to make it ; yet they are not expensive. 
 
 8. Sponob-Cakk, with Sock Milk.— Flour 8 cups ; fine white 
 sugar 2 cups ; 6 eggs ; sour milk 1-2 cup, with saleratus 1 tea- 
 spoon. \ 
 
 Dissolve the saleratus in the milk ; beat the eggs sepa- 
 rately; sift the flour and sugar; first put the sugar into 
 the milk and eggs, then the flour, and stir all well together, 
 tising any flavoring extract which you prefer, 1 teaspoon — 
 4crooD, however, is the most common. As soon as the flour 
 
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 due white 
 atus 1 tea- 
 
 eggs (sepa- 
 sugar into 
 I together, 
 «aapoon — 
 IB the flour 
 
 is stirred in, put it immediately into a quick oven ; and if 
 it is all put into a common square bread-pan, for which it 
 makes the right amount, it will require about twenty to- 
 thirty minutes to bake ; if baked in small, cakes, proportion- 
 ately le8i>. 
 
 4. Spongk Cake with Swkkt Milk. — As sour milk 
 
 eannot always be had, I give you a sponge cake with sweet 
 
 milk: 
 
 Nice brown 8ug»r 1^ ciiptf; 8 eggs; sweet milk 1 cup; flour 
 8 1-2 cups ; cream of tartar and soda, of each 1 toa-spoon ; le'mou 
 essence I tea-spoon. 
 
 Thoroughly beat the sugar and eggs together; mix th* 
 eream of tartar and soda in the milk, stiri-ing in the flavor 
 also; then mix in the flour, r<>membering that all cakes 
 ought to be baked soon after making. This is a very nice 
 cake, notwithstanding what is said of " Berwick," below. 
 
 5. Berwick Sponge Cake Without Milk.— Six eggs : pow- 
 dered white sugar 3 cups ; sifted flour 4 erea cups ; cream of 
 tartar 2 tea-spoons ; cold water 1 cup ; soda 1 teaspoon ; one 
 lemon. 
 
 First, beat the eggs two minutes, and put in the sugar 
 and beat five minutes more; then stir in the cream of tar- 
 tar and two cups of the flour, aijd beat one minute; now 
 dissolve the soda in the water and stir in, having grated the 
 rind of the lemon, squeeze in half of the juice only; and 
 finally add the other two cups of flour and beat all one min- 
 ute, and put into deep pans in a moderate oven. There is 
 considerable beating about this cake, but if itself does not 
 beat all the sponge cakes you ever beat, we will acknowl- 
 edge it to be the beating cake, all around. 
 
 6. SvRPKiss Cake. - One egg ; sugar 1 cup ; butter 1-2 cup ; 
 sweet milk 1 cup ; soda 1 teaspoon ; cream of tartar 2 tea- 
 BpouL.«. 
 
 Flavor with lemon, and use sufficient sifted flour to mak» 
 
 the proper consistence, and you will really be surprised to 
 
 see its bulk and beauty. 
 
 7. SuGAB CAKB.-~Take 7 eggs and beat the whites and yolks 
 separately ; then beat well together ; now put into them eifted 
 white sugar 1 lb. ; with melted butter 1-2 lb. , and a small tea* 
 spoon of pulverized carbonate of ammonia. 
 
 Stir in just suflScient sifted flour to allow of its being- 
 
 rolioJ out and cut into cakes. 
 
284 
 
 DR. chase's BECIPES. 
 
 8. GiNOBB Caki. — MolasMg 2 <'ups ; batter, or one-half lard if 
 you choose, 1 1-2 cups ; 80ur milk 2 cups ; gri'ound gioger 1 tM 
 Bpoon ; saleratuB 1 heaping tea-spoon. 
 
 Mash the saleratus, then mix all these ingredienta together 
 in a suitable pau, and stir in flour as long as you can with a 
 apoon ; then take the hand and work in more, just so you 
 can roll them by using flour dusting pretty freely; roll out 
 thin, cut and lay upon year buttered or floured tins; then 
 mix one spoon of molasses and. two of water, and with a 
 small brush or oit of cloth wet over the top of the cakes^ 
 this removes the dry flour, causes the cakes to take a nice 
 brown and keep them moist; put into a quick oven, and 
 ten minutes will bt^ke them if the oven is sufficiently hoi. 
 Do not dry them all up, but take out as soon as nicely 
 browned. \ 
 
 We have sold cakes out of the grocery for years, but 
 never found any to give as good satisfaction as these, cither 
 at table or counter. They keep moist, and are sufficiently 
 rich and light for all cake eaters. 
 
 9. Tba or Cup Cake.— Four eggs ; nice brown sugar 2 cups ; 
 saleratuu 1 teaspoon ; sour milk 3 cups ; melted butt<>r or half 
 lard 1 cup ; half of a giated nutmeg ; flour. 
 
 Put the eggs aud sugar into a suitable pan and beat to- 
 gether; dissolve the saleratus in the milk and add to the 
 «ggs aud sugar; put in the butter and nutmeg also; stir all 
 well ; then sift in flour sufficient to make the mass to such 
 a consistence that it will not run from a lapoon when lifted 
 upon it. Auy one preferring lemon can use that in place of 
 nutmeg. Bake rather slowly. 
 
 10. Cak£, Nick, Without Eggs or Milk. — A very nic« 
 cake is made as follows, and it will keep well also: 
 
 Flour 8 1-2 lbs.; sugar 1^ lbs.; butter 1 lb.; water ^-pt.; having 
 1 teaspoon of s ileratus ditwolved in it. 
 Boll thin, and bake on tin sheets. 
 
 11. Pork Cakk, WITHOUT Buttkr, Milk or Eggs. — A 
 most delightful cake is made by the use of poi-k, which saves 
 the expense of butter, eggs and milk. It must be tasted to 
 l»e appreeial' ^ *, and another advantage of it k that you can 
 
 ^make enou^ x some leisure day to last the season through ; 
 
 ^Ibr I have eaten it two months after it was baked, still nic4 
 
 and moist. 
 
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BAKERS' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 Fat i«lt pork, entirely free of lean or rind, chopped so fine fM 
 to be almost likujaid 1 lb.; pour boiling water upon it 1 ptf 
 raieins seeded and chopped 1 lb. ; citron Bhavt^d into shreds 1 lb.; 
 sugar 2 cups; molasses 1 cup; saleratus 1 tea-8pof)n, rubbed fine 
 and put into the molasses. Mix these all together, and stir in 
 sifte.! flour to make the consistence of common cuke mixtures; 
 then stir nuLmeg and cloves ii nely ground 1 oz. each; cinna- 
 mon, also fine, 2 ozd.; be goverened about the time of baking it 
 by putting a sliver into it~when nothing adheres it is done. It 
 sshoul 1 be baked slowly. 
 
 You can substitute other fruit in place of the raisins, if 
 desired, using as much or as litUe as you please, or none at 
 alj, and still have a nice cake. In this respect you may call 
 it the accommodation cake as it aocummodates itself to the 
 wishes or circumstAucos of its lovers. 
 
 When pork will do all ve here claim for it, who will l<Mi« 
 
 ger contend that it is not fit to eatf Who ! 
 
 12. CiDEa Caki. — Flour 6 cups; sugar 8 cups; butter 1 cup; 4 
 eggs; cider 1 cup; saleratus 1 tea-spoon; 1 grated nutmeg. 
 
 Beat the eggrs, sugar, and butter together, and stir in the 
 
 fiour and nutmeg; dissolve the saleratus in the cider and 
 
 stir into the mass and bake immediately, in a quick oven. 
 
 li. GiKOsa Snaps — Butter, lard, and brown t*ugar, of each i 
 lb*; molABses 1 pt.; ginger 2 table-epuons; flour 1 qt.; saleratus 2 
 t<.a-!!>poon8; sour milk I cup. 
 
 Melt the butter and lard, and whip in the sugar, moias- 
 «eB, and ginger; dissolve the saleratus in the milk and put 
 in; then the flour, and if needed, a little more flour, to en- 
 able you to roll out very thin ; cut into small Cc^kes and 
 bake in a slow oven until snappif^h. 
 
 14. JltLY Cakk. — Five eggs; sug; 1 cup; a little nutmeg; sal- 
 eratus 1 tea-spoon; scur milk 2 cups; flour. 
 
 Beat the eggs, sugar, and nutmeg together ; dissolve the 
 saleratus in the milk, and mix; then stir in flour to make 
 only a thin batter, like pan-cakes; three or four spoons of 
 the batter to a common round tin ; bake in a quick oven. 
 Three or four of these thin cakes, with jelly between, forma 
 one cake, the jelly being spread on whHv the cake is warm. 
 
 15. Boll, Jslly Cakb.— Nice brown sugar 1^ cups; 8 eggs; 
 sweet skim-milk 1 cup; flour 2 cups, or a little more only; cream 
 of. tartar and soda, of each 1 tea-spoon; lemon essence 1 tea- 
 •pooo. 
 
 Thofoughly beat the eggs and sugar together; mix tht 
 
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 cream of tartar and soda with the milk, stirring !n the fla- 
 vor also; now mix in the flour, remembering to bake soon,, 
 spreading thin upon a long pan ; and as soon as done spread 
 jelly upon the top and roll up; slicing off" only as uied; the 
 jelly aoes not come in contact with the Angers, as in th» 
 last, or flat cakes. 
 
 OAKB TABLE, FIFTEKN KINbs. 
 
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 17. Genuine Whig, 2 " 
 
 18, ilirewsbury, 1 " 
 11). Training, 
 20. Nut-Cake, 
 
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 1 lb. 1 lb. — 8 rose-water thre«- 
 
 opoons, mace, &e. 
 8 0B8. 8 ozs. 1 pt. — raise with yeiwt. 
 1 lb. I lb. — — rose-water, Ac. 
 
 — — cin'n, nutmeg. 
 
 — 7 cin'n, wet with 
 milk, raise with 
 yeast, or wet and 
 raise vrith sour 
 milk & saleratus. 
 
 ' — 8 rose-water, and 
 nutmeg. 
 
 — 6 rose-water and 
 a littlti spice. 
 
 Ipt. 9 rose-water, rais* 
 with yeast. 
 
 — 6 roll out in loaf 
 sugar. 
 
 — 3 yolks only—glnr 
 ger to suit. 
 
 — 10 cinnamo% 
 
 — 8 or witholt eggs 
 — wet up, raise 
 with saleratus 
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 — — wet up, and raise 
 with sour milk 
 and saleratus 
 
 8 *♦ 2qto.— -jeast, spice to 
 taste. 
 jal.~wine I pt. ytast 1 
 phit. 
 
 01. Hoii;.s8>8 Cakx. — Molasses 1^ cupr, aaleratuB 1 tea- 
 tpooa; sour milk 2 cupu; 2 ^gs; butter, lard, or pork gravy, 
 wfelt yoQ would take up on a sgooo.; if you use lard, add a littie 
 aall 
 
 21. Short-Cak?, 
 
 6 '« 
 
 8 ozs 
 
 •1" 
 
 22. Cymbals, 
 
 ■ 2 *< 
 
 8 " 
 
 i " 
 
 28. BurkCake, 
 
 5 " 
 
 8 " 
 
 1" 
 
 24. Jumbles. 
 
 5 " 
 
 1 lb. 
 
 2 " 
 
 26. Ghiger-Bread, 
 
 1 " 
 
 J" 
 
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 26. Wonders, 
 
 27. Cookies, 
 
 2 " 
 8 «* 
 
 1" 
 
 1 ti 
 & it 
 
 28. York Biscuit, 
 
 8 " 
 
 i" 
 
 f " 
 
 29. Common, 
 
 12" 
 
 8 ♦' 
 
 8 •• 
 
 80. Loaf, 
 
 9qto. 
 
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 Mix a]l by beti ing a minute or two with a spoon, dis- 
 solving the aalerat \8 in the milk ; then stir in flour to mvt 
 the consistence of soft-cake, and put directly into a not 
 •oven, being careful not to dry them up by over-baking, as 
 it is a soft, moist cake, that we are after. 
 
 32. — Marblkd Cake. — Thoae having any curiosity to 
 gratify upon their part, or on the part of friends, will 
 be highly pleased with the contrast seen when they take a 
 piece of a cake made in two parts, dark and light, as foUows: 
 
 LioiiT Part.— White sugar IJ cups ; batter ^ cup ; sweet milk 
 1-2 cup; soda 1-2 tea-spoon ; cream of tartar one-teattpoon ; whites 
 of 4 eggs ; flour 2 1-2 cups ; beat and mixed as " GK>ld Cake." 
 
 Dabk Past.— Brown sugar 1 cup ; molases 1-2 cup ; butter 1-2 
 cup; sour milk 1-2 cup ; soda 1-2 tea-spoon; cream of tartar 1 tea- 
 spoon ; flour 2 1-2 cups ; yolks of four eggs ; cloves, allspice, ciu- 
 namon, and nutmeg, ground, of each 1-2 tea-spoon ; beat and 
 mixed as «' Gold Cake " 
 
 DiRBCTiONS. — When each part is ready, drop a spoon of 
 dark, then a spoon ot light, over the bottom of the dish, in 
 which it is to be baked, and so proceed to fill up the pan, 
 dropping the light upon the dark as you continue with the 
 different layers. 
 
 88. SiLVKE CAKr.— Whites of 1 doz. eggs ; flour five cups ; 
 white 8iigfl.r and butter, of each 1 cup ; cream or sweet uiille 1 
 <;up ; cream of tartar 1 tea spoon ; soda 1-2 tea-spoon ; beat and 
 mix as the ♦' Gold Cake." Bake in a deep pan. 
 
 34. Gold Cakk. —Yolks of 1 doz. eggs ; flour 6 cups ; white 
 sugar three cups ; butter 1 cup ; cream or sweet milk. 11-2 cups ; 
 soda 1-2 tea-spoon ; cream of tartar 1 tea-spoon. Bake in a deep 
 loaf pan. 
 
 Beat^the.eggs with the sugar, having the butter softened 
 by the^re; then stir it in; put the soda and cream of tar- 
 tar into the cream or milk, stirring up and mixing all to- 
 gether; then sift and stir in the flour. 
 
 The gold and silver cakes dropped as directed in the. 
 ** Marbled Cake," gives you still another variety. 
 
 35, Bride Cake. — Presuming that this work may fall 
 in. the hands of some persons who may occasionally have 
 a wedding amongst them, it would be imperfect without a 
 ** wedding cake," and as I have lately had an opportunity 
 to teat this one, upon ** such an occasion," in my own family, 
 I can bear testimony, so can the •* printer," to its adapta> 
 iion for all similar display s« 
 
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288 
 
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 Take butter 1 1-2 lbs. ; sugar 1 8-4 lbs., half of which in to be 
 Orleans sugar ; eggs well beaten, 2 lbs ; raisins 4 lbs. ; having the 
 seeds taken out, and chopped ; English currants having the grit 
 picked out and nicely waslied 5 lbs. ; citron, cut fine, 2 llM. ; 
 sifted flour 2 lbs. ; nutmegs 2 in number, and mace as much in 
 bulk ; alcohol 1 gill to 1-2 pint., in which a dozen or fifteen drops 
 of oil of lemon have been put 
 
 When ready to make your cake, weigh you** butter and 
 cut it in piece?, ond put it where it will soften, but not melt. 
 Next, stir the butter to a cream, and then add the sugar, and 
 'work till white. Next beat the yokes of the eggs, and put 
 them to the sugar and butter. Meanwhile another person 
 should beat the whites to a stiff froth and put them in. Then 
 add the spices and flour, and, last of all, the fruit, except the 
 citron, which is to be put in about three layers, the bottom 
 kyer about one inch from tlio bottom, and the top one an 
 inch from the top, and the other in the middle, smoothing 
 the top of the cako by dipping a spoon or two of water 
 upon it for that purpose. 
 
 The pan in which it is baked should be about thirteen 
 inches across the top, and five and a half or six inches deep^ 
 without scollops, and two three-quart pans also, which it will 
 fill; and they will require to be slowlv baked about three to 
 four hours. But it is impossible to give definite rules as to 
 the tinje required in baking cake. Try whether the cake is 
 done, by piercing it with a broom splinter, and if nothing 
 adheres it is done. 
 
 Butter the cake pans well; or if the pans are lined with 
 buttered white paper, the cake will be less liable to burn. 
 Moving cakes while baking tends to make them heavy. 
 
 The price of a large ** Bride Cake," like this, would be 
 about twelve dollars, and the cost of making it would be 
 about three dollars only, with } our two small ones, which 
 would cost as much to buy them as it does to make the 
 whole three. 
 
 The foregoing was written and printed over a year ago. 
 The daughter came home, and took dinner with us, one year 
 from the marriage ; and her mother set on some of the cake 
 as nice and moist as when baked. 
 
 36. Fruit Cakr. — As side accompaniments to the Bride 
 Cake, you will require several Fruit Cakes, which are to be 
 made as follows: <^ 
 
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 Batter, tugar, Eaglish curraatfl, egg«, and floar, of each 6 Ibt. 
 Mix as in the " Bride Cake." 
 
 Bak . in about six cakee» which would cost from one dol- 
 lar and fifty cents to two dollars a pieco, if bought for the 
 occasion. 
 
 87. FBOcrnNQ, ok Ioimo, vqr Cab;u.— The whites of 8 e^jgs 
 beat to a perfect froth and stiff ; pulverized, white sugar 2 lbs. ; 
 starch 1 table-spoon ; pulverized gum arable 1-2 oa. ; the juice of 
 
 1 lemon. 
 
 Sift the sugar, starch, and gum arabic into the beaten egg, 
 and stir well and long, When the cake is cold lay on a coat 
 of the frosting ; it is best not to take much pains in nuttinv 
 on the first coat, as little bits of the cake will mix .up witn 
 it, and give the frosting a yellow appearance; but on the 
 next day make more frosting the same as the firet, and apply 
 a second coat, and it will be white, clear and beautiful. 
 And by dipping the knife into cold water as applying, you 
 can smooth the frosting very nicely. 
 
 Z,i. ExoBLLKNT GaAOKERS. — Butter 1 cup ; salt 1 tea-spoon ; flour 
 
 2 qts 
 
 Rub thoroughly together with the hand, and wet up with 
 cold Abater; beat well, and beat in flour to make quite orittle 
 and hard ; then pinch off pieces and roll out each cracker by 
 itself, if you wish them to resemble bakers' crackers. 
 
 39. SuoAa Crackees. — Flour 4 lbs. ; loaf sugar and butter, of 
 each 1-2 lb. ; water 1 1-2 pts. Make as above. 
 
 40. Naples Biscuit. — White sugar, eggs, and flour, of each 
 lib. 
 
 If properly pulverized, sifted, beat, mixed, and baked 
 the size of Boston crackers, you will say it is nice indeed. 
 
 41. BtJCKWHBAT Short-Caks. — Take 3 or 4 tea-cups of nice 
 sour milk, 1 tea-spoon of soda-sal eratus dissolved in the milk ; if 
 the milk is very sour, you must use saleratus in proportion, with 
 a little salt ; mix up a dough with buckwheat flour, thicker than 
 ^on would mix the same for griddle-cakes, say quite stiff ; put 
 ^nto a buttered tin, and put directly into the stove even and 
 L/a.ke about 80 minutes ; or as you wonld a short cake from com- 
 mon flour. 
 
 It takes the place of the griddle cake, also of the short- 
 cake, in every sense of the word — nice with meat, butter, 
 honey molasses, &c. No shortening L used, and no need 
 of setting your dish of batter over night, for a, drunken 
 
290 
 
 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 
 
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 II. 
 
 I ' 
 
 husband to set hi*^ foot in. Wet the top a little, and warm 
 it up at next meal, if any is left — it is just as good as when 
 first made, while gridtlle-cakes have to be thrown awaj. It 
 18 also very good, cold. 
 
 Was tht) beauty of this cake kn'^wn to the majority of 
 persons, throughout the country generally, buckwheat 
 would bocome as staple an article of commerce as the com- 
 mon wheat. Do not fail to give it ^ trial. Some persons 
 in trying it, have not had good luck the first time; they 
 have failed from the milk's oeing too sour for the amount of 
 saleratus used, or from making the dough too thin. I 
 think I can say we have made it hundreds of times with 
 success, as 1 could oat it while dyspeptic, when I could eat 
 no other warm bread. 
 
 42. Ybast Cakb.— Good lively yeast 1 pt. ; rye or whect floor 
 to form a tbiok batter ; salt 1 tea-Hpoon ; stir in aud set t«> rise ; 
 when risen, stir in Indian meal, until it will roll out good. 
 
 Wht^n agjiin risen roll out very thin; cut them iuto 
 cakes and dry in the shadw; if the weather is the least 
 damp, by the fire or stove. If dried in the sun, they will 
 ferment. 
 
 To use: Dissolve one in a littlo warm water, and stir in 
 1 couple of table-spoons of flour; net near the fire, and 
 when light mix into the bread. If made perfectly dry, 
 they will keep for six months. 
 
 BREADS —Yankee Brown Buead. — For each good sized loaf 
 being made, take ? J pts. corn meal, and pour boiling water upon • 
 it, to srald it properly ; let stand until only blood warm, then 
 put aoout 1 qt. of rye flour upon the meal, and pour in a good 
 bowl of emptyings, with a little saleratus diifflolre in a gill of 
 water, kneading in more flour, to make of the consistence of com- 
 mon bread. If you raise it with yeast, put « little salt in the 
 meal, but if you raise it with salt-risings, or emptyings, which I 
 prefer, no more salt ;s needed. 
 
 Form into loaves, and let them set an hour and a half, or 
 until light; in a cool place, in summer, and on the hearth, 
 or under the stove, in winter ; then bake about two hours. 
 Make the dough fully as stiff" as for wheat bread, or a little 
 harder; for if made too soft it does i.ot rise good. The old 
 style was to use only one-third rye flour^ but it does not 
 wear if made that way ; or, in other words, most persons get 
 tired of it when mostly corn meal, but I never do when 
 mostly rye flour. 
 
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 • 
 
 Let all persons bear in njind that bread should ne'^^er be 
 eaten th i dar on which it is baked, and positively must this 
 be ob?e 'ved by dyspeptics. Hotels never ought to be with- 
 out this bread, nor families who care for health . 
 
 2. Ohabam Brbad. — I find in Zion's Herald, of Boston, 
 edited by Rev. E. O. Haven, formerly a Professor in the 
 University at this city, a few remarks upon the '♦ Different 
 Kinds of Bread," including Graham, which so fully explain 
 the philosophy and true principles of bread making that I 
 give them an insertion, for the benefit of bread makers. It 
 says: 
 
 ' '* Rice flour added to wheat flour, enables it to take up 
 an increased quantity of water." [See the " New Frencn 
 Method of Making Bread."] " Boiled and mashed potatoes 
 ^mixed with the dough cause the bread to retain i«oisture, 
 and prevent it from drying and ciumbling. Rye makes a 
 dark colored bread ; but it is capable of being fermented 
 and raised in the same manner as wheat. It retain? its 
 freshness and moisture longer than wheat. An admixture 
 of rye flour with that of wheat, decidedly improves the latter 
 in thic respect, Indian corn bread is much used in this 
 country. Mixed with wheat and rye, a dough is proJiiced 
 capable of fermentation, but pure maize meal cannot be fer- 
 mented so as to form a light bread. Its gluten lacks the 
 tenacious quality necessary to produce the regular cell-struc- 
 ture. It is most commonly used in the form of cakes, made 
 to a certain degree light by eggs or sour milk, and saleratus, 
 and is generally eaten warm. Indian corn is ground int^ 
 meal of various degrees of coarseness, but is never made so 
 fine as wheaten flour. Bread or cake from maize require 
 a considerably longer time to l>e acted upon by heat in the 
 bakinf "-ocess, than wheat or rye. If ground wheat be 
 unbolie^, ihat is, if its bran be not separated, wheat meal or 
 Oraham flour results, from which Graham or dyspepsia 
 bread is produced. It is made in the same general way ae 
 oiher wheaten bread, but requires a little peculiar manage- 
 ment Upon this point Mr. Graham remarks : 
 
 The wheat meal, a'td especially if it is ground coarsely, swells 
 consiierably in the clough, and therefore the dough should not 
 at first be made quite so stiff as that made of superfine flour ; and 
 when U is raised, if it is found too soft to mould well, a little 
 
292 
 
 DB. chase's recipes. 
 
 ■•« 
 
 more iu6al may be added. It should be remarked that dough 
 made of wheat meal will take on the acetous fermentation, dr 
 become sour sooner than that made of fine flour. It requires a 
 hotter oven, and to be baked longer, but must not stand so long 
 af^er being mixed before baking, as the made from flour. 
 
 3. Beown Bsbad Biscurr.— Take co» meal 2 qts.; rye flour 8 
 tots ; wheat flour 1 pt.; molasses 1 table-spoon*; yeast 8 tablespoons, 
 having soda 1 te^ispoon mixed with it. 
 
 Knead over night for breakfast. If pei-sbns will eat warm 
 
 bread, this, or buckwheat short-cake, should be the only kinda 
 
 ettten. 
 
 4. Dtsmptios' BisoTJiT AND CoFFBB. — ^Take Graham flour (wheat 
 coarsely ground, without bolting), 2 qts.; corn meal sifted, 1 qt*; 
 butter 1-2 cup ; molasses 1 cup ; sour milk to wet it up with sale* 
 ratus, as for biscuit. 
 
 Roll out and cut with a tea-cup, and bake as other biscu;it; 
 and when cold they are just the thing for dyspeptics. Ahd 
 if the flour was sifted, none would refuse to eat them : 
 
 For thk Coffbb. — Continue the baking of the above 
 
 biscuit in a slow oven for six or seven hours, or until they 
 
 are browned through like coffee. 
 
 DiRBOTiONS. — One biscuit boiled | of an hour will be plenty for 
 2 or 3 cups of coffee, and 2 for six persons ; serve with cream and 
 sugar as other coifee. 
 
 Dyspeptics should chew very fine and slowly, not drinking 
 until the meal is over; then sip the coffee at their leisure, 
 not more than one cup, however. This will be found very 
 nice for common use, say with one eighth coffee added; 
 hardly any would distinguish the difference between it and 
 that made from coffee alone. The plan of buying ground 
 coffee is bad ; much of it is undoubtedly mixed with peas, 
 which you can raise for less than fifteen or twenty centa a 
 pound, and mix for yourself. 
 
 6. London Bakbrs' Superior Loaf Bread. — The Mi- 
 
 ehigan Farmer gives us the following; any one can see 
 
 that it contains sound sense : 
 
 "To make a half-peck loaf, take | lb. of well boiled mealy 
 potatoes, mash them through a fine cullender or coarJse sieves 
 add ^ pt. of yeast, or f oz. of German dried-yeast, and 1| pt«. of . 
 lukewarm water (88 deg. Fahr.), together with \ lb. of flour, to 
 render the mixture the consistence of thin' batter; this mixture 
 is to be set aside to ferment ; if set in a warm place it will rise 
 in less thfm 2 hours, when ic resembles yeast, except in color. 
 
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 *l%e 'sponge so mado is then to be mixed witli 1 pt. of water, 
 nearly blood warm — via. 92 deg. Fahr. and poured into a half 
 
 rk of flour, which has previously had 1^ gib. of salt nUixed into 
 . the whole should then be kneaded into dough, and allowed 
 to rise in a warii place for 2 hours, when it should be kneaded 
 into loaves an(^ baked." 
 
 The object of adding the mashed potatoes is to increase 
 
 the amount of fermentation in the sponge, which it does to . 
 
 a very remarkable degree, and consequently, renders the 
 
 bread lighter and better. The potatoes will also keep tho 
 
 bread moist. 
 
 6. OxD BACOiaLOR's BaxAD, Biscuit, oe Pib-Ceust — Flour 1 
 qt. ; cream of tartar 2 tea-spoons; soda f tea-spoon; sweet milk to 
 wet up the flour to the consistence of biscuit dough. 
 
 Rub the flour apJ cream of tartar well together: dissolve 
 the soda in the milk, wetting up the flour with nnand bake 
 immediately. If you have no milk, use watjr in its place,' 
 adding a spoon of lard to obtain the same richness. It 
 does well for pie-crust where you cannot keep up sour milk. 
 
 7. New FBKfCH Method of Making Bebad. — Take rice J lb.; 
 tie it up in a thick linen bag, giving ample room fur it to swell; 
 boil it from 3 to 4 hours, or until it becomes a perfect mate; mix 
 this while warm with 7 lbs. of flour, adding the usiml quanti- 
 ties of yeast and salt; allow the dough to work a proper time 
 near the fire, then divide into loaves. Dust them in, and knead 
 vigorously. 
 
 This quantity of flour and rice makes about thirteen and 
 one-half lbs. of bread, which will keep moist much longer 
 than without the rice. It was tested at tha London Poly- 
 tech uic Institute, after having been made public in France, 
 with the above results. 
 
 8. Bakinq Powmes, poe BtsociT Without SnoETiiirasra.— Bi- 
 carbonate of soda 4 ozs. ; cream of tartar 8 oza. ; and properly dry 
 them, and thoroughly mix. It should be k^t in well corked 
 bottles to prevent dampness which neutralizes the acid. 
 
 Use about three tea-spoons to each quart of flour being 
 baked ; mix with milk, if you have it, if not, wet up with 
 cold Water and put directly into the oven to bake. 
 
