The House-Keeper's Guide and Indian Doctor

1851, and one small book promises ice creams, perfumery, soap, furniture polish, a complete system of doctoring — and model letters for every occasion.

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5 recipes in this part of The House-Keeper's Guide and Indian Doctor.

Febrile and Inflammatory Complaints

Rice, arrow root, and other farinaceous substances, are the best in all diseases of this class; and where the patient is much debilitated…

Felon or Run-round

Stew four ounces each of blue flag root snd wild turnip root in a pint of hog's lard, strain and add to it a gill of tar, and simmer them…

Flying Rheumatism

A quarter of a pound each of prince's pine tops, horse-radish roots, elecampane roots, prickly ash bark, bitter sweet bark off the roots…

Female Obstructions

&c. - Make a sirup of equal parts of heart's ease, spikenard roots with the pith out, Turkey root, wild licorice, pond-lily root, a small…

Famous Chemical Washing Recipe

Take a quarter of a pound of soap, a quarter of a pound of soda, and a quarter of a pound of quick-lime. Cut up the soap, and dissolve it…

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