The new family receipt-book: or, Universal repository of domestic economy, including a fund of useful knowledge and experience in all the various branches of cookery, medicine, confectionery ... / From scarce, curious, and valuable select receipts and choice memorandums, with specifications of approved patent medicines, extracted from the records of the Patent Office ... collected from private sources of information, as well as from foreign books and journals in all the languages of Europe ... by D. Hughson, LL. D. [pseud. i.e. D. Pugh].

Date:
1817
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Credit: The new family receipt-book: or, Universal repository of domestic economy, including a fund of useful knowledge and experience in all the various branches of cookery, medicine, confectionery ... / From scarce, curious, and valuable select receipts and choice memorandums, with specifications of approved patent medicines, extracted from the records of the Patent Office ... collected from private sources of information, as well as from foreign books and journals in all the languages of Europe ... by D. Hughson, LL. D. [pseud. i.e. D. Pugh]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The following Work needs no apology, for its utility must ever be its recom- mendation. It possesses such a fund of valuable miscellaneous knowledge, that, though it bears a very homely title, it will be'found to comprehend whatever is desirable to render every Family truly comfortable and happy. fj; The Editor has spared no pains to render it equally valuable and comprehen- sive; so that no class of Readers will refer to it Avithout gaining the most inter- esting information, conveyed in the easiest and most simple mode that he could devise. This Work is at once a body of experimental knowledge how to sustain the appetite in an elegant manner, and hoAv to relieve the body under its various accidental afflictions. It contains also invaluable Receipts for rendering the Arts and Sciences sabseiwient to domestic purposes. From this association, joined by the friendly communications of intelligent / persons connected with the different branches of professional research, con- comitant with the natiu-e of this collection of all that is useful as well as desi- rable, the Editor, as Avell as the Proprietor, maintain a firm idea, as well as a substantial hope, that their labours Avill not be inefficient to produce an ex- tensive repository that can be no Avhere surpassed for elegance and utility. S uch are the outlines of this plan, which, if persisted in, must succeed. Such also constitutes the Editor’s reason, after producing other extensive works, for compiling this volume of Domestic Economy, Medical Receipts, and other