 PIES— Lmos Pie, Extea Niob.— One lemon; water 1 cup; 
 brown sugar 1 cup; flour 2 table-apoons; 6 eggs; white sugar 2 
 table-spoons. 
 
 Grate the rind fW)m the lemon, squeeze out the juice, 
 and chop up the balance very fine; put all together and 
 
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 294 
 
 DB. OHASE'S RECIPES. 
 
 add the water, brown sugar, and flour, working tbe maas 
 into a smooth paste ; beat the eggs and m\x with the paste^ 
 saving the whites of two of them; make two pies, baking 
 with no top crust; while these are baking, beat the whites 
 of the two eggs, saved for that purpose, to a stiff froth and 
 stir in the white sugar; when the pies are done, "spread this 
 frosting evenly over them, and set again in the oven and 
 brown slightly. 
 
 2. Pie-Crust Glaze. — In making any pfe which has a 
 
 juicy mixture, the juice soaks into the crust, making it soggy 
 
 and unfit to eat; to prevent this: 
 
 Beat an egg well ; and with a brush or bit of «loth, wet the 
 crust of the pie with the beaten egg, just before you put in the 
 pie mixture. 
 
 For pioy|hich have a top crust also, wet the top with 
 the same ^ore baking, which gives it a beautiful yellow 
 brown. It gives beauty also to biscuit, ginger cakes, and is 
 just the thing for rusk, by putting in a little sugar. 
 
 3. Apple Pie which is Digestible. — Instead of mix- 
 ing up your c'ust with water and lard, or butter, making it 
 very rich, with shortening, as customary for apple pies : 
 
 Mix it ujf every way just as you would for biscuit, using sour 
 milk and saleratus, with a little lard or butter only ; mix the 
 'jough quite atiflf, roll oui; rather thin, lay it upon your tin, or 
 plate ; and having ripe apples sliced or chopped nicely and laid 
 on, rather thick, and sugar according to the acidity of the apples, 
 then a top crust, aad bake well, putting the e^g upon the crusts, 
 as mentioned iu the " Pie Crust Glaze," and you have got a pie 
 that is fit to eat. 
 
 But when you make the rich crust, and cook the apples 
 and put them on, it soaks the crust which does not bake, 
 and no stomach can digest it, whilst our way gives you a 
 nice light crust, and does not take half the shortening of 
 the other plan ; yet perhaps nothing is saved pecuniarily, 
 as.butter goes as finely with the biscuit-crust pies, when hot, 
 as it does with biscuit ; but the pie is digestible, and when 
 it is cold, does not taste bad to cut it up on your plate, 
 with plenty of sweetened cream. 
 
 4. Applk Custtabd Pm.— Thb Nicest Put Evan Eat«n.— Peel 
 soar apples and stew until soft and not much water left in them * 
 thbn rub them through a cullender ; beat three eggs for each pie to 
 be baked, and put in at the rate of one cup of butter and one of 
 jBugar for three pies ; season with nutmeg. 
 
 
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 My wife has more recently made them with only 1 egg to each 
 pie, with only half of a cup of butter and sugar each, to 4 or 5 
 pies; but the amount of sugar must be governed somewhat by 
 the acidity of the apples. 
 
 Bake as "pumpkin pies, "virhicb tbey resemble in appear- 
 -ance; and between them and apple pies in taste; very nice 
 indeed. We find them equally nicse with dried apples by 
 making them ^ little more juicy. 
 
 If a ftosting was put upon them, as in the '^Lomon Fie," 
 th«n returned, for a few minutes, to the oven, the appear* 
 «nce, at least, would be improved. 
 
 6. Applb Custard, Vert Nice. — Take tart apples, that are 
 quite juicy, and stew and rub them, as in the recipe above; and to 
 1 pt. of the appl'?, beat 4 eggu and put in, with 1 table-spoon of 
 sugar, 1 of butter, and ^ of a grated nutmeg. Ii^ 
 
 Bake as other custards. It is excellent; anor makes a 
 good substitute for butter, apple butter, &g. 
 
 6. Pasttb bok Tarts. — Loaf sugar, flour, and butter, eqtial 
 weights of each; mix thoroughly, by beating with a loUing pin, 
 for half an hour; folding up and beating again and again. 
 
 When properly mixed, pinch off small pieces and roll out 
 each crust by itself, which causes then to dish so lb to hold 
 the tart-inixture. And if you will have a short pie-crust, 
 this i& the plan to make it . 
 
 PUDDINGS — BiscDiT Puddimq, Without Rb-Bakino. — ^Take 
 water 1 qt ; sugar J lb.; butter the size of a hen's egg, flour 4 
 ^able-spoons; nutmeg, grated ^ of one. 
 
 Mix the flour with just sufficient cold water to rub up all 
 the lumps while the balance of the water is heating, mix 
 all, and split the biscuit once or twice, and put into this 
 gravy while it is hot, and keep hot until used at table. It 
 uses up cold biscuit, and I prefer it to richer puddings. It 
 is indeed worth a trial. This makes a nice dip gravy also 
 for other puddings. 
 
 2. Old English Christmas Plum Puddixq. — The 
 Harrisburg Telegraph furnishes its readers with a recipe for 
 the real "Old English Christmas Plum Pudding." After 
 having given this pudding a fair test, I am willing to endorse 
 every word of it; and wish for the holiday to come oftener 
 than once a year : 
 
 " To make what is called a pound pudding, take of raisins 
 
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 well fltoned, but not chopped, currants thoroughly washed, 1 lb. 
 each; chop suet 1 lb. very finely, and mix inth them; add \ lb. 
 of flour or bread very finely crumbled; 8 ozs. of sugar; 1^ osa. of 
 grated lemon peel, a blade of mace, ^ of a small nutmeg, 1 tear 
 Spoon of ginger, ^ doz. of eggs, well beaten; work it well together, 
 put it in a cloth, tie it firmly, allowing room to swell; put it into 
 boiling water, and boil not less than two hours. It should not be 
 suffered to stop boiling. 
 
 The doth, when about to be used , should be dipped into 
 
 bciling water, squeezed dry, and floured; and when the 
 
 pudding is done, have a pan of cold water ready, and dip 
 
 it in for a moment, as soon as it comes out of the pot, which 
 
 prevents the pudding from sticking to the cloth. For a dip- 
 
 gi'avy for this or other puddings, see the "Biscuit Pudding, 
 
 without Re-Baking," or " Spreading Sauce for Puddings." 
 
 8. IwDiAJf^PuDDDiG, To Bakb— Nice sweet milk 1 qt.; but- 
 ter 1 oz.;^tfPggs, well beaten; Indian meal 1 tea-cup; raisins } lb. 
 sugar J lb: 
 
 Scald the milk, and stir in the meal whilst boiling; then 
 let it stand until only blood-warm, and stir all well togeth- 
 er, and bake about one and a half hours. Eaten with 
 sweetened cream, or either of the pudding sauces mentioned 
 in the *' Christmas Pudding. " 
 
 4. Indian Pcddino To Boil.— Indian meal 1 qt., with a little 
 salt; 6 eggs; sour milk 1 cup; saleratus I tea-spoon; raisins 
 1 lb. 
 
 Scald the meal, having the salt in it; when cool stir in 
 the beaten eggs ; dissolve the saleratus in the milk and stir 
 in also, then the raisins; English currants, dried, currants, 
 or dried berries, of any kind, answer every purpose, and are, 
 in fact very nice in place of the raisins. Boil about one 
 and a half hours. Eaten with sweetened cream or any of 
 the pudding sauces. Any pudding to be boiled must hot 
 be put into the water until it boils, and taken out as soon as 
 done, or they become soggy and unfit to eat. 
 
 6. Quick Indian Pudding. --Take IJ cups of sour milk; 2 eggs, 
 well beaten; 1 small tea-spoon of 8ale;ratus; dissolved in the milk; 
 then sift in dry com meal, and stir to the oondstence of corn 
 bread; then stir in ^ lb. oi any of the fruits mentioned above; or, 
 if you hare no fruit, it is quite nice without. ' *'" '^ ' ; ' 
 
 ^ Tie up and boil ore hour; sweetened cream with a little 
 
 nutmeg makes a nice sauce. As I have just eaten of this 
 
 for luj dinner, I throw it in extra, for it is worthy^ 
 
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 6. Flour Pudding, to Boil.— -When persons have 
 plenty of dried apples or peacBe8,,and Dot muoh of the 
 sinaUer fruits; <.>r desire to change from thera in puddingSt 
 
 Take wheat flour snffideut to make a good pan of biscoit, and 
 mix it up as for bisouit, with w>ur milk, saleratus, and a little 
 butter or lard, roll out rather thicker than for piecrust; now, 
 having your i4)plea or peaches nicely stewed, wet the crust over 
 with the " Pie Crust Glaze," then spread a layer of the fruit upon 
 it, adding a little sugar, as it lies upon the table ; and if you 
 choose, scatter over them a handful of raisins, or any other of 
 the dried fruits mentioned ; roll up the whole together, and boil 
 1 hour. 
 
 Eaten with any sauce which you may prefer, but the 
 corn meal puddings are much the most healthy, and I pre- 
 fer their taste to those made from flour. 
 
 7. PoTAto PcnwNO. — Rub through a cullender 6 large, or 12 
 middle-sized potatoes ; beat 4 eggs, mix with 1 pt. of g(xA milk ; 
 stir in the potatoes, sugar and seasoning to taste ; batter the dish ; 
 bake half an hour. 
 
 This recipe is simple and economical, as it is made of 
 what is wasted in many families, namely, cold potatoes; 
 which may be kept two or three days, until a suflScient 
 quantity is collected. To be eaten with butter. 
 
 8. Gbbkn Coen PtiDDMa. — Green corn, raw, 2 doz ears ; sweet 
 milk 8 to 4 qts. ; 6 eggs ; sugar 1 to 2 cups. Salt to suit the taste. 
 
 Split the kernels lengthwise of the ear with a sharp knife; 
 then with a case knife scrape the corn from the cob, which 
 leaves the hulk on the cob; mix it with the milk and other 
 articles, and bake from two to three hours. To be eaten 
 with butter and sugar. 
 
 9. Steambd PonwNG. — Two eggs ; sugar 1 cup ; sour milk 1 cup; 
 saleratus 1-2 teaspoon ; a little salt ; dried whortleberries, cur- 
 rants, raisins, or other fruit, 1 cup ; flour. 
 
 Beat the eggs and stir in the sugar; dissolve the saleratus 
 
 in the r^ilk, and mix m also the fruit and salt; then thicken 
 
 vith flour raiuer thicker thai for cake; |)ut into a two-quart 
 
 pin and set in the steamer, and steam an hour and a half ; 
 
 and I think it will crack open on the back — if not, try again. 
 
 It is worth the trouble, especially if you have j^lenty of 
 
 sweetened cream. 
 
 10- Spbxadimo Saucb, xoA PunniirGs.— Butter 4 ozs. ; sugar 6 on. ; 
 1 nutmeg.'' 
 
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 Grate the nutmeg and rub all together; these are about 
 the proper proportions, but more or less can be made, a§- 
 deaired, aad more or less nutmeg can also be used ; or any 
 other ftavoring in their place. This sauce is nice on baked 
 puddings, hot or cold ; and to tell it all, it is not bad on 
 bread. See the " Biscuit Puddmg," for dip sauces. 
 
 DOMESTIC DISHES. "-Gebr.. Corn OMEtET. - Green oom boiled 
 1 doz. ears ; 6 e^ga ; salt and pepper to suit the taste. 
 
 Remove the corn from the cob, as mentioned in the- 
 
 '* Green Corn Pudding." The splitting allows the escape 
 
 of the pulp, whilst the hull is held by the cob; season, form 
 
 into small cakes, and fry to a nice brown, and you have a 
 
 Tery nice omelet. 
 
 2. APPLES—To Bake— Stbamboat Stylb— T^bttbe than Pei- 
 SERVBS. — Take moderately sour apples, when ripe ; and with a 
 pocket-knife cut out the stem, and flower end also, so as to re- 
 move the skin from these cup shaped cavities ; wash them, and 
 place them in a dripping-pan now fill these cavities with brown 
 sugar, and pretty freely between them also, with sugar ; then lay 
 on a few lumps of butter over the sugar ; place them thus ar- 
 ranged, into the oven when you begin to heat up the stove for 
 breakfast or dinner, and keep taem in until perfectly baked 
 through and soft. 
 
 Take them up on plates, while hot, by means of a spoon^ 
 
 and dip the gravy, arising from the apple juice, sugar and 
 
 butter, over them. Should any of them be left after the 
 
 meal is over, set them by until the next meal, when they 
 
 may be placed in the stove even until hot, and they will 
 
 have all the beauty of the first baking. Or perhaps soma 
 
 persoHs may prefer them fi-ied, as follows: 
 
 8 Fkied Apples — Extka Nice. — Take any nice sour cooking 
 apples, and after wiping them, cut into slices about one-fourth of 
 an inch thick ; have a frying-pan ready, in which there is as 
 fimall amount of lard, say J or | of an inch in depth The lard 
 must be hot before the slices ot apples are put in. Let one side 
 ^,of them fry until brown ; then turn, and put a small quantity of 
 'sugar on the browned side of each slice. By the time the other 
 side is browned, the sugar will tfe melted and spread over the 
 frhole surface. 
 
 Serve them up hot, and you will have a dish good 
 enough for kings and queens, or any poor man's breakfast; 
 and I think that even the President would not refuse a few 
 Alices, if properly cooked. There is but little efaoiee bft- 
 
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 tween frying and baking by these plans; either one is very 
 nice. 
 
 4. Applh FBiTTFR9.~Sour milk 1 pt. ; saleratus 1 teaspoon ',, 
 flour to make a batter not very stiff ; 6 applet, pared and cored, 8 
 
 «gg8. 
 
 Dissolve the saleratus in the milk ; beat the eggn and put 
 in ; then the flour to make a soft batter ; chop the apples to 
 about the size of sraal! peas, and mix them well in the batter. 
 Fry them in lard, as you would dough-nuts; Eaten with 
 butter and sugar. 
 
 5. Apple Mbranob. — An Excblleit Substitute fob Pie or Pud- 
 mxa.— First, take a deep disa and put a bottom crust into it, as 
 for a pie ; have nice sour apples, pared, sliced, and stewed, sweet- 
 ening slightly, place a layer oif the stewed apple upon the crust, 
 say about half an inch in thickness; then put on a layer of nice 
 bread, spread with butter as for eating, then another layer of the 
 ■apple ; now place in the oven and bake as a pudding or pie ; when 
 done, have the whites of eggs beaten and mixed with a little loaf 
 or other white sugar, say 2 eggs for a 2 quart dish ; place this 
 upon the merange and return it to the oven for a few minutes, to 
 brown the egg mixture or frosting. Serve with sugar dissolved in 
 « Utile water, adding a little butter, with nutmeg or lemon, as de- 
 fired oi preferred. 
 
 6. BB.SAD, TO Fry — Bettkr than Toast.— Take bread that is dry, 
 the dry^r the better, so it is pot mouldy, first dip it rather quickly 
 into cold water, then into es^gs which are well beat, having a little 
 tialt in them ; then immediately fry for a short time in hot lard 
 until the surface is k pretty yellow or light brown, according to 
 the heat of the lard. 
 
 I have never eaten bread cooked in any form which suits 
 me as well as this. But the following is very nice. 
 
 7 . Toast — Gbrhan Style. -Bakers' bread 1 loaf, cut into slices 
 ^ inch in thickness ; milklqt.; 3 eggs, and a little salt, beat 
 the eggs and mix them with the milk, and flavor as for custard, 
 not cooking it, however. Dip the sliced bread into the mixture 
 -occasionally until it is all absorbed ; then fry the pieces upon a 
 buttered griddle. Serve for dinner with sugar syrup, ^a\^Md 
 with lemon«« tJlP 
 
 This is the German style of making toast; but is quite 
 good enough for an American. And I have no doubt that 
 home-made bread will answer all purposes ; ours does, cer- 
 tainly. 
 
 8. Back-woods Frsservks. — Moderately boil a pint of 
 iasses, from 5 to 20 minutes, acco ig to its consistency ; 
 
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 add 3 eggs, thoTOUghljr beaten, hastily stirring them in, and con- 
 tinue to boil a few ininates longer; then season with a nutmeg 
 or Ictmon. 
 
 Do n^f. fail to give it a trial. 
 
 9. FaKNon Hone?. — White sugar 1 lb.; 6 eggs, leaving out 
 the whites of 2; the juice of 3 or 4 lemons, and the grated rind of 
 2; and ^ lb. of butter. Stir over a slow fire until it is about the 
 consistency of honey. 
 
 This and the last, will be found to conne much nearer 
 what they represent, than the Yankee's "Wooden nutmegs'*^ 
 did, upon trial. v 
 
 10. MuFWKS — ^To each qt. of sweet milJc add 2 eggs well bi>a ten; 
 a lump of butter half the size of an egg, and flour enough to make 
 a stiff batter. Stir in ^ pt. of yeast; let them stand until perfectly 
 light, and then bake on a griddle, in tin rings, made ifor that 
 purpose. j 
 
 These are merely strips of tin, three quarters of an inch 
 wide, made into rings from two and a half to three inches 
 in diameter, without bottom — ^the ring being simply placed 
 on a griddle, and the batter poured in to fill it 
 
 11. Mock Otsibrs. — Six nice, plump, ears of sweet corn* 
 nnoooked; grate from the cob; beat 1 egg, stirring into it flour 
 and milk, of each 1 table-spoon; season with a little salt and 
 pepper. Put about a tea-spoon of butter into a suitable pan for 
 frying, having mixed in the corn also, drop the mixture into the 
 hot butter; one spoon of it in a place, turning them so as to fry- 
 brown. Serve hot, for breakfast. 
 
 Whether they imitate oysters or not, no one need regret 
 giving them a trial. 
 
 12. Fruit Jams, Jblliks and Preserves. — The 
 diflFereniijB between common preserves, jellies, and jams, is 
 this : Preserves are made by taking fruit and sugar, pound 
 for pound, and simply cooking them together until the 
 fruit is done. 
 
 13. Jellies are made by squeezing and straining out the 
 jMjg only, of the fruit; then taking a pound of sugar fcr a 
 |Bid of juice, and cooking until it jells^ which is told by 
 taking, out a little upon a cold plate. \ 
 
 14. Jams are made b} weighing the whole fruit, wash 
 ing, sifeing, and plotting in sufficient water to book it %e1I 
 theo when cool, rubbing it through a fine sieve, and v^tk 
 this pulp, ptttljng in as much sugaf as there Was of ^e^ 
 
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 fruit only, and cooking it very carefully, until the weight of 
 the jam is the same as the fruit and added sugar; the water 
 you see is all gone ; and this n eanily told by having pre- 
 viously weighed tho kettle in which you are cooking it. 
 The jam, if nicely done, contains more of the fruit flavor 
 than the jell, and is m valuable as the jell to put into w^r 
 as a drink for invalids; and better for flavoring syrups for 
 soda-fountains, &c. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, 
 peaches, and pine-apples, make very nice jams for flavoring 
 syrups. Much of the flavor of the fruit resides in the skin, 
 pits, (fee. And jams made in this wn^ from the black- 
 berry, are good for sore mouth, diarrhea, ay ~3ntery,&c. 
 
 16. FHurr Exthaotb.- -Best alcohol 1 pt. ; oil of lemon 1 ot. ; 
 peel of 2 lemoDS. 
 
 Break the peels, and put in with the others for a few 
 days ; then remove them and you v ill have just what you 
 desire, for a trifling cost compared with the twenty-five cent 
 bottles, which are so prominently set out as ths nicest thing 
 in the world. 
 
 This rule holds good for all fruit oils ; but for fruits, such 
 as peaches, pine-apples, strawberries, raspberries, blackber- 
 ries, (fee, you will take alcohol and water equal parts, and 
 put upon them sufficient to handsomely cover ; and in a few 
 days you have the flavor and juices of the fruit, upon the 
 principle of making •* Bounce," which most men know 
 more or less about. If persons will act for themselves, 
 using common sense, working from known facta like these, 
 they will not need to run after every new-fangled thing 
 which is seen blazing forth in almost every advertisement 
 of the day. 
 
 Vanilla, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, &c., are made by cut- 
 ting up the vanilla bean, or bruising the nutmegs, cinnamon, 
 (fee, And putting about two ounces to each pint of pure 
 spirit, or reduced alcohol, frequently shaking for about t 
 weeks, and filtering or pouring oflf very carefully; if 
 sale, however, they must be filtered ; for coloring any of the 
 extracts see the •* Essences" and " Syrups." For cakes and 
 piest however, it is jue^ as well to pulverize nutmegs, mace, 
 cinnamon, <fec., and use the powder, for the quantity re* 
 quired is so small that it will never be seen in the cake or 
 
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 MEDICATED WATEKS-Rosb Watb».— Take carbonate of 
 magneeiii 1 oz.; oil of rose 80 drops; drop the oil upon the mag- 
 nesia, and rub it together; then add, rubbing all the time, of 
 distilled water, if you can get it, 1 qt., if not, take the purest rain 
 or snuw water, — a porcelain mortar is best, but a bowl does very 
 .well, — then Alter through filtering paper. 
 
 The maornesia breaks up the oil globules and enables the 
 rwater to take it up; an-^l the filtering removes the magneRia. 
 
 2. Cinnamon Watee.— Use the same amount of oil magnesia, 
 -and water, and treat the same as the " Rose Water." ^ 
 
 8. Pepper.hint, Spearmint and Pennyroyal Waters are made 
 ■the same as above. 
 
 4. Camphor Water. — To make camphor water, you must first 
 
 fut on a few drops of alcohol; s ly 40 or 50 dropa, to camphor gum 
 oz. ; and rub the camphor fine, which enables you to work it up 
 with magnesia^ oz. ; then gradually add water 1 qt., aa i9en- 
 tioned in the waters above, and filtered. 
 
 The rose and cinnamon waters are used for cooking; but 
 the others for medical purposes. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMINT. 
 
 WASHING FLUID -Saving Half the Wash-Boaed Labor. -» 
 Sal-soda 1 lb ; stond lime Jib.; water 6 qts. ; boil a short time, 
 stirring occasionally; then let it settle and pour off the clear fluid 
 into a stone jug and cork for use; soak your white clothes over 
 night, in simple water; wring out, and so^p wrist- bands, collars, 
 and dirty or stained places; have your boiler half filled with water, 
 and when at scalding heat, put in one common tea-cup of the 
 fluid, stir and put in your clothes, and boil for half an hour; then 
 rub lightly through one suds only, rinsing well in the bluing 
 water, as usual, and all is complete. 
 
 If you wish to wash on Monday, put warm suds to the 
 thes whilst breakfast is being got ready; then wring out 
 soap as above, will do just as well as soaking them over 
 night, and my wife thinks better. 
 
 For each additional boiler of clothes add half a cup of 
 the fluid only ; of course boiling in the same water through 
 the whole washing. If more water is needed in the boiler 
 for the last clothes, dip it from the Sudsing tub. Soak 
 your woolen and calico in the suds from which you have 
 
MISCELLAMBOUB DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 washed the white clothes, whiUt hanging them out, dipping, 
 iu some of the boiling water from the boiler, if necessary;', 
 then wash out the woolen and calico as usual — of course,- 
 washing out woolen goods before you do the calico. The 
 fluid brightens instead of fading the col«^r8 in calico. 
 
 This plan not only saves the two rubbings which women 
 give their clothes before boiling, and more than half of the 
 soap — doe" not injure the clothes, but saves their wear in 
 two rubbings before boiling; and is a good article for re- 
 moving grease from floors, doors, and windows, and to re- 
 move tar or grease from the hands, <fec. 
 
 I hope every lady into whose hands this recipe may fall, 
 will give it a trial, as my family have now used it over seven ' 
 years, not missing only two washings. It does not rot 
 clothes, but makes them wash full or more than one-half 
 easier than the old way. Seven years ought to be considered^ 
 a sufficient test. 
 
 The honor of this recipe is accredited to Prof. Liebig, of 
 Germany. 
 
 I have found many women using turpentine! alcohol, am- 
 monia, camphor gum, &c., in *beir washing fluids; but none 
 of them ought ever to be used for such purposes (one wo- 
 man lost the use of her arm, for six months, by using a 
 fluid containing turpentine) ; the tui*pentine and alcohol es- 
 pecially, tend to open the pores of the skin, and thus make 
 the person more liable to take cold in hanging out the clothes^ 
 as also to weaken the arm. 
 
 And here let me say, if it is possible to avoid it, never 
 allow the woman who washes the clothes, and thus becomes 
 warm and sweaty, to hang them out; and especially ought 
 this to be regarded in the winter or windy weather. Many 
 consumptions are undoubtedly brought on by these frequently 
 repeated colds, in this way. It works upon the principle 
 that two thin shoes make one cold, two colds an attack of 
 bronchitis; two attacks of branchitis one consumption — the 
 end, a coflSn. 
 
 LIQUID BLUEING— For Clothes —Most of the blue- 
 ing sold is poor stuff, leaving specks in the clothes. To 
 avoid this : 
 
 Take best Prussian-blue, pulverized, 1 oz. ; oxalic acid, alio 
 pulverized, J oz. ; soft water 1 qt. Mix. The acid dissolves the 
 
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 blue and holds it in evenly in the water, lo ibat speckling will 
 nerer take place. One or two table-spoons of i( is kuffident for « 
 tub of water, aooording to the size of the tub. 
 
 Chinese-blue, when it can be got, is the bent, and onhr 
 costs one shilline an ounce, with three cents for the acid, will 
 give better Ratisfaction than fifty cents worth of the common 
 blueing. This amount has now lasted my family over a 
 year. 
 
 SOAPS— Son Soap— For Ham- thb Exphnsb and Onu-Foueth 
 TUB TaouBta of tm Old Wat. — Take white-bar soap 4 lbs.; cut il 
 flue and dissolve, by heating in soft water 4 g ils. ; adding sal 
 soda 1 lb. When ail is dissolved and well mixed it is 
 done. 
 
 Yellow soap does very well, but Colgate's white, is said 
 tb be the beat. But our '' White bard sjap" is the same 
 kind. \ 
 
 This soap can be made thicker or more thin, by using 
 
 rtiore or loss water, as you may think best after once making 
 
 it. Even in common soft soap, if this amount of sal-soda 
 
 IB put into that number of gallons, washing will be done 
 
 much easier, and the soap will more than compensate fot 
 
 the expense and trouble of the addition. 
 
 2. GuRMAN Ekasivb, OH Yw-M)w SoAP. — ^Tallow and sal-soda, of 
 each 112 lbs.; rosin 66 lbs. ; stone lime 28 lbs. ; palm-oil 8 Ibe.; 
 soft water 28 gals. ; or fof amuU qttaniitia, tallow and sal-soda, 
 of each 1 lb. ; rosin 7 ozs. ; stone lime 4 ozs. ; palm-oil 1 oz. ; soft 
 water 1 qt. 
 
 Put soda, lime, and water into a kettle and boil, stirring 
 
 well ; then let it settle and pour oflF the ley. In another 
 
 kettle, melt the tallow, rosin, and palm-oil ; having it hot, 
 
 the ley being also boiling hot ; mix all together stirring 
 
 well, and the work is done. 
 
 8. Hard Soap, with Laed.— Sal- soda and lard, of each (J Ibe.; 
 stone lime 8 lbs. ; soft water 4 gals. ; dissolve the lime and soda 
 In the water, by boiling, stirrin?, settling and pouring off ; then 
 return to the kettle (brasrf or <i)pper)and add the lard and boil 
 until it becomes soap ; then pour into a dish or moulds, and whea 
 cold, cut it into bars and let it dry. 
 
 This recipe was obtained by finding an over-coat with it 
 m the pocket, and also a piece of the so^p ; the man kept 
 it with him, as it irritated his f^t-rheum so much less than 
 oi^er 80f>p8. It has proved valiiable for w^hing generally ; 
 
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 mA atao for shaving purpoeee. It would be better than 
 half the toilet soapB sold, if an ounce or two of sassafras 
 oil was stirred into this amount; or a little of the soap 
 toight be put in a sep&rate dish, putting in a little of the 
 b\], to correspond with the quantity of soap. 
 
 4. Whiti Habd Soap, with Tallow. — Fresh slacked lime, sal- 
 soda, and tallow, of oach 2 lbs. ; dissolve the 80<la In 1 gal. boiling 
 soft water ; now n^ix in the .lime, stirring occasionally for a few 
 hours ; after which let it settle, pouring off the clear liquor au. 
 boiling the tallow therein until it is all dissolved ; cool it in aflat 
 box or pan, and cut into bars or cakts, as preferred. 
 
 It can be flavored with sassafras oil, as the last, by stirring 
 it in when cool ; it can be colored also, if desired, as men- 
 tioned in the " Variegated Toilet iSoap." 
 
 When any form of soda is used in making soap, it is 
 necessary to use lime to give it causticity; or, in other 
 words, to make it caustic; which gives it much greater 
 power upon the grease, by removing the carbonic acid; 
 n^nce the benefit of putting lime in the bottom of a leach 
 when making soap from common ashes. 
 
