Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody : an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes for merchants, grocers ... and families generally ; to which have been added 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

Front matter

from

the estate of

J. Stuart Fleming

Preface To The Tenth Edition

In bringing a permanent work, or one that is design**! so be, before the public, it is expected of the 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 advantages, and encourage the Author by quick and extensive purchases, they alone being the judges. Then :

First. — 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 38 years of age, and graduating as a Physician to qualify himself for the work he was undertaking ; for, having been familiar 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 travelling between New York and Iowa, selling the work and prescribing, so that up to this time, “ Sixtythree,” 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-loolc 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 ptam language expressly for the

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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 one man to know !” because they did not realise 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 oi the earlier editions, which have 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.

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.

Third. — Many of the Recipe books published are very large, and contain 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 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 fully explained, and accompanied with remarks upon the various subjects introduced by the Recipes under consideration ; those remarks, explanations, and suggestions accompanying the Reeipes, are a special feature of this work, making it worth double its cost as a reading book, even if there was not a pre - scrip tion 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

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VII man, in Rattle Creek, Michigan, 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’7 Recipe. The late Mr. Andrews, of Detroit, Michigan, 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 twenty-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 better ideas already embodied therein.

The amount paid for information in this work, and for testing by experiment, together with travelling expenses, and cuts used in illustrating it, have 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.

ixet 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 reach, instead of giving time for disease 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 placg& the reason for it is this : we have become acquainted withi %hem in our practice and journey in gs and know that wheel the articles cannot be obtained for one way, they may be for some other way; as also that one prescription i3 better for some than for other persons ; therefore, we o:ive the variety that all may be benefited as much as possible

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For Instance, there are twenty different prescription for differ ent diseases, and conditions of the eye ; there are also a dozen different liniments, &c., &c.; 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 adr 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 without the information on this subject ; and in feet, 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 B*MUty, and the observations on the

Changes in female life are Rich that every one of them over thirteen or fourteen years of a«e should not be without this work. The directions i*\ 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, whilpt there are a number of otkei 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, Cabi net Makers. Barbers and Bakers will And in their various Denartments 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 » hundred times its cost in single cases of disease.

A gentleman recently called at my house for ©ne of the boo&a

IX saying : “ 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 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 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 which are entire strangers to the Author and to each other, that 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 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, field 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 now-a-days, of having a good article, is to make it yourself.

Finally. — There is one or 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 and study, 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-

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St to his fellow 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 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 ; 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 dollars and cents, but relieve suffering and prolong life.

It is, in fact, a perfect mass of the most valuable methods 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” or “ Times” should not 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 Travelling 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 they had all that 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 benefitting.”

The Author has received too many expressions of gratitude, thankfulness and favor in regard to the value of “ Dr. Chasers Recipes ; or Information for Everybody,” to doubt the truth of the foregoing quotation ; and trusts that the following quotation

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X3 may not be set down to “ Egotism’7 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 ;

Whose deeds crown History’s pages, and Time’s great volume make.

u 1 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 I can do.”

May these reasons speedily become the governing principles thionghout 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 before the people as a Mirror, that they may judge understandingly, 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 among our References, of the Rev. 0. 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 neighbours ; then if you will, let it go by ; but it i3 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 accomplished by it, it is only necessary that it should be generally introduced and daily used, is the positive knowledge of the

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MERCHANTS’ AND GROCERS’ DEPARTMENT.

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Baking Powders, Without Drugs . . .... 50

Butter •; to Preserve any Length of Time — Butter Making ; 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 Preserve for Winter use — English Patented Method — J. W. Cooper, M. D.’s Method of Keeping and

Shipping Game Eggs 42-44

Fruits ; to Keep without Loss of Colour 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 ; Black Copying or Writing Fluid — Common Black — Red — the Very Best — Blue — Indellible— Ink Powder ;

Black 47-48

Jellies, Without Fruit 50

Mouth Glue, for Torn Paper, Notes, &c 50

Vinegar in Three Weeks — in Barrels without trouble —

From Sugar, Drippings from Sugar Hogsheads, Ac. —

From Acetic Acid and Molasses— From Apple Cider —

In Three Days, Without Drugs — Quick Process by Standing upon Shavings 33-40

SALOON DEPARTMENT.

Apple Cider ; to keep Sweet with but Trifling Expense —To Prepare for Medicine — Artificial Cider, or Cider Without Apples ; to Make in Kegs or to Bottle, or in Barrels, for Long Keeping, with Directions About

Shipping 51-64

Action of Sugar or Candy on the Teeth 69

Ale ; Home Brewed, How it is Made 63