Courier Steam Printing-House, R. A. Beal, Proprietor, 41 & 43 N. Main Street. In this perspective view, from the North-West, we have an accurate represention of the University Buildings, in 1865 . The centreone 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 year 1866-7 was 1255. For residents of the State, an entrance fee of only $10,—non-residents $25—with $10 yearly, pays for a full Literary, Law, Medical, or Civil and Mining Engineering Course; the first requiring four, the two next two, and the last, three years. Entered according to Act of Congress, A. D., 1863, by A. W. Chase, M. D., in.tho Office of the District Court of the U. S. at Detroit, Mich. UNIVERSITY OP MICHIGAN. ANN ARBOR 25 I J'ac'c Sinews or ) Main Tendons 26 Plate Vein 27 Chcsnut Quarters 29 Toe 30 Heel 31 Elbow THE BODY. 32 Reins 33 Ribs 34 Flanks 35 Belly 36 Fillets THE HIKE PAST. 37 Tail 38 Rump 39 Buttocks 40 Stifle 41 Haunches 42 Thighs 43 I lock 44 Point of the Hock 45 Instep The Name and. Situation of the External parts cf Ji 2H®m©2!o THE FORE PART. 1 Forehead 2 Cav ity above the Eyes 8 Temples 4 Lips 5 Jaw G Nostrils 7 Tip of the Nose 8 Beard 9 Chin 10 Neele 11 Throat 12 Mane 18 Fore Top 14 Chest 15 Shoulders 1G Withers 17 Arm 18 Knee 19 Shank 20 Fetlock Joint 21 Pastern 22 Coronet 23 Hoof 24 Fetlock DR. CHASE’S RECIPES; OR. INFORMATION FOR EVERYBODY: AN INVALUABLE COLLECTION OK ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED PRACTICAL RECIPES, ro» Merchants, Grocers, Saloon-Keepers, Physicians, Druggists, Tanners, Shoe Makers, Harness Makers, Painters. Jewelers, Blacksmiths, Tinners, Gunsmiths, Farriers, Barbers, Bakers, Dyers, lteuovaters, Farmers, and Families Generally. 10 WHICH HAYB PKEN ADDED A. Rational Troatment of Pleurisy, Inflammation of the Lungs, and other Inflammatory Diseases, and also for General Female Debility and Irregularities: \I1 arrauged ill tkeir Appropriate Department*. A. W. CHASE. M. IX, H T K H K O T Y P E D CAREFULLY revised, illustrated, and mucu enlarged, WITU REMARKS AND FULL EXPLANATIONS. We Learn to Live, by Living to Loam. IN CLOTH, $1.35 ; PAPER COVERS, $1.00; MOROCCO UILT, $2.00. THE GERMAN IN CLOTH ONLT, $1.25. PUBLISHED BY IR. .A.. BEAL, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TO WHOM ALL ORDERS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED. 18 7 0. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1867, by A. W. CHASE, M. D., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States foi the Eastern District of Michigan. Fifty-Fifth Edition—Four Hundred and Thirty-one Thou- sand—English and German. PREFACE *0 TUB TENTH EDITION. Is 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 appreci- ate its advantages, and encourage the Author by quick and ex- tensive purchases, they alone being the judges. Then: First.—Much of the information contained in “ Dr. Chase’s Rcceipes; 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 lo qualify himself for the work he was undertaking; for, having been familiar with some of the Recipes, adapted to these oranclies 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 ap to tms time, “ Sixty-three,” over twenty-three thousand cop- ies have rw*en sold. His travels have brought him in contact with ail classes of Professional and Business men, Mechanics, P arriPfs. and Farmers, thus enabling him to obtain from them, ur.aDy additional items, always having had his note book with . and whenever a prescription has been given before him, ir a. remark made, that would have a practical bearing, it haa neen noted, and at the first opportunity tested, then if good, written out in plain language expressly for the next edition of TR*FAC* this work. In this way this mass of information has been eoJ- ected, 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 othert 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 fouud its way into some of the earlier edi- tions, 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 ex- pect, 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 veiy reasonable price—many of them are without arrange- ment—this one is arranged in regular Departments, all of a class being together—many of them are without remark, or explana- tion—this one is fully explained, and accompanied with remarks upon the various subjects introduced by the Recipes under con- sideration—those remarks, explanations, and suggestions accom- panying 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 per sons go around “ gulling” the people by selling single Recipes for exorbitant prices. The Author found a thing, calling him fESFAC* self 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 tw© shillings, or any other eum 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. lie removed the spavin with it and won the anticipated wager with aer. The Author has, himself, paid from twenty-five to fifty, and seventy-five cents, and one to two, three five, and eight dol- lars 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 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 lie found in “Everybody’s” library, and to prevent such extortions in the p/rice of Recipes. Yet any single Recipe in the work which f person may wish to use, will otten 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 giv- ing 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, il 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 pre- scription is better for some than for other persons; therefore, we give the variety that all may be benefitted as much aa posai- PREFAOB ble. For instance, there are twenty different prescriptiaa* different diseases, and conditions of the eye; there are also * 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, Mer chants and Grocers, as also most Families, will be more or less benefited by the directions for making or preserving butter, pre- serving eggs, or fruit, computing interest, making vinegar, and keeping cider palatable, Ac. In ague sections of cousitry, none should be without the information on this subject; and in fact, there is not a medical subject introduced but what wili 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 m Pleurisy and other Inflammatory dis- eases 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 witbr out our Whooping Cough Syrup and Croup Remedies, knowing their value as w7e 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 reci- pes, to compensate them for the expense of the work ; and Far- riers and Farmers who deal in horses and cattle, will offen 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. PREfAOH. “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 ben- etitled more than $20, in curing a horse by its directions.” A gentleman near this city says he had paid out dollars after dol- lars to cure a horse of spavin, without benefit, as directed by other books, of recipes; but a few shillings, as directed by this, 'ured 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 vol- untarily accumulating during the seven years in wriiicb 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 thjr Author and to each other, that any person can see that no pos- sible complicity could exist between us, even if we desired it Families will find in the Baking, Cooking, Coloring and Mis- cellaneous 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 mund with Drug- gists, and most of the preparations will cost only trctn one-half to as low as one-sixteenth as much as to purchase them already made; and the only certainty, now-a-days, of naving a good at tide, 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 peru- sal does not satisfy ail that it is not ike 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 & lasting bene- PKBFACJB fit to hi» follow creat’ires. saving them from exiortian, In buying single recipes, and also givxg them a reliable work, for every emergency, more tb *n tm ids own pecuniary benefit. Were it not so, I should have *ept «,ne 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 edi- tion 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 suffer- ing ami prolong life. It is. in fact, a perfect mass of the mosl valuable methods of accomplishing the things spoken of, an Encyclopedia upon the various branches of Science and Art, treated ol in the work, which no family can afford to do with- out; 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 tee assure you that the book is sold only by Traveling Agents, that all may have a chance to purchase ; for if left at the Brink Stores, or by Advertise- ment 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 mo'-e 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 advan- tage of tbcir having passed under the Author’s carefully prun- ing and grafting hand. “ To uproot error and do good should be the first and highest aspiration of every intelligent being. He who labors to pro- mote th> physical perfection of his race—he who strives to make mankind intelligent, healthy, ana happy—cannot fail to have reflected on his own soul the benign smiles of those whom he has been ihe instrument, of benefitting." The Author has re- cieved too many expression0 of gratitude, thankfulness, ana favor, in regard to the value of “ Dr. Chase’s Recipes; or In for mation for Everybody,” to doubt m the least, the ♦ruth of to* foregoing quotation: and trusts that the following quotation PitEFAOS. may not be set down to “ Egotism” or “ Bigotry," when he gives 't as the governing reason for the continued and permanent pub- lication of the work; “ i live to team their rtorf, who suffered for my sake ; To emulate their glory, ami follow in their wake , Garin, patriots, martyrs, siyjtw, and noble of all ages. Whose deeds crown History’s pag-s, and 'lime’s great volume tua>* " I live for those who love rae, 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 tite wrong that needs resistance. For the future in the distance, and the t/uod that I can do.” May these reasons speedily become the governing principles tnfoughout 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 coroborating testi- mony to our statements. Now, however, we are obliged to array every point before the people, as a Minor, that they may judge undeo'standingly, even in matters of the most vital impor- tance t,o themselves; consequently we must lie excused for this cngthy 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 w7hen he saw the relia- bility of the work purchased by his less incredulous neighbors; then if you will, let it go by; but it is 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 irjfoduced, and daily used., is the positive knowledge of the AUTHOR. I 1ST D K X . MKRCII ANTS’ AND GROCERS’ DEPARTMENT TAGS. Lading Powders, Without Drugs, 50 Butter; to Preserve any Length of Time—Butter Mak- ing; 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 Color or Flavor, 41 IJoney; Domestic—Cuba Honey—Excellent Honey— Premium Honey 4S-50 Interest; Computing by one Multiplication and one Di- vision, 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 Pow- der; Black, 47 49 Jedies, 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, &e. —From Acetic Acid and Molasses—From Apple Ci- der—In Three Days, Without Drugs— Process by Standing upon Shavings, 33-4C 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 it 54 Action of Sugar or Candy on the Tooth, 59 Ale; Home firewed, How it is Made,, (RDB3L PA'IS B«ers; Root—Spruce, or Aromatic Leer—Lemon—Gin- ger—Philadelphia—Patent Gas—Corn; without Yeast —StrongBeer; English,improved, 61-68 Coloring for Wines, 74 Cream Soda ; using Cow’s Cream for Fountains—Cream Soda; with a Fountain, 57 Cream Nectar ; Imperial, 64 Ginger Pop, . 65 Ice Cream—Ice Cream ; very Cheap, 66- 67 Lawrion Blackberry; its Cultivation, 72 Lemonade; to carry in the Pocket, 60 Molasses Candy and Pop Corn Balls, 58-5S Oyster Roup, 58 Persian Sherbet, 60 Porter, Ale or Wine; to prevent Flatness in parts o! bottles, for the Invalid, 64 Stomach Bitters ; equal to Hostetlers, for one-fourth its cost, and Schiedam Schnapps Exposed, 74 Sham Champagne; a purely Temperance Drink, 65 Spanish Gingerette, ,, 65 Soda Water; without a Machine for Bottling, 5? Syrups; to make the various Colors—Syrups Artificial; various Flavors, as Raspberry, Strawberry, Pine- Apple, Sarsaparilla, &c.—Lemon Syrup; Common — Lemon Syrup; to save the loss of Lemons—Soda Syrup; with or without Fountains, 54-57 Tripe; to prepare and Pickle, 58 Wines; Currant, Cherry, Elderberry, and other Berry Wines—Rhubarb, or English Patent Wine—Tomato Wine—Wine from white Currants—Ginger Wine,— Blackberry Wine—Port Wine—Cider Wine—Grape Wine, 57-74 5easts ; Hop Yeast—Bakers’ Yeast—Jug Yeast; with- out Yeast to start with—Yeast Cake, 65-66 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Alcohol in Medicine, preferable to Braudy, Rum or Gin, of the present day, connected with Spiritual Facts, . 75-7\ Ague Medicines; Dr. Krider’s Ague Pills—Ague Bitters —Ague Powder—Ague Mixture, without Quinine— Ague Cured for a Penny—Ague Anodyne—Tonic Wine Tincture, a positive cure for Ague without Qui- nine, 77-80 Asthma; Remedies,. 130 Alterative Syrup, or Blood Purifier—Alterative; very strong—Alterative Cathartic, powder—Alterative for Diseases of ibis Skih—Alterative, Tonic and Cathar- tic, Bitters 142-143 (NDEX. PAGB. Artificial Skin, for Burns, Br lises, Abrasions. Ac., Proof against Water, 191 Adhesive l” aster, or Salve, for Deep Wounds, Cuts, Ac., in place >? Stitches, 103 A Cure foj Drunkenness 140 Anodyne Pills, 119 Bread-Tea, used in taking Emetics, 100 Bateman’s Pectoral Drops, 104 Balsams; Dr. II. W. ilutehin’s Indian Healing, formerly, Peoklnim’s Cough Balsam—Dr. Mitchel’s Balsam; for Cuts, Bruises, Ac., 190-191 Bleedings; Internal and External Kernedies—Styptic Balsam, for Internal Hemorrhages—Styptic Tincture, External Application,, 192-194 Bronohocele, (Enlarged Neck), to Cure, 194 Burns; Salve for Burns, Frost-Bites, Cracked Nipples, Ac.; very successful,—Dr. Downer’s Salve for Burns, —Poultice for Burns and Frozen Flesh,—Salve from the Garden and Kitchen, for Burns, ei paration for very bad Sore Eyes—Indian Eye Wa.er—Poultices for the Eye— Films, to remove from the Eye—Eye Salve—Sore Eyes, to remove the Granulations — Altogether, twenty-two Prescriptions, for diflerent conditions of the Diseased Eye, 151-159 Essences; very Strong, 189 Febrifuge Wine,(to drive away Fever),... rt% Fevers; General improved Treatment, for Bilious, Ty- I plioid and Scarlet Fevers, Congestive Chills, &c.; * also valuable in arresting Diarrhea, Summer Com- plaint, Cholera-lnfantum and all forms of Fever in Children—Lemonade, nourishing for Fever Patients - Prof. Hufeland’a Drink for Fever Patients, or for ex- cessive Thirst, 80-87 PAOS Felon, il' recent, to cure in Six Hours—Poultices for Felons—Felon Ointment and Salve,... < lt-8 Fever-Sore Plaster or Black Salve; has saved two differ- ent Hands that two different physicians, in each case, said must be cut off-Red Salve for Fever-Sores—Indian Cure for Fever Sores—Kitridge’s Salve for Fever-. Sores—Fever-Sore Poultices, Ointments, and Salve for Fever-Sores, Abscesses, Broken Breasts, &c., eleven preparations, * 159 16$ Female Debility and Irregularities, Explanations and Treatment—Female Laxative Pills—Female Laxative and Anodyne Pills—Pills for Painful Menstruation— Injection lor Female Complaints- Powder for excessive Flooding, also full explanat'ons of the natural Turn with young females, in such plain and delicate lan- guage, that every Girl over ought to have the book, 208-214 Uterine Hemorrhages, Prof. Platt’s Treatment, twenty years without a Failure, 88 Gravel and Kidney Complaints; Imperial Drop, 109 Godfrey’s Cordial, 134 Hoffman’s Anodyne or Golden Tincture, 133 Hydrophobia, to prevent — Saxon Remedy — Grecian Remedy—Quaker Remedy; fifty years successful... 