 6. Tbakbpabbnt Soap. — Take nice yellow bar soap. 6 lbs ; cat it 
 thin and put into a brass, tin, or copper kettle; with alcohol 1-2 
 gal.; heating gradually over a slow fire, stirriuR until all is dis- 
 solved ; then add an ounce of sassafras essence, and stir until weH 
 mixed; now pour into pans about 1 1-2 inches deep, and «vhen 
 cold, cut into square bais, the length or width of the pui as 
 desired. 
 
 This gives you a nice toilet soap for a trifling expense, 
 and when fully dry it is veiy transparent. 
 
 6. Onb HuMDaso PonNDs op Good Soap for $1 30.— Take pot- 
 ash 6 lbs., 76 cts.; lard 4 lbs., 60 cts.; rosin J lb., 6 cts. 
 
 Beat up the rosin, mix all together, and set aside for five 
 days ; then put the whole into a ten gallon cask of warm 
 water, and stir twice a day for ten days; at the expiration of 
 which time you will have one hundrad pounds of excellent 
 soap. 
 
 7. Chemical Soft Soap. — J. Hamilton, an English 
 
 fentleman, and proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, Aurora, In- 
 iana, makes his soap for house use, as folio*. .1 
 
 Take grease 8 Ibe.; caustic soda 8 lbs.; ^-soda 1 lb.; melt the 
 grease in a kettle, melt the sodas in soft water 4 gals, and pour 
 
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 all into a barrel holding 40 gals., and fill up with soft water, rod 
 the labor is done 
 
 When the caustic soda cannot be obtained of soap-ma ke?», 
 you ^11 make it by obtaining soda-ash and fresh slacked 
 lime, of each eight pounds; dissolving them in the water 
 with the sal-soda, and when settled, pouring off the cleat 
 liquid as in the *• White Hard Soap with Tallow." 
 
 8. Soap WITHOUT Heat. — Mr. Tomilson, writing to Judge 
 Buel, says: 
 
 ' ' My wife has no trouble about soap. The grease is put into a 
 cask, and strong ley added. Durng the year, as the fat iacreases, 
 more ley is stirred in ; and occasionally stirred with a stick that is 
 kept in it. By the time the cask is full, the soap is made for use." 
 
 There is no mistake about this manner of making soap. 
 The only object of boiling is to increase the strength of 
 weak ley and hasten the process, 
 
 9. Windsor, oe Toiubt Soap.- Cut some new, white bar soap 
 into thin slices, melt it over a slow fire, and scent it with oil of 
 caraway ; when perfectly dissolved, pour it into a mould and let 
 it remain a week, then cut it into such sized squares as you may 
 require. 
 
 10. Varibgatbd ToiLHT Soap. — Soft water 8 qts. ; nice white bar 
 soap 8 lbs.; sal-soda 2 ozs.; Chinese vermillion and Chinese blue, 
 M each, as much as will lie on a 6-cent piece ; oil of sassafras 
 \ oz. 
 
 Shave the soap fine and put it into the water as it begins 
 to boil ; when dissolved, set it from the fire ; take out a cup of 
 the soap and stir in the vermilion ; take out another cup of 
 the soap and stir in the blue; then pour in one of the cups 
 and give two or three turas only with the stirring stick ; then 
 put in the other in the same way ; and finally pour into a 
 suitable box, and when cold it can be cut into bars ; or it 
 can be run in moulds, if desired ; it will become hard in a 
 short time; giving most excellent satisfaction. If stirred 
 thoroughly, after putting in the colors, it would be all of a 
 mixed color; but giving it only two or three turns, leaves 
 it in streaks, most beautiful. 
 
 Soap manufacturers generally use soda in preference to 
 wood ashes, because less troublesome ; and to make it more 
 caustic, or, in other words, to absorb tbe carbonic acid ffas, 
 they must put about pound for pound of recently slacked 
 
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 lime >!7ith noda-acb, or Bal-soda; diesolving by heat or stir- 
 ring; or by both; using sufficient water to make the ley 
 iHipport a fresh lain egg, and drawing off clear of the hmo 
 sediment. Thirteen hundred pounds of the tallow, or there- 
 ftbouts, with the ley, makes one ton of white soap; and yel- 
 low Roap, by using ten hundred of tallow and three hundred 
 and fifty of yellow rosin, for each ton, boiling with the lye 
 until they unite; then pouring into frames, made to fit one 
 upon another, to cool and harden ; finally taking off one 
 frame at a time, and with a wire, having a handle at each 
 •end to draw it with, cut into slices, then bats, and cording 
 up, as wood, to dry. If wood-ashes are used, plenty of lime 
 must be put into the bottom of the leach. 
 
 TALLOW CANDLES— For Summer Use.— Most 
 tallow, in summer, is 'nore or less soft, and often quite yel- 
 low, to avoid both : 
 
 Take your ta.low and put a lit^^e bees-wax with it, especially if 
 your bees- wax is dark and not fit to sell; put into a suitable 
 kettle, adding weak ley and gently boil, an hour or two each day 
 for 2 days, stirring and skimnjing well; each morning cutting it 
 out and scraping off the bottom which is soft, adding fresh ley 
 (be sure it is not too strong) 1 or 2, or 3 gals., according to the 
 amount of tallow. The third morning use water in which alum 
 and saltpetre is dissolved, at the rate of 1 lb each, for SO lbs. ,of 
 tallow; then simmer, stir, and skim again; let cool, and you can 
 take it off the water for use. 
 
 They may be dipped or run in moulds; for dipping, 
 '^llow two pounds for each dozen candies. 
 
 Saltpetre and alum are said to harden lard for candles; 
 buc it can be placed amongst the humbugs of the day. 
 But I will give you a plan which is a little shorter for hard- 
 ening tallow; either will work well, take your choice: 
 
 2 Tallow —To Cleanse and Bleach, — DiBsolve alum 5 lbs., in 
 water 10 gala , by boiling; and when it is all dissolved, add tallow 
 20 lbs. ; continue the boiling for an hour, constantly stif ring and 
 skimming; wb a sufficiently cool to allow it, strain through thick 
 muslin; then set aside to harden; when taken from tho water, 
 lay it by for a short time to drip. 
 
 Dip or mould, as you please, not expecting them to "run 
 in summer nor *• crack" in winter. They will also burn 
 very brilliantly, at which, however, you will not be sur- 
 prised when you consider the amount of filth thrown oft' ia 
 cleansing. 
 
 
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 FENCE POSTS.—To Prevent Rotting.--^, corres- 
 pondent of the American Agriculturist says : 
 
 "I think it would be well to call the attention of farmers ta 
 the use of coal-tar as a paint. The tar produced in coal gas- 
 works is extensively used in England for painting fences, oit- 
 buildings, &c. ; and is being introduced in this country, also. It 
 never alters by exposure to the weather ; and one or two good 
 coats will last for many years. It is the cheapest and best black 
 paint that can he used. Our buildings are painted with it ; all 
 our apparatus also ; and even the wrought-iron pipe we place in 
 the ground is coated with it. I think if its advantages were 
 fully known, it would be generally used throughout the United 
 States. The Governmont soak the brick used in building the fort 
 at Throg's Neck in this tar, which renders them impervious to 
 water ; and posts painted with it are protected from rot, when in 
 the ground, as effectually as if they had been charred." 
 
 I know this tar is much more effectual than charring, and 
 is not one-tenth the trouble. There are posts near this city, 
 which have now been set over ten years, and yet no appear- 
 ance of decay. The coating ie still perfect also. 
 
 The only objection to it as a paint above ground, is it» 
 offensive smell, from the heat of the sun, 
 
 No persons should allow themselves to set a single post 
 without its application, and farmers who are putting out 
 much fence, cannot possibly be so short sighted as to neg- 
 lect it after it comes to their notice. 
 
 It is doubly, important to railroad companies from the 
 fact that these roads run through the most level portions of 
 country, and consequently the most swampy and wet, there- 
 fore fence posts are the most liable to rot. The mode of 
 application is as follows : 
 
 Have a large iron kettle so arranged that you can make and 
 keep the tar hot, then, after having removed the bark, if any, set 
 the end of the post into the tar ; and if the tar is not sufficiently 
 deep to take the post into it as far as you wish to tar it, have a 
 swab of cloth tied upon a broom-handle or other stick, and swab 
 it up at least 6 to 10 inches above the ground line, when the post 
 is set ; then lift up the post, letting it drip a moment, and lay it 
 away upon rails or poles placed for that purpose, not allowing 
 them to touch each other until dry. 
 
 Two men will tar about five hundred posts in one day, 
 and one barrel of tar will be sufficient for that number. 
 Who then will hesitate to adopt its ise ? especially when 
 the tar can be purchased at the gas works for about two dol> 
 lars per barrel. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
 309 
 
 MEATS— TO PRESERVE -Bkbf— To Picklb foe Long Kkep- 
 INO— FiBST, thoroughly rub salt into it and let it remain in bulk 
 for 24 hours to draw off the blood. Sboond, take it up letting it 
 drain, and pack as desired. Third, have ready a pickle prepared 
 as follows :— for every 100 lbs. of beef use 7 lbs. of salt ; salt- 
 petre and cayenne pepp«r, of each 1 oz.; molasses 1 qt., and soft 
 water 8 gals.; boil and skim well, and when cold pour it oVfer the 
 beef. 
 
 This amount will cover one hundred pounds, if it has 
 heen properly packed. I have found persons who use no- 
 ' ing but salt with the water, and putting on hot, scalding 
 jjfain at the end of three weeks, and putting on hot again. 
 The only object claimed for putting the brine on the meat 
 while hot, is, that it hardens the surface, which retains the 
 juices, instead of drawing tbem off. 
 
 2. Thb MiOHiQAN Fabmers' Method.— Is, " for each 100 lbs. of 
 beef, use salt 6 lbs. ; saltpetre \ oz ; brown sugar 1 lb. ; dissolve 
 in sufficient water to cover the meat---two weeks after take up, 
 drain -throw away the brine, make more the same as first, it will 
 ke^p the season through — when to be boiled for eating, put into 
 boiling water — for soups into cold water." 
 
 I claim a preference for the first plan, of drawing oflf the 
 blood before pickling, as saving labor ; and that the cayenne 
 and saltpetre improves the flavor and helps preserve ; and 
 that boiling and skimming cleanse the brine very much. Of 
 late years I pureue the following: 
 
 3. Beet — To Pickle for Wintf.r ob Present U»b, and for 
 Dbyinq. — Cut your beef into sizeable pieces, sprinkle a little salt 
 upon the bottom of the barrel only, then pack your beef without 
 salt amongst it, and when packed pour over it a brine made by 
 dissolving 6 lbs. of salt for each 100 lbs. of beef in just sufficient 
 cold water to handsomely cover it. 
 
 You will find that you can cut and fry as nice as fresh' 
 for a long time; just right for boiling also; and when it get* 
 a little too salt for frying, you can freshen it nearly a* 
 nicely as pork, for frying purposes , or you can boil of it» 
 then make a stew for breakfast, very nicfl indeed. By the 
 other plan it soon becomes too salt for eating, and the juices 
 are drawn ofi" by the salt. In three weeks, perhaps a little 
 less, such pieces as are designed for drying will be ready to 
 hang up. by soaking over night to lemove the salt from the 
 outside. Do not be afraid of this way, for it is very nice 
 for winter and drying purposes; but if any is left until 
 

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 warm weather, throw away this brine, put salt amongst what 
 
 is left and cover with the first brine, and all is right for 
 
 long keeping. 
 
 4. Mutton Hams— To Pickle for Dkyinq . — First take weak 
 l>riDe and put the hams into it for 2 days^ then pour off and 
 apply the following, and let it remain on from 2 to 3 weeks, ac- 
 cording to size: For each 100 lbs., take salt 6 lbs ; Sfiltpetre 1 oz.; 
 saleratus 2 ozs. ; molasses 1 pt. ; water 6 gals., will cover these if 
 closely packed. 
 
 The saleratus keeps the mutton from becoming too hard. 
 
 5. Curing, Smoking, and Keeping Hams. — Rose Cot- 
 TAGB, MuNciE, Ind., Nov 26th, 1859: I noticed an arlicle 
 In the Gazette of yesterday, headed as above, from the 
 pen of Mr. Alexander Brooks, taken from the Rural New 
 Yorker, and as I have some useful experience in that line, I 
 desire to suggest my plan for curing and keeping : 
 
 To a cask of haias, say from 26 to 30, after having packed 
 them cloEely and sprinkled them slightly with salt, I let them lie 
 thus for 3 days ; then make a brine sufficient to cover them, by 
 putting Halt into clear water, making it strong enough to bear 
 up a sound egg or potatoe. I then add ^ lb. of saltpetre, and a 
 gallon of molasces; let them lie in the brine for 6 weeks — they 
 are then exactly right. I then take them up and let them drain ; 
 then while damp, rub the flesh side and the end of the leg with 
 finely pulverize black, red, or cayenne pepper ; let it be as fine 
 as dust, and dust every part of the flesh side, then hang them 
 up and smoke. You may leave them hanging in the smoke- 
 house or other cool place where the rats cannot reach them, as 
 they are perfectly safe from all insects ; and will be a dish fit for 
 a prince, or an American citizen, which is better. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 ThOS. J. SAHf>LB. 
 
 I find that Mr. Sample uses twice as much saltpetre and 
 ■double the time, for my eating, but perhaps not for general 
 market. 
 
 If gi'ocers will take this plan for preparing their hams 
 and shoulders, there will be no need for sacking; and such 
 as they buy in during the suranior should receive a coat of 
 pepper immediately, to prevent annoyance from flies. 
 
 6. T. E. Hamilton's Maryland Method. — The hams 
 >of Maryland and Virginia have long enjoyed a wide celeb- 
 rity. At one of the exhibitions of the Maryland State 
 Agricultural Society, four premiums were awarded for 
 
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 311 
 
 hams. The one which took the first premium was cured by 
 Mr. T. E. Hamilton, from the following recipe: 
 
 " To every 100 lbs. take best coarse salt f lbs. ; saltpetre 2 om. ; 
 brown sugar 2 Ibp. ; potash 1\ ozs.; and wa».er 4 gals. Mix th& 
 above, and pour the brine over the meat, after it has lain in the 
 tub for some two days Let the hams remain 6 weeks in the brine 
 and then dry several days before smoking. I have generally 
 had the meat rubbed with fine salt, when it is packed down." 
 
 The meat should be perfectly cool before packing. The- 
 potash keeps it from drying up and becoming hard. 
 
 7. Pork— To Have Fresh from Winter Kilmng, for Suumib. 
 Frying —Take pork when killed ih the early part of the winter, 
 and let it lie in pickle about a week or iO days ; or until just 
 sufficiently salted to ie palatable ; then slice it up and fry it about 
 half or two-thirds as much as you would for present eating ; now 
 lay it away in its own grease, in jars properly covered, in a cool 
 place, as you would lard. 
 
 When desired, in spring or summ.er, to have fresh pork^ 
 take out what you wish and re-fry suitalile for eating, and 
 you have it as nice as can be imagined. Try a jar of it, and 
 know that some things can be done as well as others. It is 
 equally applicable to hams and shoulders, and I have no* 
 doubt it will work as well upon beef, using lard suflScient to 
 cover it. So well satisfied am I of it that I have put in 
 beef-steak this spring, with my fresh ham, in frying for 
 summer use. It works upon the principle of canning fruits- 
 to exclude the air. I put in no bone. 
 
 8. Salt Pork, for Frying— Nk a rlv Equal to Frksh. 
 — For the benefit ©f those who are obliged to use consider- 
 able salt pork, the foUowiug method much improves it for 
 frying: 
 
 Cut as many slices as may be needed ; if for breakfast, the 
 night previous, and soak till morning in a quart or two of milk, 
 and water, about one-half milk, skimmed-milk, sour milk, or 
 buttermilk ;— rinse till the water is clear and then fry. It is near 
 Or quite as nice as fresh pork,— both the fat and lean 
 parts. 
 
 Occasionally I like to have this rolled in corn meal before 
 frying, as it makes such a nice imitation of fresh fish. 
 
 9. Fresh Meat — To Keep a Week or Two in Summer. — Farmera 
 or others, living at a distance from butchers, can keep fresh 
 meat very nicely, for a week or two, by putting it into sour milk, 
 or butter-milk placiug it in a cool cellar. The bone or fat need not 
 be removed. 
 
 Rinse well when used. 
 
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 DB. OHASfi'S BECIPCS. 
 
 10. Bmoi^d IlkAT — ^To pRaskRVB" FOR Years, or toti 
 SzA VoYAGBS. — How oflen are we disappointed in our hopes 
 of having sweet hams during the summer ? After carefully 
 curing and smoking, and sewing them up in hags, and white- 
 washing them ; we often find that either the fly has com- 
 menced a family in our hams, or that the choice parts around 
 the bone are tainted and the whole spoiled. 
 
 Now this can be easily avoided, by packing them in pulverized 
 charcoal. No matter how hot the weather, nor how thick thei 
 flies ; hams will keep, as sweet as when packed, for years. The 
 preservative quality of charcoal will keep them till charcoal de- 
 cays ; or sufficiently long to have accompanied Cook three times 
 around the world. 
 
 11. The Kuhal Nbw Yobkbb's Mbthod. — It says: "In the 
 Spring, cut the smoked ham in slices, fry till partly done, pack 
 in a stone jar alternate layers of ham and gravy. If the ham 
 should be very lean, use lard for gravy. Be sure and fry the ham 
 in the lard, so that it will be well seasoned. When wanted for 
 use, take up, finish frying, and it is ready for the table." 
 
 The only trouble is, that we can't keep it half long 
 enough, it is so good and handy, 
 
 12. The New England Farmer's "Saving Hts 
 Bacon." — About a couple of yeare ago, we were enter- 
 tained, at the house of a friend, with a dinner of eggs and 
 bacon. We complimented our host on the superior quality 
 of his bacon ; and were curious to inquire the way to like 
 success in the preparation of a dainty article of diet, though 
 one that is better fitted for the palate of an epicure than for 
 the stomach of a dyspeptic. To our surprise we were in- 
 formed that that portion of our meal was cooked eight 
 months before. 
 
 Upon asking for an explanation, he stated that it was his prac- 
 tice to slice and fry his bacon immediately on its beitog cured, and 
 then pack it in its own fat. When occasion came for using it, 
 the slices, slightly re-fried, have all the freshness and flavor of 
 new bacon just prepared. By this precaution, our friend always 
 succeeded in "Saving his bacon," fresh and sweet, through the 
 hottest of weather. — Nao England Farmer. 
 
 I have no doubt but what it vfiW do as welFto pack meats 
 if fried in this way, in tubs or barrels as in jars , but I rather 
 prefer covered jars, putting a couple of thicknesses of cloth 
 over the jar before putting on the cover; placed in a cool 
 cellar. 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 I also find it necessary to put in lard occasionally as you 
 
 are frying, as there is not generally enough brought out by 
 
 the frying to fill the crevices between the slices, which must 
 
 be filled. 
 
 CANNING FRUrrS— Peaches and Pbars.— Aftor paring and 
 coring, put amongst them sufficient sugar to make them palatable 
 for present eating,— about 3 to 4 lbs. only for each bushel; let 
 them stand a while to dissolve the sugar, not using any water; 
 then heat to a boil, and continue the boiling, with care, from 20 to 
 80 minutes; or sufficiently long to heat through, which expels the 
 air. 
 
 Have ready a kettle of hot water, into which dip the can 
 long enough to heat it; then fill in the fruit while hot, 
 corling it immediately, and dip the end of the cork into 
 the '* Dement for Canning Fruits." When cold it is best 
 to dip the second time to make sure that no air holes are 
 left which would spoil the fruit. All canned fruits are to 
 be kept in a very cool cellar. 
 
 We have, yesterday and to-day, been eating peaches put 
 up in this way, two years ago, which were very nice indeed. 
 See " Peaches, To Peel." 
 
 2. Berriks, Plums, Cherries, &c. — Raspberries, blackberries, 
 whortleberries, currants, cherries, and plums, need not be boiled 
 over 10 to 16 minutes; using sugar to make palatable, in all cases; 
 as it must be put in some time, and it helps to preserve the 
 fruit. 
 
 They require the same care in heating cans, &;c., as 
 above, for peaches. 
 
 8. Strawberries. — For strawberries, put sugar ^ lb. for each 
 • lb. of berries; and proceed as for berries above. 
 
 Strawberries are so juicy, and have such a tendency to 
 fermentation, that it is almost impossible to keep them. I 
 have found it absolutely so, until I adopted the plan of 
 using the amount of sugar above named: if others can do 
 with less, thay can benefit the public by telling me how 
 they do it. 
 
 5. ToMATOEa— For tomatoes, scald and peel them as for other 
 cooking; then scald, or rather boil for about 16 minutes only, and 
 can as above. 
 
 Or what I think best, is to use a little salt, and put them 
 into half-gallon jugs ; for we want them in too great quan- 
 tities to stop on a few glass jars, such as we use for other 
 
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 fruits; as for tin cans, T never use theru; if you do use 
 tin cans for tomatoes it will not do to use salt with them, as 
 it has a tendency to cause rust. 
 
 6. Cement roa Cannxno Fauixs. — Rosin 1 lb ; lard, tallow and 
 beeswax, of each 1 oz. 
 
 Melt and stir together ; and have it hot, ready to dip into 
 when canning. 
 
 7. Rural New Yorker's Method. — The editor says : 
 
 From four years' expeiience with not only strawberries, but 
 peaches, cherries, raspberries, pine-apples, &c., without losing a 
 single jar, the flavor being also perfect: Use only self-sealing 
 glass jars. Put into a porcelain preserving kettle, enough to fill 
 two quart jars ; sprinkle on sugar ^ lb.; place over a slow fire and 
 heat through, not cooked. While the fruit is heating, keep the 
 Jars filled with hot water.. Fill up to the brim, and seal ipimedi- 
 ately. 
 
 As it cools a vacuum is formed which prevents bursting. 
 In this way every kind of fruit will retain its flavor. Some- 
 times a thick leathery mould forms on the top — if so, all the 
 better. » 
 
 CATCHUP — Tomato Catchuf. — Take perfectly ripe 
 tomatoes J bushel ; wash them clean and break to pieces ; then 
 put o^er the fire and let them come to a boil, and remove from 
 the fire ; when they are sufficiently cool to allow youi hands in 
 them, rub through a wire sieve ; and to what goes through, add 
 salt 2 tea-Clips ; allspice and clo' "s, of each, ground, 1 tea-cup ; 
 best vinegur 1 qt. Put onto the fire again and cook 1 hour, 
 stirring with great care to avoid burning. Bottle and seal for use. 
 If too thick when used, put in a little vinegar. If they were 
 very juicy they may need boiling over an hour. 
 
 This recipe is from Mrs. Hardy, of the American Hotel, 
 Dresden, C, and is decidedly the best catchup which I have 
 «ver tasted ; the only fault I have ever heard attributed to 
 it was, " I wish we had made more of it." " We have not 
 ■got half enough of it," <fec. But there are those who can- 
 not use tomatoes in any shape ; such persons will undoubt- 
 edly like the following: 
 
 2. CuERANT Catchup. — Nice fully ripe currants 4 lbs. ; sugar li^ 
 lbs.; cinnamon, ground, 1 table spoon ; salt, with ground cloves 
 and pepper, of each 1 teaspoon ; vinegar 1 pt. 
 
 Stew the currants and sugar until quite thick ; then add 
 the other ingredients, and bottle for use. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
 315> 
 
 PRESERVES — Tomato Prkskrvks. — As some persons 
 will have preserves, I give them the plan of making the 
 most healthy of any in use : 
 
 Take ripe, scalded and peeled tomatoes, 18 lbs ; aice, scalding 
 hot molasdes 1 Kal ; pour the molasses upoif them and let stand 
 12 hours; then boil until thej are properlj cooked; now skim 
 out the tomatoes, but continue boiling the Hyrup until quite thick; 
 then pour again upon the tomatoes, and put away as other pre- 
 serves. A table-spoon of ginger tied up in a bit of cloth, and 
 boiled in them, gives a nice flavor; or the extracts can be used^ 
 or lemon peel, as preferred — if sugar is used, pound for pound 13^ 
 the amount. 
 
 But I prefer to put them, or any other fruit, into jugs, 
 
 cans, or bottles, which retains the natural flavor and doea 
 
 not injure the stomach, which all preserves do, to a greater 
 
 or less extent. Yet I give you another, because it does so 
 
 nicely in place of citron, in cakes. 
 
 2. PRBSEEVBa) Watbr-Melon in Plaok of Citron, pou Cakbs. 
 — The harder part of water-melon; next the akin, made into 
 preserves, with sugar, equal weights; cooking down the syrup 
 rather more than for common use, causes it to granulate, like 
 citron, which is kept for sale. 
 
 This chopped fine, as citron, makes an excellent substi- 
 tute for that article ; and for very much less cost. Call in 
 the neighbors, to help eat about a dozen good sized melons, 
 and you have outside enough for the experiment; and if" 
 the Doctor is near he will help without a fee. They are 
 nice, ako, in mince-pies in place of raisins. 
 
 CUKRANTS--T0 Dry with Sugar.— Take fully ripe currants, 
 stemmed, 5 lbs.; sugar 1 lb.; put into a brass kettle, stirring at 
 first, then as tiie currants boil up to the top, skim them off; boil 
 down the juicy syrup until quite thick, and pour it over the cur- 
 rants, mixing well, then place on suitable dishes, and dry them 
 by placing in a low-box, over Which you can place musketo-bar, 
 to keep away flies. 
 
 When properly dried, put in jars and tie paper over them. 
 
 Put cold water upon them and stew as other fruit for eating- 
 
 or pie-making, adding more sugar if desired. 
 
 TIN-WARE— To Mend bt thb Heat of a Candle.— Take 
 a vial about two-thirds full of muriatic acid, and put into it 
 little bits of sheet zinc, as long as it dissolves them; then put ir i 
 crumb of sal-ammoniac, and fill up with water, and it is ready to 
 use. 
 
 With the cork of the vial wet the place to be mended^ 
 
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 i 
 
 with the preparation ; then put a piece of sheet jslnc over 
 the hole and hold a lighted carile or spirit lamp under the 
 plac's which melts the solder on the tin and causes the zinc 
 to adhere without further trouble. Wet the zinc also with 
 the solution. Or a little solder may be put on in place of 
 the zinc, or with the zinc. 
 
 WATER FILTER— Homk-Madb.— Rain water is much 
 
 healthier than hard water as a beverage; and the following 
 
 will be found an easy and cheap way to fit for drinking 
 
 purposes: 
 
 Have an oak tub made, holdinf^ from half, to a barrel .^according 
 to the amount of water needed in the family; let it stand on end, 
 with a faucet near the bottom; or, I prefer a hole through the 
 bottom, near the front side, with a tube in it which prevents the 
 water from rotting? the outside of the tub; thon put clean pebbles 
 8 or 4 inches in thickness over the bottom of the tub; n6w have 
 charcoal pulverized to the size of small petw (that made from hard 
 maple is best) and put in half bu8h«] or so at a time; pound it 
 down quite firmly, then put in more and pound again until the 
 tub is filled to within 8 inches of the top; and again put on 2 
 inches more of pebbles; then put a piece of clean whit« flannel 
 over the whole top as a strainer. 
 
 The flannel can be washed occasionally, to remove the 
 impurities collected from the water, and it might be well to 
 put a flannel between the pebbles and flannel at the bottom 
 also. When the charcoal I -;come8 foul, it can be renewed 
 as before, but will work a whole season without renewing. 
 Put on your water freely until it becomes clear; when you 
 will be as well satisfied as you would be if it ran through a 
 patent filt«r, costing six times as much as this. 
 
 A large jar to hold the filtered water can be set in an ice- 
 box if preferred ; or an occasional piece of ice can be put in 
 the water; but if the filter is set in the cellar, as it should 
 be, the water will be sufficiently cool for health. This 
 makes a good cider filter, also, first straining the cider 
 through cotton to free it from the coarsest pomace. 
 
 TIRE — To Kkkp on the Wheel — A correspondent of 
 the Southern Planter says : " I ironed a wagon some years 
 ago for my own use, and before putting on the tires f filled 
 the fellies with linseed-oil ; and the tires have worn out, and 
 were never loose. I ironed a buggy for my own use, seven 
 y<9ars ago, and the tires are now as tight as when {)ut on 
 
MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
 317 
 
 ? put ia 
 should 
 This 
 ) cider 
 
 lAj metbiod of filling the fellies with the oil is as follows : 
 
 I use a long, ctwst iron oil-heater, made for the purpose ; the oil 
 is brought to a boiling heat, the wheel la placed on a stick, so as 
 to hang in the oil, each felly an hour, for a common-sized fellv. 
 The timber should be dry, as green timber will not take ofl. 
 Care should be taken that the oil be not m;ule hotter than a boil- 
 ing heat, In order that the timber be not burnt. Timber filled 
 with oil is not susceptible to water, and is much more desirable." 
 
 I was amused some time ago when I told a blacksmith 
 how to keep tires tight on wheels, by bis telling me it was 
 A profitable business to tighten tires; and the wagon maker 
 will say it is profitable to him to make and repair wheels — 
 but what will the farmer, who supports the wheel-wright 
 and the blacksmith say ? The greatest good to the greatest 
 number, is my motto. 
 
