Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody : an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes ... to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments, with a copious index

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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEOICINE

NLM D01DE370 b

SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE

Author's Preface

TO THE FIRST STEREOTYPED EDITION

In bringing a permanent work, or one that is designee* *vv to be, before the public, it is expected of the Author that he give his reasons lor such publication. If the reasons are founded in 1 1 uth, the people consequently seeing its necessity, will appreciate its advantages, and encourage the Author by quick aud extensive purchases, they alone being the judges. Then :

Fi.<ST.— 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.

Second— The Author, after having carried on the drug and grocery business for a number of years, read medicine, after being thirty-eight years of age, and graduated as a physician to qualify himself for the work he was undertaking; for, having been famil» iar with some of the Recipes, adapted to these branches of trade* more than twenty years, he began in " Fifty-six," seven years ago, to publish them in a pamphlet of only a few pages, since which time he has been traveling between New York and Iowa, selling the work and prescribing, so that up to this time, "Sixty-three," over twenty -three thousand, copies have been sold. His travels have brought him in contact with all classes of professional and business men, mechanics, farriers, and farmers, thus enabling him to obtain from them many additional items, always having had his note book with him, and whenever a prescription has been given before him, or a remark made, that would have & practical bearing, it has been noted, and at the first opportunity tested, then, if good, written out in plain language expressly for the next edition of this work. In this way this mass of information has been collected, and ought to take away an objection which some persons have raised : " It is too much for on e man to know !" because they did not realize that the work had been made up from others, as well as the Author's actual every day experience, instead of from untried books. Yet from the nature of some of the Recipes, one has occasionally found its way into some of the earlier editions, which has needed revision, or to be entirely dropped. This with a desire to add to the various Departments, at every edition, has kept us from having it stereotyped until the present tenth edition.

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Bat now, all being what we desire, and the size of the work being such that we cannot add to it without increasing the price above one dollar, which we will never do, unless in extra binding, we have it stereotyped, and send it out, just what we expect, and are willing it should remain.

Third.— Many of the recipe books published are very large, containing much useless matter, only to increase the number, consequently costing too much. This one contains only about eight hundred recipes, upon only about four hundred different subjects, all of which are valuable in daily, practical life, and at a very reasonable price. Many ef them are without arrangement. Thisone is arranged in regular Departments, all of a class being together. Many of them are without remark or explanation. This one is fully explained, and accompanied with remarks upon the various subjects introduced by the Recipes under consideration. Those remarks, explanations and suggestions accompanying the Recipes are a special feature of this work, making it worth double its cost as a reading book, even if there was not a prescription in it.

Fourth.— The remarks and explanations are in large type, whilst the prescriptive and descriptive parts are in a little smaller type, which enables any one to see at a glance just what they wish to find.

Fifth.— It is a well known fact that many unprincipled persons go around "gulling" the people by selling single recipes for exorbitant prices. The Author found a thing, calling himself a man, in Battle Creek, Mich., selling a washing-fluid recipe for two dollars, which he obtained of some; but if he could not obtain that, he would take two shillings, or any other sum between them. A merchant gave a horse for the "White Cement" recipe. The late Mr. Andrews, of Detroit, Mich., gave three hundred dollars for a recipe, now improved and in this work, to cure a bone spavin upon a race mare of his. He removed the spavin with it, and won the anticipated wager with her. The Author has, himself, paid from twent3r-five to fifty and seventy-five cents, and one to two, three, five, and eight dollars for single items, or recipes, hoping thereby to improve his work, but often finding that he had much belter 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, has reached over two thousand dollars, and all for the purpose of making a book worthy to be found in "Everybody's" library, and to prevent such extortions in the price of recipes. Yet any single recipe in the work which a person may wish \.ouse, will often be found worth many times the price of the book, perhaps the lives of those you dearly love, by having at hand the necessary information, enabling you to immediately apply the means within your reach, instead of giving time fen- dls-

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ease to strengthen, whilst sending, perhaps miles, for a physician. Much pain and suffering, also, will often be saved or avoided, besides the satisfaction of knowing how many things are made which you are constantly using, and also being able to avoid many things Which you certainly would avoid if you knew how they were made.

