The family magazine. In two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions on all the branches of house-keeping ... Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick.

Date:
1747
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Credit: The family magazine. In two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions on all the branches of house-keeping ... Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » THE Family MAGAZINE In TWO PARTS. PART I. Containing Ufeful Dire8ions in All the Branches of HOUSE-KEEPING and COOKERY. Particularly Shewing How to Buy-in the Belt of all Sorts of Provisions ; As Poultry-lVare, Butchers-Meat, Fi]h, Fruit, See, With feveral Hundred Receipts in COOKERY, PASTRY, PICKLING, CONFECTIONARY, DISTILLING, BREWING, COSMETICKS, ©A Together with tiift A R T of Making E N G L*I fSI 'W IN E S, &.c, PART II. Containing, A Compendious BODY o/'.PHY SICK; Explaining the Virtues and Properties of all Sorts cf Meats, Drinks, Herbs, Plants, Rootsy Seeds, &c. ufed either as Food or Phylick. And iuccinflly TREATING of Al! the Diseases and Accidents incident to,MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN: With P radii cal Rules and Directions for the Preferving and Reftoring of Health and Prolonging of Life. As alfo how to make All Kinds of Balsams, Salves, Ointments, Elixirs, Cordials, Diet-Drinks, Syrups, Electuaries, Powders, & c- In a M e t h o d intirely New and Intelligible; in which every DifeaD is rationally and praMically confldered, in its feveral Stages and Changes; and approved RECIFE’S inferted under every Diftemper, in Alphabetical Order. Being principally the Common-place Book of a late able PHYSIC! A N, by which he fuccefsfully, for many Years, regulated his Practice. To which i; Added, An Explanation of Cucb Terms of Art ufed in the W O R K^r as could not he fo eafily reduced to the Underfhinding of common Readers. The Third Edition, Revi/ed, Corrected, and greatly Ini urged. To which is Prefixed, A brief Account of the great Efficacy of T A R-W A T E R in moll ' Diftempers; Diredlions for Making it, &c. LONDON: Printed for J. O s b o r n, at the Golden-Ball in Pater-nofur M DCC XLVLL