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DR. CHASE'S

RECIPES

INFORMATION FOR EVERBODY

DR. CHASE'S RECIPES:

OR,

Information for Everybody.

FORTY 3d THOUSAND.

{sideways illustration of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.}

{above caption}Entered according to Act of Congress, A, D., 1863, by A. W. Chase, M, D., in the Office of the District Court of the U. S. at Detroit, Mich

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR.

In this perspective view, from the North-West, drawn by D. Wood, Professor of Civil Engineering, we have an accurate representation of the University Buildings, in 1863. The center one is occupied by the Law Department and Library; the two on the right, by the Literary, Chapel, Museum, &c.; the first on the left, is the Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, and the last, by the Medical Department. The number of Students for the session of 1862-3, notwithstanding the War, reached 662. An entrance fee of only $10, with $5 yearly, pays for a full Literary, Law, Medical, or Civil Engineering Course; the first, requiring four, the two next, two, and the last, three years. No distinction is made between students, resident in Michigan, and those from other States or Kingdoms.

DR. CHASE'S RECIPES;

OR,

INFORMATION FOR EVERYBODY:

AN INVALUABLE COLLECTION OF

ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED

PRACTICAL RECIPES,

FOR

<emph rend="bold">Merchants, Grocers, Saloon-Keepers, Physicians, Druggists, Tanners, Shoe Makers, Harness Makers, Painters, Jewelers, Blacksmiths, Tinners, Gunsmiths, Farriers, Barbers, Bakers, Dyers, Renovaters, Farmers, and Families Generally,</emph>

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:

<emph rend="bold">All arranged in their Appropriate Departments.</emph>

BY A. W. CHASE, M. D.,

PRACTICAL THERAPEUTIST.

STEREOTYPED

CAREFULLY REVISED, ILLUSTRATED, AND MUCH ENLARGED,

WITH REMARKS AND FULL EXPLAINATIONS.

We Learn to Live, by Living to Learn.

Price, Handsomely Bound, only One Dollar.

IN CAL. $2,00.

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN:

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.

1864.

<emph rend="bold">CHANGE IN PRICE.</emph>

Paper having gone up from 11 to 20 cents per pound, cloth, used for covers, from 8 to 22 dollars per roll, pasteboard from 80 to 225 dollars per ton, labor, &c., in proportion, I am <emph rend="italic">compelled</emph> to advance the price of the Book, in cloth, to $1.25--but that those who wish the Book for the sake of its contents, without regard to the binding, I put some in pamphlet, or paper covers, at the old price, $1.00.

Should any one allow the Work to go by them without purchasing, on account of the advance, they will entirely lose the opportunity of getting one at all, for agents <emph rend="italic">cannot</emph> go over the ground a second time. Forty-fifth thousand, eighteenth edition.

{left aligned}ANN ARBOR, June 25, 1864.

{right aligned}A.W. CHASE, M.D.

Having just received the following Certificate, and there being so many troubled with "enlarged neck," I deem it important to give it a place, even on this page.

{right aligned}AUTHOR.

{right aligned}FORT GRATIOT, Mich., July 13, '64.

DR. A. W. CHASE--SIR--I have got one of your Books, and they are well liked here; can I obtain ten or twelve for sale, and at what price, &c. * * Before closing this, I think it is my duty to return you our hearty thanks for the benefit received from the Book. My wife was troubled with "enlarged neck;" she followed the directions of the Book; and I am happy to inform you it has made a <emph rend="italic">perfect</emph> cure. I have tried a great many other of the "Recipes" with the same result. I would not be without the Book for <emph rend="italic">fifty</emph> dollars.

{centered}Yours truly,

{right aligned}JAMES FERGUSON.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1863, by

A. W. CHASE, M. D.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Michigan, at Detroit.

{at the bottom left corner there is a signature line with these words written underneath:}TRUAIR, SMITH & MILES, STEREOTYPERS, SYRACUSE, N.Y.

PREFACE

TO THE TENTH EDITION.

IN bringing a permanent work, or one that is designed so to 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 Receipes; 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 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 traveling between New York and Iowa, selling the work and Prescribing, so that up to this time, "Sixty-three," over <emph rend="italic">twenty-three thousand</emph> 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 <emph rend="italic">note book</emph> with him, and whenever a prescription has been given before him, or a remark made, that would have a <emph rend="italic">practical</emph> bearing, it has been <emph rend="italic">noted</emph>, and at the first opportunity <emph rend="italic">tested</emph>, then if good, written out in <emph rend="italic">plain</emph> 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 one man to know!" because they did not realize that the work had been made up from <emph rend="italic">others</emph> as well as the Author's <emph rend="italic">actual every day experience,</emph> instead of from <emph rend="italic">untried</emph> books. Yet from the nature of some of the Recipes, one has occasionally found its way into some of 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 <emph rend="italic">add</emph> 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 <emph rend="italic">useless</emph> 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, <emph rend="italic">all</emph> 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 Recipes, are a special feature of <emph rend="italic">this</emph> work, making it worth double its cost as a <emph rend="italic">reading</emph> book, even if there was not a prescription in it.

FOURTH.--The remarks and explanations are in <emph rend="italic">large</emph> type, whilst the <emph rend="italic">prescriptive</emph> and <emph rend="italic">descriptive</emph> 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 <emph rend="italic">shillings</emph>, or any other sum between them. A merchant gave a horse for the "White Cement" Recipe. The late Mr. Andrews, of Detroit, Mich., gave <emph rend="italic">three hundred dollars</emph> 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 <emph rend="italic">better</emph> ideas already embodied therein.

The amount <emph rend="italic">paid</emph> for information in <emph rend="italic">this</emph> work, and for testing by experiment, together with traveling 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 <emph rend="italic">price</emph> of Recipes. Yet any single Recipe in the work which a person may wish to <emph rend="italic">use</emph>, will often be found worth <emph rend="italic">many</emph> times the price of the book, perhaps the <emph rend="italic">lives</emph> of those you dearly love, by having at hand the necessary information enabling you to <emph rend="italic">immediately</emph> 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 <emph rend="italic">knowing</emph> how many things are made which you are constantly <emph rend="italic">using</emph>, and also being able to avoid many things which you <emph rend="italic">certainly</emph> would <emph rend="italic">avoid</emph>, if you <emph rend="italic">knew</emph> how they were made.

SIXTH.--It will be observed that we have introduced a <emph rend="italic">number</emph> 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 benefitted 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, &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 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, &c. 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 of 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.

A gentleman recently called at my house for one of the books,

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 benefitted 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 <emph rend="italic">other</emph> books, of recipes; but a few shillings, as directed by <emph rend="italic">this</emph>, 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 <emph rend="italic">one-half</emph> to as low as <emph rend="italic">one-sixteenth</emph> 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.