Sixth.— It will be observed that we have introduced a number of recipes upon some of the subjects. This adapts the work to all circumstances and places. The reason for it is this : we have become acquainted with them in our practice and journeyings, and know that when the articles cannot be obtained for one way, they may be for some other way ; as also that one prescription is better for some than for other persons; therefore, we give the variety, that all may be benefited as much as possible. For instance, there are twenty different prescriptions for different diseases and conditions of the eye; there are also a dozen different liniments, etc., etc. ; yet the Author feels well assured that the most perfect satisfaction will be experienced in them as a whole. And although it could not be expected that special advantages of particular recipes could be pointed out to any great extent, yet the Author must be indulged in referring to a few, in the various Departments All, or nearly all, merchants and grocers, as also most families, will be more or less benefited by the directions for making or preserving butter, preserving eggs, or fruit, computing interest, making vinegar, and keeping cider palatable, etc. In ague sections of country none should be without the information on this subject; and, In fact, there is not a medical subject introduced but what will be found more or less valuable to every one. Even physicians will be more than compensated in its perusal; whilst consumptive, dyspeptic, rheumatic, and fever patients ought, by all means, to avail themselves of the advantages here pointed out. The treatment in Female Debility, and the observations on the changes in female life, are such that every one of them over thirteen or fourteen years of age should not be without this work. The directions in Pleurisy and other inflammatory diseases cannot fail to benefit every family into whose hands the book shall fall.

The Good Samaritan Liniment, we do not believe, has its equal in the world, for common uses, whilst there are a number ot other liniments equally well adapted to particular cases. And we would not undertake to raise a family of children without our Whooping Cough Syrup and Croup Remedies, knowing their value as we do, if it cost a hundred dollars to obtain them. Tanners and shoemakers, painters and blacksmiths, tinners and gunsmiths, cabinet makers, barbers, and bakers, will find in their various Departments more than enough, in single recipes, to compensate them for the expense of the work ; and farriers and farmers who deal in horses and cattle, will often find that Department to save a hundred times its cost in single cases of disease.

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A gentleman recently called at my house for one of the books. Baying : " I have come ten miles out of my way to get it, for I staid over night with a farmer, who had one, and had been benefited more than $20, in curing a horse by its directions." A gentleman near this city says he had paid out dollars after dollars to cure a horse of spavin, without benefit, as directed by Other books of recipes; but a few shillin4S, as directed by this, cured the horse, Another gentleman recently said to me : "Your Eye Water is worth more than $20." I could All pages with similar statements which have come to my knowledge since I commenced the publication of this work, but must be content by asking all to look over our References, which have been voluntarily accumulating during the seven years in which the work has been in growing up to its present size and perfection ; and the position in society of most of the persons making these statements is such— many of whom are entire strangers to the Author and to each other— that any person can see that no possiDle complicity could exist between us, even if we desired it.

Families will find in the Baking, Cooking, Coloring, and Miscellaneous Departments, all they will need, without the aid of any other "Cook Book;" and the Washing-Fluid, which we have used at every washing except two for nearly eight years, is worth to every family of eight or ten persons, ten times the cost of the book, yearly, saving both in labor and wear of clothes.

Seventh.— Many of the.articles can be gathered from garden, fleld or woods, and the others will always be found with druggists, and most of the preparations will cost only from one-half to as low as one-sixteenth as much as to purchase them already made ; and the only certainty, nowadays, of having a good article, is to make it yourself.

Finally.— There is one of two things fact about this book : It Is the biggest humbug of the day ; or it is the best work of the kind published in the English language. If a careful perusal does not satisfy all that it is not the first, but that it is the last, then will the Author be willing to acknowledge that testing, experimenting, labor, travel aud study are of no account in qualifying a man for such a work, especially when that work has been the long cherished object of his life, for a lasting benefit to his fellow creatures, saving them from extortion in buying single recipes, and also giving them a reliable work, for every emergency, more than lor his own pecuniary benefit. Were it not so, I should have kept the work smaller, as heretofore— for the eighth edition of two hundred and twenty-four pages, when handsomely bound, sold for one dollar, as now ; but in this edition you get a dollar's worth of book, even in common reading matter, besides the most reliable practical information, by which you will often save, not only dollars and cents, but relieve suffering and prolong life. It is, in fact, a author's preface.

perfect mass of the most valuable methods of accomplishing the things spoken of, an Encyclopoedia upon the various branches of science aud art treated of in the work, which no family can afford to do without— indeed, young and old, " Everybody's" book. And the "taxes" nor "times " should be, for a moment, argued against the purchase of so valuable a work, especially when we assure you that the book is sold only by Traveling Agents, that all may have a chance to purchase ; for if left at the book stores, or by advertisement only, not one in fifty would ever see it.

Some persons object to buying a book of recipes, as they are constantly receiving so many in the newspapers of the day ; but if thev had all thai this book contains, scattered through a number of years of accumulated papers, it would be worth more than the price of this work to have them gathered together, carefully arranged in their appropriate departments, with an alphabetical index, and handsomely bound ; besides the advantage of their having passed under the Author's carefully pruning and grafting hand.