161-153 Inflammation of the Tin-oat, (Laryngitis)—Gargle for Sore Throat—Sore Throat Liniment, with a bynopsis, (general view), of Dr. Fitch's Treatment of Throat Diseases, 92~9o Inflammation of the Lungs —Inflammation of the Pleu- ra, (pleurisy), with such full explanations of general Inflammations that no difficulty will be experienced in Treating the Disease in any of its forms, 195-208 Inflammation of the Liver—Eclectic Liver Pill—Liver Pill, Improved—Liver Drops, for obstinate cases— Ointment for Ulcerated Liver, Ague Cake, &c.; very successful, 146-147 In-Growing Toe Nail; to cure, 174 Indian Cathartic Pills, 184 Itching Feet from Frost Bites; to cure, Ill Irritating Plaster, extensively used by Eclectics, 146 Jaundice; Dr. Peabody’s Cure, in its worst forms— Drink for common cases of Jaundice, 130-131 Liniments; Good Samaritan, Improved—Liniment for Old Sores—Dr. Raymond’s Liniment—German Rheu matic Liquid or Liniment—Cook's Electro-Magnetic Liniment — Liniment for Spinal Affections — G reat London Liniment—Gum Liniment—Patent Liniment —Lobe.lia and Cayenne Liniment—Liniment, said to be St. John’s &c,... } i lit INDKX INDEX. SAGE, i/audanum, 333 Night Sweats; to relieve, 80 Ointment for Old Sores—Mead’s Salt-Rheum Ointment; has proved very successful — Judkin’s — Sisson’s Green Ointment—exceedingly good—Dr. Kittredee’s celebrated Ointment for *• Pimpled Face,” “ Prairie Itch,” Ac.,—Dr. Gibson’s Ointment, for very' bad Skin Diseases—Itch Ointment—Magnetic Ointment, said to be Trask’s, with Stramonium Ointment and Tincture — Toad Ointment, &c., 125-13v Oil ol Spike—Britsh Oil—Balm of Gilead Oil—Har- lem Oil or Welch Medacamentum; also Black Oils, valuable for Persons or Animals, 174-175 Opodeldoc; liquid, 175 Paralysis; if recent, to cure, if not to relieve—Para- lytic Liniment, 103 Piles; very successful Remedy—Pile Cerate — Simple Cure lor Piles, internal and external Remedies; eleven preparations 131-135 Paregoric, 133 Pills, to Sugar Coat—Nervous Pihs, 148-149 Pain-Killer; said to be Perry Davis’, 194 Poisons; Antidote, 195 Rheumatic Liniment—Inflammatory Rheumatism ; to cure—Dr. Kittredge’s Remedy for Rheumatism and Stiffened Joints, from Rheumatism—French Remedy for Chronic Rheumatism—Bitters for Chronic Rheu- matism ; very successful; Green Bay Indian’s Rem- edy for Rheumatism—New Remedy, &c.; twelve \ rep- arations, 135-133 oiek-Ileadache; to cure—Periodical Headache—Head- ache Drops—Tincture of Blood-root for certain Head- aches—Charcoal for certain Headaches, 104-107 Sweating Drops—Sweating with burning Alcohol, 108 Stimulant, in Low Fevers and after Uterine Hemorrha- ge, v • 141 Sore Throat ;Trom recent cold, Remedy, 171 Snake Bites; Effectual Remedies, for Persons and Ani- mats, . 153-154 Small Pox ; to prevent Pitting the Face, 191 Salves; Green Mountain Salve; exceedingly valuable —Conklin’s Celebrated Salve—Al'.oBalm of Gilead Salve and Pelcg White’s Old Salve 162-1G3 Seidlitz Powder; cathartic, 182 Teeth ; Extracting with little or no Pain—Tooth Pow- der ; excellent—Teeth; to remove Blackness—Tooth Cordial; Magnetic — Homeopathic Tooth Cordial— Neuralgia; internal Remedy—King of Oils, for Neu- .Hgia and Rheumatism 184-188 INDEX PAGE. Tinctures ; to maRe, 189 Tetter, Ring-Worm and Barber’s Itch ; to cure, 190 Typhus Fever; to prevent Infection, 107 Vermifuge Lozenges—Worm Tea—Worm Cake; Eng- lish Remedy—Tape Worm; Simple but effectual Remedies—Vermifuge Oil; Prof. Freeman’s, 164-170 Vegetable Physic, 184 Whooping-Cough Syrup — Daily’s Whooping-Cough Syrup — Soreness or Hoarseness from Coughs ; Rem- edy, 173-174 Warts and Corns; to cure in Ten Minutes—Dr. Hari- man’s innocent and sure cure for Warts, Corns, and Chilblains; five prescriptions, 113-114 Wens; to cure 103 tanner’s shoe and harness maker’s department. Best Color for Root, Shoe and Harness Edge, and Ink which cannot Freeze—Cheap Color, for Boot, Shoe and Harness Edge, 21.1 Black Varnish for the Edge,. 217 Deer Skins; Tanning and Buffing for Gloves; three methods, 218 French Patent Leather—French Finish for Leather.. 221 Grain-Side Blacking, for Ten Cents a Barrel, 221 Tanning Sheep Skins; applicable for Mittens, Door- Mats, Robes, &c.,—Tanning Fur and other Skins; Fifty Dollar Recipe—Tanning Deer and Woodchuck Skins, for Whips, Strings, &c.,—Process of Tanning Calf, Kip and Harness, in from Six to Thirty Days— Canadian Process also, with Mr. Rose’s modification, of Madison, 0 217-221 Sizing for Treeing-out Boots and Shoes, 215 Varnish for Harness; the Best in Use, 217 Water-Poof Oil Paste Blacking, 218 Water-Proof Paste without Rubber — Neats-foot Oil Paste 216 painter’s department. Drying Oil; equal to the Patent Dryers, 2tfu Door-Plates; to make, 227-22S Etching upon Glass, Tor Signs, or Side Lights; easy Method, 229 231, frosting Glass, 225 Fluoric Acid; to make for Etching Purposes, 231 Glass Grinding, for Signs, Shades, &e., 236 Japan Dryers; of the Best Quality, 222 New Tin Roots; Valuable Process tor Painting, 225 Fire-Proof Paint for Roofs, &c.—Water-Proof Oil- Rubber Paint, 222 PAGE. Oil; to prepare for Carriage, Wagon and Floor Painting, 222 Oil Paint, to Reduce with Water, 223 Oriental or Crystal Painting, with directions to make various Shades, or Compound Colors—Fancy Green, &c., 226-22? Paint Skins; to save and Reduce to Oil, 224 Porcelain Finish; very Hard and White, for Parlors,... 231 Painter’s Sanding Apparatus, 224 Sketching Paper; to prepare, 22? PAINTERS* ECONOMY IN MAKING COLORS. Chrome Green—Chrome Yellow—Green; durable and Cheap—Paris Green; two processes—Prusian Blue; two processes—Pea Brown—Rose Pink,..- 232-233 BLACKSMITHS* DEPARTMENT. Butcher Knives; spring Temper aud beautiful Edge,. 238 Cast Iron; to case harden—Cast Iron; the hardest; to Soften for Drilling, 240 Files and Rasps, (old); to Re-cut by a chemical process, 233 Iron ; to Prevent welding, 239 Iron or Wood; to Bronze,Representing Bell-metal,.. 241 Mill Picks ; to Temper; three Preparations—Mill Picks and Saw Gummers; to Temper—Mill Pick Temper- ing, as done by Church, of Ann Arbor,. 230 237 Poor Iron; to Improve, 236 Rust on Iron or Steel; to Prevent 234 Silver Plating, for Carriage Work, 239 Trap Springs; to Temper, 238 Truss Springs; Directions for Blacksmith’s to make; superior to the Patent Trusses, 241 Varnishes; Transparent; for Tools, Plows, &c.—Var- nish; Transparent Blue, for Steel Plows—Varnish, Seek-No-Further, for Iron or Steel—Varnish ; Black, having a polish, for Iron, 234-235 Welding Cast-Steel, without Borax, 235 Welding a small piece of Iron upon a large one, with only a Light Heat, 240 WriP'ig upon Iron or Steel, Silver or Gold; not to cost ;ht. 'Tenth of a Cent per letter, 236 Wrought-Iron; to Case-harden,. 240 TINNER’S DEPARTMENT. Black Varnish; for Coal Buckets, 242 Box Metal; to make for Machinery., 244 Britannia; to use Old, instead of Block Tin, in Solder,. 245 Copper; to Tin for Stew Dishes or other purposes, 244 Aon; to Tin for Soldering or other purposes 244 INDEX, INDEX. PAGE. Iron, Iron Wire or Steel; to Copper the Surface, 244 Japans for Tin—Black, Blue, Green, Orange, Pink, lied and Yellow, 242 Lacquer for Tin—Gold color, Transparent, Blue, Green, Purple and Rose Color—also, Lacquer for Brass,— 242-243 Liquid Glue, for Labelling upon Tin, 245 Liquid, to clean Brass, Door Knobs, &c., 245 Oil Cans—Size of sheet, for from One to One Hundred Gallons, 246 Silver Powder, for Copper or worn Plated Goods, 245 Solder for Brazing Iron, Led, Tin and Britannia, 244-245 Tinning Flux; Improved, 245 Tin; to Pearl, for Spittoons, Water Coolers, Ac, 245 GUN SMITHING DEPARTMENT. Broken Saws; to Mend Permanently, 247 Browning Gun Barrels; two processes—Browning for Twist Barrels, 246-247 Case-Hardening,' 247 finning; superior to the Old Process, 248 V arnish and Polish, for Stocks; German, 248 J EAV ELEILS’ I) EPA RTM ENT. Galvanizing Without a Battery, 248 Galvanizing With a Shilling Battery; also, Directions to Make the" Battery, 24b 250 Jewelry; Cleaning, and Polishing, 250 KARRI Bits’ DEPARTMENT. Broken Limbs; Treatment, instead of inhumanly Shoot- ing the Horse 200-261 Bog-Spavin and Wind-Gall Ointment; also good for Curbs, Splints, Ac., 255 Bone Spavin; French Paste; Three Hundrded Dollar Recipe—Bone Spavin; Norwegian cure—Spavin Lin- iment; four preparations, 254 Bots; Sure Remedy, 251 Cholic Cure; for Horses or Persons; has not failed in more than Forty Trials, 256 Condition Powder; exceedingly valuable; said to be St. John’s—Cathartic Condition Powder; designed for Worn-down Animals, T 25li-‘P>C DeGray or Sloan’s Horse Ointment, 259 Distemper, to Distinguish and Cure, 265 Eye Water, for Horses and Cattle, 203 Founder, Remedy, 206 Grease-Heel and common Scratches, to Cure, 2G2-203 Heaves, Great Relief for; Six Methods for Different Conditions. 201-205 INDEX. PAGE. .lit in Sheep, Sure Remedy, 266 Looseness or Scouring in Horses or Cattle, Remedy in Use Over Seventy Years 252-258 Liniment for Slid Necks, from Poll-evils—English Sta ble Liniment, Very Strong—Liniment for One Shil- ling a Quart, Valuable in Strains, Old Swellings, &c.; and Nerve and lione Liniment, 20'" Poll-Evil and Fistula, Positive Curt?—Poll-Evil and Fis- tula, Norwegian Cure ; Eight Methods, all of which have Cured Many Cases—Poll-Evils, to Scatter, etc.; Potash, to Make, Used in Poll-Evils,.. 256-258 Physic, Ball and Liquid ; for Horses and Cattle, 266 Ring-bone and Spavin Cure, often acknowledged worth the Value of the Horse—O. B. Bangs’Method for Re- cent Cases—Raw son’s Ring-bone and Spavin Cure, has Cured Ring-bones as Thick as the Aim—Indian Method, also, very Simple, 251-254 Splint and Spavin Liniment, 255 Sweeny Liniment, 256 Scours and Pin-Worms, to Cure, in Horses or Cattle,.. 250 Saddle and Harness Galls, Bruises, Abrasions, Ac., Remedy, 203 Sores from Chafing of the Bits, to Cure 263-264 Shoeing Horses for Winter Travel, 265 Supporting Apparatus in Lameness of Animals, Ex- plained, 261 Taming Wild and Vicious Horses—Also, Showing Who Can Do It 267-260 Wound Balsam, for Horses or Persons, 262 cabinet-makers’ department. Finishing Furniture with Only One Coat of Varnish, Not Using Glue, Paste, or Shellac; very Valuable,.. 270 Jet Polish; for Wood or Leather; Black, Red and Blue, 270 Polish; for New Furniture—Polish; for reviving Old Furniture; equal to the “Brother Jonathan,” and Polish for removing Stains, Spots and Mildew from Furniture, 269-270 Stains; Mahogany on Walnut as Natural as Nature— liose Wood Stain; very bright Shade, used cold— ■ Rose-Wood Stain; light Shade, used hot—Rose-pins, Stain and Varnish; also used to imitate Rose-Wood— Black Walnut Stain—Cherry Stain, 271-273 famish; Transparent; for Wood—Patent Varnish; for Wood or Canvass—Aspkaltum Varnish; black, 273-274 barbers’ and toilet department. Balm of a Thousand Flowers, 280 Colgut) Imperial—Cologne for Family Ubc; Cheaper,.. 278-279 INDEX PAGE Faded and Worn Garments; to Renew the Color, 278 Hair Dye; Reliable, 274 Hair Restorative; equal to Wood’s, for a Trifling cost; four preparations; cheap and Reliable—Hairlnvigo- rators, two preparations; will stop Hair Tom Falling 27b-276 Hair Oils; New York Barber’s Star Hair Oil—Macassar or Rose—Fragrant Home-made Pomade or Ox- Marrow, 279 Sbampooning Mixture, for Five Cents per Quart 277 Renovating Mixture; for Grease Spots, Shampooning and Killing Bed Bugs—Renovating Clothes; Gentle- men’s Wear, 277-278 Razor Strop Paste; very Nice, 280 bakers’ and cooking department. Breads; Yankee Brown Bread—Graham Bread—Lon- don Baker’s superior Loaf Bread—New French Meth- od of making Bread—Old Bachelor’s Bread, Biscuit and Pie-Crust—Baking Powders, for Biscuit, without Shortening, 290-293 Cakes; Federal—Rough and Ready—Sponge Cake, with Sour milk—Sponge Cake, with Sweet Milk—Berwick Sponge Cake, without Milk—Surprise Cane—Sugar Cake—Ginger Cake—Tea or Cup Cake—Cake with- out Eggs or Milk—Pork Cake, without Butter, Milk or Eggs—Cider Cake—Ginger Snaps—Jell Cake and, Roll Jell Cake--Cake Table, showing how to make Fifteen different kinds, as Pound, Genuine Whig, Shrewsburry, Training, Nut Cake, Short, Cymbals, Burk, and Jumbles, — Ginger Bread, — Wonders,— Cookies—York—Biscuit—Common and Loaf Cakes-- Molasses Cake—Marble Cake—Silver Cake, and Gold Cake, finising with Bride and Fruit Cakes—Frosting for Cakes, &c.—Excellent Crackers—Sugar Crack- ers—Naples Biscuit—Buckwheat Short-cake, with- out Shortening, most excellent; and Yeast Cake,... 281 289 Pies; Lemon Pie, extra nice—Pie-Crust Glaze, which prevents the juices from soaking into the crust—Ap- ple-custard Pie, the nicest ever eaten—Paste for Tarts, 293 -295 Puddings; Biscuit Pudding, without Re-baking—Old English Christmas Plum Pudding—Indian Pudding; to Bake—Indian Pudding, to Boil—Quick Indian Pudding — Flour Pudding, to boil—Potatoe Pud- ding—Green Corn Pudding — Steamed Pudding-*- Spreading and Dip Sauces for Puddings, 295-29? DOMESTIC DISHES. Apples; to Bake Steamboat Style, better than pre- serves—Apple Fritters—Apples to Fry ; extra nice,, 298-298 INDEX. PAGE Sppie Mer&nge, an Excellent Substitute for Pie, and Pudding, 209 Sack-Woods Presrves, 299 Bread ; to Fry, better than Toast, 299 French Honey 300 Fruit Jams, Jellies, and Preserves, 800 Fruit Extracts, 301 Green Corn Omelet, 298 Mock Oysters, 300 M aftins, 300 Toast; German Style, 299 Rose, and Cinnamon Waters, 302 MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. Advice to Young Men, and Others out of Employment, 836-341 Bed-Room Carpets, for One Shilling per Yard, 333 Currants; to dry with Sugar, 315 Currant Catchup, 314 Coffee; more Healthy and better Flavored, for one- fourth the Expense of Common, 334 Cements; Cements for China, ifcc., which Stands Fire and Water—Cement, Cheap and Valuable—German and Russian Cement—Cement, Water Proof, for Cloth and Belting—Cement or Furniture Glue, for House Use—White Cement and Cement to prevent Leaks about Chimneys, Roofs, &c.—Scrap Book Paste or Cement, always ready for Use, 317-319 Canning Fruits; Peaches, Pears, Berries, Plums, Cher- ries, Strawberries and Tomatoes—Cement for Can- ning Fruits, 313-314 Eggs; to Increase the Laying—Eggs; to Fry extra nice, 44 Fence Posts; to Prevent Rotting, 308 Fire Kindle/3, 329 Fish; Art ot Catching, 321 Gravel Houses; to make, proportions of Lime, Sand and Gravel, \ 324 Glues; Liquid Glue; Imitations, equal to Spalding’s Liquid Glue, and Water Proof Glue, 328 Grammar in Rhyme, for the Little Folks, 341 Musical Cuyosity; Scotch Genius in Teaching, 342 Meats; to Preserve—Beef; to Pickle for Long Keeping— Michigan Farmer’s method—Beef; to Pickle for Win ter or Present Use, and for Drying, very nice—Mutton Hams; to Pickle for Drying—Curing, Smoking and Keeping Hams—:T. E. Hamilton’s, Maryland Premium method—Pork; to have Fresh from Winter Killing, for Summer Frying—Salt Pork for Frying; Nearly Equal to Fresh—Fresh Meat; to Keep a Week or Two, iu Summer—Smoked Meat; to Preserve l'or Years or for Sea Voyages—Rural New Yorker’s Method, and the New England Farmer “ Saving hia Baron," >*09-813 INDEX l'AOfc Magic Paper; used to transfer figures in Embroidery or Impressions of Leaves for Herbariums, k $ Percussion Matches; best quality, 329-3ol Preserves; Tomato and Watermelon Preserves, 315 Plums and other Fruits; to prevent insects from Sting- ing, 333 Pickling; Apples, Peaches, Plums, and Cucumbers; * Very Nice Indeed—Peaches; to Peel, 334-335 Rat Destroyers; Rat Exterminator—Death For the Old Sly Rat—Rats; to Drive Away Alive—Rat Poison from Sir Humphrey Davy, 320-321 Straw Bonnets; to Color a BeanliM Slate—Straw and Chip Hats; to Varnish Black, 322 Stucco Plastering; for Brick and Gravel Houses, 322 -324 Steam Boilers; to Prevent Explosion, with the Reason why they Explode—Steam Boilers; to prevent Lime Deposits, tico Methods, 332-333 Sand Stone; to Prevent Scaling From Frosts, 335 Sealing Wax; to Make, Red, Black, and Blue, 386 Starch Polish, 329 Soaps; Soft Soap, for Half the Expense and One-Fourth the Trouble of the Old Way—German Erasive Soap— Hard Soap—Transparent Soap—One Hundred Pounds of Good Soap for One Dollar and Thirty Cents—Chemi- cal Soft Soap—Soap Without Heat—Windsor or Toi- let Soap—Variegated Toilet Soap, &c., 3f>4-306 Tallow Candles for Summer Use—Tallow; fo Cleanse and Bleach, 307 Tomato Catchup; the Best I Ever Used, 311 Tomato; Cultivation for Early and Late—Tomatoes as Food, and Tomatoes as Food for Cattle, 60-70 Tin-Ware; to Mend by the Heat of a Candle,. 315 Tire; to keep on the Wheel Until Worn Out, 310 Washing-Fluid; Saving Half the Washboard Labor- Liquid Bluing; used in Washing, Never Specks the Clothes, 802-303 Water Filter; Home-Made, 316 Weeds; to Destroy in Walks, 3V5 WHITEWASH AND CHEAP PAINT8. Brilliant Stucco Whitewash; Will Last on Brick or Stone, Twenty to Thirty Years—Whitewash; Very Nice for Rooms—Paint; to Make Without Lead or Oil—White Paint; a New Way of Manufacturing— Black and Green Paint; Durable and Cheap for Out- Door Work—Milk Paint; for Barns, Any Color,.... 325-321: COLORING DEPARTMENT. Colors on Woolen Goods; Chrome Black; Superior to any in Use—Black on Wool, for Mixtures—Steel Mix, FNDKX. PAGB. Dark—Snuff Brown—Madder Red—Green on Wool or Silk, with Oak Bark—Green, with Fustic—Blue; Quick Process—Stocking Yam or Wool; to Color Between a Blue and Purple—Scarlet with Cochineal, for Yarn or Cloth—Pink—Orange—Lac Red—Pur- ple—Silver Drab; Light Shade—Slate; on Woolen or Cotton—Extract of Indigo or Chemic, used in Color- ing; to Make—Wool; to Cleanse—Dark Colors; to Extract and Insert Light, 843-340 Durable Colors on Cotton; Black—Sky Blue—Lime Water and Strong Lime Water; to Make for Coloring Purposes—Blue on Cotton or Linen, with Logwood— Green—Yellow — Orange — Red — Muriate of Tin, Liquor; to Make, 847-849 Iktlors for Silk; Green; Very Handsome, with Oak Bark—Green or Yellow, on Silk or Woolen ; in Five to Fifteen Minutes Only—Mulberry—Black—Spots; to Remove and Prevent Spotting when Coloring Black on Silk or Woolen—Light Chemic Blue—Purple— Yellow—Orange—Crimson—Cinnamon or Brown— on Cotton and Silk, by a New Process; very Beautiful, 849-351 INTEREST DEPARTMENT. Interest Tables, Showing the Interest at a Glance: At Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten Per Cent, on all Sums from One Dollar to One Thousand .Dollars, 1 From One Day to One Year, and for Any Number of Years; Also, Legal Interest of all the Different States, and the Legal Consequences of Taking or Agreeing upon Usurous Rates in the Different States, 352-36C GLOSSARIAL, EXPLANATORY, DEPARTMENT. This Department embraces Tables of Rules for Admin- istering Medicines, Having Reference to Age and Sex —Explanations of Medical Abbreviations, Apotheca- ries Weights and Measures—also, an Explanation of About Seven Hundred Teehnical Terms found in Med- ical Works, Many of which are Constantly Occurring in the Common 'Writings and Literature of the Day, which are not explained in English Dictionaries 361-884 INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. Apparatus for Supporting Lame Animals, 261 Frontispiece, 2 Fonn of Lettering for Door Plates, 22S Machine for Splitting Matches,.... 