 WEEDS— To Destroy in Walks.— The following 
 method to destroy weeds is pursued at the mint in Paris, 
 with good effect: 
 
 Water 10 gals. ; stone lime 20 lbs.; flour of sulphur 2 lbs. Boil 
 in an iron kettle ; after settling, the clear part is to be poured off 
 and sprinkled freely upon the weedy walks. 
 
 Care must be taken, for it will destroy weeds; and as 
 certainly, destroy edging and border flowers, if sprinkled on 
 them. 
 
 CEMENTS—Cbmbkt for Chika, &o., which Stands Fihh and 
 Wat BE. -.--With a small camel's hair brush, rub th6 broken edges 
 wit'i a little carriage oil- varnish. 
 
 If neatly put together, the fracture will hardly be per- 
 ceptible, and when thoroughly dry will stand both fire and 
 water. 
 
 2. Russian Cbmbnt. — Much is said about cements ; but 
 there is probably nothing so white and clear, and certainly 
 nothing better than the following: 
 
 Bussian isinglass dissolved in pure soft water, snow water is 
 best: for it takes 12 hours to soften it by soaking in pure soft 
 water, then considerable heat to dissolve it; after which it is ap- 
 plicable to statuary, china, glass, alabaster, &c., &c. 
 
 In all' cements the pieces must be secured until dry. It 
 is easy to reason that if twelve to fifteen hours are required 
 to soften, this isinglass that no dish-washing will ever eff^xst 
 
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 318 
 
 DR. chase's RECIPEI?. 
 
 it. You may judge from the price whetl»er you get the 
 Russian, for thirty -seven cents per ounce, is as low as the 
 genuine aKide can be purchased in small quantities, whilst 
 the common, bear a pnce of ^only from ten to twelve cents^ 
 and even less. 
 
 3. CnnNT, Chbap akd Valoabiv —A dumble cement is made 
 by burning oyster shells and pulverizing the lime from them very 
 fine; then mixing it with white of egg to a thick paste, and 
 applviug it to the china or glass, and securing the pieces together 
 until dry. 
 
 When it is dry, it takes a very long soaking for it to become 
 soft again. I have lifted thirty pounds by the stem of a 
 wineglass which had been broken, and mended with this 
 cement. Common 11 ino will do, but it is not so good; either 
 should be fresh burned, and only mix what is needed, for 
 when once dry you sannot soften it. [ 
 
 4. Ckmknt— Watbh-Proof, for Ci/)th or Bmotno.— Take ale 
 1 pt. ; best Rusfiia ininghiriB 2 ozs. ; put them into a common glue 
 kettle and boil uutil the isinglass in disBolved; then add 4oz8. of 
 the best common glue, and dissolve it with the other; then slowly 
 add l^ozs. of boiled linsced-oil, stirring all the time while adding, 
 and until well mixed. When cold it will resemble India-rubber. 
 When you wish to use this, dissolve what you need in a suitable 
 quantity of ale to have the consistence of thick glue. It is appli- 
 cable for earthernware, china, glass, or leather; for harness; bands 
 for machinery; cloth belts for cracker machines for bakers, &c., 
 &c. If for leather, shave off as if for sewing, apply the cement 
 with a brush while hot, laying a weight to keep eac** joint firmly 
 for 6 to 10 hours, or over night. 
 
 This cement will supersede " Spaulding's Prepared Glue," 
 and all the white cements you can scare up, if you use 
 good articles to make it of, — not less than thirty or forty 
 cents a pound for common glue, and three shillings per 
 ounce for the Russian isinglass ; but the ezpenoe of this wiH 
 cause it only to be used when dampness is to be contended 
 with. 
 
 If you have not a glue kettle, take an oyster can and 
 punch some holes through the top of it, putting in a string 
 to suspend it on a stick in a common kettle of boiling wa- 
 ter, and keep it bo.ling in that way. 
 
 6. Cbmbnt, ob Fdrniturb Gtua, fob Housb Use. — To 
 mend marble, wood, glass, china, and ornamental ware — take 
 water 1 gal.; nice glue 8 lbs.; white lead Cozs.; whiitky 8 qts.; 
 
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 MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
 319 
 
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 Mtf bj dissolving the glue in the water; remove from 
 the fire and stir in the white lead, then add the whisky, 
 which keeps it fluid, except in the coldest weather. Warm 
 and stir it up when applied. 
 
 WuiTB Cbmbnt. — 'Tike white ^flsh) glue, 1 lb. 10 oi. ; dry white 
 lead 6 osw . ; Buft water 8 pts. ; ala)hol 1 pt. 
 
 Dissolve the glue by putting into a tin kettle, or dinh, 
 containing the wutur, and set th lish into a kettle of water, 
 to prevent the glue from being burned ; when the glue is 
 all dissolved, put in the lead and stir and boil until all is 
 thoroughly mixed; remove from the fire, and, when cool 
 enough to l)Ottle, add the alcohol, and bottle while '^. is yet 
 warm, keeping it corked. This last recipe has b<^ . sold 
 about the country for from twenty-five cents to five dollars, 
 and one man gave a horse for il. 
 
 7- Gmbman Cmiknt. — Two measures of litharge, and 1 each of 
 unslaked lime and flint gla88 ; each to be puWurized separately 
 before mixing ; then to use it, wet it up with old drying-oil. 
 
 The Germft'^fl use it for glass and china ware only. Water 
 hardens it instead of softening. 
 
 8 SoaAP-BooK Pastk, or Cement. — A piece of common glue 2 
 P4uare inches ; disHolve it in water, adding as much pulverized 
 alum in weight, as of the gluo ; now mix flour ^ tea-spoon in a 
 little water ; f^'r it in and boil. When nearly cool stir in oil of 
 lavender 2 tea-spoons. 
 
 This should make a pint of paste, which will keep a long 
 time if tightly covered when not in use. 
 
 Cement. — Preventinq Leaks about Chimneys, &c. — Dry sand 1 
 pt.; ashes 2 pts. ; clay dried and pulverized 3 pts. ; all to be pul- 
 verized and mixed into a paste with linseed oil. 
 
 Apply it while soft, as desired, and when it becomes hard 
 
 water will have no effect upon it. It may be used for walks 
 
 and I think it would do well in cisterns, and on roofs, &c. 
 
 MAGIC PAPER. — Used to Transfer Figures in Embroidirt, 
 OR Impressions o» Leaves for Herbariums. — Take lard-oil, or 
 sweet oil, mixed to the consistence of cream, with either of the 
 following paints, the color of which is desired : Prussian blue, 
 lamp-black, Venetian red or chrome green, either of which should 
 be rubbed, witb a knife on a plate' or stone until smooth. Use 
 rather thin, but firm paper ; put on with a sponge and wipe off as 
 dry as convenient ; then lay them between uncolored paper, or 
 between newspapers, and press by laying books or some other flat 
 substance upon tht^m^ until ihe surplus oil is absorbed, wl en it is 
 ready for use. ' 
 
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 DiRKOTioNS. — For taking pflF patterns of embroidery^ 
 place a piece of thin paper over the embroidery to prevent 
 ^oiling; then lay on the magic paper, and put on the cloth 
 you wish to take the copy on, to embroider ; pin fast, and 
 rub over with a spoon handle ; and every part of the raided 
 figure will show upon the plain cloth. To take impressions 
 of leaves on paper, place the leaf between two sheets of 
 this paper, and rub over it hard, then take the leaf out and 
 place it between two sheets of white paper; rub again, and 
 
 J^ou will have a beautiful impression of both sides of the 
 eaf or flower. Persons travelling without pen or inkr can 
 write with a sharp stick, placing a sheet of this paper over a 
 sheet of white paper. 
 
 RAT DESTROYERS— Rat Extermwatob.— Flour 3 lbs. ; water 
 only sufficient to make it into a thick paste ; then dissolve phos- 
 phorus 1 oz., in butter 1 1-2 ozs., by heat. Mix. 
 
 This you will leave, thickly spread on bread, where rats 
 can get at it; or make into balls, which is preferable, cov- 
 ered or rolled with sugar. If it is desired to sell this article 
 and you wish to color to hide its composition, work into it 
 pulverized turmeric 2 ozs. Or. 
 
 2. Take warm water 1 qt, ; lard 2 lbs. ; phosphorus 1 oz. Mix, 
 and thicken with flour. 
 
 It is found best to make' only in small quantities, as 
 the phosphorus looses its power by exposure. Some will ob- 
 ject to killing rats about the house; but I had rather smell 
 their dead carcases than tast« their tail prints, left on 
 everything possible for them to get at, or suffer los** from 
 their tooth prints on all things possible for them to devour 
 or destroy. 
 
 3. D J!ATH FOR THB Old Slt Rat. — Somc rats get so 
 cunning that it is almost impossible to overcome their 
 shrewdness. 
 
 Then get a few grains of strychnine, having a little fresh lean 
 meat broiled ; cut it into small bits, by UHiog a fork to hold it, 
 for if held by the fingers, they will smell thjtn and not eat it ; 
 cutting with a sharp pen-knife ; then cut a little hole into the 
 bits, and put in a little of the strychnine, and close up the meat 
 together again. 
 
 Put these on a plate where they frequent, but not near 
 their holes, laying a piece of paper ovir the meat; when 
 
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 Mix, 
 
 tliese are eaten put more, for three or four days, and you 
 are soon doue with the wisest of them. 
 
 4. Rats— To Dmvh Away Alivb. — If yon choose to drive them 
 away alire, take potash jpulverized, and pat quite plenty of.it into 
 all their holes about the house. If the potash is pulverized and 
 left in the air, U becomes pasty; then it can be daubed on the 
 boards or planks, where they come through Into rooms. 
 
 They will sooner leave, than be obliged to have a contin- 
 ual re-Kpplication of this " Doctor StuflF," every time they 
 go through their holes. See *• Potash to Make." 
 
 6. Scotch snuff, or pulveriaed cayenne pepper, mixed together, 
 or separate; if freely put into their borrowing-holes, will certainlj 
 send them off, at a sneezing pace. 
 
 6. Rat Poxsok — From Sir Humphrky Datf. — A 
 tasteless, odorless and infallible rat poison, he says, is made 
 as follows : 
 
 " Mix carbonate of barytes 2 ozs., with grease 1 lb." 
 
 It produces great thirst, consequently water must be se* 
 
 by it, for death takes place immediately after drinking, no^ 
 
 giving them time to go back to their holes. I obtained 
 
 this at such a late day, that I have not had opportunity of 
 
 testing it. Be sure that no other animRl can get at it, 
 
 except ratfl and mice; for it is a most deadly poison. 
 
 Should this be found as effectual as recommended, it will 
 
 prove just the thing for rat-killing, as they can be gathered 
 
 up and carried away, thus avoiding the stench arising from 
 
 their dead carcasses. 
 
 FISH — Art of Catching. — Mix the iui'.'e of lovage or smellage, 
 with any kind of bait, or a few arops of the oil of rhodium. India 
 cockle also, (Coculus Indicus) is sometimes mixed with flour 
 dough and eprinklt^d on the surface of still water. This intox'cates 
 the fish and makes them turn up, <yi top of the water. M dlein 
 seed, pulverized, and used in place of the India cockle is about 
 equal to that article. 
 
 They may be eaten without fear, but this will destroy 
 many fish. Oil of rhodium is the best plan. 
 
 " It is generally supposed," says Mr. R. I, Pell, '' tha* 
 fish are not possessed of the sense of smell. From the fol- 
 lowing ^experiments I am convinced they are : I placed a 
 hook, well baited with an angle-worm, enticingly before f. 
 perch weighing one and a half pounds; he did not take '> 
 

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 least notice of it. It vras withdrawn, and a drop of rhodium 
 brought in contact with it, when it was dropped very care- 
 fallj several feet behind him ; he immediately turned and 
 seized the bait. This experiment was several times repeat- 
 ed, with like success. I find many varieties very sensitive 
 to noise, and by numerous experiments am convinced that 
 their sense of hearing is acute." 
 
 STRAW AND CHIP HATS— To Vabkibh Blaoic.— Beat alcohol 
 4 ozs. ; pulverized, black sealing-wax 1 oz. ; put them into a vial, 
 and put the vial into a warm place, stirring or shaking occasionally, 
 until the wax is dissolved ; apply it when warm, by means of % 
 soft brush, before, the fire or in the sun. 
 
 It gives stiffness to old straw hats or bonnets, makes a 
 beautiful gloss, and resists wet; if anything else is required, 
 joBt apply it to small baskets only, and see how nicely they 
 will look. 
 
 2. Stbaw Bownbtb— To Color a BBATmruL Slatb.— First soak 
 the bonnet in rather strong warm suds for fifteen minutes, this is 
 to remove sizing or stiffening; then rinse in warm water, to get out 
 the soap; novr scHld cudbear 1 oz., in sufficient water to cover the 
 hat or bonnet — work the bonnet in this dye at 180 degrees of heat, 
 until you get a little purple; now have a bucket of cold water 
 blued with the extract of indigo, about ^ oz. , and work or stir the 
 'bonnet in this, until the tint pleases. 
 
 Dry, then rinse out with cold water and dry again, in 
 
 the shade. If you get the purple too deep in shade, the 
 
 final slate will be too dark. See '' Extract of Indigo, or 
 Chemic." 
 
 STUCCO PLiSTERINa— For Brick and Gravel Houses.— 
 First make up as much mortar as you need for the job, with good 
 common lime; using only | or four-fifths, at most, as much lime 
 as needed for common work; the other fourth or fifth is to be 
 water-lime; and not to be put^n only as used. The sand must be 
 coarse, and free from loam or dirt. ,' 
 
 To prepare the white and colored washes, run off common lime 
 •nongh with hot water, to make a white-wash to go over the 
 whole job. This whitewash is to be colored the tint desired for 
 the work. Be sure to make color-wash enough at one time, or 
 you will find it hard to get the shades alike; saving a little of the 
 white-wash without color; to pencil the seams, and also for speck- 
 ing as mentioned below. The colors used arc lamp-black, 
 Spanish-brown, or Venetian-red, as preferred, and these are 
 «ut or dissolved in whiskey; then putting into the white-wash 
 Id suit. 
 
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 When these washes are all prepared, wet up as much of the 
 mortar as can be put on in twenty or forty minutes, and mix ia 
 the fourth or fifth of the cement, and put on as fast as possible^ 
 first weitiog the wall very wet with water. Some cement wiH 
 set in 20 and some in 40 to 50 minutes. When you see the time 
 necessary for the kind you are using, act accordingly, and only 
 mix the cement into as much mortar as your help will put on 
 before it sets; beginning at the top of the wall with your scaOfoW- 
 ing and working down, which prevents too much specking from 
 the colors. Have a man to follow right after with a float, keeping 
 the stucco very wet while floating down level and smooth ; and 
 the longer it is floated and wet, the better will be the job. Even 
 after it is floated down well, keep a man wetting it with a brush 
 until you get the whole line on, around the house, as the water- 
 lime must be kept quite wet for some considerable time, to set 
 properly. Heed this caution, and if water never gets in behintt 
 the plastering from bad cornice or leaky roofs, it will never peel 
 off. When thiri line of scaffolding is plastered, take out enough 
 of the color-wash, running it through a seive, and go over the 
 plastering ; lamp-black alone gives it a bluish slate color ; if a 
 little of the brown is added with the black, it will be a Bttle 
 reddish, and if the red is used without the brown, it will be quite 
 red. I prefer suflicient of the black only to make a gray stone 
 color. A brown, however, looks exceedingly well. If you 
 choose, you can make one-half of the color-wash daiker than 
 the other — having laid it off into blocks resembling stone, by 
 means of a straight-edge, and piece of board about half an inch 
 thick, paint every other block with the darker wash to represent 
 different shades of btone. Some of our best buildings are don« 
 in this way, and look well. 
 
 Then to give it a granite appearance, take a small paint brush 
 and dip it into the white wash, saved for this purpose ; strike it 
 across a hammer handle, so as to throw the specks from the brush 
 upon the wa^ , then the snme with black and red. Pencil the 
 seams with the white-wash, which gives it the appearance of mor- 
 tar, as in real stone-work. 
 
 Now you are ready to move down the scaffold, and go 
 over the same thing as before. After the colors have been 
 dissolved with spirits, they can be reduced with water, or 
 what is better for them and the color wash also, is skimmed 
 milk ; and where milk is plenty, it ought io be used in place 
 of water, for white-wash or color- washes, as it helps to resist 
 the weather, and prevents the colors from fading — see 
 '* Paint, to Make without Lead or Oil," which gives you 
 the philosophy of using milk. Speck quite freely with the 
 white, then about half as much with the black, and then 
 rather free again with the red. The proportion of lime 
 
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 probably, should not exeeed one, to six or seven of 8an4« 
 Our University buildings, represented in the frontispiece, 
 except the Laboratoiy, and Law-building, which have been 
 more recently put up, are finished with it, and also whole 
 blocks in the business part of our city. 
 
 Prof. Douglass' house is probably the prettiest color of 
 any in the city — an imitation of ** Free-stone," made with 
 latnp-black, yellow ochre, ; 1 a larger proportion of Spanish 
 brown. But all will have a preference for some special color ; 
 then, with a little ingenuity and patience, nearly any colored 
 stone can be imitated. 
 
 GRAVEL HOUSES— To Make— Proportions of 
 Lime, Sand, and Gravel. — It has become quite common 
 to put up gravel houses; and many persons are at a great 
 loss to know what proportions of materials to use. Various 
 proportions have been proposed ; but from the fact that the 
 philosophy was not explained, no real light was given upon 
 the subject. 
 
 All that is required to know, is, that sand and lime are to be 
 used la proportion to the size of the gravel, — say for 16 bushels 
 of clean gravel, from the size of peas up to that of hen's eggs, 
 it will take about 3 bushels of clean sharp sand and 1 of lime to 
 fill the crevices without swelling the bulk of the gravel. If the 
 gravel is coarse, up to 5 bushels of sand may be required, but 
 the lime will not need to be increased but very little, if any. 
 Then the philosophy of the thing is this— about 1 to 1 j bushels 
 lime to 15 bushels of gravel, and just sand enough to fill the 
 crevices without increasing the bulk as above mentioned. 
 
 If the gravel is free of dirt, the sand also clean, and the 
 ■weather dry, the walls can be raised one foot each day, if 
 you have help *o do that amount of labor. 
 
 Some prefer to make the gravel and sand into mortar and 
 press it into bricks; then lay into walls, but the wall must 
 be stronger if laid up solid, in board frames, made to raise 
 up as required. . 
 
 Many persons argue for the eight-square or octagon house ; 
 but I like the square form much the best, carrying up the 
 hall and main partition walls of the same material. The 
 eight square house looks like an old fort, or water tank, and 
 is very expensive to finish; costing much more than the 
 same room with square angles ; for mechanics cannot put 
 up cornice outside, or in, in less than double the time re- 
 .quired for making the common square mitre. 
 
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 Prof. Winchelly of the IlDiveraity, and State Oeologistti 
 in this city, has put up one of the octagons which looka 
 well, however^ for the style of finish is what attracts attend 
 tion, instead of the style of form. 
 
 WHITEWASHES AND CHEAP PAINTS.— Ban.- 
 
 LiAVTT Stucco Whitbwash— Will Last on Brick or 
 
 Stove, Twenty to Thirty Years. — Many" have heard 
 
 of the hrilliant stucco w.hitewash on the east end of the> 
 
 President's house at Washington. The following is a recipe 
 
 for it, as gleaned from the National Intelligencer^ with some 
 
 additional improvements learned by experiments : 
 
 Nice unslacked lime \ bushel ; slack it with boiling water ; 
 cover it during the process, to keep in the steam. Strain the 
 liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it, salt 1 peck ; 
 previously well dissolved in water ; rice 8 lbs. — boiled to a thin 
 paste, and stirred in boiling hot ; Spanish whiting \ lb. ; clean 
 nice glue 1 lb ."which has been previously dissolved by soaking 
 it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle, 
 immersed in a larger one filled with water. Now add hot water 
 6 gals., to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days 
 covered from the dirt. 
 
 It should be put on hot. For this purpose it can be 
 kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. Brushes more or 
 less small may be used, according to the neatness of job re-, 
 quired. It answers as well as oil-paint for brick or stone, and 
 is much cheaper. 
 
 There is one house in our city which had this applied 
 twelve years ago, and is yet nice and bright. It has re- 
 tained its brilliancy over thirty years. 
 
 Coloring matter, dissolved in whisky, may be put in and - 
 made of any shade you like ; Spanish brown stirred in will 
 make red pink, more or less deep, according to quantity. 
 A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. 
 Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish 
 brown, makes reddish stone color. Yellow ochre stirred 
 in makes yellow wash, but chrome goes further, and makes 
 a color generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases the 
 darkness of the shade, of course, is determined by the 
 quantity of the coloring used. It is difficult to make rules, 
 because tastes are different — it would be best to try experi- 
 ments on a shingle and let it dry. Green must not be mix- 
 ed with lime. The lime de&troys the color, and the color 
 
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 has an effect on the whitewash, which makes it crack and 
 peel. \^ hen inside walls have been badly smoked, and you 
 wish to make them a clean, clear white, it is well to squeeze 
 indigo plentifully through a bag into the water you use, be- 
 fore it is stirred into the whole mixture, or blue vitriol pul- 
 verized and dissolved in boiling water and put into white- 
 wash, gives a beautiful blue tint. If a larger quantity than 
 five gallons be wanted, the same proportions should be ob- 
 served. 
 
 2. Whitswash — Vbbt Nick fOE Rooira.— Take whiting 4 
 lbs. ; white or common glue 2 ozs. ; stand the glue in cold water 
 over nl^ht ; mix the whiting with cold water, and heat the glue 
 until dissolved ; and pour it into the other hot. Make of a 
 proper consistence to apply with a common whitewash brush. 
 
 Use these proportions for a greater or less amount. Id 
 England scarcely any other kind of whitewash is used. 
 
 A lady, of Black River Falls, Wis., who had one of my 
 hookfl, wrote to me, expressing her thankfulness for the 
 beauty of this whitewash. 
 
 8. Paint — ^To Make without Lead oe Oil.— Whiting 5 lbs.; 
 skimmed inillc 2 qts.; fresh slaked lime 2 oza. Put the lime 
 into a stoneware veseel, pour upon it a sufficient quantity of 
 the milk to make a mixture resembling cream; the balance of 
 the milk is then to be added ; and, lastlv, the whiting is to be 
 crumbled upon the surface of the fluid, in which it gradually 
 sinks. At this period it must be well stirred in, or ground as you 
 would other paint, and it is fit for use. 
 
 There may be added any coloring matter that suits the 
 fancy, (see the first whitewash for mixing colors), to be ap- 
 plied in the same manner as other paints, and in a few 
 hours it will become perfectly dry. Another coat may then 
 be added and so on until the work is done. This plant is 
 of great tenacity, bears rubbing with a coarse cloth, has 
 little smell, even when wet, and when dry is inodorous. 
 Ths above quantity is suflficient for fifty-seven yards. — An-^ 
 napoHs RepMican, 
 
 " We endorse the recipe. The casein or curd of the 
 milk, by the action of the caustic-lime, becomes insoluble, 
 and has been used, for time immemorial, as a late for chem- 
 ical experiments. It is good, and, in compaHson with- 
 white lead, a durable paint. — Moort^$ Rural New Yorker, 
 
 Most of the cheap paints will require about three coats 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 White lead always requires two, but some people tbink be- 
 cause tbey got a chv^ap paint that one coat ougat to make a 
 good job. Two wiU generally do with any except white. 
 
 4. Whitk Patnt — A New Wat of Makufaotitrino. 
 — The following was communicated by a man who was for- 
 merly a carpenter in the U. S. Mavy. 
 
 ** During a cruise in the South Pucific, we went into the 
 harbor of Ooquirabo ; and aa the ship had been out a long 
 time, she was covered with rus^ from stem to stem. It was 
 the anxious wish of the commander that she should be re- 
 stored to her original colors ; but on examining the store* 
 room, it was ascertained that there was not a pound of white 
 lead in the ship. In this emergency I bethought me of an . 
 expedient which concocted an admirable substitute, com- 
 posed of the folowing ingredients: 
 
 "Air-slaked lime, pulverized until it was of the fineness of 
 flour, which was then passed through a seive. Rice boiled in a 
 large kettle until the subbtance was drawn entirely out of the 
 grain; the water, then of a plastic nature, was strained to sepa-' 
 rate the grain, &c., from the clear liquid. A tub, about the size 
 of a half barrel, of the prepared lime and rice water, was mixed 
 with 1 gallon of linseed oil ; and the material had so much the 
 appearance of paint that a novice could not have told the dififer- 
 ence. 
 
 " The ship was painted outside and inboard with the 
 above mixture (which cost next to nothing,) and never pre- 
 sented a finer white streak on her bends, or cleaner bulwarks 
 and berth deck than on that occasion, and no other kind of 
 white paint was used during the remainder of the cruise." 
 
 If this is good for ships out and inboard, it is worth try- 
 ing for fences and outwork requiring a cheap white paint. 
 
 6. Bx^CK ASD Gkkbn Paint— Dueablb and Cheap, foe Out- Door 
 WoEK. — Any quantity of charcoal, powdered ; a sufiicient 
 quantity of litharage as a dryer, to be well levigated (rubbed 
 smooth), with linseed oil ; and, when used, to be thinned with 
 well boiled linseed oil. The above forms a good black paint. 
 
 By adding yellow ochre, an excellent green is produced, which 
 is preferable to the bright green, used by painters, for all garden 
 work, as it does not fude with the sun. 
 
 This composition was first used by Dr. Parry, of Bath 
 on some spouts; which, on being examined, fourter'n years 
 afterwards, were found to be as perfect as when first put 
 up. 
 
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 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
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 6. Milk Paint, fob Babnb— Ant Color.— " Mix water lime 
 with $kim-milk:, to a proper consiatenco to apply with a bruuh.'aud 
 it is ready to uae. It will adhere well to wood, whether smooth 
 or rough, to brick, mortal or stone, where oil has not been nsed, 
 (in which cdse it cleaves to some extent) and forms a very hard 
 substance, as durable as the best oil paint. It is too cheap to 
 estimate, and any one can J)Ut it on who can use a brush." — 
 Country OerUleman. 
 
 Any color may be given to it, by using colors of the 
 tinge d'wired, dissdviiig in whisky first, then adding in to 
 euit the fnncy, as in the first recipe. 
 
 If, a red is preferred, mix Venetian-red with milk, not 
 using any, lime. It looks well for fifteen years. 
 
 LIQUID, AND WATER-PROOF OLUES.— Liquid GLtJB.— To 
 Jiave a good glue always ready for use, just put a bottle two-thirds 
 full of best «ommon glue, and fill up the bottle with common 
 whisky; cork it up, and set by for 8 or 4 days, audit will dissolve 
 without the appIication-x>f heat. 
 
 It will keep for years, and is always ready to use without 
 heat, except in very cold weather, when it may need to be 
 set a little while in a warm place, before usi ng. 
 
 2. Imitation of Spaldino's Glub — First, soak in cold watei> 
 all the glue you wish to make at one timn, using only glass* 
 earthern, or porcelain dishes; then by gentle he it dissolve the 
 glue in the same water, and pour in a little nitric acid, sufficient 
 to give the glue a sour taste, like vinegar, or from J oz to 1 oz., 
 to each pound of glue. . " . 
 
 The acid keeps it in a liquid state, and prevents it from 
 spoiling; as nice as Spalding's or any other, for a very 
 trifling expense. If iron dishes are used, the acid corrodes 
 them and turns the glue black. Or: 
 
 3. Acetic acid 1 oz.; pure soft water 6 oz ; glue 3 oz.; gum 
 tragacanth 1 oz. Mix, and if not as thick as draired, add a little 
 more glue. 
 
 This keeps in a liquid state, does not decompose ; and is 
 valuable for Druggists in labeling; also for house use; and 
 if furniture men were not prejudiced, they would find it 
 valuable in the shop. 
 
 , 4. Water-Proof Gluk — Is -made by firet soaking the glue in cold 
 water, for an hour or two, or until it becomes a little soft, yet 
 retaining its original form; then taking it from the water, and 
 dissolving it by gentle heat, stirring in a little boiled linseed- 
 oil. 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 If mabogany veneers were put on with this glue, they 
 would not fall off, as they now do, by the action of th« 
 atmosphere. 
 
 FIRE KINDLERS.—To make very nice fire kindlers, take rosin, 
 any quantity, and melt it, putting In for each pound being used, 
 from 2 to 8 ozs. of tajlow, ^nd wiien all is hot, stir in pine saw-* 
 dust to make very thick ; and, while yet hot, spread it out about 
 1 inch thick upon boards which have fine saw-dust sprinkled up- 
 on them, to prevent it from sticking. When cold, break up into 
 lumps about 1 inch square. But if for sale take a thin board 
 and press upon it, while yet warm, to lay it off into 1 inch squares; 
 this makes it break regularly, if you press the crease sufiiciently 
 deep, greasing the marking-board to prevent it from sticking. 
 
 One of these blocks will easily ignite with a match, and 
 burn with a strong blaze long enough to kindle any wood 
 fit to burn. The above sells readily in a! 1 our large towns 
 and cities, at a great profit. 
 