" To uproot error and do good should be the first and highest aspiration of every intelligent being. He who labors to promote the physical perfection of his race — he who strives to make mankind intelligent, healthy, and happy— cannot fail to have reflected on his own soul the benign smiles of those whom he has been the instrument of benefiting." The Author has received too many expressions of gratitude, thankfulness, and favor, in relation to the value of " Dr. Chase's Recipes, or Information for Everybody," to doubt in the least the truth of the foregoing quotation; and trusts that the following quotation may not be set down to "egotism" or "bigotry," when he gives it as the governing reason for the continued and permanent publication of the work :

" I live to learn their story, who suffered for my sake; To emulate their glory, and follow in their wake ; Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages, and nobles of all ages, Whose deeds crown History's pages, and Time's great volume make.

*• I live for those who love me, for those who know me true ; For the heaven that smiles above me, and awaits my spirit too; For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, and the good that 1 can do."

May these reasons speedily become the governing principles throughout the world, especially with all those who have taken upon themselves the vows of our "Holy Religion;" knowing that it is to those only who begin to love God and right actions, here, with whom the glories of heaven shall ever begin. Were they thus heeded, we should no longer need corroborating testimony to our statements. Now, however, we are obliged to array every point author's prkfack.

before the people, as a mirror, that they may j ndge underslandingly, even in matters of the most vital importance to themselves ; consequently we must be excused for this lengthy Preface, explanatory Index, and extended References following it. Yet, that there are some who will let the work go by them as one of the " humbugs of the day," notwithstanding all that has or might be said, we have no doubt; but we beg to refer such to the statement amongst our References, of the Rev. C. P. Nash, of Muskegon, Mich., who, although he allowed it thus to pass him, could not rest satisfied when he saw the reliability of the work, purchased by his less incredulous neighbors. Then if you will, let it go by ; but it U hoped that all purchasers may have sufficient confidence in the work not to allow it to lie idle ; for, that the designed and greatest possible amount of good shall be accomplished by it. it is only necessary that it should be generally introduced, and daily used, 1* the positive knowledge of the

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DEPARTMENT? — ILLUSTRATIONS.

Index To Departments

FADE.

Tanners,' Shoe and Harness Makers' Department 228-236

Blacksmiths' Depariment 250-259

Tinners' Department 260—264

gunsmithing department 265-267

Jewelers' Department 268-269

Ca"binet Makers' Department 291-296

Barbers' and Toilet Department 297-304

Interest Department 380-386

Glossarial Department 387-400

INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Authors' Portrait 1

Apparatus for Supporting Lame Animals 282

Courier Steam Printing House 2

Form of Lettering for Door Plates 244

Match Splitting Machine 359

Painters' Sanding Apparatus 239

Salves and Lozenges, Apparatus for Making 173

Shilling Battery 269

Truss Spring 358

The Name and Situation of the Exiebnal Parts of a

Horse 4

University of Michigan 3

Vinegar Generator 36

GENERAL INDEX.

A

Page.