331 Painter’s Sanding Apparatus, 224 Salves and Lozenges; Apparatus for Making, 164 Vinegar Generator,..... 86 R E F E E N O E 8. Extracts from Certificates and Diplomas in the Doctor’s Possession, Connected with his Study of Medicine. “ I hereby certify that A. VV. Chase has prosecuted the Study of Medicine under my instruction during the term of two years and sustains a good moral character. (Signed,) O. B. REED, Physician. Belle River, Mich. This Certifies that A. W. Chase has attended & fiill Course of Lectures in this institution. (Signed,) SILA8 H. DOUGLASS, Dean. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.” Eclectic Medical Institute, Cin., O. Know All Men by these Presents, That A. W. Chase has sustained an honorable examination before the Faculty of this Institute, on all the departments of Medical Science, &c. * * Wherefore we, the Trustees and Faculty, * * * by the authority vested in us by the Legislature of the State of Ohio, do confer on him the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. WM. B. PIERCE, President. W. T. HURLBERT, Vice Pres’t Jas. G. Henshall, Secretary. Signed also by seven Professors, embracing the [seal.] names of Scudder, Bickley, Freeman, Newton, Bal- dridge, Jones, and Saunders. “ University of Michigan, College of Medicine and Surgery. ANN ARBOR REFERENCES. i The Following statements are given by my neighbors, to whom I had sent the eighth edition of my “ Recipes,” asking their opinions of its value for the people, most of whom had previous- ly purchased earlier editions of the work, and several of them ■used many of the Recipes ; and surely their position in'sooiety ’must place their statements above all suspicion of complicity with .the author in palming off a worthless book; but are designed to benefit the people by increasing the spread of genuine practiced information : Hon. Alphbus Felch, one of our first lawyers, formerly a Senator in Congress, and also ex-Governor of Michigan, says:— Please accept my thanks for the copy of your “ Recipes,” which .you were so good as to send me. The book seems to me to [contain much valuable practical information, and 1 have no deal)) prill be extensively useful. 3U£r£RENCT£8. A. WmcHKLL, Professor of Geology, Zoology and Botany, in the University of Michigan, and also State Geologist, says:—I have examined a large number of Recipes in Dr. Chase’s pub- lished collection, and from my knowledge, either experimental or theoretical, of many of them, and my confidence in Dr Chase’s carefulness, judgment, and conscientiousness in the selection of such only as are proved useful, after full trial, I feel no hesitation in saying that they may all be received with the utmost confidence in their practical value, except in those cases, where the Doctor has himself qualified his recommendations. James C. Watson, formerly Professor of Astronomy, and now Professor of Physics, in the University of Michigan, author of a “ Treatise on Comets,” also of “ Other Worlds, or the Wonders of the Telescope, ” says:—I have examined your book of practical Recipes, and do not hesitate to say that so-far as my observation and experience enable me to judge, it is a work which should find its way into every family in the land. The information Which it contains could only have been collected by the most careful and long continued research, and is such as is required in every day life. I can heartily recommend your work to the patronage of the public. Rev. L. D. Chapin, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, says: Allow me to express to you my gratification in the perusal of your book. I do not regard myself as qualified to speak in re- gard to the whole book, for you enter into Departments in which I have no special knowledge, but where I understand the subject I find many things of much practical value for every practical man and house-keeper; and judging of those parts which I do not, by those which I do understand, I think that you have furnished a book that most families can afford to have at any reasonable price. Rev. Geo. Smith, Presiding Elder of the M. E. Church, Ann Arbor, says:—I take pleasure in saying that so far as I have examined, I have reason to believe that your Recipes are genu- ine, and not intended as a catch-penny, but think any person purchasing it will get the worth of their money. Rev. Geo. Tayloh, Pasto*«of Ann Arbor and Dixboro M. E. Church,writes as follows:—As per your request, I have careful- 'y examined your book of Recipes, recently issued, and take pleasure in adding my testimony to the many you have already received, that I regard it as the best compilation of Recipes have ever seen. Several of these Recipes we have used in our family for years, and count each of them worth the cost of your b*_>ok. Elder Samtjel Cornelius, Pastor of the Baptist Church, wiitcs:—I have looked over your book of “Information for Everybody,” and as you ask my judgment of it, I say that it gives evidence of much industry and care on the part of the compiler, and contains information which must be valuable to references. all classes of business men, in town and country, and especially V i all families who want to cook well, and have pleasant, healtlv drinks, syrups and jellies; who wish to keep health when they enjoy it, or seek for it in an economical way. 1 thank you lor the copy you sent to me, and hope you may make a great many familiet healthy and happy. Rev. F. A. Blades, of the M. E. Church, and Pastor in charge, for two years, of Ann Arbor Station, says : Dr. Chase—Dear Sir— Your work of Recipes, I have examined—and used some of them for a year past—I do not hesitate to pronounce it a valuable work— containing information for the Million. I hope you will succeed in circulating it very generally—it is worthy a place in every house. This gentleman speaks in the highest terms of the “ Dyspeptic’s Biscuit and Coffee,” as of other recipes used. Eberbach & Co., Druggists, of Ann Arbor, say:—'We have been filling prescriptions from “ Dr. Chase’s Recipes,” for three or four years, and freely say that we do not know of any dissatisfaction arising from want of correctness ; but on the other hand, we knew that they give general satisfaction. Rev. S P. Hildreth, of Dresden, O., a former neighbor, inclos- ing a recent letter, says: I have carefully examined your book, and regard it as containing a large amount of Information which will be valuable in every household. Rev. William C. Way, of the M. E. Church. Plymouth, Mich, says:—I have cured myself of Laryngitis, (inflammation of the throat,) brought on by long continued and constant public speaking, by the use of Dr. Chase’s black oil, and also know a fever sore to have been cured upon a lady, by the use of the same article. OPINIONS OF THE ANN ARBOR PRESS. A New BOOK.—Dr. Chase, of this city, has laid on our table a new edition of his work entitled “ Dr. Chase’s Recipes, or Infor- mation tor Everybody,” for making all sorts of things, money not excepted. We would not, however, convey the idea that the Doctor tells you how to make spurious coin, or counterfeit bills, but by practicing upon the maxims laid down in this work, money-making is the certain result. Buy a book, and adopt the recipes in your households, on your farms, and in your business, and success is sure to follow. The work is neatly printed, elegantly bound, and undoubtedly embodies more useful informa- tion than any work of the kind now before the public. Students, or others, wishing to engage in selling a saleable work, will do well to send for circulars describing the book, with terms to agents, Ac,., tor it is indeed a work which “ Everybody ” ought to have.—Michigan State News, Ann Arbor. Db. A. W. CHASE, of this city, has placed on our table a copy of his “ Recipes, or Information for Everybody.” Beginning with a small pamphlet, the Doctor has swelled his wdrk to a bound volume of about 400 pages; an evidence tha* ins labors are appreciated. The volume furnishes many recipes and much information of real practical value.—Michigan Argus, Ann Arbor. Dr. CHASE’S RECIPES.—The ninth edition of Dr. Chase’s Recipes has been recently published, revised, illustrated and en- larged,—comprising a very large collection of practical informa- tion for business men, mechanics, artists, farmers, and for fami- lies generally. The recipes are accompanied with explanations and comments which greatly increase the value of the work. It is a handsomely bound volume, *or •.—Ann Arbor Journal. WKUHCBA Db. CHASE, of Ann Arbor, has favored us with a copy of his book of recipes, which has, in an unprecedented short time, reached the ninth edition, showing its popularity wherever it has been introduced. It contains “ information for everybody,” for making all sorts of things. It is a valuable work for every one— many single recipes being worth much more than the cost of the book. Rev. Mr. Frazer, the gentlemanly agent for the work, is now in the city, and will call upon our citizens giving them an oppprtunitv to secure a copy. The work is neatly printed, ele- gantly bound, and undoubtedly embodies more useful informa- tion than any work of the kind now before the public. a better investment cannot be made by any one.—Grand Rapids Eagle. Dr. CHASE, of Ann Arbor, has favored us with a copy of Recipes which he has published, * * * * who claims that they have been made up from his own and others’ every day ex- perience. There are certainly a great many useftil recipe# La this work that might be found to richly repay its cost to any family.—Michigan Farmer, Detroit. The following wholesale dealers of Detroit, and others with whom I have dealt for years, say:—We have been acquainted with Dr. A W. Chase for several years in the Drug and Grocery business, and we are well satisfied that he would not do a busi- ness which he did not know wa-s all right His information in the iitrm of recipes can be depended upon. GEO. BEARD, Dealer in Oysters and Fruit, Detroit. WM. PHELPS & CO., Confectioners, Detroit, Michigan, JOHN J. BAGLEY, Tobacconist, Detroit, Michigan. SAMUEL J. RED FIELD, M. D., Wyandotte, Michigan. RICHARD MEAD, Merchant, Bark Shanty, Michigan. JOHN ROBERTSON, Captain of Steamer Clifton. H. FISH, Captain of Steamer Sam. Ward. G. A. BLOOD, former partner, Belle River, Michigan. 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CHASE’S RECIPES MERCHANTS’ AND GROCERS’ DEPARTMENT. VINEGAR.—Merchants and Grocers who retail vinegar f kould always have it made under their own eye, if possible, from the fact that so inauy unprincipled men enter into its manufacture, as it affords such a large profit. And I would further remark, that there is hardly any article of domestic use, upon which the mass of the people have -as little correct information as upon the subject of making vinegar. I shall be brief in my remarks upon the different points of the subject, yet I shall give all the knowledge necessary, tha families, or those wishing to manufacture, may he able to have the best article, and at moderate figures. Kemembci this fact—that vinegar must have air as well as warmth, and especially is this necessary if you desire to make it in a short space of time. And if at any time it seems to he u Dying, " as is usually called, add molasses, sugar, alcohol, or cider—whichever artiele you are making from, or prefer —for vinegar is an industrious fellow; he will either work or die, and when he begins to die you may know he has worked up all the material in his shop, and wants more. Remember this in all vinegars, and they will never die, if they have air. First, then, upon a small scale, for family lse. To Make wTimKB Weeks.—Molasses 1 qt.; yeast 1 pt.; warm rain water 3 gals. Put ah into a jug or keg, ami tie a piece of gauze over the bung to keep out flies and let in air. In hot weather set it in the sun; in cold weather set it by the stove or in the chimney corner, and in three weeks vou well have good vinegar. When this is getting low, pour out some for use, and fill 34 DR. chase’s RECIPES. up tire jug ia the same proportion as at first, and you will never have trouble for want of good vinegar. 2. A correspondent of the Dollar Newspaper says: “ The cheapest mode of making good vinegar rs, to mix 5 K8omivnvB Note.—Taose wishing to manufacture, to sell at wholesale, will prepare a tub, or square box, and arrange it 89 shown in the accompanying cut, knowing that the taller and larger the tub, the quicker will the vinegar become good. The air holes are bored through every other, or every third stave, around the whole tub. These holes are to be about one foot 01 eighteen inches from the bottom; they must also he bored slant- ing down as you bore inward, othewise the vinegar would run out and waste as it drips down the side of the tub. These tubs ought to la* from ten to twenty feet high, according to the quan- tity you desire to run off daily. Now take beech manic 01 VINEOAH GkNERATOB. merchants’ and grocers’ department. 37 basswood boards—and they are valuable in the order named— cut them off about eighteen inches in length, and plane thick, heavy shavings from the edges; and if they do not roll up and stay in nice rolls, you must roll and tie them up with small cord; or clean corn cobs will do, but they will only last one season, whilst the shavings will last several years. If cobs are used, they, must be put in layers, each layer crossing the other, to pre- vent their packing too close. Then wet or soak them thorough- ly in water, and till up the tub or tubs with them, unti'. you aie within two or three feet of the top, at which place you will nail a stout hoop around, upon the inside of the tub, which shall support the false top which has been made and fitted for that purpose, through which false top you will have bored good sized gimlet holes about every two inches all over its whole surface, through each of which holes a small cord, about four or five inches in length, is to be drawn, having a knot tied upon its upper end to keep it in its place, and to prevent the vinegar- fluid from working out too fast. The size of these holes, and the size of the cord, must be such as to allow the amount ol vinegar being made to run through every twelve hours, or if time can be given to put it up so often, it may run through every six hours. You will cork all around between the false top and the tub with cotton, which causes the vinegar-fluid, hereafter to be described, to pass through the gimlet holes and drip from the ends of the small cords, evenly, all over the shavings, other- wise, ir the false top was not exactly level, the vinegar-fluid would all run off at the lowest point, down the side of the tub, and be a very long time in becoming good, whilst if it drips slowly and all over and down through the shavings, it soon comes around into good vinegar The holes bored for that pur- pose, in warm weather, oxidizes or acetifies the vinegar-fluid, by af brd ng the two essential points of quietly making good vinegar, that r, air and heat, without the expense ol a fire to warm the fluid, or room in which the vinegar is made. Now bore live ore-inch holes through the false top, one of them through the c< utcr, and the others two-thirds of the distance each way, towards the outside of the tub, injo which holes drive as many pins, having a three-quarter inch hole bored through them lengthwise, which makes them tubes; cut tbe tubes off an inch bo'ow the top of the tub, so as to be out of the way of the main cc ver or loose hoards which will he thrown over the top of the to b for the purpose ol keeping out flies and dirt, and also to keep the heated ait in, which comes up through the tubes; this ai" becomes heated by the chemical action of the air upon the vinegar fluid as it drips along down through the shavings in the tub, becoming so hot that it would be uncomfortable to hold the hand t herein. The space bet ween the false top and the cover is called the vinegar fluid space, and it must be sufficiently light in the joints of the tub, or box, to hold the fluid when put in. Now take a barrel of good vinegar and pour