 2. Most of the published recipes call for rosin 3 lbs.; tar 
 1 qt.; and 1 gill of turpentine; but they make a black, 
 sticky mess of stuff", which always keep the hands daubed. 
 On the other hand, this makes a rosin-colored kindler, 
 which breaks nicely also when cold ; and they are decidedly 
 a nice thing; and much more certain to start a fire than 
 shavings. If the tar plan is used, 1 pt. is enough for 6 Ibft. 
 of rosin. 
 
 STARCH POLISH.— White-wax 
 them together with a gentle heat. 
 
 1 oz. ; spermaceti 2 ozs. ; melt 
 
 When you have prepared a suflBcient amount of starch, in 
 the usual way, for a dozen pieces — put into it a piece of the 
 polish the size of a large pea; more or less, according to 
 large or small washings. Or, thick gum solution (made by 
 pouring boiling water upon gum arabic,) one table-spoon to 
 a pint of starch, gives clothes a beautiful gloss. 
 
 PERCUSSION MATCHES— OF the best (JrAirrY.— Chlo- 
 rate of potash f lb.; glue 3 lbs.; white lead, dry, 5 lbs.; red lead 
 h ib ; phosphorus 2| lbs. DiRBonoNS.— First put the chlorate 
 into a dish made for the purpose, deep and of a suitable size to 
 set into a kettle of water, which can be kept on the fire for two or 
 8 days, having 2 qts. of water on the chlorate ; then put the glue 
 on top of the chlorate water, and let soak until all is perfecily 
 dissolved ; then odd the leads and heat up quite hot, and tho- 
 roughly tuix ; let cool and add the phosphorus, let it dissolve and 
 
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 DB. CHASERS RECIPES. 
 
 be careful never to heat hot after the phosphorus is added ; stir 
 occasionally while dipping, and if little particles of phosphorus 
 fires push it down into the mixture, or put on warm water ; if you 
 put on cold water it will fly <ill over you. Keep ^it rather Ihin 
 after the phosphorus is put in, and there will be no danger; al- 
 though the chlorate of potiish is considered a dangerous article to 
 worii with ; so is powder, yet when you know how to work with 
 them, you can do as safely with one as the other. When dry give 
 them a coat of varnish. 
 
 I have been acquafnted with a man for about fourteen 
 years who makes them, and several others for a less time, 
 ■without trouble or accident. A better match was never 
 made to stand dampness, or bear transportation without set- 
 ting on fire. I have used and sold tham much of the time, 
 and speak from knowledge. One explosion has since taken 
 place. 
 
 The plan pursued here in preparing the splints is as fol- 
 lows: Sawed pine timber from four to eight inches each 
 way, is cut off the right length for the match, then one end 
 of it is shaved smooth, with a drawing-knife; the block is 
 held upon the horse by a brace from the top of the horse 
 head against the back side of the block, so as to be out of 
 the way of the knife instead of putting the block under the 
 jaws of the horse head, as the dents made in the end of 
 match timber would not answer; the front edge comes 
 against a strip put on for that purpose; then glue the other 
 end and put on brown paper, which holds them together 
 when split ; machines are used to split with which f«eds up 
 the block enough each time the knife is raised, to make the 
 size of the match when split the other way, or about ten to 
 the inch. These machines cost about fifty dollars, and the 
 work goes ahead like a young saw-mill, by simply turning 
 a crank. 
 
 There are two standards bolted upon a base plank, four 
 feet in length ; tb&se standards support a nhaft, with crank 
 and balance wheel, which is two feet in diameter; the 
 shaft has upon it an oval wheel, which sinks the knife, 
 twice in each revolution, the knife passing down through 
 a space in a thin iron strip, standing out from the two 
 blocks, under which the match block passes by the 
 drawing of the chain seen to pans over a small drum, 
 upon the shaft of the rag wheel, the notches being only 
 i>De-fourth inch apart, and fed up by the hand, attached to 
 
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 ■^3^ 
 
 inSCELLANBOUS DBPARTMENT. 
 
 831 
 
 the iron frame being kept back to the cam wheel, which 
 hac two swells upon it, bj a light spring. 
 
 The hand is kept down into the cogs or notches, by the 
 little spiral wire spring; the roatch-block to be split, sets 
 in the \ ame forward of the block, which has a pin in it to 
 draw back the frame. 
 
 When the block of matches is split, this frame goes for- 
 ward to touch a catch, the same as a saw-mill, which lets 
 another spring raise the hand, when tho feeding operation 
 •ceases The frame is th<>n drawn back and the same re- 
 peated. 
 
 As the match is split they open and require a rounding 
 mortice made through the base plank between the blocks, 
 which allows them to remain in a half circular form — the 
 knife is raised by a line attached to a spring pole, the knife 
 is screwed upon a pieo of cast iron which works in the 
 guide, having the back e.\d firmly fastened by a bolt through 
 one of the standards. This knife stands at right angles with 
 the shaft. 
 
 When the matches are split and sufficiently dry to work 
 upon, they are dipped in melted brimstone, kept, hot and 
 the match ako kept hot on a sheet iron slove^ and all the 
 brimstone is thrown off which can possibly be by jerking 
 the block with the hand. 
 
 If any brimstone remains upon the end it must be 
 scraped off before dipping into the match composition. 
 Wituout the chlorate, the composition makes a nrst-claw 
 
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 182 
 
 DR. CHABB'S RBOIPBS. 
 
 "Friction- Match." It ooght to be known, however, that 
 the match busiDBM is an unhealthy occupation, from the 
 poisonouR effects of the phosphorous. 
 
 BTEAM BOILERS.- To Pbkvmt Limb DiPOim.— Put Into 
 your ciHtern or tank, from which the boiler is fed, a sufficient 
 amount of oak tan-bark, in the piece, to color the water rather 
 'dark ; run 4 weeks and renew. 
 
 This plan has been much used, in the lime-stone sections 
 
 of Washington, 0., giving general satisfaction. 
 
 S. Ohio River Plan . — Sprouts from barley, in malting, are 
 recommended by Captain Lumm, part owner of a steamboat, and 
 engineer on the Ohio and Misuisslppi Rivers, to prevent the de- 
 posit of lime upon boilers, and he says tightens up old leaky 
 Dollars, also. It may be used in quantities of from 8 pts. to 2 or 
 8 qts., according to the size of lK>ller8. 
 
 When it is put in you must know the quantity of water 
 in the boiler, for unless you heat up quite slow it causes a 
 foaming of the water, and might deceive the engineer about 
 the amount of water in the boiler, but if heated up slow 
 there is no danger of this deception. 
 
 3. To Prbvbnt Explosioit, with the Reason why 
 THEY Explode. — At a recent meeting of the Association 
 for the advancement of science, Mr. Hyatt, of New York, 
 presented what we believe to be the true cause. He pre- 
 sented the following table, showing the rapidity with which 
 pressure is doubled by only a slight increase of heat. 
 
 At 212 degree? of heat water begins to boil ; at 868 degrees iron 
 becomes of a red heat. 
 
 212 ( 
 
 iegrees of heat 
 
 , 15 
 
 pounds 
 
 to 
 
 square inch. 
 
 261 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 294 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 
 
 842 
 
 
 
 120 
 
 
 
 
 
 898 
 
 
 
 240 
 
 
 
 
 * "• ( 
 
 "464 
 
 
 
 480 
 
 
 
 
 it 11 ' 
 
 868 
 
 '• 
 
 
 7680 
 
 
 
 
 
 It was stated by 
 
 Mr. Hyatt, that. 
 
 from 
 
 experiments 
 
 made, this great increase of pressure could be obtained in six to 
 seven minutes, with an engine at rest. This rapid doubling of 
 pressure, with but a small increase of heat, is due to. the conver- 
 sion of what is termed latent heat, in steam, into sensible heat. 
 If we immerse a thermometer into boiling water, it stands at 
 212; if we place it in steam immediately above the water, it 
 indicates the same temperature The question then arises, wha^. 
 becomes of ail the heat which is communicated to the water 
 
MISCliLLA17B0US DEPAltTMENT. 
 
 m 
 
 rev«r, that 
 from the 
 
 —Put Into 
 s Ruffldent 
 rater rather 
 
 16 sections 
 
 alting, are 
 mbout, and 
 sat the de- 
 old leaky 
 pts. to 2 or 
 
 r of w»ter 
 t causes a 
 neer about 
 [1 up slow 
 
 \S0N WHY 
 
 Association 
 Jew York, 
 He pre- 
 eith which 
 )at. 
 legrees iron 
 
 3h. 
 
 its he had 
 i ia six to 
 loublirig of 
 he conver- 
 isible heat. 
 ^ Staods at 
 5 water, it 
 irises, whai. 
 the water 
 
 since it is neither indicated by the water nor by the steftm fom«d 
 from it f The answer is, it enters the water and converts it into 
 steam without raiHing its temperature. One thousand degrees of 
 heat are absorbed in the convurHiun uf water into steam, and this 
 is called its latent heat. And it is the sudden eonvenion of latent 
 heat into sensible heat that pnxluces the explosion. If an engine 
 Is stopped, even If there is but a mcnlerate Jire, If t he eacape valve 
 is closed, there ia a rapid absorption or nccumulation of latent 
 heat. The pressure rises with great rapidity, and when the engi- 
 neer thinks everything is safe, the explosion comes. 
 
 That this is the true canse of nearly all the explosions 
 ' that occur, will be plain to every one who will look at the 
 relations between latent and sensible heat. Prof. Henry 
 and Prof. Silliman, Jr., endorse the view. "What, then, m 
 the security against explosions f We know of no securities 
 but these — a suflBciency of water in the boilers, and the 
 escape valves open at light pressure, when the engine is at 
 rest. — Springfield Republican. 
 
 There is no qiiestion about the foregoing explanations 
 being founded in true philosophy; and if engineers will be 
 governed by them, instead of by a desire to hold on to 3team 
 for the purpose of getting ahead or of keeping ahead, as 
 the case may be, of some other boat; or on land, to save 
 the expense of fuel, not one explosion would take place- 
 where now there is at least a hundred. 
 
 Awful will be the reckoning with these murderers; for ia 
 Heaven's sight they are one and the same. 
 
 A series of experiments have recentlj been concluded on 
 the U. S. Steamer Michigan, and a full but voluminous re- 
 port laid before the Navy Department, upon the subject of 
 steam expansion. It would pay all interested in steam worts 
 to obtain and read it. 
 
 PLUMS AND OTHER FRUIT— To Prevent Insects from 
 Stinging. --Take new dry lime, sulphur and gunpowdttr, equal 
 parts, pulverized very fine, and throw it amongst the flowers when 
 in full bloom ; use it freely, tSo that all may catch a little. 
 
 This has been tried with success. Working upon the 
 principle of pepper, to keep flies from meat. The injury 
 to fruit being done while in blossom. 
 
 BED-ROOM CARPETS— Fob Twelve and a Half Cents per 
 Yard.— Sew together the cheapest cotton cloth, the size of the 
 room, and tack the edges to the flpor. Now paper the cloth as 
 you would the sides of a room, with cheap room paper; put 
 
184 
 
 DB CHASE'S BECIPE8. 
 
 ting a border aronnd the edge if desired. The paste will be the 
 better if a little gum arabic ii mixed with it. When thoroughly 
 dry, give it two coats of furniture or carriage varnish, and when 
 iry it is done. 
 
 It can be washed ; and looks well in proportion to the 
 quality and figure of the paper used. It could not be ex- 
 pected to stand the wear of a kitchen, for any length of 
 time, but for bed rooms it is well adapted. 
 
 ' COFFEE— Mors Hbaltht and BETTsa Flavored, «)r Osm- 
 Fourth thb Expknsb of Cohhon. — Coffee, by weight or measure, 
 one fourth, rye three-fourths. 
 
 Look them ove; separately, to remove bad grains ; then 
 wash to remove dust, draining off the water for a moment 
 as you take it with the hands from the washing water, 
 putting directly into the browning skillet, carefully stirring, 
 all the time, to brown it evenly. Brown each one sepa- 
 rately ; then mix evenly, and grind only as used ; settling 
 with a beatened egg, seasoning with a little cream and sugar 
 as usual. 
 
 And I do sincerely say the flavor is better, and it is one 
 /hundred per cent more healthy than all coffee. 
 
 You may try barley, peas, parsnips, dandelion roots, «fec., 
 
 ftut Doae of their flavora are equal to rye. Yet all of them 
 
 »re more or less used for coffee. 
 
 PICKLING FRUITS, AND CUCUMBERS- Pickunq Appms.— 
 Best vinegar 1 gallon ; sugar 4 lbs. ; apples all it will cover 
 ihandsomely ; cinnamon and cloves, ground, of each 1 table- 
 spoon. 
 
 Pare and core the apples, tying up the cinnamon and 
 eloves in a cloth and putting with the apples, into the vine- 
 gar and sugar and cooking until done, only. Keep in jars. 
 Xhey are nicer than preserves and more healthy, apd keep 
 arlbog time; not being too sour, nor too sweet, but an agree- 
 able mixture of the two. It will be seen below that the 
 different fruits require different quantilieu of sugar and 
 vinegar, the reason for it, is, the difference in the fruit. 
 
 t PiOKLiNQ Pbachbs. — Best vinegar 1 qt. ; sugar 4 lbs. ; peach- 
 «, peeled, and stoned 8 lbs. ; spices as desired, or a^ for apples. 
 
 Treated every other way as apples. If they should begin 
 to ferme*^t. at any time, simply boil down the iuice ; then 
 lltoil the peaches in it for a few minutes only. 
 
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 MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
 335 
 
 3. Peaches — to Peel. — In peeling small peaches with a 
 knife, too much of the peach is wasted ; hut. by having a 
 "wire-cage, similar to those made for popping corn ;. fill the 
 cage with peaches, and dip it into boiling water, for a mo- 
 ment, then into cold water for a moment, and emptj out; 
 going on in the same way for all you wish to peel. This 
 toughens the skin and enables you to strip it off, saving 
 much in labor, as also the waste of peach. Why not, a« 
 well as tomatoes ? 
 
 4 PiCKLiNQ Plums — Best vinegar 1 pt.; sugar 4 lbs.; plums 8 
 lbs. ; spices to taste. 
 
 Boil them in the mixture until soft ; then take out the 
 plums, and boil the syrup until quite thick and pour it over 
 them again: 
 
 6. PiOKLiNG CuouMBEas. — Pick each morning; stand in weak 
 brine 8 or 4 days, putting in mustard pods and horseradish leaves 
 to keep them green. Then talce out and drain, covering with 
 vinegar for a weeic; at which time take out and drain again, 
 putting into new vinegar, adding mustard seed, ginger root, 
 cloves, pepper and red pepper pods, of each about 1 or 2 oz. ; or ta 
 suit different tastes, for each barrel. 
 
 The pickles will be nice and brittle, and pass muster at 
 any man's table, or market. And if it was generally known 
 that the greenness of pickles was caused by the action of 
 the vinegar on the copper kettle, producing a poison, (ver- 
 digris), in which they are directed to be scalded, I think 
 no one would wish to have a nice looking pickle at the ex- 
 pense of health; if they do, they can continue the bad prac- 
 tice of thus scalding; if not, just put your vinegar on cold, 
 and add your red peppers, or cayennes, cloves, and other 
 spices, as desired; but the vinegar must be changed once, 
 as the large amount of water in the cucumber reduces th« 
 vinegar so much that this change is absolutely necessary ; 
 and if they should seem to lose their sharp taste again, just 
 ao L a little molasses, or spirit, and all will be right. 
 
 SANDSTONE— To Pbbvknt Soalikg bt Feost.— Raw linseed- 
 oil, 2 or 8 coa ;. 
 
 Apply in place of paint, not allowing the first coat to get 
 entirely dry until the next . is applied ; if it does, a skin is 
 formed which prevents the next from penetrating the 
 itone. Poorly burned brick will be equally well preserved 
 by the same process. 
 
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 98^ 
 
 DR. CHASE'S RECrPBS. 
 
 h:a 
 
 SEALING WAX— Rbd, Bi,aok. and Bttri.— Gum shellac 8 o«. ; 
 Tttnice turpentiue 4 ozs. ; vermillion 2 1-2 oza. ; alcohol 2 o«. ; 
 camphor gum 1-2 oz. Dissolve the camphor in the alcohol, then 
 the shelliiq, adding the turpentine, and finally the vermillion, he- 
 ing very careful that no blaze shall come in contact with its fumes ; 
 for if it does, it will fire very quickly. 
 
 Blub. —Substitute fine Prussian-blue for the vermillion, same 
 quantity. 
 
 Black —Lamp-black only sufficient to color. Efther colpr muai' 
 ■be well rubbed into the mixture. 
 
 , ADVICE — To Young Mbn and others out of Em 
 PLOYMKNT. — Advice — How few there are that will hear 
 advice at all; not because it is advice but fronj the fact 
 that those who attempt to give it are not qualified for the 
 .work they assume; or that they endeavor to thrust it upon -, 
 their notice at an inopportune time ; or upon persons over 
 ■whom no control is acceded, if claimed. But a book or 
 paper never give oflfense from any of these causes ; there- 
 fore, they are always welcomed with a hope that real benefit 
 may be derived from their suggestions. Whether that end 
 will be attained in this case, I leave to the judgment of 
 those for whom it is inteuded ; hoping they may find them- 
 selves sufficiently interysted to give it a careful perusal, and 
 candid consideration. And although my remarks must, in 
 this work, be necessarily short, yet every sentence shiUl be 
 a text for your own thoughts to contemplate and enlarge 
 upon ; and perhaps, in some future edition of th* work, I 
 may take room and time to give the subject that attention 
 which is really its due ; and which would be a pleasure to 
 devote to its consideration. 
 
 First, then, let me ask why are so many young men and 
 other persons out of employment ? The answer is very positive 
 as well as very plain. It is this —indolence, coupled with a 
 determination that they will do some great thing, only. 
 And because that great thing does not turn up without effort, 
 thef are doing nothing. The point of difficulty is simply 
 this; they look for the end, before the beginning. But * 
 just consider how few there are that really accomplish any 
 great thing, even with a whole life of industry and economi- 
 cal perseverence. And yet most of our y6uth calculate that 
 their beginning shall be amongst the greats. But as no one 
 comes to offer them their expectations, indolence says wait, 
 
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 \ 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PEPARTMBNT. 
 
 m, 
 
 and so ithey are still waiting. Now mind you, as long as 
 your eX»ectations are placed upon a chance offer of some- 
 thing v«ry remunerative, or upon the assistance of others; 
 even in a small way, so long will you continue to wait in 
 vain. At this point, then, the quastion would arise, what 
 can he done ? and the answer is equally plain with the other. 
 Take hold of the first job you can find, for it will not find 
 you. No matter how insignificant it may be, it will be St- 
 ter than longer idleness; and when you are seen doing 
 something for yourselves, by those whose opinions are worth 
 any consideration, they will soon ofier you more and better 
 jobs; until, finally, you will find something which agrees 
 with your taste or inclination for a life business. But re- 
 member that the idle never have good situations ofi'ered 
 them. It is the industrious and persevering only iriho are 
 needed to assist in life's great struggle. 
 
 There are a few lines of poetiy called *• The Excellent 
 Man," which advocates the principles I am endeavoring to 
 advance, so admirably, that I cannot deny myself the plea- 
 sure of quoting them. The old proverb, *' God helps 
 those who help themselves," is as true as it is old, and after 
 all that is said and done, in this country, if in no other, a 
 man must depend on his own exertions, not on patronage, 
 if he would have or deserve success: 
 
 " They gave me advice and counsel it> store, 
 Praised mo and honored me more and more ; 
 Said that I only should * wait awhile,' 
 Offered their patronage, too, with a smile. 
 
 " But with all their honor and approbation, 
 I should long ago have died of starvation, 
 Had there not come an exckllent man, 
 Vho, bravely to help mo along began. 
 
 " Good fellow 1 he got me the food I ate, 
 His kindness and care I shall never forget : 
 Yet 1 cannot embrace him — though other folks can, 
 F(H- 1, ursEif , a»\ this excellent man ! " 
 
 Up then, and at it, for there is 
 
 Knitting and sewing, and reaping and mowing, 
 And all kinds of work for the people to do. 
 
 To keep themselves busy, both Abram and Lizzie ; 
 Begin then, ye idle, there is plenty for you. 
 
 When you have found a situation or a job of work, prove 
 
338 
 
 • DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 yourself honest, I'Ddustrious, persevering, and faitlful in 
 every trust, and no fears need be apprehended of your finali 
 success. Save a part of your wages as a sinking fund, or 
 rather as a floating fund, which shall keep your head above 
 water in a storm ; or to enable you, at no distant day, to 
 commence a business of your own. 
 
 A poor orphan boy, of fourteen, once resolved to save 
 half of his wages, which were only four dollara per month, 
 for this purpose ; and actually refused, even in sickness, al- 
 though really suffering for comforts, to touch this business 
 fund. He was afterwards the richest man in St. Louis. 
 
 His advice to young men was always this: " Go to work ; 
 save half your wages, no matter how small they may be, 
 until you have what will enable you to begin what you wish 
 to follow ; then begin it, stick to it ; be economical, prudent, 
 and careful, and you cannot fail to prosper." 
 
 My advice is the same, with this qualification, however ; 
 that in choosing your occupation, you should be governed 
 by the eternal principles of right! never choosing that 
 which when done, injures a fellow creature more than it can 
 possibly benefit yourself — I mean the liquor traffic. But 
 with the feeling of St. Paul, when he saw the necessity of 
 doing something different from what he had been doing, he 
 cried out, ''Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Ask 
 your own tastes, being governed by conscience, under the 
 foregoing principles ; knowing that if a person has to learn 
 a trade or business againt his own inclination, it requires 
 double dilhgence to make only half speed, and hardly ever 
 meeting with success. 
 
 Thrt question to be settled, then, is this: Shall I work 
 the soil ; shall I be a mechanic, teacher, divine, physician, 
 lawyer, merchant, druggist, or grocer, • or shall it be some- 
 thing else? Whenever you make up your mind what it 
 shall be, make it up, also, to be the best one in that line of 
 business. Set your mark high, both in point of moral 
 purity and literary qualifications. 
 
 If you choose any of the occupations of trade, you must 
 save all that it is possible for economy and prudence to do, 
 for your beginning. 
 
 But if you choose one of the learned professions, you . 
 must work with the same care and prudence until you have 
 
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 MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
 339 
 
 accumulated sufficient to make a fair commencement in your 
 studie8\ then prosecute them in all faithfulness as far as 
 the acci^mulated means ^ill advance jou; realizing that 
 this increase o. o.».w1edge will give you increasdd power in 
 obtaining the further means of prosecuting your studies, 
 necessary to qualify you to do one thing only in life. 
 
 Nearly all of our best men are eelf-made, and men of one 
 idea, i. e., they have set themselves to be mech anics, physi- 
 eians, lawyera, sculptors, &c., and have bent their whole 
 energies and lives to fit themselves for the great work before 
 them. Begin then; offer no excuse. Be sure yoU are on 
 the right track, then go ahead : 
 
 " Live for something, " slothful be no longer, look around for some employ ; 
 
 Labor always maices you stronger, aiid al^o gives you sweeteet Joy. 
 
 Idle bands are always weary ; .aithfiil hearts are always gay ; 
 
 IJfe for us, should not be dreary ; nor can it, to the active, every day. 
 
 Always remembering that industry, in study or labor, will 
 keep ahead of his work, giving time for pleasure and en- 
 joyment; but indolence is ever behind; being driven with 
 her work, and no prospect of its ever being accomplished. 
 
 When you have made your decision, aside from what time 
 you must necessarily devote to labor, let all possible time bo 
 given to the study of the best works upon the subject of 
 your occupation or profession, knowing that one hour's 
 reading in the morning, when the mind is calm and free 
 from fatigue, thinking and talking with your companions 
 through the day upon the subjects of which you have 'boen 
 reading, will be better than twice that time in evening rea^ 
 ing, yet if both can be enjoyed, so much the better,; but one 
 of them must certainly be occupied in this way. 
 
 If you choose something in the line of mercantile or trade 
 life, do not put off, too long, commencing for yourself. Bet- 
 ter begin in a small way and learn, as your capital 'ncreases, 
 how to manage a larger business. 
 
 I knew a gentleman to commence a business with five 
 dollars, and in two weeks his capital was seventeen dollars^ 
 besides feeding his family. 
 
 I knew one also to begin with sixty dollars, and in fifteen 
 months he cleared over four hundred and fifty dollars, be- 
 sides supporting his family ; then he sold out and lost all 
 before he again got into successful business. 
 
 No pei-son should ever fiell out, or quit an honorable pay- 
 ing business. % 
 
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 I 
 
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 '840 
 
 BR. OHASB's REGIP8S. 
 
 / 
 
 'Those who choose a professional iife, will hardly find a 
 place in the West, equal to the Uniyersity of Michigan, 
 -Ann Ai-bor, to obtain their literary qualifications. An en- 
 trance fee of Ten Dollars, with Five Dollars yearly, pays 
 for a full Literary, Law, Medical, or Givil Engineering 
 course; the first requiring four, the two next, two, and the 
 last three years. 
 
 Or, in the words of the catologue: •' The University, 
 having been endowed by the General Government, affords 
 edu laiion, without money and without price. " There is no 
 young man, so poor, that industry, diligence and persever- 
 ance, will not enable him to get an education here. 
 
 ** The present condition of the University confirms this 
 view of its character. While the sons of the rich, and of 
 men of more o» less property, and, in large pioportion, the 
 sons of substantial farmers, mechanics, and merchants, are 
 educated here, there is also a very considerable number of 
 young men dependent entirely upon their own exertions — 
 young men who, accustomed to work on the farm or in the 
 mechanic's shop, have become smitten with the love of 
 knowledge, and are manfully working their way through, to 
 a liberal education, by appropriating a portion of their time 
 to the field or the workshop." 
 
 Peraons wishing to qualify themselves for teaching in 
 this State, will find the. Normal School, Ypsilanti, undoubt- 
 edly preferable. 
 
 And that none may excuse themselves from an effort be- 
 cause somewhat advanced in life, let me say that Doctor 
 Ebarle, who wrote seve.al valuable medical works, did not 
 begin his medical studies until forty-five years of age ; and 
 although I could mention many more, I will only add, that 
 T, myself, always desired to become a physician, yet circum- 
 stances did not favor nor justify my commencement until 
 I was thirty-eight. See the remarks following " Eye 
 Water." 
 
 There is no occupation, however, so free and independent 
 as that of the farmer ; <'md there is none, except parents, 
 capable of using so great an influence, for good or for evil, 
 as that of teacher. 
 
 ■All might and ought, to a greater or less extent, be farm- 
 ers; but all cannot be teachere. Then let those whose 
 
MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 
 
 HI 
 
 taste inelinee them to teaoh, not shrink the responsibility; 
 but fully qualify for the work; learning also the ways of 
 Truth and Righteousnesss for themselves; teaching it 
 through the week-8«hool, by action as well as by word, and 
 in the Sabbath-school fail not to take their stand for the 
 right, like our President elect; then when it comes your 
 turn to assist in the government of the State or Nation, the 
 people will come to your support, as you do to your work — 
 as they have just done to his (1860); feeling, as now, that 
 the government must be safe in the hands of those who love 
 God— -deal honestly with their fellows ; and who, in remem- 
 bering the Sabbath to keep it holy themselves, are not 
 ashamed — nor forget to teach the children to love the same 
 God, and reverence His Word. Only think — a Sabbath- 
 School Teacher — a Rail Splitter — a Boatman, President of 
 the United States 1 
 
 Who will hereafter be afraid of common labor; or let 
 indolence longer prevent their activity? when it is only 
 those who begin with small things and persevere through 
 life, that reach the final goal of greatness; and, as in this 
 case, are crowned with the gi'eateat honor which man can 
 receive — the confidence of his Nation. 
 
 Then let Industry take the place of Indolence, beginning 
 to be great, by gi-appljng with the small things of life — be 
 faithful to youreelf, and you may reasonably expect the end 
 shall indeed be great. 
 
 And although it could not be expected, in a work of this 
 kind, that much could or would be said directly regarding 
 a future life, yet I should be recreant to duty if I did not 
 say a word more upon that subject. It shall be only a word. 
 Be as faithful to God, as I have recommended you to be to 
 youreelvt'S, and all things pertaining to a future, will be 
 equally prosperous and glorious in its results. 
 
 GRAMMAR IN RHYME~For the Little Folks.— 
 It is seldom that one sees so much valuable matter as the 
 following lines contain, comprised in so brief a space. 
 Every young grammarian, and many older heafls, will find 
 it highly advantageous to commit the " poem " to memory ; 
 
949 
 
 DB. 0H4BB's recipes. 
 
 for with these h'nes at the tongue*8 end, none lAod ever 
 •^ tniiU^ke a part of speech : 
 
 1. "Three little words jon often see, 
 Are articles — a, an, and the. 
 
 2. A Noun's the name of any thing, 
 As tchool, or garden, hoop, or twing. 
 
 8. Adjectives tell the kind of Noun, 
 As great, email, pretty, white or brovm. 
 
 4. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand— 
 Eer head, Aw face, your arm, my hand. 
 
 5. Verba tell of something to be done — 
 To read, count, ting, laugh, jump or run. 
 
 6. How things are done, the adverlw tell, 
 As slowly, quiofUy, ill or well. 
 
 7. Conjunctions join the words together — 
 As men and women, wind or weather. 
 
 8. The Proposition stands before 
 
 A Noun, as in, or through a door. 
 
