The house-keepers' guide and Indian doctor : containing the very best directions for making all kinds of ice creams, preserves, jellies, perfumery, and essences, fancy and plain soaps, and an excellent system on the treatment of the hair : the best method of cleaning brass, marble, mahogany furniture, cutlery, carpets, &c. &c. : also, a complete system of genuine Indian doctoring, to which is added directions for letter writing under various circumstances : the book closes with the celebrated chemical washing recipe.

Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The house-keepers' guide and Indian doctor : containing the very best directions for making all kinds of ice creams, preserves, jellies, perfumery, and essences, fancy and plain soaps, and an excellent system on the treatment of the hair : the best method of cleaning brass, marble, mahogany furniture, cutlery, carpets, &c. &c. : also, a complete system of genuine Indian doctoring, to which is added directions for letter writing under various circumstances : the book closes with the celebrated chemical washing recipe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    CONTENTS. A PAGK Alabaster, to clean - 38 Ants and other household vermin, to guard against 47 Apples, preserved 14 Apples, transparent - '14 Apricots, to pickle 22 Asthma - 51 B Beer, common - 19 Beer, Spring 19 Beer, Spruce 20 Beer, Ginger, Quick..-. 20 Beer, Ginger, — 20 Beer, Hop 20 Beer, Lemon.. 21 Beets, to pickle 25 Blackball 36 Blacking, liquid 37 Bleeding at the stomach 56 Bowels, Inflammation of 49 Bowel complaints 49 Brass utensi Is, to polish 46 Brass utensils caution in using 36 Breach or Burst on the Body 58 Britannia, to polish 46 Broadcloth, to remove stains from. 39 Burn, salve for 54 Butter, to extract rancidity from.- 33 Butter, to pot for winter 33 Butternuts, to pickle 23 C Cabbage, red, to pickle 25 Candies 27 Candies, to clarify sugar for 27 Candy, Hoarhound 28 Candy, Lemon, common 28 Candy, Lemon, 27 Candy, Molasses 27 Candy, Peppermint 28 Candy, Rock 27 Candy, Rose 28 Candy, Twist—- 28 Candy, Twist and common Ai Canker, common 56 Canker, in the mouth 55 Catarrh, in the Head 57 Carpets, to clean 43 Catsup, Oyster 2j Catsup, Tomato £? Catsup, Tomato, No. 2 f*> Catsup, Walnut •■■■••■■,• 24 Cement f.>r mouths of corked bot'ls 37 Cement, for alabaster 38 Cement, for iron ware -- <» Cement for broken glass, china...- .57 PAGE Cement for Japanese, or Rice Glue 38 Cherries, preserved - 17 Cholera Morbus 49 Cholic Bilious - 50 Clotted Cream 8 Cockroaches and other household vermin 47 Complexion to make fair - 62 Consumption 61 Corns 65 Cologne Water 29 Cologne Water No. 2 30 Copper utensils, caution in using.. 36 Cotton goods, to remove paint from 89 Cotton goods, white, to remove stains from 40 Cough, hectic 61 Coughs.. 50 Cough, whooping 61 Crab-apples, preserved 14 Cramp, remedy for - 50 Cranberries, preserved 17 Crape, Italian, to restore when rusty 43 Creams 7 Cream of Lilies - - 61 Cream Snow 8 Cream, to keep it sweat -- 8 Cream, to preserve at sea 33 Cream, substitute for in coffee 33 Cucumbers, to pickle 22 Currant Water Ice 8 Currants, preserved - 13 Cutlery, to remove rust from 46 D Damsoms, preserved 17 Diabetes 60 Diets, Indian 49 Drinks — 19 Dropsy, severe cases 69 Dysentery 49 E Eau de Cologne 61 Eggs, to keep several months 83 Eruptions, certain cure for 63 Essence of Lemon 29 Essential Oil of Flowers, to extract 29 Eye, film in 67 Eye lashes, to blacken. 68 Eyes, sore W F Fflather-beds, to clean 46 Febrile complaints 62 Felon or Runround 53