it into the top ol 38 HE. CHASE’S RECIPES. the tub, and let it drip through the gimlet holes, from'the cords, over the shavings, two or three times, each time putting in one gallon of high Wines, or two or three gallons of cider, as the case may be, which sours the shavings and greatly helps the starting process of the vinegar-making. Without the addi- tion to the strength of the vinegar as it runs through, it would part with nearly all of its own strength or acidity, to the shavings and thus lose its own life. If you have not, nor can- not obtain, vinegar, to start with, you must begin with weak vinegar-fluid, and keep adding to it every time through until it becomes very sour ; then you will consider yourself ready to begin to make vinegar in double quick time, by using any of the fluids mentioned in the foregoing vinegar recipes. But manufacturers generally use highwines thirty to forty per cent above preof, one gallon ; water, eleven gallons; but persons living a great distance from market will find a cheaper plan by using ninety eight per cent alcliol, one gallon ; water fifteen gallons; either of which make good vinegar, using yeast of course, with either article, from one pint to one quart to each barrel being made. Another tub or vat must be set in the ground, under the generator, or in a cellar, as the case may be, to hold as much vinegar as the space between the false and real top will contain, or as much as you wish to make at one time; from which it is to be carried up in buckets, (or a ■wooden pump having a leather sucker is quicker and easier to raise it,) to the top of the generator until it becomes good vinegar, which it will do in the time mentioned at the head of this recipe, ifpassed through the gen- erator by the faucet every twelve hours which it must be; and if the tubs are fifteen or twenty feet high, it will only need passing through once, or twice at most. Some wflll have no vinegar but that made from apple cider; then put in one-third water, and it makes vinegar as strong as anybody ought to use ; but if they will have it at full strength, make it so, only it requires a little longer time to make. If those who have cider which has been standing a long time, and does not become vinegar, will reduce it one third with water, and pass it through this machine, they will grind out first rate vinegar in one or two days’ time. Sour beer or ale, the artificial cider, also, if it gets sour, make good vinegar when mixed with some other vinegar in making. Small beer, also drippings from sugar hogsheads in place of molasses, &c. Nothing having sugar or alcohol in it should be thrown away, as all will make good vinegar, which is as good as cash, and ought to be saved—if for no other purpose than to have the more to give the worthy poor. merchants’ and grocers’ department. 39 f‘ was at first thought to bo absolutely necessary to make toe ~inegar-fluid of about seventy-five degrees of heat, aud 8lso to keep the room of the same temperature ; but it has been found that by keeping the heat in the tub by the false top and the loose cover, that in warm weather it does very well without heating up the fluid, although it would make a littlo quicker with it; and if desired to make in cold weather, you must heat the fluid and keep the room warm also. If families choose to try this plan, they can make all they will need in a keg not larger than a common churn, whilst wholesalers will use tubs as tall as their rooms will admit. The first merchant to whom I* sold this recipe, made all the vinegar he could retail by placing strips of board across the centre of a whisky barrel, which supported the shavings in the upper half only, allowing the vinegar to stand in the lower half; as his room was so low, he could only use the one barrel and a wash tub at the top instead of the false-top and space as represented in our cut; it took him only a week to make it in this way. I used the vinegar over a year. The strength of the fluid he used was good common whisky, one gal.; waiter, four gals. So it will be seen that all kinds of spirit, or articles containing spirit, can be made into vinegar. Remark—If you wish to make-sugar into vinegar, do not at- tempt, to run it through the generator, as it forms mother in that way, and soon fills up the little holes ; but make it by standing iu a barrel, as mentioned under that head, No. 4. 8. Quick Process, by Standing uron Shavings.—Take 4 or 5 hogsheads or casks, and set them side by side, having a fau- cet near the bottom ; then fill up the casks full of shavings pre- pared as in the foregoing recipe, or clean corn-cobs, putting some turning shavings over the top, after having put on an old coffee sack to keep the fine shavings from falling down among the coarse ones; this is to keep in the warmth; now sour the shavings with the best vinegar, by throwing it on the shavings and letting it stand half a day or so; then draw off by the fau- cet at the bottom, and throw it on again, adding 1 qt. of high- wines to each barrel each time you draw it off, as the shavings absorb the acid, and tie vinegar would become flat, but by add- ing the spirit the shavings b(*come soured or acetified, and the vinegar gets better also. When the shavings are right, take highwines fiO or 40 per cent above proof 1 gal.; molasses 1 qt.; soft water 14 gals.; (river or well w ater will do, but not as good 40 DR. CHASE’S BECTPfcS. for anv vinegar) and put it upon the shavings, and draw off ano put on again from one to three times daily, until sufficiently sour to barrel up. J\Ir. Jackson, a Grocer, of Jackson, Michigan, has boon making in this way lor several years, lie uses also, saur ale, rinsings of sugar hogsheads, or the drippings, and throws this fluid on the shavings, and draws oft aud returns from one to three times each day until sufficiently sour to bar- rel up, which only requires a few drawings ; he then fills his barrels only two-thirds full, and leaves the bungs out sum- mer and winter, and if he fiuds a barrel is getting weak in strength, he puts in a quavi of highwincs, which recruits the strength, or gives it work again, which, as I remarked before, if you give him stock to work on, and air, he labors —without both, he dies. Bear this in mini/, and your vin- egar will improve all the time, no matter how, or of what it is made, lie fills the tubs only one-third or one-half full when making, does not heat, but uses yeast, and only works them in warm weather, and in winter fills the tubs with good vinegar, and lets them stand over until spring, when they are ready for work again. This man, with five casks thus managed, has sold over three hundred barrels of vinegar in one season. • It might not be amiss, in closing this lony dis- solving four pounds of crushed sugar in one quart of water, by boiling, and adding three ounces of tartaric ac.J and flavoring with the oil of lemon; but it is best made as fol lows: Coffee sugar 3 lbs; water 1J pts.; dissolve by gentle beat,, and add citric acid 3 ozs., and flavor with oil or extract of lemon. See “ Extracts!” 8. Or a very nice lemon syrup is made as follows: Take cit- ric acid in powder £ oz.; oil of lemon 4 drops; simple syrup 1 quart. llub the acid and oil in three or four spoons of the syrup then add the mixture to the remainder, and dissolve with gentle heat. Citric acid is not as likely to cause inflamma- tion of the stomach as the tartaric, lieuce, its better adapta- tion to syrups calculated for drinks, and especially iu disease. 9. Lemon Sykup—To Save the Loss of Lemons.—Where you have lemons that are spoiling or drying up, take the insides which are yet sound, squeeze out the juice, and to each pint put 1£ lbs. while sugar, and a little of the peel; boil a few minutes, strain and cork for use. This will not require any acid, and one-half tea-spoon of soda to three-fourths of a glass of water with two or thieo table-spoons of syrup, makes a foaming glass. Some per- sons think they ought to put iu water, but if water is added the syrup will not keep as well, and takes more of it. 10. Soda Svitur, With or Without Fountains.—The com- mon or more watery syrups are made by using loaf or crushed sugar 8 lbs.; pure water 1 gal.; gum arabic 2 oz.; mix in a brass or copper kettle; boil until the gum is dissolved, then skim and strain through white flannel, after which add tananc acid 5£ oz.; dissolved in hot water; to flavor, use extrai.t, of lemon, orange, rose, pine-apple, peach, sarsaparilla, strawberry, &c,, £ oz. to each bottle, or to your taste. Now use two or three table-spoons of the syrup to three- fourths of p. tumbler of water aDd one-half tea-spoon of SALOON DEPARTMENT. 57 jJDer carbonate of soda, made fine; stir well and be ready to ink, or use the soda in water as mentioned in the “ Impe- 'lal Cream Nectar;” the gum arabic, however, holds the jarbonie acid so it will not fly off as rapidly as common ioda. The above is to be used without fountains, that is to make it up as used, in glasses, or for the cheaper fountains which have an ounce of super-carbonate of soda to the gal- ton of water; but for the fountains which are cliai ged, in hie cities, with carbonic acid gas, no acids are used in ttic- iyrups. 11. Cream Soda, Using Cow’s Cream, for Fountains — Nice loaf sugar 5 lbs.; 'sweet rich cream 1 qt.; water 1£ gills; warm gradually so as not to burn ; extract of vanilla | oz."; ex- tract of nutmeg \ oz. Just bring to a boiling heat, for if you cook it any length of time it will crystalize; use four or five spoons of this syrup instead of three as in other syrups. If used without a fountain, .tartaric acid one-quarter pound is added. The tendency of this syrup is to sour rather quicker than other syrups, but it is very uice while it lasts; and if only made in small quantities and kept cool, it more than pays for the trouble of making often. 12. Cream Soda, without a Fountain.—Coffee sugar 4 lbs; water 3 pts.; nutmegs grated 3 in number; whites of 10 eggs well beaten; gum arabic 1 oz.; oil of lemon 20 chops; or ex- tract equal to that amount. By using oils of other fruits you can make as many flavors from this as you desire, or prefer. Mix all and place over a gentle fire, and stir well about thirty minutes; remove from the fire, strain, and divide imo two parts; into one-half put supercarbonate of soda eight ounces ; and into the other half put six ounces tartaric acid; shake well, and when cold tiiey are ready to use, by pouring three or four spoons, from both parts, into separate glasses which are one-third tall of cool water ; stir each and po-ir together, and you have as nice a glass of cream soda as wan ever drank, which can also be drank at your leisure, as the gum and eggs hold the gas. 13. Soda Water, Without a Machine for Bottling.— In each gallon of water to be U3ed, carefully dissolve % lb. of crus lieu sugar, and 1 oz. of super-carbonate of soda; then till falf-pint boules wdth this w«.ter, have your corks ready , now 58 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. drop into each bottle % dr. of citric acid in crystals, and ini' mediately corlc and tie down. These bottles must be handled carefully without shaking, and keep cool, until needed; a little more or less sugar can be used to suit the taste of different persons. OYSTER SOUP.—To each dozen or dish of oysters put % pt. water ; milk 1 gill; butter % oz.; powdered crackers to thicken. Bring the oysters and water to a boil, then add the other ingredients previously mixed together, and boil from 3 to 5 minutes only. Each one will choose to add salt, pepper, &c., to their own taste. Keep about these proportions if you should have to cook for an oyster supper, for parties, &c. TRIPE—To Prepare and Pickle.—First sew it up, after it is turned inside out; be careful to sew it up tight, that no lime guts into it; now have a tub of lime-water, the consis- tence of good thick white-wash ; let it remain in from 10 to 20 minutes, or until when you take hold of it, the dark out- side skin will come off; then put it into clean water, chang- ing three or four times to weaken the lime, that the hands be not injured by it; then with a dull knife scrape off all of the dark surface, and continue to soak and scrape several times which removes all offensive substances and smell. After this, let it soak 20 or 80 minutes in 2 or 3 hot waters, scraping over each time; then pickle in salt and water 12 hours, and it is ready for cooking; boil from 3 to 4 hours, cut in strips to suit, and put it into nice vinegar with the various spices, as desired; renew the vinegar at the expiration of 1 week, is all that will be required further. Many persons stick up their nose when tripe is spoken of; but, if nicely prepared, I prefer it to any dish furnished by the beef. MOLASSES CANDY AND POP-CORN BALLS—Candy. —Equal quantities of brown sugar and molasses, and put them into a suitable kettle—copper is the best—and when it begins to boil, skim it well, and strain it, or else pour it through a fine wire sieve to free it of slivers and sticks which are often found in the sugar ; then return it to the kettle and continue to boil, until, when you have dipped your hand in cold water and passed one or twTo fingers through the boil- ing candy and immediately back to the cold water, what adheres, when cold, will crush like dry egg shells, and does not adhere to the teeth when bitten. When done, pour it on a stone or platter which has been greased, and as it gets cool begin to throw up the edges and work it by pulling on a hook or by the hand, until bright and glistening like gold; the hands should have a little flour on them occasion' SALOON DCTARTMENT. 59 rllv; uow keep the mass by a warm stove, (if much is made at one time), and draw it into stick size, occasionally rolling them to keep round, until all is pulled out and cold, then with shears dip a little upon them, at proper lengths for the sticks, and-they will snap quickly while yet the stick will bend, nc color no butter, no lard or tlavor is used or need be, yet any oil can be used for flavoring, if desired, when poured out to cool. Sugar left in molasses barrels works very uicely in this preparation. Pulverized white sugar sprinkled amongst it will prevent it from sticking together. 2. Candy Perfectly White.—If it is desired to have candy that is perfectly white, proceed as follows : Best coffee sugar 2J lbs.; the nicest syrup H pts.; hoi! very carefully, until when tried as above, it crisps like egg shells, or flies like glass; then draw and work upon the hook until very white. 3. Molasses Candy Without Sugar.—Porto-Rico molasses boiled and worked as above, has a cream shade according to the amount of pulling, and most persons prefer it to the mixture of sugar and molasses, as in the hi st. 4. Pop Corn Balls.—Pop the corn, avoiding all that is not uicely opened; place i bu. of the corn upon a table or in a large dripping pan; put a little water in a suitable kettle with sugar 1 lb.; and boil as for candy, until it becomes quite waxy in water, when tried as for candy; then remove from the lire and dip into it 6 to 7 table-spoons of thick gum solution, made by pouring boiling water upon gum arabic, over night, or some hours before; now dip the mixture upon dill'erent parts of the corn, putting a stick, or the hands, under the corn, lifting up and mixing until the corn is all saturated with candy mixture; then with the hands press the corn into balls, as the boys do snow balls, being quick, lest it sets before you get through. This amount will make about one hundred balls, if prop- erly done. White or brown sugar may be used. And lor variety, white sugar for a part, and molasses or syrup for another batch. Either of these are suited to street ped- ilars. 5. Action of sugar or Candy on tiie Teeth.—31 Larcz, ot Trance, in the course of his investigations on the teeth, has arrived at the following conclusions: First—that “refined sugar, either from cane or beet, is injuri- ous to healthy teeth, either by immediate contact with these or- gans, or by the gas developed, owing to its stoppage in the 60 Dll. chase's RECIPES. stomach. Scconc—that, if a. tooth is macerated in a saturated solution of sugar, it is so much altered in the chemical composi- tion that it becomes gelatinous, and its enamel opaque, spongy, ami easily broken. This moditication is due not to free acid, but to a tendency of sugar to combine with the calcareous basis of the teeth.” I have destroyed my own teeth, I have no doubt now, by constantly eating candies, while in the grocery business, be* fore I knew its injurious effects, and I believe it to have de- stroyed the first teeth of all of my children which were bo. n during my candy-eating propensities. What say our candy-eating gentry to the above ? LEMONADE.—To Carry in the Pocket.