 9. The Interjection shows surprise, 
 As oA/ how pretty— oA/ how wise. 
 
 The whole are called Nino Parts of Speech, 
 Which reading, writing, speaking, teach. 
 
 MUSICAL CURIOSlTT—SooTcp Gbnius in Tiaohino.— A 
 Highland piper, having a scholar to teach, disdained to crack 
 
 «liis brains with the names of semibreves, minims, crotchets and 
 
 •quavers. "Here, Donald," said he, "tak yer pipes, lad, and gie 
 
 us a blast. So — verra weel blawn, indeed; but what's a sound, 
 
 DonMd, without sense f Ye maun blaw forever without making 
 
 . « tuuQ o't, if I dinna tell you how the queer things on the paper 
 4naun help you. Tou see that big fellow wi' a round, open face ? 
 (pointing to a semibreve between two lines of a bar.) He moves 
 slowly from that line to this, while ye beat ane wi' yer fidt, and 
 ^ie use a long blast. If, now, ye put a leg to him, ye mak' twa 
 o' him, and he'll move twice as fast; and if ve black his face, 
 he'll run four times faster than the fellow wi the white face; 
 bnt if, after blacking his face, ye'll bend his knee or tie his leg, 
 he'll hop eight times faster than the white faced chap I show^ 
 you first. Now, whene'er ye blaw yer pipes, Donald, remember 
 this— that the tighter those fellows legs are tled^ the luter they'll 
 mn, and the quicker they're sure to dance." 
 
 That is, the more legs they have bent up, contrary to 
 nature, the faster goes the music 
 
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 COLORINQ DEPARTMENT. 
 
 REMARKS. — It may be neceBsary to remark, and I do 
 it here, once for all, that every article to be dyed, as well as 
 everything used about dyeing, should be perfectly clean . 
 
 In the next place, the article to be dyed should be well 
 scoured in soap, and then the soap rinsed out. It is also an 
 advantage to dip the article you wish to dye in warm water, 
 just before putting it into the alum or other preparation ; 
 for the neglect of this precaution it is nothing uncommon 
 to have the goods or yarn spotted. Soft water should always 
 be used, if possible, and sufficieut to cover the goods hand- 
 somely. 
 
 As soon as an article is dyed it should be aired a little, 
 then well rinsed, and afterwards hung up to dry. 
 
 When dyeing or scouring silk or merino dresses, care 
 ihould be taken not to wring them, for this has a tendency 
 to wrinkle and break the silk. 
 
 In putting dresses and shawls out to dry, that have been 
 dyed, they should ]»e hung up by the edge so as to dry 
 evenly. 
 
 Great confidence may be placed in these coloring recipes, 
 as the author haS^had them revised by Mr. Storms, of this 
 city, who has been ia- the business over thirty years, 
 
 COLORS ON WOOLLEN GOODS. 
 
 1. CHROME BLACK— Sdpkrior to \ny in Use.-— 
 For 6 Jbs. of goods — blue vitriol 6 ozs. ; boil it a few min- 
 utes, then dip the goods f of an hour, airing often; take 
 out the goods, and make a dye with logwood 3 flbs. ; boil ^ 
 hour; dip f ' an hour and air the goods, and dip f of an 
 hcur more. Wash in strong suds. 
 
 N. B. — ^This wiU not impait any of its color in fulling, 
 nor fade by exposure to the sun. 
 
 2. BLACK ON WOOL— For Mixtures.— For 10 fcs. 
 •f wool — ^bi-chromate of potash 4 ozs. ; grcund argal 3 ozs. ; 
 boil together and put in the wool; stir well and let it r« 
 main in the dye 4 hours. Then take out the wool, rinse it 
 slightly in clear water; then mak« a new dye, into which 
 
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 DR. CHASE 8 RECIPES. 
 
 put logwood 3^^ lbs. Boil 1 hour, and add chamber-ley 1 
 >pt., and let the wool lie in all night. Wash in clear water. 
 
 3. STEEL MIX— DxRK.—Black wool— It may be nat- 
 ural or colored, 10 lbs. — white wool IJ lbs. Mix evenly 
 together and it will be beautiful, 
 
 4. SNUFF BROWN— Dark, for Cloth or Wool.— 
 For 6 lbs. goods — camwood 1 lb.; boil it 15 minutes then 
 dip the goods for f hour ; take out the goods, and add to 
 the dye, fustic 2^ lbs.; boil 10 minutes, and dip the goods 
 f h-wr; then add blue vitriol 1 oz. ; copperas 4 ozs. ; dip 
 again ^ hour; if not dark enough, add more copperas. It 
 is dark and permanent. 
 
 6. WINE COLOR.— For 5 lbs. ffoods- -camwood 2 lbs.; 
 boil 16 minutes and dip the goods f hour; boil again and 
 dip ^ hour; then darken with blue vitriol 1^- ozs. ; if not 
 dark enough, add copperas ^ oz. " 
 
 6. MADDER RED.— To each lb. of goods— alum 6 
 ozs.; red, or cream of tartar 1 oz ; put in the goods and 
 bring your kettle to a boil for ^ hour ; then air them and boil 
 ^ hour longer; then en pty your kettle and fill with clean 
 water, put in bran 1 peck ; make it milk warm and let it 
 stand until the bran rises, then skim off the bran and put 
 in madder J lb.; put in ycur goods and heat slowly until it 
 boils and is done. Wash in strong suds. 
 
 7. GREEN — On Wool or Silk, with Oak Bark.— 
 Make a strong yellow dye of yellow oak and hickory bark, 
 in equal quantities. Add the extract of indigo or chemic 
 (which see), 1 table spoon at a time, until you get the shade 
 of color desired. Or: 
 
 8. GREEN — With Fustic. — For each lb. of goods — 
 fustic 1 lb, ; with alum 3^ ozs. Steep until th<i strength is 
 out, and soak the goods therein until a good yellow is ob- 
 tained ; then remove the chips, aad add extract of indigo or 
 chemic, 1 table-spoon at a time, until the color suits. 
 
 9. BLUE — Quick Process. — For 2 lbs. of goods — alum 
 5 088.; cream of tartar 3 oz^. ; boil the goods in this for 1 
 hour ; then throw the goods into warm water, which has 
 more or less of the extract of indigo in it, according to the 
 depth of color desired, and boil again until it suits, adding 
 more-jof the blue if needed. It is quick and permanent, 
 
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 COLORING DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 10. STOCKING YARN, OR WOOL, TO COLOR— 
 Bktwbbn a Blub and Purplk. — For 5 lbs. of wool bi- 
 chromate of potash 1 oz. ; alum 2 ot\ ; dissolve them and 
 bring the water to a boil, putting in the wool and boiling 1 
 hour; then throw away the dye and make another dye with 
 logwood chips 1 lb., or extract of logwood 2^ ozs., and boil 
 1 hour. This also works very prettily on silk. 
 
 N. B. — Whenever you make a dye with logwood chips 
 either boil the chips ^ hour and pour off the dye, or tie up 
 the chips in a bag and boil with the wool or other goods 
 or take 2^ ozs, of the extract in place of 1 lb. of the chips 
 is leas trouble and generally the batter plan. In the above 
 recipe the more logwood that is used the darker will be the 
 shade. 
 
 11. SCARLET, WITH COCHINEAL.— For Yarn or 
 Cloth. — For 1 lb of goods— cream of tartar ^ oz. ; coch- 
 ineal, well pulverized, ^ oz, ; muinate of tin 2^ ozs. ; then 
 boil up the die and enter the goods; work them briskly for 
 10 or 15 minutes, after which boil 1| hours, stirring the- 
 goods slowly while boiling, wash in clear water and dry in 
 the shade. 
 
 12. PINK.— For 3 lbs. of goods — alum 3 ozs., boil and 
 dip the goods 1 hour; then add, to the dye, cream of tartar 
 4 ozs. ; cochineal, well pulverized, 1 oz. ; boil well and dip- 
 the goods while boiling, until the color suits. 
 
 13. ORANGE.— For 5 lbs. of goods— Muriate of ♦in 6' 
 table-spoons ; aigal 4 ozs. ; boil and dip 1 hour ; then add, 
 to the dye, fustic 2^ lbs,; boil 10 minutes, and dip J hour, 
 and add, again, to the dye, madder 1 tea-cup ; dip again ^ 
 hour. 
 
 N. B. — Cochineal in place of madder makes a much 
 brighter color, which should be added in small quantities 
 until pleased. About 2 ozs. 
 
 14. LAC RED. — For 5 lbs. good— argal 10 ozs.; boil a 
 few minutes; then mix fi..9 gi-ound lac 1 lb. with muriate 
 of tin 1^ lbs., and let them stand 2 or 3 hours; then add 
 half of the lac to the argal dye, and dip ^ hour; then add 
 the balance of the lae and dip again 1 hour; keep the dye 
 at a boiling heat, until the last half hour, when the dye may 
 l>e cooled off. 
 
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 DB. OHABE'S RECIPES. 
 
 16. PURPLE.— For 6 lbs. ffoodn— cream of tarU: 4 
 ozs. ; alum 6 ozs ; cochineal, weU pulverized, 2 ois. ; muri- 
 ate o\ tin ^ tea-cup. Boil the cream of tartar, alum and 
 tiu 15 minutes; tnen put in the cochineal and boil 6 min- 
 utes; dip the gooda 2 hours; then make a new dye with, 
 idum 4 0Z8.; Brazil wood 6 ozs.; logwood 14 ozs.; muriate 
 of tin 1 tea-cup, with a little chemic; work again until 
 pleased. • 
 
 16. SILVER DRAB— Light.— For 6 lbs. goods— alum 
 1 small tea-spoon, and logwood about the same amount; boil 
 well together, then dip the floods 1 hour; if not dark 
 enough, add in equal quautit es alum and logwood, until 
 «uitea. 
 
 17. SLATE, ON WOOLEN OR COTTON— With 
 Bbaoh Bark. — Boil the bark in an iron kettle, skim out the 
 chips after it has boiled sufficiently, and then add copperas 
 to set the dye. If you wish it very dark add more copperas. 
 This is excellent for stockings. 
 
 18. EXTRACT OF INDIQO OR CHEMIC— To 
 Make. — For good chemic or extract of indigo, take oil of 
 vitriol ^ lb., and stir into it indigo, finely ground, 2 ozs., 
 continuing the stirring at firat for ^ hour; now cover over, 
 and stir 3 or 4 times daily for 2 or 3 days; then put in a 
 crumb of saleratus and stir it up, and if it foams put in 
 more and stir, and add as long as it foams; the saleratus 
 neutralizes any excess' of acid ; then put into a glass vessel 
 and cork up tight. It improves by standing. Druggists 
 keep this prepared. 
 
 19. WOOL — To CLEANaE. — Make a liquid of water 3 
 parts and urine 1 part; heat it as hot as you can bear the 
 hand in it ; then put in the wool, a little at a time, so as 
 Dot to have it crowd; let it remain in for Id minutes; take 
 it out over a basket to drain ; ^nen rinse in running water, 
 and spread it out to dry ; tlius proceed in the same liquor ; 
 when it gets reduced fill it up, in the same proportjionsy 
 keeping it at hand heat, all th^ time not using any soap. 
 
 20. DARK COLORS— To Extract and Insert Light. 
 — This recipe is calculated for carpet rags. In the first 
 place let the rags be washed clean — the black or brown rags 
 •can be colored red, or purple, at the option of the dyer ; to do 
 
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COLORING DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 tbifi, tiilce, for every 5 lbs. black of brown rags, muriate of 
 tin f lb. , and the lao ^ lb. ; mixed witb the same, as for 
 the lac red ; dip the goods in this dye 2 hours, boiling ^ of 
 the time, if not red enough add more tin and lac. The 
 goods can then be made a purple, by adding a little loff- 
 wood; be careful, and not get in but a very small handful, 
 as more can be added if not enough. White rags make a 
 beautiful appearance in a carpet, by tying them in the skeiu 
 and coloring them red, green, or purple; gray rags will take 
 a very good green — the coloring will be in proportion to th«' 
 darkness of mix. 
 
 DURABLE COLORS ON COTTON. 
 
 1. BLACK. — For 6 lbs. goods — sumac, wood and bark 
 together, 3 lbs.; boil ^ hour, and let the goods steep 12 
 hours-; then dip in l*me water ^ hour; then take out the 
 goods and let them drip au hour; now add to the sumac 
 hquor, copperas 8 ozs., and dip another hour; then run 
 them through the tub of lime water again for 15 minutes; 
 now make a new dye with logwood 2^ lbs., by boiling 1 
 hour, and dip again 3 hours; now add bi-carbonate of pot- 
 ash 2 ozs ., to the logwood dye, and dip 1 hour. Wash in 
 clear Cold water and dry in the shade. You may say this 
 is doing too much. You cannot get a permanent black on 
 cotton with less labor. . 
 
 2. SKY BLUE.— For 3 lbs. goods— blue vitriol 4 ozs. ; 
 boil a few minutes; then dip the goods 3 hours, after which 
 pass them through strong lime water. You can make this 
 color a beautiful brown by putting the goods through a so- 
 lution of Prussiate of potash. 
 
 3. LIME WATER, AND STRONG LIME WATER.— 
 For Coloring. — Lime water is made by putting stone lime 1 
 lb., and strong lime water, 1^ lbs. into a pail of water, 
 slacking, stirring, and letting it stand until it becomes clear, 
 then turn into a tub of water, in which dip the goods. 
 
 4. BLUE, ON COTTON OR LINEN— With Logwood. 
 In all cases, if new, they should be boiled in a strong soap- 
 suds or weak ley and rinse clean ; then for cotton 5 lbs.,, 
 or linen 3 lbs., take bi-carbonate of posash f lb. ; put in 
 the goods and dip 2 hours, then take out, rinse; make a 
 
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 DR. chase's BEOlHfiS. 
 
 <lye with logwood 4 Sbs. ; dip in this 1 hour, air, and lei 
 btand iu the dye 3 or 4 hours, or till the dye is almost cold» 
 "wash out and dry. 
 
 6. BLUE ON COTTON— Without LoowooD.~For 5 
 lbs. of rags — copperas 4 ozs.; boil and dip 15 minutes; then 
 dip in strong suds, and back to the dye 2 or 3 times ; then 
 make a dye with prussiate of potash 1 oz.; oil of vitriol 3 
 table-spoons; boil 30 minutes ahd rinse; th«n dry, 
 
 6. GREEN. — If the cotton is new, boil in weak ley or 
 strong suds; then wnsh and dry ; give the cotton a dip in 
 the home-made blue dye tub until blue enough, is obtained 
 to make the green as dark as required, take out, dry, and 
 rinse the goods a little; then make a dye with fustic f lb. ; 
 logwood 8 ozs. to each ft>. of goods, by boiling the dye 1 
 hour; when cooled so as to bear the hand, put in the cotton* ; 
 move briskly a few minutes, and let lay in 1 hour; take out 
 and let it thoroughly drain ; dissolve and add to the dye, for 
 each ft), of cotton, blue vitriol ^ oz., and dip another hour; 
 -wring out and let dry in the shade. By adding or dimin- 
 ishing the logwood and fustic, any shade of green may be 
 obtained. 
 
 1. YELLOW.— For 5 lbs. of goods— sugar of lead 7 
 ozs.; dip the goods 2 hours; make a new dye with bi-chro- 
 mate of potash 4 ozs. ; dip until the color suits, wring out 
 and dry, if not yellow enrugh repeat the operation. 
 
 8. ORANGE.— For 5 ft>s. goods — sugar of lead 4 ors.; 
 boil a few minutes, and when a little cool put in the goods, 
 dip 2 hours, wring out ; make a new dye with bi-chromate 
 of potash 8 ozs.; madder 2 ozs.; dip until it suits; if the 
 color should be too red, take off a small sample and dip it 
 into lime water, when the choice can be taken of the sam- 
 ple dipped in the lime or the original color, 
 
 9, RED. — Take muriate of tin f of a teacup; add suffi- 
 cient water to cover the goods well, bring it to a boiling 
 heat, putting in the goods 1 hour, stirring often ; take out 
 the goods and empty the kettle and put in clean water, with 
 nic-wood 1 lb., steeping it for ^ hour, at hand heat; then 
 put in the goods and increase the heat for 1 hour, not bring- 
 ing to a boil at all ; air the goods, and dip an hour as be- 
 fore; wash without soap. 
 
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COLOBINQ DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 9. MURIATE OF TIN— Tin Liquor. —If druggisUi 
 keep it, it is best to purdtase of them already made; butjif 
 you prefer, proceed as follows: 
 
 Get at a tinner's shop^ block tin; put it' in a sbovel and' 
 melt it. After it is melted, pour it from the hight of 4 or 
 5 feet into a pail of clear water. The object of this is to. 
 have the tin in small particles, so that the add can dissolve 
 iU Tak^it out of the water and dry it; then put it into a 
 strong g\aaa bottle; pour over it muriatic acid 12 ozs.; then, 
 slowly, add sulphuric acic* ozs. The acid should be add- 
 ed about a table spoon at a time, at intervals of 5 or 8 min-^ 
 utes, for if you add it too rapidly you run the risk of 
 breaking the bottle by heat. After you have aU the acid, 
 in, let the bottle stand until the ebulition subsides; then 
 stop it up with a bees- wax or glass stopper, and sot it away, 
 and it will keep good for a year or more, or will be fit for 
 use in 24 hours. 
 
 COLORS ON SILK GOODS. 
 
 GREEN — ^Vkri Handsomb with Oak Bark. — For 1 
 lb. of silk — yellow oak bark 8 ozs. ; boil it ^ hour, turn off 
 the liquor from the bark and add alum 6 ozs. ; let stand 
 until cold, while this dye is being made, color the goods 
 in the blue dye-tub, a light blue; dry and wash; then dip in 
 the alum and bark dye; if it does not take well, warm the 
 dye a little. 
 
 2. GREEN OR YELLOW—On Silk or Wool, in 
 Five to Fifteen Minutes. — :For 5 lbs. of goods — black 
 oak bark or peach leaves i peck ; boil well ; then take out 
 the bark or leaves, and add muriate of tin ^ tea-cup, stir- 
 ring well; then put in the goods and stir them round, and 
 it will dye a deep yellow in from 6 to 16 minutes, according 
 to the strength of the bark; take out the goods, rinse and 
 dry immediately. 
 
 N. B. — For a green, add, to the above dye, extract of 
 indigo, or chemic 1 table spoon only, *t a time, and work 
 the goods 6 minutes, and air; if not suflBciently dark use 
 the same amount of chemic as before, and work again until 
 it suits. 
 
 3. MULBERRY— For 1 lb. of silk— alum 4 oz3.; dip 1 
 
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 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 
 
 hour; wash out, and make a dye with Brazil wood 1 oz., 
 and logwood ^ oz. by boiling together ; dip in this I hour, 
 then add more Brazil wood and logwood, in equal propor- 
 tions, until the color is dark enough. 
 
 4. BLACK.— Make a weak dye as you would for black 
 on woollens, work the goods in bi-chroniate of potash, at a 
 little below boiling heat, then dip in the logwood in the 
 same way ; if colored in the blue vitriol dye, use about the 
 same heat. 
 
 6. SPOTS — To Rkmovk and Pbevknt when Color- 
 ing Black on Sile or Woollen. — N. B. In dyeing silk or 
 woollen goods, if they should become rus.y or spotted, all 
 that is necessary to make a weak lye, and have it scalding- 
 hot, and put your goods in for fifteen minutes; or throw 
 some ashes into your dye, and run your goods in it & 
 minutes, and they will come out a jet black, and an even 
 color. I will warrant it. — Storms. 
 
 Tht reason that spots of brown, or rust, as it is generally 
 called, appear on black cloths, is that these parts take the 
 color faster than the other parts ; but I have no doubt Mr. 
 Storms' plan will remove them, for he regretted much to 
 make public the information, which he says is not generally 
 known. A nd if the precaution, given in our leading re- 
 marks on coloring, are hee j^*, there will be but very little 
 danger of spotting at all. 
 
 6. LIGHT CHEMIC BLUE.— For cold v»-,ter 1 gal, 
 dissolve aluin ^ table spoon, in hot water 1 tea-cup, and add 
 lo it ; then add chemic I tea-spoon at a time, to obtain the 
 desired coloi, — the more chemic that is used, the darker 
 will be the color. 
 
 7. PURPLE.— For 1 lb. of silk— having first obtained 
 a light blue by dipping in the home-made blue dye-tub, and 
 dried, dij' m Ahm 4 ozs., to sufficient water to cover, when 
 a little warm ■ if the color is not full enough, add a little 
 chemic. 
 
 6. YELLOW.— For 1 lb. of silk— alum 3 ozs.; sugar of 
 lead f ozs.; immerse the goods in the solution over night; 
 take out, drain, and make a new dye with fustic 1 lb. ; dip 
 until the required color is obtained. 
 
 N.B. —The yellow or green, for wool, works equally well 
 on silk. 
 
COLORING DEFARTMBNT. 
 
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 9. ORANGE . — ^Take anotta and soda, and add in equal 
 quantities, according to the amount of goods and darkness 
 of the color wanted: say 1 oz. of each, to each pound of 
 silk, and repeat as desired* 
 
 10. CRIMSON.— For 1 lb. of silk— alum 8 obs.; dip at 
 hand-heat 1 hour; take out and drain, ^hUe making a new 
 ley, by boiling 10 minutes, cochineal 3 ozs. ; bruised nut- 
 galls 2 ozs. ; and cream of tartar ^ oz., in one pail of water; 
 when a little cool, begin to dip, raising the heat to a boil, 
 continuing to dip 1 hour. 
 
 11. CINNAMON OR BROWN ON COTTON AND 
 SILK. — By a New Process — Vert Beautiful. — Give 
 the goods aa much color, from a solution of blue vitriol 2 
 ozs., to water 1 gallon, as it will take up in dipping 
 15 minutes; then run it through lime water; this wiH 
 make a beautiful sky-blue, of much durability ; it has now 
 to be run through a solution of Prussiate of potash 1 oz,, 
 to water 1 
 
 well 
 
 
fl 
 
 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS OF INTEREST, 
 
 INTEREST — Legal Rates allowed in bach of the 
 
 DIFFERENT StATES ; AlSO, BHOWINQ WHAT BATES MAT 
 
 be contracted for, and collected; and oiving thb 
 Forfeitures when Illicoal rates are Attempted to 
 ^B collected. — First, theD Six per^ cent is the Legal rate 
 in the States of Maine, Now Hampshire, Rhode Island, 
 .Connecticut, Vernaont, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 
 Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, (Eight per cent, is allowed 
 in this State if agreed upon), Mississippi, Tennessee, Ar- 
 kansas, Kent-'.wky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, 
 and New Jei-sey, excepting in Hudson nnd Essex Counties, 
 and the city of Patterson, in this last State, Seven per cent, 
 is allowed, when either of the parties reside therein. 
 
 Second : Seven per cent, is the Legal rate in Michigan, 
 New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Carolina, and 
 Georgia. 
 
 Third: Ten per cent, is the Legal rate in California; 
 Eight per cent, in Alabama and Texas, and as strange as it 
 may appear, in Louisiana only Five per cent. 
 
 Maine and Vermont allow no higher than lenjal interest 
 to be collected, even if agreed upon. And if paid it can 
 be recovered again, but no forfeiture. 
 
 In New Hampshire, three times the legal rate is forfeited, 
 if unlawfully taken. 
 
 Rhode Island, has no foifeiture, but allows legal interest 
 to be collected, even on usurious contracts. 
 
 In Connecticut, if usurious contracts are made, the prin- 
 cipal only can be collected, to the lender, or, if collected, 
 can be recovered, one-half to the informer, the other half to 
 the State Treasury. 
 
 New York voids usurious contracts; but, if paid, only 
 allows the excess over legal rates to be collected back. 
 
 New Jersey, also, voids usurious contracts, reserving hal^ 
 to the State, and half to the informer. 
 
 Pennsylvania allows only legal interest to be collected. 
 
 i--. 
 
I1YTBBB8T DBPARTMBNT. 
 
 8S8 
 
 Delaware aUowa usnrians contracta to be collected, half to 
 the State and half to the prosecutor. 
 
 Maryland allows only legal rates to be collected. 
 Virginia voids the contract, and doubles the debt, half to 
 the informer and half to the State. 
 
 North Carolina is the same as Virginia. 
 
 South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama, ;tllow forfeitures 
 of only the interest. 
 
 In Mississippi, although six per cent, is the legal interest 
 on common debts, yet for money, actually borrowed, eight 
 per cent, is allowed, and although a rate may be agreed upon 
 above what the law allows, simple interest may still be col- 
 lected . 
 
 Louisiana, although allowing only five per cent, where no 
 stipulation is made, permits eight per cent, in agreement, 
 and Bank interest to be six per cent. 
 
 In Texas, although eight per cent, only i' the legal rate, 
 yet twelve may be contracted for, but if higher rates are 
 agreed upon, none can be collected. 
 
 Arkansas allows as high as ten per cent, on contract, but 
 voids usurious contracts. 
 
 Tennessee allows a fine to be collected not less in amount 
 than is unlawfully taken. 
 
 Kentucky only voids usurious excesses. 
 
 Michigan allows ten per cent, to be contracted for, and 
 void only excesses, if any are t*ken. 
 
 Indiana allows only her legal rates to be contiacted for, 
 and may be collected back, if, in any case, it should be 
 obtained. 
 
 Illinois allows ten per cent, on money, actually borrowed, 
 and only lawful rates can be collected. 
 
 In Missouri, ten per cent, may be contracted for, but for- 
 feits ten per cent, to the common school fund, in cases 
 where more than lawful rates are obtained. 
 
 Iowa permits ten per cent, to be agreed upon, and allows 
 all illegal interest to be collected back. 
 
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 DB. chase's RECIPES. 
 
 . Wisconsm formerly permitted twelve per cent, to be agreed 
 upon, and those who paid more than lawful rates might re- 
 cover back three times the amount paid; but more recently 
 allows only seven per cent., and makes all above that amount 
 usurious. 
 
 California and Minnesota allow any rate agreed upon to 
 be collected. ' 
 
 The interest which the State allows to be collected on 
 note* drawn, ''with use," not specifying the rate, is called 
 legal, and that which some Slates allow to be contracted 
 for above the legal rate is lawful ; but when a larger rate 
 is taken, or agreed upon, it is called usurious, and subjects 
 the peraon agreeing for it, or receiving it, to the penalties, or 
 forfeitures, as given in the foregoing explanations. 
 
 Any Agent, or other person, who may know of any 
 changes in their States from these rules, will confer a favor 
 on the Author by communicating the same. 
 
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 14 
 
EXPLANATIONS OF THE INTEREST TABLES. 
 
 EXAMPLE: 
 
 ' Desired to obtain the interest on $1,111.00, for 1 year, 4 
 months, and 27 days, at 6 per cent. 
 
 Turning to the tables you will see that the time is given 
 in the left-hand column, the amounts on which you desire , 
 to find the interest are given at the heads of the various 
 right-hand columns, the sum sought is found at the meeting 
 of the lines to the right of the time, and down from the 
 amount, as follows : 
 
 The interest on $1,000, 1 year, at 6 per cent, $60.00 
 
 *« ■ '* « 100, " " ** " " 6.00 
 
 * 10, " « " " " 60 
 
 ** " " 1 ** " " " ** ........ 06 
 
 " •* " 1,000,' 4 months," " *♦ '. 20.00 
 
 '* " « 100,'* *» " ♦* « 2.00 
 
 « •< <l IQ « U U II II 20 
 
 t( (< l( I (I II << II II ^ ^^^ Q2 
 
 *♦ " " 1,000,'27 days, ** " «♦ 4.60 
 
 " *♦ ♦* 100," ♦'' «* " " 45 
 
 «* " " 10," " " ** " ^ 06 
 
 « (I l< J l« ti (t » tt QQ 
 
 Whole sum of interest sought, $93. 88 
 
 In the same manner, proceed with any other amounts, or 
 any other time, or rate per cent. ; and if for more than one 
 year, multiply the intorestfor 1 year by the number of years 
 for whi the interest is soup^ht; if for twenty, thirty, sixty, 
 or any other amount betwe n and one hundred dollars, 
 multiply the interest on ten ' ^ the number of tanrf' 
 
 in the amount, which gives ) ou tho .vhole sum of interest 
 sought ; the same rule holds good on hundreds, between 
 one hundred and one thousand, and, also, on thousands. 
 
 To, find interest at 6 per cent., take one-half of the 10 
 per cent. rate. 
 
 And, of course, the principle works the same on all of 
 the tables, for the diflferent rates of per cent . * 
 
i * 
 
 fiti 
 
 i>tt, CHASSIS HEClPiaB. 
 
 SIX PER CENT. 
 