Abscesses, Salve for 170

Adhesive Piaster 172

Administering Medicines 32

Advice to Young Men. . . 364-370

Ague Anodyne 82

Ague Bitters 81

Ague Cake loo

Ague Cured by Clairvoyant.. 82

Ague Cured for a Penny 82

Ague Cures 83, 84

Ague Mixture 82

Ague Medicines for Children, 81

Ague Pills 81

Ague Powder 81

Alcohol preferable to Brandy

in Medicines 79, 80

Ale, Home brewed 66

Ale, to keep pari of bottle. . . 66

Alteratives 97, 149, 150

Alterative, Rheumatic 142

Anodyne. Bateman's Drops.. 140 Anodyne. Godfrey's Cordial, 141

Anodyne, Hoffman's 140

Anodyne, Laudanum 140

Anodyne, Paregoric ...... — 140

Anodvue Pills, 157, 225

Auodyne, Stimulating 112

Anodvnes, Remarks 141

Apples, Baked 32:5

Apple Custard 320

Apples, Fried 324

Apple Fritters 3-24

Apple Melange 324

Apple Pie 319, 320

Aromatic Scheidam

Schnapps 77, 78

Artificial Skin 20i

Asthma 146

Authors Preface 8-13

B

Bacon. To Save 339

Ba 'kwoods Preserves 325

Bakers' Yeast 68

Balm of a Thousand Flowers 303

Balsam, Hutch in's 201

Balsam, Mitchell's 201

Balsam. Wound for Horses . 282

Barber's Itch 200, 201

Balm of Gilead Oil 184

Baking Powders 51, 318

Bed Bugs, to kill 800

Bed Room Carpets 862

Beef, to Pickle 336

Beer, Corn 65

Beer, Ginger 64

Beer, Lemon 64

Beer, Patent Gas 64

Beer, Philadelphia 64

Beer, Root 64

Beer, Spruce 63

Beer, Strong, English 65

Bitters, Alterati ve Tonic 150

Bitters, Stomach 77

Biscuit, Brown Bread 317

Biscuit, Dyspeptic and Coffee 317

Biscuit, Naples 314

Blackberry Wine 74

Blackberry and Wine Cordial 74

Blackberry, Lawtou, Cultiva

tion 74

Black Oils 185

Bleeding, to Stop 203-205

Blacking, Water Proof 229

Bl ,od Root Tincture ill

Bluing, Liquid 330

Boots and Shoes, Sizing for . . 229 Boots and Shoes, Color for

Edge 228

Boots and Shoes, Varnish for

Edge 230

Boots and Shoes, Waterproofing 229

Bots, Sure Cure 271

Bog Spavin 276

Bone Spavin 274-276

Books, To Remove Grease. . . 397

•Box Metal 263

Brass, Lacquer for 262

Brazing. Solder for 263

Bread, Yankee Brown, 316

Bread, Graham 316

Bread, Loudon Baker's 317

Bread. Old Bachelor's 318

Bread, .New French Method. 318

Bread Tea, 110

Bread. To Fry 325

1 c

Bteosle, Broken 170

Britannia 263

Britannia, Solder for 268

British Oil 184

Broken Limbs, Horses. . . 281, 282

Broken Saws, To Mend 266

Broncocele 205

Bronzing, lor Iron and Wood 267

Buckwheat Shortcake 314

Burning Fluid 45

Burns, Artificial Skin for . . . . 201

Burns, Remedies for 115-117

Butter, To P-eserve 41

Butter Making 41

Butter Storing 42

Butcher Knives, To Temper, 254

C

Cake, Bride's 312, 313

Cake, 'Cider 310

Cake, Cup 309

Cake, Federal 306

Cake, Fruit 313

Cake, Gold 312

Cake, Ginger 308

Cake, Jelly 310

Cake, Molasses 311

Cake, Marble 311

Cake, Pork 309

Cake, Rough and Ready 3U6

Cake, silver 312

Cake, Sponge, with Sour

Milk 307

Cake, Sponge, with Sweet

Milk 307

Cake. Sponge, without Milk. 307

Cake, feugar 308

Cake, Surprise 308

Cake, Table, 15 Kinds 311

Cake, Without Kggs or Milk, 309

Cake, Yeast 315

Cake, Frosting for 314

Caked Breast, Ointment 137

Camphor Ice 115

Camphor Water 3^8

Candy, Action on Teeth 62

Candy, Molasses 60, 61

Candy, Molasses, White 61

Candy, Molasses, without Sugar 61

Cancer, To Cure 100-106

Candles, Tallow 334

Canker Tea 187

Canning F.uits ... 340, 341

Canvass. Varnish for 295

Carminatives 192

Carpets, Bed Room 362

Cast Steel, To Weld 252

Cathartics .' 194

Cathartic Alterative 150

Cathartic Bitters 150

UattMHftic Syrup Ill

Catarrh Snuff 100

Case-hardening for Lock

work 266

Catsup Currant 342

Catsup, Tomato 341

Cement, Cheap 345

Cemebt, For China 345

Cement, For Fruit Jars 311

Cement, German 346

Cement, Russia •• 345

Cement, or Furniture Glue.. 346

Cement, White '.. 346

Cement, Water Proof, for

Belting 345

Cement, To Prevent Leaks

aboutjChimneys 347

Champagne, Sham 68

Cherry Wine 70

Chapped Hands 115

Chemical Soap 332

Chilblains 117

Chloride of Lime 113

Cholera Remedies 188 190

Cholera Infantum 88

Cholic and Cholera Morbus 190,191

Cholic, For Horses or Persons 270

Crystal Painting, Oriental. .. 271

Chronic Diarrhea 186

Chronic Gout 107

Cider, Apple, To Keep

Sweet 54,55

Cider, For Long Keeping 54

Cider, To Bottle 53

Cider, To Prepare for Medicine 56

Cider. Without Apples 53

Cider Wine * 75

Cinnamon Water 327

Clothing To Renovate. .. .300, 301

Cod Liver Oil 125

Coffee, A Disinfectant 113

Coffee, Cheap 362

Colognes .. 302

Coloring for Wines 77

Colors, on Woolen Goods, 372-376 Colors, durable, on Cotton, 376-378

Colors, on Silk.... 378-380

Colors for Boots, Shoes and

Harness 228

Common Scratches 283

Composition Powder 147

Condition Powders 280

Congestive Chilis 89

Consumption, Treatment

and Remedies 125-131

Cooking, Remarks 305

Copper, To Tin 262

Copyright Laws 6

Corns, Remedies 118-120

Costiveness 106, 10

Cough Candy 18V