—Loaf sugar \ lb.; rub it down finely in a mortar, and add citric acid * oz.; (tartaric acid will do,) and lemon essence oz., and continue the trituration until all is intimately mixed, and bottle for use. It is best to dry the powders as mentioned in the Persian Slier net, next following. A rounding table-spoon can he done up in a paper and car- ried conveniently in the pocket when persons arc going into out-of-the-way places, and added to half pint of cold water, when all the beauties of a lemonade will stand before you waiting to be drank, not costing a penny a glass. This can be made sweeter or more sour, if desired. If any howevei should prefer an effervescing drink, they can follow the di- rections given in the next recipe. Persian Sherbet.—Pulverized sugar 1 lb.; super-carbonate of soda 4 ozs.; tartaric acid il ozs.; put all the articles into the stove'oven when moderately warm, being separate, upon papei or plates ; let them remain sufficiently long to dry out all damp- ness absorbed from the air, then rub about 40 drops of lemon oil, (or if preferred any other flavored oil,) thoroughly with the Bugar in a mortar—wedge-wood is the best—then add the soda and acid, and continue the rubbiug until all are thoroughly mixed. Bottle and cork tight, for, if any degree of moisture is ermitted to reach it, the acid and soda neutralize each ther, and the virtue is thus destroyed. A middling sized table-spoon or two tea-spoons of this put into a half pint glass and nearly filled with water and quickly drank, makes an agreeable summer beverage ; and if three or lour glass- es of it are taken within a short time, say an hour or two it has the effect of a gentle cathartic, hence for those habit SALOON DEPARTMENT. 61 ually costive it would be found nearly or quite equal to the seidlitz powder, aud for children it would he the pleasantest of the two. [The printers have tried it, and can bear tes- timony to its good qualities.] BEERS.—Root Beer.—For each gallon of water to be used, Lake hops, burdock, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, dandelion, and spikenard roots, bruised, of each $ ozr; boil about 20 minutes, and strain while hot, add 8 or 10 drops of oils of spruce and sassafras mixed in equal proportions, when cool enough not tc scald your hand, put in 2 or 3 table-spoons of yeast; molasses \ of a pint, or white sugar £ lb. gives it about the right sweetness. Keep these proportions for as many gallons as you wish to make. You cau use more or less of the roots to suit your taste after trying it; it is best to get the dr" "oots. or dig them and let them get dry, and of course you can add uny other root known to possess medicinal properties desired in the beer. After all is mixed, let it stand in a jar with a cloth thrown over it, to work about two hours, theu bottle and set in a cool place. This is a nice way to take altera- tives, without taking medicine. And families ought to make it every Spring, and drink freely of it for several weeks, and thereby save, perhaps, several dollars in doctors’ bills. 3. Spruce or Aromatic Beer.—For 3 gals, water put in 1 qt. and i pt. of molasses, 3 eggs well beaten, yeast 1 gill. Into 2 qts. of the water boiling hot put 50 drops of you wish the flavor of; or mix 1 oz. each, oils sassafras, spruce and win- tergreen, then use 50 drops of the mixed oils. Mix all, and strain; let it stand two hours, then bottle, nearing iu mind that yeast must not be put in when the fluid would scald the hand. Boiling watercuts oil for beers, equaf to alcohol 3. Lemon Beer.—Water 30 gals.; ginger root bruised 0 ozs.; cream of tartar £ lb.; coffee sugar 13 lbs.; oil. of lemon 1 oz.; or £ oz. of the oil may be used, aud 6 good sized lemons, sliced; yeast li p-ts. Boil the ginger and cream of tartar, about twenty to thirty minutes, in two or three gallons of the water; then strain it upon the sugar aud oils or sliced lemons, which have been rubbed together, having warm water enough to make the whole thirty gallons just so you cau hold your hand in .it without burning, or about seventy degrees of heat; then 62 dr. chase’s recipes. work up the yeast into a paste, as for the eider, with five or six ouuces of hour. Let it work over night, skimming off the yeast, or letting it work over as the cider, then strain and bottle for use. This will ke fifteen or twenty days. The Tort Iluronitcs think it a splendid drink. 4. Ginger Beer.—White sugar 5 lbs.; lemon juice 1 gill; honey £ lb.; ginger, bruised, 5 ozs.; water 4£ gals. Boil the ginger thirty minutes in three qts. of the water; then add the other ingredients, and strain ; when cold, put in the white of an egg, well beaten, with one tea-spoon of lemon essence—let stand four days, and bottle. It will keep for months—much longer than if yeast was used; the honev however, operates mildly in place of yeast. ft Lhii.azri.imjia Beer.—Water 3bgals.; brown sugar 20 lbs. ginger, bruised, It lbs.; cream of tartar f lb.; super carbonate of soda 3 ozs.; oil oi lemon, cut in a little alcohol, 1 tea-spoon whites of 10 eggs, well beaten ; hops 2 ozs.; yeast 1 qt. The ginger root and hops should be boiled twenty oi thirty minutes in enough of the water to make all milk warm, then strained into the rest, and the yeast added and llowcd to work over night; skimmed and bottled. G. Patent Gas Beer.—Ginger 2 ozs.; allspice 1 oz.; cinna- moft £ oz.; cloves £ oz.; all bruised or ground; molasses 2 qts - cold water 7| gals.; yeast 1 pt. Boil the pulverized articles, for fifteen or twenty minutes, in the molasses; then strain into your keg, and add the water, then the yeast; shake it well together and bung down. If made over night it will be ready for use the next day. There ought to be a little space in the keg not filled with the beer. This beer is ahead of all the pops and min- eral waters of the day, for flavor, health or sparkling quali- ties or speed in making. Be careful you do not burst the keg. Xu hot weather, draw in a pitcher with ice. I have iold this in the principal towns of Ohio, Indiana and Mich- igan, traveling with a caravan, and obtained two dollars for the recipe of the man who kept the iuside stand, arid flow- ed the head out of the first keg oj’ it which he made. 7. Corn Beer, Without Yeast.—Cold water 5 gals.; sevad nice corn 1 qt.; molasses 2 qts.; put all into a keg of this slr.e; shake well, and in 2 or 3 days a fermentation will have been brought on as nicely as with yeast. Keep it bunged tight. SALOON DEPARTMENT. 63 It may be flavored with oils of spruce or lemon, if desir- e-i, b f pouring on to the oils one or two quarts of the water, soiling Hot. The corn will last live or six makings. If it srets too v-ur wdd more molasses and water in the same pro- portions. It is obeap, healthy, and no bother with yeast. 8. Str. vo Beer, English Impkoved.—Malt 1 peck ; course brown £11*, - Gibs.; hops 4 ox.; good yeast 1 tea-cup; if you have not m»» v take a little over 1 peek of barley, (twice the amount oats will do, but are not as good,) and put it into an oven after the bread is drawn, or into a stove oven, and steam the moisture from them. Grind coarsely. Now pour upon the ground malt 8$ gals, of water at 170 or 172° ot heat. The tub in which you scald the malt should have a false bottom, 2 or 3 inches from the real bottom; the false bottom shoulu be bored full ot gimlet holes, so as to act as a strainer, to keep u»ck the malt meal. When the water is poured on, stir them well, and let it stand 3 hours, and draw oil by a faucet; put in 7 gals, more of water at 180 to 182°; stir it well, and let it stand 2 hours and draw it off. Then put on a gal. or two of cold water, stir u well and draw it oil; von should have about 5 or 6 gals. Put the Gibs, of coarse brown sugar in an equal amount of water; mix with the wort, and boil to 2 hours with die hops; you should have eight gals, when boiled ; when cooled to 80° put in the yeast, and let it work 18 to 20 h.oitrs, covered with a sack; use sound iron hooped kegs or por- ter bottles, bung or cork tight, and in two weeks it will be good sound beer, and will keep a long time; and for persons of a weak habit of body, and especially females, 1 glass of this with their meals is far better than tea or coffee, or ail the ardent spir- its in the universe. If more malt is used, not exceeding £ a bushel, the beer, of course, would have more spirit, but this strength is Sufficient for the use of families or invalids. 9. Ale, IIome-Brewed—IIow it is Made.—The follow, sng formula for the manufacture of a famous home-brewed ale of the English yeomanry, will convey a very clear idea of the components and mixture of ordinary ales, 'flic mid- dle classes of the English people usually make their ale in o jantities of two barrels, that is, seventy-two gallons. For this purpose a quarter of malt, (8 bus.) is obtained at ths malt-house—or, if wished to be extra strong, nine bushels of malt—are taken, with hops, 12 lbs.; yeast, 5 qts. The malt, being crushed or ground, is mixed with 72 gal3. ol water at the temperature of 160°, and covered up for 3 hours, when 40 gallons are drawn off, into which the hops are put, and left to infuse. Sixty gallons of wrater at a temperature of 170° arc then added to the malt in the mash-tub, and wed 64 DR. CHASE’S RECITES. mixed, and after standing 2 hours, sixty gallons are drawn off The wort frflm these two mashes is boiled with the hops lor 2 hours, and after being cooled down to (55°, is strained through a tlannel bag into a fermenting tub, where it is mixed with the yeast and left to work for 2*4 or 30 hours. It is then run into barrels to cleanse, a few gallons being reserved for filling up the casks as the yeast works over. Of course when the yeast is worked out it must be bunged If one-half a pint of this was taken each meal by men, and half that amount by females, and no other spirits, tea not coffee, during the day, I hesitate not in saying that I firmly believe it would conduce to health. I know that this, which a man makes himself, or some of the wines mentioned in this work, home-made, are all that any person ought to allow themselves to use in these days when dollars and cents are the governing influences of all who deal in such articles. 10. Porter, Ale, or Wine, to Prevent Flatness in Parts of Bottles for tiie Invalid.—Sick persons who are recommended to use ale, porter, or wine, and cau oniy take a small glass at a time, nearly always find the last of the bottle fiat or stale. To prevent this put in the cork firmly, and turn the cork-end downwards, in a large tumbler or other vessel nearly filled will water. This plan prevents communication with the external air. 11. Cream Nectar, Imperial.—First, take water 1 gal.; loaf sugar 8 lbs., tartaric ac\d S oz.; gum arabic 1 oz.; put into a suitable kettle and place on the fire. Second, take flour 4 tea-spoons ; the whites of 4 eggs, well beaten together, with the flour, anti add -water £ pt.; when the first is blood warm put in the second, and boil 3 minutes, and it is done. Directions : Three table-spoons of the syrup to a glass half or two-thirds full of water, and add one-third tea-spooc of super-carbonate of soda, made fine; stir well, and drink at your leisure. J?@“ln getting up any of the soda drinks which ara spoken of, it will bo found preferable to put about, eight ounces of super-carbonate, often called carbonate of soda, into one pint of water in a bottle, and shake when you wish t? make a glass of soda, and pour of this into the glrss until it foams well, instead of using the dry soda as directed SALOON DEPARTMENT. 65 12 Ginger Pop. —Water 5\ gals.; ginger root, bruised, 1 lb.; tartaric acid oz. : white sugar 2b lbs. ; whites of 3 eggs, well beaten; lemon oil 1 tea-spoon ; yeast 1 gill. Boil the root for thirty minutes in one gallon of the water, strain oft', and put the oil in while hot; mix. Make over night, and in the morning skim and bottle, keeping out sediments. 13. Spanish Qixuerette.—To each gal. of water put 1 lb. tf white sugar ; b oz. best bruised ginger root; J oz. of cream of tartar, and 2 lemons sliced. Directions: in making 5 gals, boil the ginger and lemons 10 minutes in 2 gals, of the water; the sugar and cream of tartar to be dissolved in the cold water, and mix all, and add b pint of good yeast; let it ferment over night, strain and bottle in the morning. This is a valuable recipe for a cooling and refreshing bev- erage ; compounded of ingredients highly calculated to andst the stomach, and is recommended to persons suffering with Dyspepsia or Sick Headache. It is much used in Euro- pean countries, nnd persons having once tested its virtues will constantly use it as a common drink. And for saloons, or groceries, no temperance beverage will set it aside. 14. Sham-Champagne—A Purely Temperance Drink.— Tartaric acid 1 oz.; one good sized lemon ; ginger root 1 oz.; white sugar 1$ lbs. ; water 21 gals. ; yeast 1 gill. Slice the lemon, and bruise the ginger, mix all, except the yeast, boil the water and pour it upon "them and let stand until cooled to blood heat; tiien add the yeast and let it stand in the sun through the day ; at night, bottle, tieing the corks, and in 2 Jays it will be lit to use.—Mrs. Beecher. Be sure and not drink over three or four bottles at one time. YEASTS—Hop Yeast.—Hops 1 oz. ; water 3 pts.; flour 1 tea-cup ; brown sugar 1 table-spoon; salt 1 tea-spoon; brewers’ or bakers’ yeast 1 gill. Boil the hops twenty minutes in the water, strain into a jar, and stir in the flour, sugar, and salt, and when a little cool add the yeast, and after four or five hours cover up. and stand in a cool place or on the ice for use. The above makes a good family yeast, but the following is the regular bakers’ yeast, as they always keap the * alt on band. 66 Da OHASfi’s RECIPES. 2. Bakers’ Yeast.—Hops 2 oz.; water 1 gal.; wheat floor i . lb.; malt flour 1 pt.; stock yeast 4 pt. Boil the hops for thirty minutes in the water, strain, and let cool until you can well bear your hand »n it; then stir in the flour and yeast; keep in a warm place until the fer- mentation is well under way, and then let it work in a cooler place six to eight hours, when it should be put in pint bot- tles about half full, and closely corked, and tied down. By keeping this in a very cool cellar, or ice-house, it will keep for months, fit for use. But as it is often troublesome to obtain yeast, to start with, I give you the “ Distillers’ Jug Yeast,” starting without yeast. 3 Jug-Yeast, Without Yeast to Start With.—Hops 4 lb.; water 1 gal.; fine malt flour 4 pt.; brown sugar 4 lb. Boil the hops in the water until quite strong, strain, and stir in the malt flour; and strain again through a coarse cloth, and boil again for ten minutes; when lukewarm, stir in the sugar, and place in a jug, keeping it at the same tempera- ture until it works over; then cork tight, and keep in a cold place. 4. Yeast Cake.—Good sized potatoes 1 doz.; hops 1 large handful; yeast 4 pt. ; corn meal sufficient quantity. Boil the potatoes, after peeling, and rub them through a cullender; boil the hops in two quarts of water, and strain into the potatoes; then scald sufficient Indian meal to make them the consistence of emptyings, and stir in the yeast and let rise; then, with uuscalded meal, thicken so as to roll out and cut into cakes, drying quickly, at first, to prevent souring. They keep better, and soak up quicker, than if made with flour. ICE CREAM.—Fresh cream 4 gal.; rich mill. 4 gal.; white sugar 1 lb.; some do use as much as 2 lbs, of si gar to the gal- lon, yet it leaves an unpleasant astriugeucy in the throat alter eating the cream, but please yourselves. Dissolve the sugar in the mixture, flavor with extract to suit your taste, or take the ;>eel from a fresh lemon and steep one- h'llf of it in as little water as you can, and add this—it makes the lemon flavor better than the extract—and no flavor will eo universally please as the lemon ; keep the same proportion for any amount desired. The juice of strawberries or raspberries gives a beautiful color and flavor to ice creams; o» about 4 set SALOON DEPARTMENT. 67 of essence or extracts to a gallon, or to suit the taste. Have four ice well broken; 1 qt. salt to a bucket of ice. About half an hours’ constant stirring and occasional craping down and beating together, will freeze it. The cld-fashioned freezer which turns in a tub of ice, makes smoother and nicer ice-cream than all the patent freezeVs l have seen ; and the plan of using the genuine cream and milk gives sufficient profit; but I will give you the best sub- stitutes there are, in the following recipe, but the less you eat of either the better will it be for health. 2. Ice Cream, Very Cheap.—Milk 0 qts.; Oswego com starch I lb. First dissolve the starch in one quart of the milk, then mix all together and just simmer a little, (not to boil.) Sweeten and flavor to suit your taste, as above ; or— 3. Irish moss lj-oz.; milk 1 gal. First soak the moss in a little cold water for an hour, and rinse well to clear it of sand and a certain peculiar taste ; then Bteep it for an hour in the milk just at the boiling point, but not to boil; it imparts a rich color and flavor without eggs or cream. The moss may be steeped twice. It is the Chicago plan. I have eaten it and know it to be very nice. A few minutes rubbing, at the end of freez- ing, with the spatula, against the side of the freezer, gives ice-eream a smoothness not otherwise obtained. WINES.