 ■*■ 
 
 1 
 
 $1 
 
 $2 
 
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 8 
 
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 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 50 
 
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 7 
 
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 7 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 16 
 
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 17 
 
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 11 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 18 
 
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 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 20 
 
 2.00 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 22 
 
 2.17 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
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 23 
 
 2.38 
 
 15 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
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 8 
 
 26 
 
 2.60 
 
 16 
 
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 8 
 
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 8 
 
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 80 
 
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 19 
 
 
 
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 82 
 
 3.17 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
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 8 
 
 3 
 
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 83 
 
 3.38 
 
 21 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
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 8 
 
 4 
 
 86 
 
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 22 
 
 
 
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 3 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
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 23 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
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 8 
 
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 38 
 
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 24 
 
 
 
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 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
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 40 
 
 4.00 
 
 25 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
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 4 
 
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 42 
 
 4.17 
 
 26 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
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 8 
 
 4 
 
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 43 
 
 4.83 
 
 27 
 
 
 
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 4 
 
 5 
 
 46 
 
 4.60 
 
 28 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
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 4 
 
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 47 
 
 4.67 
 
 29 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 60 
 
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 2 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
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 2 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 1.60 16.00 
 
 4 
 
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 6 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 2.00 20.00 
 
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 8 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 15 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 28 
 
 25 
 
 2.60 26.00 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 
 24 
 
 27 
 
 30 
 
 3.00 30.00 
 
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 7 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 26 
 
 28 
 
 32 
 
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 8 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 20 
 
 24 
 
 28 
 
 32 
 
 36 
 
 40 
 
 4.00 40.00 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 18 
 
 23 
 
 27 
 
 32 
 
 36 
 
 41 
 
 45 
 
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 16 
 
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 26 
 
 80 
 
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 40 
 
 45 
 
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 6 
 
 11 
 
 17 
 
 22 
 
 28 
 
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 12 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 
 30 
 
 86 
 
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 48 
 
 54 
 
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 6.00 60.00 
 
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 19 
 
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 28 
 
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 26 
 
 26 
 
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 28 
 
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 16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 8 
 
 4 
 
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 6 
 
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 2 
 
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 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 61 6.06 
 
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 27 
 
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 2 
 
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 8 
 
 90 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 63 5.26 
 
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 8 
 
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 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 68 6.83 
 
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 2 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 1.17 11.67 
 
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 8 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
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 6 
 
 7 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 21 
 
 28 
 
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 6 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 15 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 23 
 
 26 
 
 29 
 
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 7 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 
 26 
 
 28 
 
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 4 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
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 26 
 
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 6 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 17 
 
 28 
 
 28 
 
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 42 
 
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 9 
 
 6 
 
 11 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 
 26 
 
 32 
 
 87 
 
 42 
 
 47 
 
 68 
 
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 10 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 18 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 
 36 
 
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 47 
 
 63 
 
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 6 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 26 
 
 32 
 
 89 
 
 46 
 
 51 
 
 58 
 
 64 
 
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 14 
 
 21 
 
 28 
 
 85 
 
 42 
 
 49 
 
 56 
 
 68 
 
 70 
 
 7.00 70.00 
 
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 $1 
 
 $2 
 
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 $10 
 
 $100 $1000 
 
 1 DAT 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 22 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 44 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 
 67 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 9 
 
 89 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 11 
 
 1.88 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 18 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 16 
 
 1.66 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 18 
 
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 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
 20 
 
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 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
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 22 
 
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 11 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 24 
 
 2.44 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 27 
 
 2.67 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 29 
 
 2.89 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 81 
 
 8.11 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 88 
 
 3.88 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 86 
 
 8.66 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 88 
 
 8.78 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 40 
 
 4.00 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 42 
 
 4.22 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 44 
 
 4.44 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 47 
 
 4.67 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 49 
 
 4.89 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 61 
 
 6.11 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 63 
 
 6.83 
 
 26 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 66 
 
 6.66 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 68 
 
 6.78 
 
 27 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
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 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 60 
 
 6.00 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 62 
 
 6.22 
 
 29 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 64 
 
 6.44 
 
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 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 67 
 
 6.67 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 1.33 13.33 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 2.00 20.00 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 11 
 
 18 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 21 
 
 24 
 
 27 
 
 2.67 26.67 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 •7 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 17 
 
 20 
 
 28 
 
 27 
 
 30 
 
 33 
 
 8.33 33.33 
 
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 6 9 14 19 23 28 33 37 42 47 4.67 46.87 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 11 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 
 27 
 
 32 
 
 37 
 
 43 
 
 48 
 
 63 
 
 6.33 68.83 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 
 30 
 
 36 
 
 42 
 
 48 
 
 64 
 
 «0 
 
 6.00 60.00 
 
 10 
 
 7 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 27 
 
 33 
 
 40 
 
 47 
 
 63 
 
 60 
 
 67 
 
 6.67 66.67 
 
 11 
 
 7 
 
 16 
 
 22 
 
 29 
 
 87 
 
 44 
 
 61 
 
 69 
 
 66 
 
 78 
 
 7.88 78.33 
 
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 16 
 
 24 
 
 32 
 
 40 
 
 48 
 
 66 
 
 64 
 
 72 
 
 80 
 
 8.00 80.00 
 
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 8 
 
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 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
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 9 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 28 
 
 24 
 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 
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 2 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
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 22 
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 67 
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 1.88 
 
 1.66 
 
 1.78 
 
 2.00 
 
 2.22 
 
 2.44 
 
 2.67 
 
 2.89 
 
 8.11 
 
 8.88 
 
 8.66 
 
 8.78 
 
 4.00 
 4.22 
 4.44 
 4.67 
 4.89 
 6.11 
 6.88 
 6.66 
 6.78 
 6.00 
 6.22 
 6.44 
 6.67 
 18.83 
 20.00 
 26.67 
 88.88 
 40.00 
 46.87 
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 60.00 
 66.67 
 78.83 
 80.00 
 
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 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 6 60 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 8 75 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 1 
 
 10 1.00 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 18 1.25 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 16 1.50 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 18 1.75 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 20 2.00 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 . 28 2.25 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 26 2.60 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 28 2.76 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 80 8.00 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 33 3.25 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 86 8.60 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 88 8 76 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 40 4.00 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 48 4.25 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 46 4.60 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 48 4.75 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 60 6.00 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 63 6.26 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 .2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 66 6.60 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 68 6.75 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 60 6.00 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 63 .25 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 66 6.60 
 
 27 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 68 6.75 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 70 7.00 
 
 29 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 78 7.25 
 
 1 UONTH. 1 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 76 7 60 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 1.60 16.00 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 28 
 
 2.26 22.60 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 15 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 
 24 
 
 27 
 
 80 
 
 8.00 30.00 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 11 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 23 
 
 26 
 
 80 
 
 84 
 
 88 
 
 8.76 87.50 
 
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 7 6 11 16 21 26 82 37 42 47 68 6.26 62.50 
 
 8 6 12 18 24 80 86 42 48 64 60 6.00 60.00 
 
 9 7 14. 20 27 84 41 47 64 61 68 6.76 67.60 
 
 10 8 15 28 80 88 45 68 60 68 76 7.60 76.00 
 
 11 8 17 26 88 41 60 58 66 74 88 8.26 82.60 
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 $8 
 
 14 
 
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 $100 $1000 
 
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 28 
 
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 6 
 
 69 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 8 
 
 88 
 
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 11 
 
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 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 14 
 
 1.89 
 
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 17 
 
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 19 
 
 1.94 
 
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 8 
 
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 28 
 
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 2 
 
 2 
 
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 3 
 
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 81 
 
 8,06 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 8 
 
 83 
 
 8.83 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 8 
 
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 86 
 
 3.61 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 
 
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 8 
 
 4 
 
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 89 
 
 8.89 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 
 
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 8 
 
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 42 
 
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 4 
 
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 44 
 
 4.44 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 
 
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 6 
 
 47 
 
 4.72 
 
 18 
 
 
 
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 3 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 60 
 
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 19 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 63 
 
 6.28 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 66 
 
 6.56 
 
 21 
 
 
 
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 2 
 
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 4 
 
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 6 
 
 6 
 
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 68 
 
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 61 
 
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 28 
 
 
 
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 3 
 
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 4 
 
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 5 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 64 
 
 6.39 
 
 24 
 
 
 
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 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 67 
 
 6.67 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 2 
 
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 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 69 
 
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 26 
 
 
 
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 For an adult, (a' person of 40 years,) the dose of com- 
 mon medicines is allowed to be 1 drachm, 60 grains. 
 
 Those, at 20 years, 2-3 
 
 1-2 
 1-3 
 1-4 
 1-6 
 1-8 
 1-12 
 
 ' For babes, under 1 year, the' dose should go down by 
 months, at about the same rate as by years, for those over a 
 ycJat. 
 
 Agaih, for persons in advanced life, say from 60 years, 
 the ddse mui^ begin ' to lest(en aboat'5 grains, aiid from thatr' 
 on, 5 grains for each additional lOyeArs. 
 
 Females, however, need a little less, generally thiati 
 males. 
 
 The above rules hold good in all medicines, except castor- 
 oil, the proportions of which cannot be reduced so much, 
 and opium, and its various preparations, which must be re- 
 duced, generally, in a little greater proportion. 
 
IHPW* 
 
 EXPLANATIONS OF MEDICAL ABBREYIATIOlls, 
 APOT||ECARIES WEIGHTS A MEASURES. 
 
 ft 
 
 One pound (lb.) contains 12 ounces. 
 
 One o".nce (oz.) " 8 drachms. 
 
 One drachm (dr.) " 3 scruples, 
 
 One scruple (scru.) " 20 grains, (gr.) 
 
 LIQUID^MKASURES. 
 
 One pint contains 16 fluid ozs., 4 gills. 
 One ounce " 8 " drs., 1-4 " 
 
 One table-spoon " about half a fluid ounce. 
 One tea-spoon " *• one fluid drachm. 
 Sixty drops make about one tea-spoon. 
 
 Whenever a tea, or table-spoon is mentioned, >. meana 
 the same as it would to say spoonful ; the same of cup, in 
 fluid measures, but in dry measures, where a spoon, or 
 spoonful is mentioned, the design is that the spoon should 
 be taken up moderately rounding, unless otherwise men- 
 tioned. 
 
mfm 
 
 EXPLANATION OF TECHNICAL TERMS FOUND IN 
 MEDICAL WORKS. 
 
 Abdomen . . The lower front part of the body. 
 
 Aromatic. . Spicy and fragrant drugs; used to prevent gripe- 
 
 ing of drastic purgatives. 
 Aperient, .A gentle laxtive or purgative. 
 Acidit\, . . Sourness. Acids neutralize alkalies. # 
 
 Alkaline, »Yia,\'mg the properties of alkali. Alkalies neu- 
 tralize acids. 
 Antacid. .Medicines which neutralize acids; 
 Ami.. Being prefixed to any word signifies against. 
 Antiscorbutic . . Alteratives for Scrofula ; blood purifiers,, 
 Antisyphilitic. .Remedy for Venerial diseases. 
 Albus. .White, hence whites; fluoralbus, 
 Antisialagogue. .Remedy for Salivation. 
 Antiseptic . . That which will prevent putrefaction. 
 Antiphlogistic . Remedy for fever and inflammation. 
 Antispasmodic . . Remedy for spasms, cramps, or convulsions. 
 Anodgne...A. medicine which will allay pain and produce 
 
 sleepiness. 
 ^Z<cra<iy«... Medicines which will gradually restore healthy 
 
 action. 
 Astringent. . .Medicines which constringe, draw up surfaces 
 with which they come in contact ; used in Flood- 
 ing, Diarrhea, Whites, &c. 
 Abscess... A cavity containing pas. 
 
 ^wewiia... Without blood, more properly blood without its 
 proportion of iron, which gives it the bright red. 
 ^Zmne. . .Relating to the intestines. 
 Aliment... Any kind of foo(^ 
 
 Alimentary Canal... The enii I e'pHssage through ^^^ whole 
 intestines from mouth to anus ; the jdge for 
 *• the aliment. 
 
 Albumen.. .An element found in both animal and vegetable 
 substances, constituting the chief part of the 
 white of ^.ggs. 
 ulniimonwi... Medicines containing antimony. 
 
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 DB. OHASE'S BBCIPES* 
 
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 ^ntM...Th6 external caning of the rectum, lower intes- 
 tine. 
 
 ^pJlipgriodio...T!\iBt which cures periodic diseases, as Ague, 
 Intermittent Fevers. 
 
 Antidote.. . kn opposing medicine,u8ed chiefly against poison. 
 
 ^rfwZf... A person of full growth, 
 
 Aqtta...Wa.tcT. 
 
 Aqua Ammonia . . .Water of Ammonia, 
 
 -4m«noyrA«a... Absence of the menses. i 
 
 Antiemetic. . .That which will stop vomiting ; against emesis. 
 
 ulr«entdl..A metal, the oxide of which is arsenious acid> 
 commonly called ratsbane, 
 
 ^6oWeo»...A premature biilh or, miscarriage. 
 
 Abortives.., T}ka.t which will cause abortion. 
 
 ^6ra«eo?i... Bruising the skin. 
 
 Acetate... A salt prepared with acetic acid, 
 
 Acrid ..Irritating, biting. 
 
 Adhesive... A.'p^Wed to sticking plasters, and to payts adhere 
 ing from inflammations. 
 
 ^o/m... Aromatic and fragrant medicine, usually an oint- 
 ment. 
 
 J?a&a»i... "Resinous substances, possessipig healjng prop^iv 
 • • ties. ■''" 
 
 BasiUcon,..A.Vi ointment containing wax, rosin, (feci 
 
 ^^ZZarfonna. . .Nightshade. 
 
 ^erj'amo^.. Perfume made from the lemon peel. • • 
 
 Bile... A secretion from the liver. 
 
 ^iVtoMS... An undue amount of bile. ■'•'■.■. 
 
 Bi-tartrate of Poiash... Cream o( ta,Tt&r. 
 
 Blanch... To whiten. 
 
 ^oM>e?«. . .Intestines. 
 
 ^o^wa... A large pill. ; 
 
 ^roncAia... Branches of the windpipe. 
 
 i5roncAt7/«... Inflammation of the bronchial tubes, which lead 
 into the lungs. 
 
 -ffroncAoce^e... Enlargement of the thyroid gland, enlarged 
 neck. 
 
 Butyric Add... An acid obtained from butter 
 
 Calcium... Th^ metalic basis of lime, (see fluorspar.) 
 
 Co/tm«*... Sweet flag. ■ '• 
 
 Calcareous. . . A substance containing chalk or lime. 
 
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 cid. 
 
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 per- 
 
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 ged 
 
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 Calcined... BvLTTM^ so as to be eaeily reduced to powde^. 
 Calculus... Stone or gravel found in the bladder, gall 
 
 ducts, kidneys and ureters; ducts which lead 
 
 from the kidneys to the bladder. 
 Callous. ..K. hard bony substance or growth, 
 Cajoncwm .., Ca} enne pepper. 
 Ca^arrili... Flow of mucus. 
 Cathartic... Kn active purjajative. 
 Catheter... *T\ibQ for emptying the bladder. 
 Carmi/ia^ive... An aromatic medicine. " 
 
 Caustic... A corroding or destroying substance, rif nitrate of 
 
 silver, potash, &c. 
 Ci7nc ^ac?... Acid male from lemons. 
 CAromV...Of long standing. 
 
 Collapse... A recession of the blood from the surface. 
 Coma . . Stupor. 
 Con«<epa<ion. . .Costiveness. 
 Contagious... K disease which may be given to another by 
 
 contact. 
 Counter... To work against, as counter-irritant, Spanish- 
 
 flifes, draughts to the feet, <fec. 
 (7on5'««/eon... Accumulation of blood in a part, unduly. 
 Conva^escfwf*... Improvement in health. 
 Cuticle... The outei- or first portion of the skin, which conr 
 
 sists of three coats. 
 Datura AS'ifrawio^wwm... Stink-weed, jimpson, &c, 
 Difl/)Aore<tcs... Medicines which aid or produce perspiration, 
 i)ecoc<«o»... To prepare by boiling. 
 J)entriJice...A prepriration to cleanse the leeth. 
 Defecation... To pass the feces, to go to 8to<.>l. 
 Dentition... Act or process of cutting teeth. 
 Desiccation... To dry, act of drying. 
 i>eww/cen^.. Mucilaginous, as flax-seed and gum ar^bic. 
 Dermoid... Rw>^mh\mg, or relating to tho skin. 
 Detergents... CleMifimg medicines, as laxatives and purga* 
 
 tives. 
 Diagnosis... To discriminate disease. 
 Diaphragm. . .Midriff 
 DiarrAcea... Looseness of the bowels. 
 />tyM<... Assimilation or conversion of food into ohyme*— td 
 
 prepare medicines with eontinued, gentle heat. 
 
366 
 
 DR. chase's recipes. 
 
 
 Ditcutient.... A. medkine which will scatter or drive away 
 tumora. 
 
 Diurttic. Th&t which increases the amount of urine. 
 Diluted... B^educed with water, as dilute alcohol, half alcohol 
 and half water. 
 
 i)«(7i<a?i«... Fox glove, a narcotic. 
 
 /)orsaZ... Having reference to the back. 
 
 Douche... A dash, or stream u;jon any part. 
 
 Drachm... Sixty grains, a tea-spoonful, or a tea-spoon of. 
 
 DwZcamarti.^The bitter-sweet or woody nightshade. 
 
 Dyspepsia... D\flic\i\t digestion. 
 
 Di/sphonia... I>\f&cu\tj in speaking. 
 
 Dy^Mna... Difficult or painful urination. 
 
 ^aw... Water. 
 
 ^aw de C7ofo^?ie... Cologne water. > 
 
 Ehulition . . To boil. . \ 
 
 ^cZeciic. To choose. |' 
 
 Eclectic Physician. .One who professes to be liberal in 
 views, independent of party, and who favor 
 progress and reform in medicine. 
 
 J^ervesce. .To foam. 
 
 E^oretcence. . Redness of the general surface, 
 
 Effete . . Worn out, waste matter. 
 
 Elaterium . . Fruit of the wild cucumber, a Lydragogufl. 
 
 Electuary. .Medicine prepared at the consistence of honey. 
 
 Elixir . . A tincture prepared with more than one article. 
 
 Emesis . . The act of vometing. 
 
 Emetic. .Medicines which produce emesis, vometing. 
 
 Emmenagogue. .A medicine which will aid to bring on the 
 menses. 
 
 Emolients . . Softening and screening medicines, slippery- 
 elm bark, flax-seed, gums, &c. tiirWiS- 
 
 Emulsion ■ .Mucilage, from the emolients. 
 
 Enema . . An injection by the rectum. 
 
 Ennui, .Lassitude, dullness of spirit, disgust of condition, (fee. 
 
 ^i.. Above or over. t 
 
 Epidermis. ,Ou\er tkin. 
 
 Epigastrium. .Region of the pit of the stomach. 
 
 J7^i7ep«y .. Convulsion fits, with loss of sense for the time, 
 foaming at the mouth, and stupor. 
 
GLOSSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 Epifflottis... Trap-door cartilage at the root of the tongue, 
 preventing food, or fluid, from entering the 
 wind-pipe. 
 
 ^lataa; w ... Kose bleed . 
 
 ^rj'o*... Spurred rye. 
 
 j&VMCto<tow... Raising wind from the stomach, belching. 
 
 ^rMj9iion... Pimples or blotches on the skin, or pustules 
 from sraall-pox. 
 
 Eschar... A. slough on the surface. 
 
 Uscharotic.ThdiX which will destroy the flesh. 
 
 Essential... Yiat,\'mg preference to essences made from essen- 
 tial oils, and alcohol. • 
 
 J£'<Aer... A volatile fiuid. 
 
 Etherial Oi7. . .Volatile oil. 
 
 Eustachian Tube... A tube leading from the side of the 
 throat to the internal ear. 
 
 Eversion...'Tm'nmg inside out. 
 
 Evacuation... To discharge by stool, to haste-away. [See 
 the remarks in the body of the work on " Cos- 
 tiveness." 
 
 Evaporation... To escape in vapor. 
 
 Eocacerbation... Violent increase in disease. 
 
 Exanthemata... 'EtiM])t\\Q disease, as small-pox, scar^'^t fever, 
 measles, &c. 
 
 Excrement. . .The feces, that which passes by stool. 
 
 Excretion... Th&t which is thiown off", become useless. 
 
 Excoriation... Abrasion, to bruise the skin. 
 
 Exhalents... Vessels which throw out fluid upon the exter- 
 nal or internal surface of the body, 
 
 Expectorants... That which produces, or aids a discharge of 
 mucus from the bronchial tubes, or from the 
 lungs. 
 
 Excision... To cut off" an extremity. 
 
 Extremiti/... A'piplied to the arms and legs, called upper and 
 lower extremities. 
 
 Exterpation... To cutout, or to remove a part. 
 
 Extract... To take out, as a tooth, to extract a ball or any 
 foreign } substance from a wound— an active 
 principle obtained from vegetables. 
 
 Express. . .To press out juices. 
 
 ^a:cre«ccnc«...An unnatural growth. 
 
86^ 
 
 DR. OHABE'S &E0IPE8. 
 
 J^tmvcuatL'>n...A collection of blood into a cavity, or un* 
 der the skin. 
 
 i^oa'a^.. Belonging to, or having refereuce to the face. 
 
 JTanna.-.Meal, or four, from vegetables. 
 
 Farcy. ..A. disease of the lymphatic vessels in the skin df the 
 flanks of a horse. 
 
 jrattc«^„.The pharynx and back part of the mouth* 
 
 FaBcicvlar...jk. bundle, in bundles. 
 
 Feces.,, lihBX which passes by stool. 
 
 ^(e6n7e... Having reference to fevers. 
 
 Febrifuge... ^AmiQmeB to drive away fever, producing per- 
 spiration. 
 
 Felon... A deep abscess of the finger, involving the bone, be- 
 cause under the periosteum, the membrane 
 which covers the bone. 
 
 JVwMr... The thigh bone. s 
 
 jPemoraZ... Relating to the thigh. 
 
 Ferment... To oxidize, to effervesce, to work, as emptyings, 
 beer, wine, cider, <fec. 
 
 Fermentation... To sour, to decomposo, both heat and mois- 
 ture being necessary to keep it up. 
 
 Ferri i/t7»a<«ra... Iron -filings, very valuable in female de- 
 bility, and for males of a weak habit of body. 
 
 /(errM»i...Iron. 
 
 Fever... Thai which " Old School Physicians" call a disease, 
 whilst another class (the Thomsonians) say it 
 is an effort of nature to throw off disease ; but 
 Eclectics take it as an indication that the circu- 
 lating medium is not regular, and go to work at 
 once to equalize the circulation, by the use of 
 diajjheretics, combined with tonics and deter- 
 gents, which soon sets all to-rights ; for fever 
 find perspiration cannot long exist together. 
 
 Filter... To strain through paper made for that purpose. 
 
 Fibre... A very small, thread-like substance of animal or 
 vegetable matter. 
 
 Fibula... The smallest boue of the leg below the knee. 
 
 Fistula... An ulcer. 
 
 i^/acctcZ... Flabby, soft, relaxed. 
 
 /'^Sfcy... Loose aud soft to the touch. 
 
 Flatus 'f. To inflate the stomafch or bo^ek with gas. 
 
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GLOSSABIAL DEPABTMl&NT. 
 
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 Huotie Acid, .k fluid obtained from the fluor tpar cut' 
 
 with sulphuric acid. 
 Jflatulence...Ga6m theatomach. 
 Flooding. . .Uterine hemorrhage 
 Muor... An increased discharge, (o flow. 
 -F'^uor ^por... Fluoride of calcium. 
 Fluor Albis... White flow, leucorrhea, whites, <fec. 
 Flux... To !iow, diarrhea. 
 
 Friction... ^uhhmg with the dry hand, or dry coarse cloth. 
 Fumigate.. .To smoke a room, or any article needing to be 
 
 cleansed. 
 Fundament . .The anus. 
 Formtda...yiedkal prescription. 
 Fulminating Powder... An explosive preparation, used in 
 
 fireworks. 
 Function... The particular action of an organ, as the func- 
 tion of the stomach, liver, lungs, heart, <fec. 
 Fungus... Bjongy flesh in wounds, proud-flesh, a soft cancer, 
 
 which bleeds upon touching its broken surface. 
 Fusion... Tg fuse, to melt. 
 
 jFuror... Very violent delirium, not accompanied by fever. 
 6albanum...A resinous gum, from a genus of plants. 
 Genus . . Family of plaqts, a group, all of a class, or nature. 
 6'aW... Bile. 
 Oall Bladdvr...K bag which receives the gall, or bile, 
 
 through ducts, from the liver, delivering it to 
 
 the stomach, in health, through the duct called 
 
 communis choledochus. 
 Oall 6'^ones...Hard biliary concretions found in the gall 
 
 bladder, and sometimes causing death, from not 
 
 being able to pass through the ductus com- 
 
 inunis. ' 
 
 Qalla... The gall nut, an excr^scencie found upon the oak. 
 Gallic Acid, . An acid from the nut-gall. 
 6'aZ^po^.. A glazed jar, used for putting up gummy extracts. 
 Galvanic... Yi^s'w^g reference to galvanism. 
 Cawfeo^e... A, drastic purgative, unless combined with aro- 
 
 natics. 
 Gangrene. ,.V^vW^\ death of a part, often ending in entire 
 
 nprtification of the part, and sometimes of the 
 
 wiole body. 
 
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 I>R chase's RECIPE8. 
 
 Ganglion.. A. knot, or lump on tendons, ligainen^ or 
 
 nerves. 
 Gaseous . . Having the nature of gas. 
 Gastric. . Of. or belonging to the stomachy 
 Gastric Juice . . Secretion of the stomach. 
 Gastritis. .Inflammation of the stomach. 
 Gastrodynia . . Pain in the stomach, sometimes vith spasm 
 
 of the stomach. 
 Gelatine . .lB\n^]ass. : 
 
 Gelatinous . . Like jelly. 
 
 Genitals. .Belonging to generation, the sexual oi'^ans. 
 Gentian. .An European root, possessing tonic pnperties. 
 Genu . . The knee. 
 
 (reww/^eccioTi. .Bending the knee, kneeling. 
 Germ. .The vital principle, or life-spark. 
 Gestation. .To he i^regnRut. < 
 
 Gland. .Secreting organs having ducts emptying into cavi- 
 ties, which often become obstructed, causing 
 them to enlarge; hence, the enlargement of the 
 thyroid gland in the neck, causing kronchocele. 
 (r/an«. .A gland. ^' 
 
 Gleet. .Chronic gonorrhea. ' 
 
 Globules . . Small round particles, having special reference to 
 
 particles of the red part of the blood. 
 Glossa . . The tongue, a smooth tongue. 
 Gloss... To give lustre; to comment; to write or make ex-* 
 
 planations. 
 Glossarist . . A writer of glosses or comments. 
 Glossary. .An explanation of words. 
 Glossarial. .Containing explanations. 
 Glossitis . . Inflammation of the tongue. 
 Glottis. .The opening into the wind-pipe at the root of the 
 
 tongue, larynx, covered by the epiglottis. 
 Gluten. .Coagulable lymph, white of an egg, a principle in 
 
 wheat and other vegetables. 
 (z/M«on. .One who eats excessively. 
 fJ'oworrAca. .An infectious disdbarge from *tW genital or- 
 gans, 
 (row^.. Painful inflammation of the joints of the toes, or of 
 
 the fingers. ! 
 
 Granule . . A small particle of healthy matter, lot pus. 
 
GLOSSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 Granulation... HeaWng up of an ulcer or wound with healthy 
 matter. 
 
 Gravel... Cvystsilme particles in the urine. 
 
 Green- Sickness... Chlorosis, debilily requiring iron.. 
 
 (Tnj)en<7... Grinding pain in the stomach, or bowels. 
 
 G'wrta. . Ona drop, drops. 
 
 Outta Percha... J)r\ed juice of a genus of trees Isonandra 
 gutta. 
 
 {^wf^ura?.,. Relating to the throat. 
 
 G^wwaamm... A place for sportive exercises, which is very 
 ■ valuaible to those who cannot or will not take 
 exercise for the sake of dollars and cents. 
 
 , G'y;)fMm...Sulphatv. of lime, more commonly called plaster 
 of Paris, because first introduced from that 
 place. 
 
 Habit... Good or bad habit, constitutionally, or prejudicially 
 predisposed to do some particular thing ; medi- 
 cally, as consumptive habit, rheumatic habit,(&c 
 
 ^cma... Blood, prefixed to other words. 
 
 i?enia<emc»i«... Hemorrhage from the stomach. 
 
 J3«ma<Mria... Hemorrhage from the bladder. 
 
 JBTcmop^ym... Hemorrhage from the lungs. 
 
 Hemorrhoids. . .Piles, bleeding piles. 
 
 5en6anc. . . Hyoscyamus . 
 
 Hereditary... T)\'&QaMQ from parents. 
 
 jyernm... Rupture, which permits a part of the bowel to pro- 
 trude. 
 
 ZTcrpe*... Disease of the skin, 
 
 Hiera Picra...A medicine containing aloes. 
 
 Humerus... T!he single bone of the upper arm. 
 
 ^MmeraZ... Pertaining to the arm. 
 
 Humors... The fluids of the body, excluding the blood. 
 
 ^^(frfl^o^wes... Medicines which produce watery discharges, 
 used in dropsy, as elaterium. 
 
 ^(frar^^yrum... Metallic mercury, quicksilver, Doctor's name 
 for calomel. 
 
 ^^ffrocyamc ^af?...Prus8ic acid, nothing more poisonous. 
 
 Hydrofluorio ^czcZ.». Same as fluoric acid. 
 
 ^^fea... Health. 
 
 ^yeenc... Preserving health by diet and other precautions. 
 