—Currant, Cherry, and other Berry Wines.—The juice of either of the above fruits can be used alone, or in combinations to make a variety of flavors, or suit persons who have some, and not the other kinds of fruit. Express ail the juice you can, then take an equal amount of boiling water and pour on the pressed fruit, let stand 2 hours, squeeze out as much as there is of juice, and mix, then add 4 lbs. ot brown sugar to each gallon of the mixture; let stand until worked, or 3 or 4 weeks, without a bung in the keg or barrel, 6iniply putting a piece of gauze over the bung bole to keep out hies; when it is done working, bung it up. A cool cellar, of course, is the best place for keeping wines, as they must be kept where they will not freeze. Some persons use only one-fourth juice, in making fruit wines, and three-fourths water, but you will bear in mind 68 DR. CUASE’s RECIPES that the wine will he good or bad, just in proportion to the water and sugar used. If care is used when you express the juice, to prevent the pulp or seeds from entering or re- maining in the juice, no other straining or racking will be needed. Most persons also recommend putting in brandy, but’if any spirit is used at all, let it be pure alcohol, from one gill to one-half pint only per gallon, but the strength of juice I recommend, and the amount of sugar, remove all heeessity for any addition of spirit whatever. Bear inm'rd that all fruit of which you are to make wine ought to be perfectly ripe, and then make it as soon as possible there- after, not letting the juice ferment before the addition of the sugar. If bottled, always lay them on the side. J. Rhubarb, or English Patent Wine.—An agree- able and healthful wine is made from the expressed juice of the garden rhubarb. To each gal. of juice, add 1 gal. of sob water in which 7 lbs. of brown sugar has been dissolved ; till a keg or a barrel with this proportion, leaving the bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened water as it works over until clear; then bung down or bottle as you desire. These stalks will furnish about three-fourths their weight in juice, or from sixteen hundred to two thousand gallons of wine to each acre of well cultivated plants. Fill the bar- rels and let them stand until spring, and bottle, as any wine will be better in glass or stone 3. .'iome persons give Mr. Oahoon, of Kenosha, Wis„ credit for originating pie-plant wine, but that is a mistake it has long been made in England, and has even been pa- tented in that country. They first made it by the following directions, which also makes a very nice article, but more applicable for present use than for keeping. For every 4 lbs. of the stalks cut fine, pour on 1 gal of boil- ing water, adding 4 lbs. brown sugar; let stand covered 24 hours, having also added a little cinnamon, allspice, cloves and nut- meg, bruised, as may 1x3 desired for flavoring; then strain and let work a few days, and bottle. 4. Tomato Wine.—Express the juice from clean, ripe toma- toes, and to each gallon of it, (without any water,) put brown sugar 4 lbs. Put in the sugar immediately, or before ferinen>riun>» SALOON DEPARTMENT. 69 begins—this ought to be done in making any fruit wine. Something of the character of a cheese press, hoop and cloth, is the best plan to squeeze out the juice of tomatoes or other fruits. Let the wine stand in a keg or barrel for two or three months; then draw off into bottles, carefully avoiding the sediment. It makes a most delightful wine, having all the beauties of flavor belonging to the tomato, and I have no doubt all its medicinal properties also, eithci as a tonic in disease, or as a beverage for those who are in the habit of using intoxicating beverages, and if such per- sons would have the good sense to make some wine of this kind, and use it instead of rot-gut whisky, there would not be one-hundredth part of the “snakes in the boot ” that now curse our land. It must be tasted to be appreciated. I have it now, which is three years old, worth more than much pretended wine which is sold for three or four shillings a pint. 5. Tomato Cultivation, for Early and Late.—The Work- ing Farmer says of the to,nato plant, “ that it bears 80 per cent of its fruit within 18 inches of theground, while more than half the plant is above that part. When the branches are cut they do not bleed, and they may therefore be shortened imme- diately above the laa-ge, or early-setting fruit. “ The removal of the small fruit on the ends of the branches is no loss, for the lower fruit will swell to an un- natural size by trimming, and both a greater weight and measure of fruit will be the consequence, besides obtaining a large portion five to fifteen days earlier. The trimming Bhould be done so as to have a few leaves beyond the fruit, to insure perfect ripening. The importance of early manur- ing is too evident to need comment. The burying of the removed leaves immediately around the plant is a good prac- tice, both by insuring full disturbance of the soil, and by the presenting of a fertilizer progressed precisely to the point of fruit making. The portions buried decay rapidly, and are rapidly assimilated.” If wanted very early and large, trim off all except two or three upon each plant. G. To ripen late tomatoes, pull the plants having green toma- toes on them, before the commencement ot frosts, and hang them in a well ventilated cellar. The fruit will continue to ripen until early winter, espe- cially if the cellar is cool and damp. 70 DR. CHASE’S REC1PE8. 7. The Tomoto as Food.—I)r. Bennett, a professor of some celebrity, considers the tomato an invaluable article of diet, and ascribes to it various important modical properties. First—that the tomato is one of the most powerful aperients for the liver and other organs; where calomel is indicated, it ia probably one of the most effective and least harmful remedial agents known to the profession. Second—that a chemical ex- tract will "be obtained from it that will svpercede the use of calo- mel in the cure of disease. Third—that he has successfully treated Diarrhoea with this article alone. Fourth—that when used as an article of diet, it is an almost sovereign remedy for Dyspepsia and indigestion. Fifth—that it should be constantly used for daily food, either cooked or raw, or in the form of catch- up ; it is the most healthy article now in use. Knowing personally the value of the tomato in disease, for food and wine, I freely give all the information regard- ing it which I can, that others may make as free use of it as health and economy demand, consequently, I give you the next item, which 1 have learned just as the type were being set, upon this subject in 1800. 8. Tomatoes as Food for Cattle.—Mr Davis, the editor of the “ Michigan State News/’ Ann Arbor, Mich.. Bays, “ that he has fed his cow, this season, at least teD bushels of tomatoes.” Ilis plan is to mix a little bran with them, (say 3 qts. to 8 half bushel of tomatoes, when fed ;) they cause an excellent flow of rich and delicious milk. lie did not think of it until after the frosts, when ob serving them going to waste, he thought to sec if she would eat them, which she did freely, from the commencement. I have also known pigs to eat them, but this is not common In 1862, I found my cow to eat them as freely as spoken of by Mr. Davis. S. Wine, from 'Wititk Currants.—Ripe, white currants, any quantity; squeeze out the juice, and put on water to get out as much more as there is of the juice, and mix the two, and to each gallon put lbs. of sugar; let it work without boiling oi Skimming for 2 or 3 months, then rack off- and bottle. The white currant has less acidity than the red, and does not require as much sugar. I have never tasted currant wine equal to this. 10. Ginger Wine—Alcohol of 98 per cent, 1 quart be6t gingw ■SALOON DEPARTMENT. root, bruised, 1 oz.; cayenne 5 grs.; tartaric acid 1 dr.; \et stand 1 week and filter, or draw ofl‘ by faucet above the sediment. Now add 1 gal. of water in which 1 lb. of crushed sugar has been boiled. Mix when cold. To make the color, boil | oz. of cochineal, £ oz. of cream of tartar, £ oz. of saleratus, and £ oz. of alum in 1 pt. of water until you get a bright red color, and use a proper amount of this to bring the wiue to the desired color. This wine is suitable for nearly all the purposes for which any wine is used, and a gallon of it will not cost more than a pint of many wines sold throughout the country for med- icinal purposes, represented to be imported from Europe. Let a man, suffering with a bad cold, drink about half a pint of this wine hot, on going to bed, soakiug his feet at the same time in hot water fifteen or twenty minutes, aud covering up warm and sweating it out until-morning, then washing off his whole body with cool or cold water, by means of a wet towel, and rubbing briskly with a coarse dry towel for four or five minutes, will not be able to find Ins cold or any bad effects of it in one case out of a hundred. Ladies or children would take less in proportion to age and strength. Females in a weakly condition, with little or no appetite, and spare in flesh, from food not properly digest- ing, but not yet ripened into actual indigestion, will find almost entire relief by taking half a wine-glass of this wine twenty minutes before meals, and following it up a mouth or two, according to their improved condition. For family use it is just as good without color, as with it. 11. Br.ACKREnnY Wine.—Mash the berries, and pour 1 qt. of boiling water to each gal.; let the mixture stand 24 ho.urs, stir- ring occasionally; then strain and measure into a keg, adding 2 lbs. of sugar, and good rye whisky 1 pt., or best alcohol f pt. to each gal. Cork tight, and let it stand until the following October, and you will have wine fit for use, -without further straining or boiling, that will make lips smack as they never smacked under its influence before. I feel assured that where this fruit is plenty, that this wine should take the place of all others, as it is invaluable in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is bettor for bowel dis- ease. I therefore give the recipe for making it, and having tried it myself, I speak advisedly on the subject. 71 72 DR. CHASE’S RECITES. The Dollar Times, Cincinnati, 0., first published this rocipc, not using any spirits, but I find that it will often sour without it. 12. Lawton Blackberry—Its Cultivation.- An editor at Coldwater, Mich., says of this fruit, “ that where it is best known it is one of the most popular small fruits that has ever been cultivated. It has been known to pro- duce over one thousand full-grown ripe berries in one season on a single stalk ; the average size of fruit being from three- fourths to one and a half1 inches in diameter; quality excel- lent, very juicy, seeds very small, and few in number. Five quarts of berries will make one gallon of juice, which, mix:d with two gallons of water and nine pounds of refined sugar, will make three gallons of wine, equal in quality to the best grape wine. Professor Mapes and many others, wrho have tested the qualities of the same as a wine-fruit, speak if it in terms of the highest praise. 18. Pori Wine.—Fully ripe wild grapes 2 bu.; best alcohol 3 gids.; S'lgar 25" lbs.; water to till a barrel. Mash tbr grapes without breaking the seed ; then put them into t barrel with the sugar and alcohol, and fill up with rain water, and let it lie a few weeks in the sun; or if the weather hac- become cold, iu a warm place; then in the cellar until spring ; then rack off and bottle, or place in perfectly clean kegs or barrels, and you have a better article than nine-tenths of what is represented as imported Port. 14. Cider Wine.—Prof. Tlorsford, a celebrated chemist, communicated the following recipe to the Horticultural Society of Massachusetts, and recommends it for general trial : “Let the new cider from sour apples, (ripe, sound fruit pre- ferred,) ferment from 1 to 3 weeks, as, the weather, is warm or cool. When it has attained to a lively fermentation, add toeach galftm, according to its acidity, from i a lb. to 2 lbs. of v hit© crushed sugar, and let the whole ferment until it possesses pre- cisely the taste which it is desired should he permanent. In this condition pour out a quart of the cider and add for each gallon 1 oz. of sulphite of lime, not sulphate. Stir the powder and cider until intimately mixed, and return the emulsion to the ferment- ing liquid. Agitate briskly and thoroughly for a lew moments, and then let the cider settle. Fermentation will cease at one* SALOON DEPARTMENT. 73 When after a few days, the cider has become clear, draw off carefully, to avoid the sediment, and bottle. If loosely corked, which is better, it will become a sparkling cider wine, and may oe kept indefinitely long. This has been tried with varied success; those who do aot. think it too much to follow the directions, obtain a good article, but others, supposing it to do just as well without sugar, or drawing off, or bottling, have found but little sat' isfaction -they have no reason to expect any ; and yet they might be well satisfied to obtain a good wine from the or chard, even with all the above requisitions. 15. GuArE Wine.—“ Ripe, freshly picked, and selected, tame grapes, 20 lbs.; put them into a stone jar and pour over them G qts. of boiling soft wrater; when sufficiently cool to allow it, you will squeeze them thoroughly with the hand; after which allow them to stand 3 days on the pomace with a cloth thrown over the jar, then squeeze out the juice and add 10 lbs. of nice crushed sugar, and let it remain a week longer in the jar; then take off the scum, strain and bottle, leaving a vent, until done ferment- ing, when strain again and bottle tight, and lay the bottles on the side in a cool place.” This wine is the same as used by the Rev. Orrin Whit- more, of Saline, Mich., for sacramental purposes. I have tasted it myself, and would prefer it for medicinal uses to nine-tenths of the wdnessold in this country. With age, it is nice. I am of the opinion that it might just as well re- main in the jar until it is desired to bottle, and thus save the trouble of the extra straining. For I have now wine, four years old in my cellar, made in Evansville, Ind., from the grape, which was made without the addition of any particle of matter whatever. Simply, the juice pressed out, hauled in from the vinery, put into very large casks in a cool cellar, not even racked off’ again under one year from the time of making. It tastes exactly like the grape itself; this, you will perceive, saves much trouble in racking, straining, inject gruel, rice water, rich broths, &c.; but these cases occur very seldom. » First.—Then, with ordinary cases, if there is much heat of the stomach, at bed time, wet a towel in cold water, wringing it out that it may not drip, and lay it over the stomach, having a piece of flannel over it to prevent web ting the clothes. This will soon allay the heat, but keep it on during the night, and at any subsequent time, as may be needed. Second.—In the morning, if you have been in the habit of eating about two large potatoes, two pieces of steak, two slices of bread, or from four to six hot pancakes, or two to four hot biscuits, and drinking one to three cups of tea or coffee,—hold, hold, you cry; no, let me go on. I have nany times seen all these eaten, with butter, honey, or mo- lasses, too large in amount to be mentioned, with a taste of every other thing on the table, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, &c., &c., and all by dyspeptics; but, You will stop this morning on half of one potato, two inches square of steak, and half of one slice of cold, wheat bread—or I prefer, if it will agree with you, that you use the “ Yankee Brown Bread,” only the same quantity; eat very slow, chew perfect/// fine, and swallow it without wa- ter, tea, or coffee; neither must you drink any, not a drop, until one hour before meal time again, then as little as pos- sible, so as you think not quite to choke to death. Third.—The question now to be settled is, did you suffer from the abundance of your bieak fast., or from the kind of MEDiCAL DEPARTMENT. 90 DR. chase’s RECIPES. food taken? If you did, take less next time, or chan<,« the kind, and so continue to lessen the quantity, or change the kind until you ascertain the proper quantity and kind, which enables you to overcome this exceeding suffering after meals ; nay, more, which leaves you perfectly comfort- able alter meals. Lastly—You now have the whole secret of curing the worst case of d}Tspepsia in the world You will, however, bear in mind that years have been spent in indulgence ; do not therefore expect to cure it in days, nay, it will take months, possibly a whole year of self-denial, watchfulness and care : and even then, one over loading of the stomach at a Christmas pudJJing will set you back again for months. Make up your mind to eat only pimple food, and that, in small quantities, notwithstanding an over-anxious wife, of other friend, will say, now do try a little of this nice pie, pudding, or other dish, no matter what it may be. Oh 1 now do have a cup of this nice coffee, they will often ask; but no, no, must be the invariable answer, or you are again a “ goner.” For there is hardly any disease equally liable to relapse as dyspepsia ; and indulgence in a variety of food, or over-eating any one kind, or even watery vegetables or fruit, will be almost certain to make the patient pay dear lor the whistle. Then you must eat only such food ar you know to agree with you, and in just as small quantities as will keep you in health. Drink no fluids until digestion is over, or about four hours after eating, until the stomach has become a little strong, or toned up to bear it, then one cup of the“ Dyspep- sia Coffee,” or one cup of the “ Coffee Made Healthy,” mav be used. But more difficulty is experienced from over- drinking, than over-eating. Most positively must Dyspeptics avoid cold water with their meals. If the saliva and gastrio juice are diluted with an abundance of any fluid, they never have the same properties to aid, or earry on digestion, which they had before dilution; then the only hope of the Dys- peptic is to use no fluid with his food, nor until digestion has had her perfect work. Caution.—I may be allowed to give a word of caution to Mothers, as well as to all others. One plate of food it MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 91 *nodgh for health—two, and even three, are often eaten. Mont persons have heard of the lady who did not want a Jt cart load," but when she got to eating, it all disappeared, and the retort, “ Back up your cart and I will load it again," was iust what I would have expected to hear if the load had been given to a Dyspeptic, which it no doubt was; then learn the proper amou'nt of food necessary for health, and when that is eaten, by yourself or child, stop. If pudding is on the table and you choose to have a little of it, it is ail right -have some pudding; if pie, have a piece of pie ; or cake, have a piece of cake; but do not have all, aud that after you have eaten twice as much meat victuals as health requires. If apples, melons, raisins or nuts aie on the table, and you wish some of them, eat them before meal, aud never after it; if surprise is manifested around you, say you eat to live, not live to eat. The reason for this is, that persons will eat all they need, and often more, of common food, then eat uuts, raisins, melons, &c., until the stomach is not only filled beyond comfort, but actually distended to its utmost capacity of endurance; being led on by the taste, when if the reverse course was taken, the stomach becomes satisfied when a proper amount of the more common food has been eaten, attcr the others. Are you a Grocer, and constantly nibbling at raisins, candy, cheese, apples, aud every other edible ? Stop, until just be- fore meal, then eat what you iiice, go to your meal, and re- turn, not touching again until meal-time, and you are safe; continue the nibbling, and you do it at the sacrifice of future health. Have you children or other young persons under your care'? See that they eat only a reasonable quantity at meals, and not anything between them; do this, and I am willing to be called a fool by the younger ones, which I am sure to bo, but do it not, and the fool will suffer for his folly. You may consider me a hard Doctor—be it so then ; the drunkard calls him hard names who says give up your “ cups,” but as sure as he would die a drunkard, so sure will you die a Dyspeptic unless you give up your over-eating wi(i over-drinking of water, tea, coffee, wine, beer, ale, &q. w you kuiow the consequences, suit yourselves; but I 92 DK. CHASE S RKCIPK8. have paid tuo dearly for my experience, not to lift a warning voice, or spare the guilty. In recent cases, and in cases brought on by over-indul gcnce, at some extra rich meal, you will find the “ Dyspep- tic Tea," made from “Thompson’s Composition," will be all sufficient, as spoken of under that head, which see. 2. The wild black cherries, put into Jamaica rum, ii highly recommended, made very strong with the cherries, and without sugar ; but i should say put them into some ol the domestic wines, or what would be still better, make a wine directly from them, according to directions under tha head of “ Fruit "Wines." 8. Old “ Father Finkney,” a gentleman over 90 years of age, assures me that he has cured many bad cases of Dy- spepsia, where they would give up their over indulgences, by taking: Blue flag root, -washed clean, and free from specks and rotten streaks, then pounding it and putting into a l.ttle warm water, and straining out the milky juice, and adding sufficient pepper- sauce to make it a little hot. Dose—one table-spoon 8 times daily. It benefits by its action on the liver, and it would be good in Liver Complaints, the pepper also stimulating the stomach. See “ Soot-Coffee " No. 12, amongst the Ague medicines. LARYNGITIS,'—Inflammation of the Throat.— This complaint, in a chronic form, has become very pre- valent, and is a disease which is aggravated by every change of weather, more especially in the fall and winter months. It is considered, and that justly, a very hard disease to cure, but with caution, time, aud a rational course of treatment, it can be cured. The difficulty with most persons is, they think that it is an uncommon disease, and consequently they must obtain some uncommon preparation to cure it, instead of which, some of the more simble remedies, as follows, will cure nearly every case, if persevered in a sufficient length of time. First, then, take the: Alterative for Diseases of the Skin.—Compound tinc- ture of peruviau bark 6 ozs.; fluid extract of sarsaparilla 1 lb.; extract ot couium 4 oz.; iodide of potash, (often called hydrio- dale) I oz.; iodine 4 dr.; dissolve the ext ract of coniurn and tht MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 93 powders in a little of the fluid, and mix all. Dose—Two tea- spoons 3 times daily, before meals, until all is taken. Shake the bottle well before using. In the next place, take the : 2. Gargle for Sore Txiroat.—Very strong feage tea | pt., strained honey, common salt, and strong vinegar, of each 2 table- spoons; cayenne, the pulverized, one rounding tea-spoon; steeping the cayenne with the sage, strain, mix, and bottle for use, gargling from 4 to a dozen times daily according to the severity of tin. case. This is one of the very best gargles in use. By persever- ing some three months, I cured a case of two years standing where the mouths of the Eustachian tubes constantly dis- charged matter at their openings through the tonsils into the patients mouth, he having previously been quite deaf, the whole throat being also diseased. I used the preparation for “ Deafness ” also as mentioned uuder that head. llemcmbering always to breath through nature’s channel for the breath, the nose. Besides the foregoing, you will wash the whole surface twice a wreek with plenty of the “ Toilet Soap,” in water, wiping dry, then with a coarse dry towel rub the whole sur- face for ten minutes at least, and accomplish the coarse towel part of it every night and morning until the skin will remain through the day with its flushed surface, and genial heat j this draws the blood from the throat and other internal or gans, or in other wrords, equalizes the circulation ; know, and act, upon this fact, and no inflammation can long exist, no matter where it is located. Blood accumulates in the part inflamed, but let it flow evenly through the whole system, -and of course there can be no inflammation. You will also apply to the throat and breast the follow- ing : 3. Sore Throat Liniment.—Gum camphor 2 ozs.; castile soap, shaved fine, 1 dr.; oil of turpentine 1 table-spoon; oil of origanum I oz.; opium h oz.; alcohol 1 pt. In a week or ten days it will be fit for use, then bathe the parts freely 2 or 3 lime8 daily. This liniment tvould be found useful in almost any throat or other disease where an outward application mi«ht be needed. If the foregoing treatment should fail, there alternative 94 PR. CHASE 8 RECIPE8 but to bring in emetics with the other treatment, and con tinue them for a long time. 1 mention the emetic plan last, from the fact that so many people utterly object to the emetic treatment. But when everything else fails, that steps in and saves the patient, which goes to show how unjust the prejudice. By tbp phrase, a long time, I mean several weeks, twice daily at first, then once a day, and finally thrice to twice a week, &o A part of this course you will see, by the following, is cor roborated by the celebrated Lung and Throat Doctor, S. S. Fitch, of New York, who says “ it is a disease, and that purifying medicines are necessary to cleanse the blood- taking long, full breaths,” &c. This is certainly good sense. His treatment of throat diseases is summed up in the fol- lowing' • Note.—“ Wear but little clothing around the neck—chew of- ten a httle nut-gall and swallow the juice—wear a wet cloth about the throat at night, having a dry towel over it—bathe free- ly all over as in consumption, and especially bathe the throat with cold water every morning, also wash out the inside of the throat with cold water—avoid crowded rooms—gargle with a Very weak solution of nitrate of silver—chewing gold thread and swallowing the juice and saliva from it—borax and honey occa- sionally, and gum arabic water, if much irritation—use the voice as little as possible until well, also often using a liniment externally.” I had hoped for very much benefit from using croton oil externally, but time has shown that the advantage derived from it is not sufficient to remunerate for the excessive irri- tation caused by its continued application. 4. Smoking dried mullein leaves in a pipe not having been used for tobacco, is said to have cured many cases of Laryngitis. And I find in my last Eclectic Medical Jour- nal so str#ng a corroboration, taken from the Medical and Surgical Reporter, of this fact, that I cannot refrain from giving tho quotation. It says : “ in that form of disease in which there is dryness of the trachea, with a constant desire to clear the throat, attended with little expectoration, and considerable pain in the part affected, the mullein smoked through a pipe, acts like a charm, and affords instant relief. It seems to act as an anodyne in allaying irritation, while it promotes expectoration, and removes that gelatinous mucus MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 95 which gathers in the larynx, and, at the same time, by some unknown power, completely changes the nature of the dis- ease, and, if persevered in, will produce a radical cure.” We read in a certain place of a gentleman who was walk iug around and through a great city, and he came across an inscription “ To the unknown God ”—and directly we find him explaining that unknown Being to the astonished in- habitants. And I always feel, like this old-fashioned gen- tleman, to cry out, upon every convenient occasion, my be- lief, that it was that God’s great wisdom, seeing what was required, and His exceeding goodness, providing according to our necessities, this wonderful, and to some, that unknown power in the thousands of plants around us. What matters \t to us hotv it is done ? If the cure is performed, it is suffi cient. Since the publication of the foregoing, in the ninth edi tion, I have been smoking the dried mullpin, and recom- mending it to others. It has given general satisfaction for coughs and as a substitute for tobacco in smoking, exhilera- ting the nei ves, and allaying the hacking coughs from recent colds, by bieathing the smoke into the lungs. In one in- stance, after retiring, I could not rest from an irritation in the upper portion of the lungs and throat, frequently hack- ing without relief only for a moment; I arose, filled my pipe with mullein, returning to bed I smoked the pipeful, draw- ing it into the lungs, and did not cough again during the night. An old gentleman, an inveterate smoker, from my sugges- tion, began to mix the mullein with his tobacco, one-fourth at first, for awhile ; then half, and finally three-fourths; at this point he rested. It satisfied in place of the full amount of tobacco, and cured a cough which had been left upon him after inflammation of the lungs. The flavor can hardly be distinguished from the flavor of tobacco smoke, in rooms. It can be gathered any time during the season, the centre stem removed, carefully 'dried, and rubbed fine, when it i3 ready for use. It gives a pipe the phthysic, as fast as it cures one on the patient; but the clay pipe, which is to be osed, can be readily cleansed by burning out. Here is the “ Substitute for Tobacco ” for which the French have offered 50,000 francs. 96 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. It can be made into cigars by using a tobacco-leaf wrapper Catarrh is often more or less connected with that disease. In such cases, in connection with the above treatment, take several times daily of the following : CATAititn Snuff.—Scotch snuQ 1 oz.; chloride of lime, dried and pulverized 1 rounding tea-spoon; mix, and bottle, corking tightly. The snuff has a tendency to aid the secretion from the parts ; and the chloride corrects unpleasant fetor. ‘ CANCERS.—To Cure—Method of Dr. Landoi.fi. (Surgeon-General of the Neapolitan Army) and sev- eral Successful American Methods.—The principle upon which the treatment is based, consists in transforming a tumor of a malignant character, by conferring upon it a character of benignity, which admits of cure. This trans- formation is effected by cauterization with an agent looked upon as a specific, viz : chloride of bromine, combined, oi not, witlu other substances, which have already been tried, but have hitherto been employed separately. The inter- nal treatment is merely auxiliary. (Cancers may be known from other tumors by their shooting, or lancinating pains; and if an open sore, from their great fetor.—Author.) The formulas for the caustics are, with the exception of a few cases, the following : Equal parts of the chlorides of zinc, gold, and antimony, mixed with a sufficient quantity of flour to form a viscid paste. At Vienna, he used a mixture of the same substances in differ- ent proportions, chloride of bromine 3 parts; chloride of zinc3 TKrrts; chloride of gold and antimony, each 1 part; made intf applied to the head is also good. DELIRIUM TREMENS.—To Obtain Sleep.—Give an emetic of ipecacuanha, then give 15 to 18 grs. of the same, every 2 hours, using the shower bath, and giving all the beef-tea the patient desires. The jail physician of Chicago reports thirty-six favorable cases treated as above. In Boston, at the “ Ilouse of Cor- rection,” the danger arising from the sudden loss of their accustomed stimulus, according to Puritanic economy, i? overcome by administering, freely, a strong decoction of wormwood. 2. Stimulating Anodyne.—Sulphate ot quinine 12 grs. fulphat*. of morphine 1 gr.; mix, and divide into 6 powders Dose—One powder every hour. Prof. King, of Cincinnati, 0., says that from two to foui powders of the above anodyne, will nearly every time pro> ducc sleep in this whisky deiirum. TYPHUS FEVER.—To Prevent Infection.—Take nitre, (saU petre,) pulverized, £ oz.; oil of vitriol £ oz.; put the nitre into a tea-cup and set it on a red hot snovel, adding the vitriol one-sixth at a time, stirring it with a pipe stem; avoiding the fumes as they rise from the cup ; no danger, however, in breath- ing the air of the room. The above amount is sufficient for a room twelve by six- teen feet, and less or more according to the size of other rooms. Dr J. C. Smith, of London, is said to have re- 108 DB. CHASE'S RECIPES. ceived from Parliament £5000 for making this recipe publia 2. To purify the air from noxious effluvia in sick rooms, not of a contagious character, simply slice three or four onions, place them on a plate upon the floor, changing them three or four times in the twenty-four hours. 3. Disinfectant, for Rooms, Meat, and Fish.—Common salt | a tea-cup; sulphuric acid 2 or 3 oz.; put about 4 oz. of of the acid upon the salt at a time, every 15 minutes, stirring, until all put on : Which will purify a large room ; and for meat or fish, hang them up in a box having a cover to it, and thus confine the gas, and tainted articles of food will soon be purified, by the same operation. And notwithstanding so much was paid for the “ Smith Disinfectant,” the above will be found equally good. 4. Coffee, dried and pulverized, then a little of it sprinkled upon a hot shovel, will, in a very few minutes, clear a room of all impure effluvia, and especially of an ani- mal character. 