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 DR. GHJJBE'S recipes* 
 
 Hjupo. .SignifieB low, » low state of health, moro annoying 
 to the suflTerers than to their friends, who mh 
 constantly boring them about it; called hysterics 
 in women, (from hysterift, the womb or uterus,) 
 hut blues only, when it gets hold of men ; they 
 come from tue same cause, general debility; 
 takes a strong remedy, iron, as medicine. 
 
 BypogloUit. .Under the tongue. 
 
 Mysteria. ,The uterus, (womb,) also disease, depending up- 
 on, or caused by nterine irregularities. 
 
 Mysteritis. .Inflammation of the uterus. 
 
 Ichor* .An acrid, biting, watery discharge from ulcere, often 
 corroding, eating the surface. 
 
 /c/«rM#... Jaundice, a bilious disease which shows itself by 
 yellowness of the eyes and skin. 
 
 Jctertts Albus. . Chlorosis, W hites, <fec. .1 
 
 Ignition. .To catch on fire, from Ignis, fire. V- 
 
 lUm. .Cholic in the small intestines. 
 
 Hiac. .Situated near the flank. 
 
 Iliac Region. .Sides of the abdomen, between the ribs and 
 the thighs, 
 
 Imhecile. .One of weak mind, imbecility.. 
 
 Imbibe . . To absorb, to drink . 
 
 Imbricate. .To over-lap as tiles on a hcuse. 
 
 Immerse . . To plunge under water. 
 
 /wmo5e7«. .Immovable, as stiflf joints. 
 
 Imperforate . . Without a natural opening. 
 
 Jmpervioits. . Closed against water. 
 
 Impetigo . . Tetter. 
 
 Imponderable . . Not having weight, light or elasticity. 
 
 Impoverished. . Exhausted vitality. 
 
 Impotence . . Sterility, not being able to produce. 
 
 Impregnation . . The act of producing. 
 
 Incision . . To cut. ' 
 
 Incombustible . . Incapable of being burned 
 
 Incompatibles . . Medicines which ought not to be mixed, or 
 given together. 
 
 Inconsistence . . Not being able to bold the natural excre* 
 tions. 
 
 Incorporate. . To mix medicines together. 
 
 Inct^aium., To hatch eggs, slow developoiient of disown 
 
 Indication . . That which shows what ought to be done. 
 
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OLOSfiARIAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 Ind{gmo%$ . . Peculiaritj of a countiy, or of a small section 
 of country, applied to disease, plants, <Sec. 
 
 Indigestion. . Dyspepsia. 
 
 Indofent. .Qlowr ^^rogress, applied to ulcers and tumors, 
 whicb are slow and with but little or no pain. 
 
 Induration . . Hardening of any part of the system by dis- 
 ease. 
 
 In/eetiout . . Communicable disease, from one to another. 
 
 Infirmary . . Where medicines are distributed gratuitourfy to 
 the poor; but more recently some physicians 
 have got to calling their offices infirmanes. 
 
 Infiamrnation . . Attended with heat, fedness, swelling, ten- 
 derness, and often with throbbing. 
 
 Inflaius. .To distend, to blow up; with wind, or to fill up 
 with gas, as the stomach, bowels, (be. 
 
 Influenza. .,K disease affecting the nostnls, throat, <&c., of 
 a catarrhal natui-e. 
 
 Infunon . . Medicines prepared by steep* y^ in water,not to boil 
 
 Inquinal . .In the groiti. 
 
 Ingredient. .One article of a compound mixture. 
 
 Inhalation . . To draw in the bi*eath. 
 
 Injection . . Any- preparation to be introduced by the rectum. 
 
 Inorganic. Matter not having organs, all alike, as metals. 
 
 Insanity . . Derangement of the mind. 
 
 Imertio)^ . . The attachment of muscles and tendons to the 
 bones, which they move by contraction. 
 
 Inspiration. .The act of drawing in the brtath. 
 
 Insipissation . . To thicken by boiling, to make what is called 
 the concentrated extracts, desiccation. 
 
 Instinct.. Xn involuntary action, as closing the eyelids, 
 breathing, &c., natural perception of animals. 
 
 Integument^ .A covering, the skin. 
 
 7n<er. .A prefix denoting between. 
 
 Intercostal. .Between the ribs. 
 
 Intermission. .Time between paroxysms of fever, or other 
 disease. 
 
 Intermittent Fever. .Fever which comes on at regular peri- 
 odfi, between which periods there is little, and 
 9ometimes.no fever, au interval. 
 
 /nfcrna?. .Upon the inside. 
 
 Inter osseut . . Between the bones. 
 
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 Interval,.. The period between the paroxysms of periodical 
 diseases, as ague, (&c. 
 
 Intestinet. . .The contents of ihe abdomen. 
 
 Intestinal (7anaZ... Embracing the duodenum (the first di- 
 vision below the stomach,) the jejunum, (the 
 second division of the small intestines) the 
 ileum, (the third and longest portion of the 
 small intestines), the secum, (the first portion of 
 the large iuteHtine,) the colon, Cthe large intes- 
 tine,^ and the rectum, ('the lower trap-door.) 
 
 Intolerance... In medicine, applied to the eye, as intolerance 
 of light; to the stomach, as intolerance of food. 
 
 Inversio C^i!crt..< Inversion of the uterus. 
 
 Inversion. . .To turn the inside out. 
 
 /rre<2m&Ze... Applied to hernia, and to joints which have 
 been put out and cannot be put back to their 
 place. 
 
 Ischwia...'SoX being able to pass the urine. 
 
 Issue... Sore made as a counter-irritant, to draw irritation 
 from a diseased part. 
 
 Itch...'P60T&, scabies, a catching eruption of the skin. 
 
 Itis... An addition to a word denoting inflammation, aspleu- 
 ritis, pleurisy, &c 
 
 Ivory Black... A.TAm&\ charcoal. 
 
 JaMwcKce... A. disease caused by the inactivity of the liver, 
 
 or ducts leading from it. 
 i7e%... Gelatine in a fluid state, as applied to medicine. 
 Jesuits Bark ..First name of Peruvian bark, from its having 
 
 been discovered by Jesuit missionaries. 
 •TwyZar... Applied to veins of the throat, 
 Jtt/itic.An East India fruit, something like a plum, used 
 
 in coughs, but of doubtful reputation. 
 ZaZi... Potash. 
 Kelp . . . Ashes of sea-weed. 
 JSTno^... Surgeons tie their knot by passing the thread twice 
 
 through the loop, which prevents slipping, 
 i>a6ia...Lip8. ' ■ 
 
 Labia Pudendi. . .Lips, or sides of the vulva. 
 Labial... Oi, or belonging to the lips. 
 Zaior... Child-birth, parturition. 
 
GLOSSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 Lahoratory...k. place of chemical experiments, or operc*- 
 tions, see Frontispiece. 
 
 Xa»ana<twy... Sharp, piercing, as lancinating pain. 
 
 Laryngeal. . . Of the larynx.. 
 
 Larynx... The upper part of the throat. 
 
 X'aryn^^tVw... Inflammation of the throat. 
 
 Xa^en/... Hidden, as. latent heat, see the remarks connected 
 with steam boiler explosion. 
 
 Lassitude... Weakness, a feeling of stupor. 
 
 Laxative... A very gentle cathartic. 
 
 Leptandrin... Fovfder made from the leptandria virginica, 
 blaekioot, Culver's physic, 
 
 Leucorrhea... Fluor albus, whites, chlorosis, &c. 
 
 Levigate... To reduce to a very fine powder. 
 
 Ligature... A thread, to ligate, to tie with a ligature. 
 
 Located... Fixed, seated upon the same organ. 
 
 Lingua... The tongue. 
 
 Linguist... A speaker, fluency, one who understands dif- 
 ferent languages. 
 
 Liniment... A fluid preparation to be applied by friction, 
 
 Lithontriptic. . . A medicine reported to dissolve gravel, or 
 stone in the bladder. 
 
 Lithotomy... The o\ter^i\on of cutting, to take out stone of 
 the bladder. 
 
 Xiver... The largest gland, and largest organ of the body. 
 
 Livid... A dark colored spot on the surface, 
 
 Xotn«... Lower part of the back. 
 
 Lotion... A preparation to wash a sore. 
 
 Lubricate. . .To soften with oil, or to moisten with a fluid. 
 The internal organs are covered with a mem- 
 brane which throws out a lubricating fluid, en- 
 abling them to move easily upon each other. 
 
 Xt*/«... A paste with which to close chemical retorts, the 
 casein, curd of milk, is used for that purpose. 
 
 ZympA... A thin, colorless fluid, carried in small vein like 
 vessels called lymphatics. 
 
 Macerate. . .To steep, soften, by soaking. 
 
 Jlfa/...Bad, mal practice, bad practice, not according to 
 science. 
 
 J/aZ/brmattoA... Irregular, unnatural formation. 
 
 J/aiana...Bad gases, causing disease, supposed to arise from 
 dfp^ying vegetable matter. 
 
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 I>B. chabb's BfiOIPSS; 
 
 Mali^ant.»A pestilential, and generally dangerous dis- 
 ease. 
 
 Mamma. .The female breast, which is composed of glands 
 that secrete the milk, upon the principle that 
 the liver secretes bile; each organ for its spe- 
 cific purpose ; but secreting organs, or glandS} 
 are the more liable to get obstructed, thus pro- 
 ducing disease. ; , • • 
 
 Mastication . . The act of chewing. 
 
 Masturbation. .E citement, by the hand, of the genital or- 
 gans. The most injurious, health-destroying, 
 soul-debasing, of all evils introduced into th» 
 world, because its frequent repetition draws 
 very heavily upon the nervous system, prostrat- 
 ing the energies, destroying the memory, to- 
 gether with the life principle, as well as the 
 principles of morality which ought to govemf 
 every human being, between himsdf and his 
 Creator. 
 
 Jfa/wnVy. .To become ripe, to arrive at adult age, beyond 
 further growth. 
 
 Materia . . Matter, healthy substance. • 
 
 Materia Medica . .The science of medicine and medical' 
 combinations. 
 
 Maturation. ..Formation of pus, unhealthy matter. 
 
 Matrix . . The womb. 
 
 Meconium.. The firet passages after birth. 
 
 ^€<?jcaZ. .Relating to medicine. 
 
 Medicated. .}iii\\ng medicine in its preparation. 
 
 Membrane .. A thin T.ning, or covering, skin like, as the 
 peritoneum, which lines the cavity of the bow- 
 els and covers the intestines; and the periostoum^ 
 membrane, which covers the bones, (fee. 
 
 Medicament . . A remedy, hence, raedicamentam, the Welch 
 remedy for every disease. 
 
 Medicinal . .H&nng medical properties. 
 
 JKec?M/Zary .. Like marrow, brain-like, . , 
 
 Mel... Honey. 
 
 Menstruation . . Monthly flow. ^ , , , . 
 
 Mentha Piperita . . Peppermint. ., . , 
 
 jfciiaw .. The middle. 
 
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GLO$SABIAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
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 fj^flf^uoys..,¥]owiag with honey, Bweetnesa, delicious; «^in 
 to lucio'18, juicj meliownees. 
 
 Menorrhagia.. M%<ieimve flooding. 
 
 Jlftc/Mriiion... To urinate, to pass the urine. 
 
 Midwi/en/, . . Art of ussisting at child-birth. 
 
 JIftntjn... About one drop, one-sixtieth of a fluid drachm. 
 
 Minimum. . .The smallest, the smallest dose, the opposite of 
 maximum. 
 
 Modus Operandi . ,T}i& yf&y va yrhkh medicines act, appli- 
 cable also to any action, the way of doing it. 
 
 jWbrfttdf... Unhealthy. ♦ 
 
 Morbtu...A disease; hence, cholera morbus, diseane of tlid 
 bowels. 
 
 Mordant. .That which fastens the colors in dyeing, as alum, 
 cream of tartar, argul, vitriols, tin, liquor, &c. 
 
 Mucus — Animal mucilage. 
 
 Mucus Membrane. .See remarks under the head of ''Inflam- 
 mation," in the body of the work. 
 
 Mucilage. ..K wateiy soluti'c>n of gum, or elm bark, &c. 
 
 Muriatic... HBsmg reference to sea salt. 
 
 Muriatic Acid. . Marine acid, often called hydrochloric acid» 
 
 Muscle. . . A bundle of fibres. 
 
 JlfM«cj//ar... Having reference to the muscles, strong built. 
 
 Myrrh. .A resinous gum. 
 
 JVarco/ic... Stupefying medicines, producing sleep. 
 
 iVarf«...The nostrils. 
 
 Nasal. . Of the nose. 
 
 Namea. .Sickness of the stomach, may increase until vom- 
 iting takes place, or it may not. 
 
 Nauseanl...T\\9i which produces nausea. 
 
 Navel. . Center of the abdomen. 
 
 Necrns.,J)e&%]u 
 
 Necrosis. . .Death of a bone. 
 
 JVe^Aro*. .The kidney. 
 
 Nephritis . . Inflammation of the kidney or kidneys. 
 
 jIVtfrwou*... Easily excited. 
 
 JVemn«.. That which will allay, or soothe nervous excite- 
 ment. 
 
 JV«fwm?^.. Pain In nerves, [ v 
 
 JVi7r«. .Saltpeter. 
 
 iVbc^wma?... Occurring in the night. * 
 
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 Nitrate . . Nitric acid combined with alkalies or alkaline 
 
 salts. 
 Normal. . In a natural and healthy condition. 
 Nostrum . . A medical preparation. 
 Nothus. .Spurious, illegitimate, a bastard. 
 N'udu8 . . Nude, without clothing. 
 iVit^n^ton. .Nourishment. 
 Nutritums . . Nourishing. 
 Obesity . . Corpulence, excess of fat, or flesh. 
 Obstetrics . . The science of midwifery. 
 OcAre. .An ore of iron. * 
 
 (?cMZtt«...The eye. -^ - 
 
 Oculist . . An eye-doctor. 
 Oleaginous . . An oily substanee. 
 
 Omentum . .The caul, peritoneal covering of the intestines; 
 Opacity . . To obstruct light. 
 
 Opaque. .Not transparent, inability to see through it. 
 Opthalmx)8. .The eye. 
 
 Opthalmia. .Disease of the eye, inflammation of the eye. 
 Opiate. . An anodyne. 
 Organ. .A part of the body, which has a certain work to 
 
 perform, called the functions of organs, as the 
 
 stomach, lungs, womb, &c. 
 
 Organic. . Bodies made up of organs. 
 Organism . . Vital organization. 
 Organized.. Furniihod mth life. 
 Orgasm . . The closing excitement of sexual connection. 
 Origin\ . The point of commencement 
 Orifice . . An opening. 
 Os Tinee. .Mouth of the womb, or uterus. 
 Osse(yus. . A bony substance. 
 
 Ossification. .To become bone; from ost, or osteo, a bone, 
 or like a bone. 
 
 0«to2|$ir(a. .Pain in a bone, 
 
 Oaieoma. .Tumor, like bone. 
 
 Otitis ..Inflammation of a bone or bon^ v 
 
 ■Olic. .Having reference to the ear. 
 
 OtiHs . .liAsixan on of the ear. 
 
 OforrA«a. .Discbarge from the ear. 
 
 ^w... An egg, made up of little eggs. 
 
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 Ovaria. . .Testes ; most generally applied to the female ; fe- 
 male testes, two egg-shaped bodies, (made up 
 of little particles, or egg»), having an attach- 
 ment to the uterus in the broad ligaments, 
 which support that organ, having tubes, or 
 ducts, opening from them into the uterus^ 
 called Fallopian tubes, from the man's name 
 who first gave a description of them. One of 
 these particles is thrown off at each menstrual 
 flow. 
 
 Oviparotu. . .Birds, or any animals that produce their young 
 from eggs, or by eggs. 
 
 Ovum... An egg. 
 
 Oxalic Acid... An acid found in sorrel, very poisonous. 
 
 Oxide.., A combination of oxygen with a metal, or fluid, as 
 oxygen combining with vinegar-fluid, formb 
 vinegar, oxygen combining with iron, forms 
 oxide of iron, rust of iron, &c. 
 
 Oxi/ff en... One of the elements of the air, an acidifying 
 (souring) principle, and an element (e particle 
 or part) of water. 
 
 Oxymel...A preparation of vinegar and honey, from mel, 
 honey. 
 
 0«w.o... Feted ulcer of the nose, or feted discharge from tbe 
 nose. 
 
 PaJuZwrn.. Food; aliment 
 
 Pad... A cu&hion. 
 
 Pa??ia<tve. . To afford relief, only. 
 
 Pa?p«Va<wn... Unhealthy, or unnatural beating of the heart. 
 
 Pan.. .As a prefix, means all. 
 
 Panacea... Biemedj for all diseases, consequently (ppeaking 
 ironically) any patent medicine. 
 
 Parali/sii... Ijobb of motion, dumb palsy. 
 
 F rtus...liahor; the young when brought forth. 
 
 Parturition. . .Child-birth. 
 
 Paroxysm... A fit of disease occurring at certain periods. 
 
 Pmorfica?... Occurring at a certain time. 
 
 Petal... A flour leaf, as rose leaves, Ac. 
 
 Phthisis... A wasting, consumption. 
 
 Pathos... A disease. 
 
 PafAo?oyy... The doctrine of disease. 
 
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 PB« OHASB'b BfiCIPBS. 
 
 PectorcZ. .Pertaining to the brewt. 
 
 Pediluvium.. A fooi-hhth, 
 
 Fwirftrfott*. .To hang ddWn. 
 
 JPema. .The male ofgan of generation. 
 
 Fipaine. .A peculiar Btibstanoe in the stomach, '^hich aids diges 
 tion. 
 
 Peptic .Digestive; hence, dyspeptic, not dlg^ting. 
 
 PercoltUton. .To run, or draw through some suhstence, straining. 
 
 PrmoTtUorp. .To give a |Hrevious notice, as premonitory symp 
 toms. 
 
 Pen. .Around, a covering. 
 
 Pericardium. .Around the heart, sac containing the heart. 
 
 Pericarditis. .Inflammation of the pericardium. 
 
 Per^..A testicle, male orgohs, corresponding >Hth t^stes> 1^ 
 females, with this difEbreuce, however, that with 
 males they are upon the outside, whilst with femal6li 
 they are upon the inside of the body. 
 
 Perineum. .That part between the anus and org^nd'cf^^ener&tibnor 
 genitals. 
 
 Perineal. .Relating to the region of the perinenm. 
 
 PtinoJ. .A certain time. 
 
 Perwdicity .Returning at a certain time. 
 
 Periosteum. .The membrane which covers all bones. 
 
 Perspective Vieio. .As it appears to the eye at a certain dlstanfM. 
 
 PenwrJirfion. .To disturb. 
 
 Perversion .. An unhealthy change; to change from its proper or 
 natural course. 
 
 Pessary. .That which will support, or hold up the woinb, in pro- 
 lapsus ; aci our remarks on " Fe aale Debility." 
 
 Phagrdenic .. An eating and fast- spreading ilcer. 
 
 Pharmacy. .ITie art of combining and preparing medicines. 
 
 Phlegm . . Mucus frora the bronchial tubes, and throat. 
 
 Phlogistic. .Tendency to inflammation. 
 
 Photphortts. An inflammable and luminous substance, prepared 
 from urine and bones. 
 
 Pho^hate. .Phosphoric acid in combination with metals, as pbo8> 
 phate or iron, phosphate of lime, &c. 
 
 Pt/«.. Tumors at, or in the "nus ; sometimes protruding"; often 
 attended with heiii .rrhage, then called hemorrhoids. 
 
 Piperine..A preparation from black pepper, considered valuable in 
 ague. 
 
 Placenta. .After-birth, which has a connection to the womb, and 
 to the child, during pregnancy ; but is naturally thrown 
 ofif by the violent contractions of the womb, at this 
 period, there being no further use for it.. Oh, the wi^ 
 dom of our Creator, how glorious to contemplate! 
 Eveiy thing adapted to the necessities of the case. 
 
 P/rfAora.. Over fullness ; if healthy, causing obesity, corpulance. 
 
 PleuiUis. .Inflammation of the pleura, pleurisy. 
 
 P7i«*wion. .The lungs. 
 
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 Pleura. .The gerioaB membrane covering the lungs, and folded 
 upon the Bides. 
 
 Pneunumia . . Inflammation of the lungs. 
 
 PodophUlin A powder made from the podophillun peltatum, 
 mandrake root. 
 
 Pomum. .The apple ; hence, pomace, mashed apple. 
 
 Pota mm . . The basis of potash . 
 
 Poiut. .A drink ; hence, potion, a medicated drink. > 
 
 Predupoaition. .A tendeacv to a certain disease. 
 
 Pregnancy . . Being with child. 
 
 PrognoM. .The art of guesting how a disease will terminate. 
 
 Prolapnu. .A falling. 
 
 Pro^MiM ^m. .Falling of the anus. 
 
 Proloftus Wen. Falling of the uterus. 
 
 ProBtra/ion . . Without strength. 
 
 PruatiaU. .A compound with prussic acid. 
 
 fruMic .4ctrf..Hydrocvanic acid; one of, or the most virulent 
 poison in exutence. 
 
 Psi/ra.. The itch. 
 
 Pubei. .The prominence at the lower front part of the body. 
 
 Puberty. .Full growth ; an adult ; perfection. 
 
 Pubic. .Having reference to the region of the pubes. 
 
 Pudendum. .The female organs of generation. 
 
 Puer. ,A boy, or child. 
 
 Puerto. .A woman who has just brought forth a child ; hence, 
 puerperal fever, fever at, or soon after child-birtli. 
 
 Ptdmo. .A lung. 
 
 PulmonUU. .Inflammation of the lung or lungs. 
 
 Pulmonary. .Eelating to the lungs, as pulmonary b*lpam, pulmo- 
 nic wafers, &c. 
 
 Pulvit..k powder; hence, pulverize, to make floe. All these 
 words show .how heavily we have drawn upon other 
 languages, for our own, consequently, the necessity of 
 studying the Latin and Greek, to properly understand 
 ours. 
 
 Pupil. .The dark circle in the eye. 
 
 Pttrj'flrftwe. .A gentle Cathartic. 
 
 Pus. .Unhealthy matter. 
 
 Pmtule. .A slight elevation, having pus. 
 
 Pufre/odion. .To decompose, by fermentation. 
 
 Putrid.. B.oiien; decom posed. 
 
 Pyroligneout Acid..kn acid obtained from wood; the essence of 
 smoke ; if a little of it is put into a barrel with meat, in 
 the brine, it smokes it without trouble. I think a gill to 
 the barrel sufficient, perhaps a little le-is will do. It is 
 obtained by inserting an old gan barrel or other iron 
 tube into a coal-pit, near the bottom, when burning ; it 
 condenses in the tube and drops from the outer end into 
 a dish, then bottled for use 
 
 Quaasa. .A bitter tonic ; the chips of the wood are used. 
 
 Rachit..1hQ spine. 
 
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 RackHii. .Riokets, bending of th« spine, and Bometimes the loug 
 bones of the limbs ; may be also eBlargement of the 
 hMd, bowels, and the ends of the long bones. 
 
 Radius. .The bone of the upper arm. 
 
 Radial. .Having reference to the upper arm. 
 
 .Ktufto^ed. .DiTerglng from a centre. 
 
 Radix,.. K root. 
 
 Rarmu. .A branch. ' ■ 
 
 JZaffH/Jea^ion. .To branch out. 
 
 Rancidity. .Rancid, stale ; applied to oil, fat, buttei, &c. 
 
 Ra»h. .A redness of the skin, in patches. 
 
 iZoteftane. .Arsenious acid, arsenic. 
 
 RaUle. .Koise of air passing through mucus, as in croap. 
 
 Readum, .To return, after recession. 
 
 Receuion. .Striking in, the blood, or disease, going to the infeernal 
 organs. 
 
 Rectum. .The lower portion of the intestines. 
 
 Reduction. .To set a fracture, or to return a hernia. 
 
 Refrigerant.. A cooling medicine, or drink. 
 
 Regimen. .Regulation of diet, and habits, to preserve health, or to 
 cure disease. 
 
 Rdapti. .Recurrence of disease after an approved appearaii^, 
 which is generally worse than the first attack. 
 
 Rdaxaiioh. .Losing the healty tone of any part, or the whole 
 system. 
 
 Repletion . .YviWnQ^. 
 
 Reprodudion . . Generation, procreation. 
 
 Rapiraiion..To breathe, including both inspiration and expi- 
 ration. 
 
 Resolution. .To return to health, 'applied to inflammations. 
 
 Racking. .An effort to vomit. 
 
 Rttention. . Delay of the natural passage of the urine or feces. 
 
 Revulsion. .To draw away disease, as draughts, or blisters, irritat- 
 ing plasters, &c. 
 
 Rheumatism . .I'cAdxa.vaAiion of the fibrous tissue, mostly confined 
 to the large joints. 
 
 i2ectm Ofeum. .Castor oil. 
 
 jB^or. .Coldness, with shivering. 
 
 Rochelle Salts. A mixture of tartarate of potash anf^ soda. 
 
 Rubefacients . .Medicines which cause redness of the skin, as mus- 
 tard, radish leaves, &c. 
 
 Rupture.. H-ernia,', by some, called a breach. 
 
 5ii<;cAan'n«. .The properties of sugar. 
 
 Saliva. .The secretion of the mouth, spittle; hence, salivation, an 
 increased flow of saliva, 
 
 Salt .A compound of acid, with an alkali, or metal. 
 
 Saltpetre. .Nitrate of potash. V 
 
 iSb^u&nouf. .Climate favorable to health. 
 
 iSlzna^M. .A curative medicine. 
 
 ^fi^ruM.. Blood. ' 
 
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 Sanguinicfua. .Bloo(?y— Banguinloui diRcharge, as bloody'flnz. 
 
 Satrumin. .A powder obttUued from worm-Bded. 
 
 Sarcoma. .A fleshy tumor, generally of a cancerong nature. 
 
 ^SboitM.. The itch. 
 
 Scirrhm..A hard tumor, generally of a cAnccrous nature. 
 
 Scrofula. .A constitutional to'idency to dinease of the glands. 
 
 Scrotum. .The sac which encloses the testicles. 
 
 Sedative. .To depress, the opposite of stimulation. 
 
 SeidlU»..A. village of Bohemia; hence, seidlita powders, which 
 
 originated at that place, 
 Sinapit. .Mustard; bonce, sinapisms, mustard plasters. 
 Slough. .Death of a pari, allowing it to come out from the healthy 
 
 rrt. 
 medicine Cci1cu!<\ted to excite an increased and 
 
 healthy action. 
 ' Styptic. .To stop bleeding. 
 Snake-Root. .Common or Virginia snake-root; but black snake-root 
 
 is the black cohosh. 
 ^patm. .Cramp, or convulsion. 
 
 Specific. .A remedy having a uniform action, producing health. 
 . .Seminal fluid, now more often called the semen, seed. 
 x'tR. .Having reference to the testicles, or ovaries. 
 tna..The i)ack-bone; hence, spine. 
 cA.. A spasmodic pain. '* 
 
 Stoma. .The mouth. 
 
 Stomatitis. .Inflammation of the mouth. 
 Stranffulatioti. .To choke; also applied to hernia which cannot be 
 
 reduced. 
 Sudor. .Sweat; hence, sudorific, to sweat. 
 >SiuZj7Aafe. .A combination with sulphuric acid. « 
 
 Sulph"ric Add. .Oil of vitriol. 
 Suppression . . An arrest of a natural discharge. 
 Suppuration.. To produce pus. 
 Sympathy. .To be affected by the disease of another orga^, as sick 
 
 headache from overloading the stomach. 
 Symptom .A sign of disease. 
 Syncope. .To swoon, fainting. 
 Syphilis . .TAtesaei from sexual connection with those who hare 
 
 venerial disease. 
 Tannic Add. .An acid from oak bark, an astringent. 
 Tartaric Acid. .An acid from crea^n of tartar, found in grapes. 
 Tenetmut. .DifiQculty and pain at stool, with a desire to go to stool 
 
 often. 
 Tmt. .A roll of lint or cloth to keep wounds open until they heal 
 
 from the bottom. 
 J'Mtea. .Testicles. 
 Therapeutics . .Relating to a knowledge of treating disease, the 
 
 curative action of medicine. 
 Ihorax. .The chest. 
 2Y&ta. .The large bone of the lower-leg. 
 
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 Thruili. .Olaadi on each tide of the throat. 
 
 JVaehta. .The windpipe. 
 
 Trcrulation. .Disease going to some other organ. 
 
 Triturate. .To rub into a powder. 
 
 l\mor. .An enlargement of a portion, usually of the external 
 
 uurts. 
 l/lna. .Small or under boue of the arm. '' 
 
 Umbilieui. The navel. 
 
 Urtltr.. Duct leading from the kidney to the bladder. 
 Vttrut. .The womb. 
 
 Vagina. .The passage from the womb to the rulva. 
 Vermy. Sexual indulgence. 
 "Vfrmifug*. .Having the property io uestroy worms. 
 FtrtM. .Contagious poison. 
 Vulva. .External opening of the female genitals. 
 FAi<«.. Fluor mlbus. < 
 
 Jeast. .The principle of fermentation. 
 !Zincx Stdphaa. .Sulphate of zinc, white vitrol. 
 
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