5. Chloride of Lime—Half a saucer of it, moistened with an equal mixture of good vinegar and water, a few drops at a time only, will purify a sick-room in a few min- utes. SWEATING PREPARATIONS.—Sweating Drops.—Ipe- cacuanha, saffron, Virginia snake root, and camphor gum, each 2 ozs.; opium 4 oz.; alcohol 2 qts. Let stand 2 weeks, shaking occasionally. Dose—A tea-spoon in a cup of-hot pennyroyal, spearmint, or catnip tea, every half hour, until perspiration is induced; then once an hour, for a few hours. It is excellent in colds, fevers, pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, &c. It is good to soak the feet in hot water at the same time. 2. Sweating with Burning Alcohol.—Pour alcohol info a saucer, to about half fill it; place this under a chair; strip the person, to be sweated, of all clothing, and place him in the chair, putting a comforter over him, also ; now light a match and throw into the saucer of alcohol, which sets it on fire, and by the time the alcohol is burned out lie will be in a profuse perspiration, if not, put in half as much more of alcohol and fire it again, which will accomplish the object; then rise up and draw the com- forter around you, and get into bed, following up with hot teas and sweating drops, as m the first above. IdkDICAL DEPARTMENT. 109 This last plan of sweating is also good in repeat colds, pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and all oihei mflamraa- tory diseases, either in recent attacks, or of long standing complaints. See the closing remarks after the Geutmentof 4 Pleurisy,” also “ Ginger Wine.” IMPERIAL PROP,—For Gravel and Kidney Com- plaints.—Take saltpetre 1 oz.; putting it into an iron mortar, dropping in a live coal with it, which sets it on fire; stir it around until it all melts down into the solid form, blow out the coals, and pulverize it; then take an equal amount of bi-carbon- ate of potassia, or sal er at us, and dissolve both in soft water 2 ozs. Dose—from 20 to 30 drops, morning and evening, in a swallow of tea made from flax seed, or a solution of gum arabic. In connection with the drops, let the patient take from a table-spoon to two or three table-spoons of onion juice—• that is, all the stomach will bear—eating all the raw onions he can, and continue it until free of the complaint. I have seen gravel the size of a common quill, crooked, and one and one-fourth inches in length, which a lady passed from the bladder, and smaller bits almost innumerable, by the simple use of onion juice alone. The onion juice, (red onions are said to be the best,) has, and maybe injected through a catheter into the bladder ; have no fears to do this, for I know a physician of forty years' practice who has done it five times with success—a physician, however, would have to be called to introduce the catheter. 2. In what is termed “ Fits of the gravel,” that is, where small gravel has become packed in the ureter, (tube which leads from the kidney to the bladder,) causing excruciating pain in that region, a pill of opium must be given, varying in size from one to three grains, according to the pain, strength, and age of the patient. 3. A strong decoction made by using a large handful of smart weed, adding a gill of gin, and a gill each of horse mint and onion juices, and taking all in 12 hours, has been known to dis- charge gravel in large quantities.—Philadelphia Eclectic Journal. The surest sign of gravel is the dark appearance of the urine, as if mixed with coffee grounds, and a dull pain in tlie region of the kidney—if only inflamation, the darkness will not appear. See the closing remarks upon Gout. CAMPHOR ICE.—Fob Chaffed Hands ob Lips.—Sperm- 110 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. aceti tallow \\ oas.; oil of sweet almonds 4 tea-spoons; gum camphor £ oz.; made fine. Set on the stove until dissolved, constantly stirring. Do not use only just sufficient heat to melt them. W hilst warm, pour into moulds if desired to sell, then paper and put up in tin foil. If for your own use, put up in a tight box. Apply to the chaps or cracks two or three times daily, especially at bed time. BURNS.—Salve for Burns, Frost-Bites, Cracked Nip- ples, &c.—Equal parts of turpentine, sweet oil, and beeswax; melt the oil and wax together, and when a little cool, add the turpentine, and stir until cold, which keeps them evenly mixed. Apply by spreading upon thin cloth—linen is the best. I used this salve upon one of my own children, only a year and a half old, which had pulled a cup of hot coffee upon itself, beginning on the eye lid and extending down the face, neck and breast, also over the shoulder, and in two places across the arm, the skin coming off with the clothes; in fifteen minutes from the application of the salve, the child was asleep, and it never cried again from the burn, and not a particle of scar left. It is good for chaps on hands or lips, or for any other sore. If put on burns before blistering has taken place, they will not blister. And if applied to sore or cracked nipples every time after the child nurses, it soon cures them also. For nipples, simply rubbing it on is sufficient. I find it valuable also for pimples, and common healing purposes} and I almost regret to add any other preparations for the same purposes, for fear that some will neglect this; but as there may be cases where some of the following can be made when the above cannot, I give a few others known to be valuable. The first one is from Dr. Downer, of Dixboro, within six miles of our city; he used it in a case where a boy fell backwards into a tub of hot water, scalding the whole buttock, thighs, and privates, making a bad scald in a bad place, but he succeeded in bringing him successfully through, and from its containing opium, it might be prefer- able to the first in deep and very extensive burns, but in that case the opium might be added to the first. It is as follows : 2. Dr. Downer’s Salve for Burns.—Beeswax 4 ozs.; opium £ oz.; sugar of lead 1 oz.; melt the beeswax, and rub the lead MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 111 orp to the wax, then the opium; and finally add about a gill of 6We*jt oil, or sufficient to make a salve of proper consistence. Spread lightly on cloth—no pain, he says, will be felt under its use. He highly recommends it for the pain and inflamation of Piles, also. 8. Poultice for Burns and Frozen Flesh.—A. Bronson, of Meadville, Pa., says, from 15 years’ experience, that Indian meal poultices covered with young hyson tea, moistened with hut water, and laid over burns or frozen parts, as hot as can be borne, will relieve the pain in 5 minutes, and that blisters, it tne.y have not, will not arise, and that one poultice is usually Sufficient. 4. Salve for Burns.—Beeswax, Burgundy pitch, white pine pitch, and rosin, of each i lb.; mutton tallow i lb.; goose oil 1 gill; tar £ gill, mixed and melted together, and used as other salves. This was used successfully on a very bad case, burned all bver the face, neck, breast, bowels, &c., soothing and quiet- ing pain, giving rest and sleep directly. 5. Garden and Kitchen Salve for Burns and Frost Bites.—Liveforever and sweet clover leaves, camomile and sweet elder, the inner bark, a handful of each ; simmer them in •fresh butter and mutton tallow, of each p lb.; when crisped, strain out and add 2 or 3 ozs. of beeswax to form a salve. Spread very thin on thin cloth. Mrs. Miller, of Macon, Mich., cured a bad case with this, burned by the clothes taking fire, nearly destroying the whole surface. She speaks of it in equal praise for cuts and frost-bites. See the Green Ointment also for Chilblains. 6. The white of an egg beat up, then beat for a long time with a table-spoon of lard, until a little water separates from them, I have found good for burns. 7. The white oxide of bismuth, rubbed up in r little lard, is also a good application in burns. 8. Glycerine and tannin, equal weights, rubbed together into an ointment, is very highly recommended for sore or cracked nipples. See Dr. Raymond's statement in connec- tion with the treatment of Piles. ITCHING FEET FROM FROST BITFS,--To Cure.— Take hydrochloric acid 1 oz.; rain water 7 ozs.; wash the feet with it 2 or 3 times daily, or wet the socks with the preparation, until relieved. 112 dr. chase’s recipes. A gentleman whose feet had been frozen, in the Alps, eight, years belore, and another man s had been irozen two years before, on the Sierra-Nevada mountains, were effectu- ally .aired by its use. CHILBLAINS,—To Cure.—Published by Order of the Government of Wirtemburg.—Mutton tallow and lard, of each % lb.; melt in an iron vessel and add hydrated oxycle of iron 2 oz.; stirring continually with an iron spoon, undl the mass is of an uniform black color; then let it cool and add Vcnice-turpcntme 2 oz.: and Armenian bole 1 oz.; oil ot bar- gamot 1 dr.; rub up the bole with a little olive oil before putting it in. Apply severa times daily by putting it upon lint or linen —heals the worst cases in a few days Chilblain? arise from a severe cold to the part, causing inflammation, often ulcerating, making deep, and very troublesome, long continued sores. FELONS,—If Recent, to Cure in Six Hours.—Venice turpentine I oz., and put into it halt a tea spoon of water and stir with a rough stick until the mass looks like candied hon- ey, then spread a good coat on a cloth and wrap around the finger. If the case is only recent, it will remove the pain in. G hours 2 A poke root poultice on a felon cures by absorption, unless matter is already formed; if it is, it soon brings it to a head, and thus saves much pain and suffering, ii Blue flag and hellebore roots, equal parts, boiled in milk and water, then soak the felon in it for twenty minutes, as hot as can be borne, and bind the roots on the parts for one hour, lias cured many felons, when commenced in time. 4 A poultice of clay, from an old log house, made and kept wet with spirits ol camphor, is also good. 5. Felon Ointment —Take sweet oil % pb, and stew a 3 cent plug of tobacco in it until the tobacco is crisped; then squeeze if out and add red lead 1 oz., and boil until black; when a little cool, add pulverized camphor gum 1 oz. Mrs Jordan, of Clyde, ©., paid ten dollars for this recipe, ana has cured many bad felons, as well as fellows, with it. Bad fellows because they did not pay her. Certainly, this is a rational jsc of tobacco. 6. Felon Salve.—A salve made by burning one table- spoon of copperas, then pulverizing it and mixing with the yolk of an egg, is said to relieve the pain, and cure ihe felou MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 113 in twenty-four hours; then heal with cream two parts, and soft soap one part. Apply the healing salve daily after soaking the part in warm water. DEAFNESS.—If Recent, to Cure—If Not, to Relieve.— Hen’s oil 1 gill; and a single handful of the sweet clover raisec. in gardens; stew it in the oil until the juice is all out, strain it and bottle for use. Where deafness is recent, it will be cured by putting three or four drops daily into the ear, but if of long stand- ing, much relief will be obtained if continued a sufficient length of time. 2. Much has been said in France about sulphuric ether, first tried by Madam Cleret, of Paris; and, although she lost her reason by the elation of feeling ..brought on, no doubt, by the honor given her for the discovery, yet the continued trial of the article does not give the satisfaction which had been hoped for, from its first success. WARTS AND CORNS.—To Cure in Ten Minutes.—Take a small piece of potash and let it stand in the open air until it slacks, then thicken it to a paste -with pulverized gum arahic, which prevents it from spreading where it is not wanted. Pare off the seeds of the wart or the dead skin of the corn, and apply the paste, and let it remain on ten minutes; wash off', and soak the place in sharp vinegar or sweet oil, either of which will neutralize the alkali. Now do not jam nor squeeze out the wart or corn, like “ street-corner ped- icles,” but leave them alone, and nature will remove them without danger of taking- cold, as would be if a sore is made by pinching them out. Corns are caused by pressure; in most cases removing the pressure cures the corn. Nine of every ten corns can be cured by using twice, daily,’upon it, any good liniment, and wearing loose shoes or boots. See Good Samaritan. 2. Cure for Corns.—If a cripple will take a lemon, cut off a piece, then nick it so as to let in the toe with the corn, the pulp next the corn—tie this on at night, so that it can- not move—he will find next morning that, with a blunt knife, the corn will come away to a great extent. Two or thiee applications of this will make a “ poor cripple” happy for life.—London Field. 114 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 3. Acetio Acid, hard or soft corns, night and morning, for one week, will cure them. So will the Samar itan liniment, which see. 4. Dr. Hariman’s Innocent and Sure Cure for Corns, Warts and Chilblains.—Nitric and muriatic acids, blue vitriol, and salts of tartar, of each 1 oz.; add the blue vitriol, pulver- ized, to either of the acids, and in the same way add the salts of tartar; when done foaming, add the other acid, and in a few days it will be fit for use. Directions.—For frosted feet, rub them with a swab or brush, wet with this solution very lightly, every part that is red and dry; in a day or two, if not cured, apply again as before. For corns, apply in like manner, scraping off dead skin before using. For warts, wet once a week until they disappear, which will be soon, for it is a certain cure in all the above cases, and very cheap. So says the Doctor, of Anderson, Ind. # 5. A gentleman in Ohio offers to pay ten dollars a-piece for all corns not cured in three days by binding a bit of cotton batting upon it, and wetting it three times a day with spirits of turpentine. 6. I am assured by a gentleman of Syracuse, N. Y., that a plaster of the “ Green Mountain Salve," put upon a corn, will completely cure it by the time it naturally comes off. LINIMENTS.—Good Samaritan—Improved.—Take 98 per cent, alcohol 2 qts., and add to it the following articles: Oils of sassafras, hemlock, spirits of turpentine, tinctures of cayenne, catechu, guaicaci, (guac,) and laudanum, of each 1 oz.; tincture of myrrh 4 ozs.; oil of origanum 2 ozs.; oil of wintergreen i oz.; gum camphor 2 ozs.; and chloroform H ozs. I have used the above liniment over five years, and can- not speak too highly of its value; I have cured myself of two severe attacks of rheumatism with it, the first in the knee and the last in the shoulder, three years after; my wife has cured two corns on the toes with it, by wetting them twice daily for a few days; and it is hard to think of anything which it has not cured, such as sprains, bruises, cuts, jams, rheumatism, weak back, reducing swellings, curing leg-ache in children from over-playing, for horse- flesh, &c., &c. But you will allow me one remark about liniments—they ought in all cases to be put on and rubbed 115 in from twenty to thirty minutes, and laying the hand on the part until it burns from its effects, instead of one or two minutes, as is the usual custom; and if made by the quart, you can use them freely, as the cost is not more than about one-eighth as much as to purchase the two shilling bottles. Wetting flannel with the liniment, and binding on, is a good manner of application. Dr. Hale, of this city, has adopted this liniment for general use; but for headache and neural- gia, he takes eight ounces of it and adds an ounce of chlo- roform, and half an ounce of oil of wintergreen, rubbing upon the head, holding to the nostrils, &c. The full pre- emption will usually cost about two dollars. 2. Liniment for Old Sores - Alcohol 1 qt.; aqua ammonia 4 ozs.; oil of origanum 2 ozs.; camphor gum 2 ozs.; opium 2 ozs.; gum myrrh 2 ozs.; common salt 2 table-spoons. Mix, and shako occasionally for a week. This was presented for insertion by H. Loomis, of Ed- wardsburg, Mich., hoping it might do many others as much good as it had done himself and neighbors. He showed me ccars of an old sore on his leg which he had cured with it, after years of suffering; and also called a young man whose father he had cured of a similar sore, years before, which had never broken out again; he used it twice daily. His leg became sore after a protracted fever. I have great confidence in it. He uses it also for cuts, bruises, horse- flesh, inflammatory rheumatism, &c., &c. 3. Dr. Raymond’s Liniment.—Alcohol 1 qt.; oils of origa- num 2 ozs., and wormwood 1 oz.; with camphor gum 2 oz3.; spirits of turpentine 2 ozs.; and tincture of cantharides 1 oz. Mixed, and used as other liniments. Dr. H. W. Raymond, of Conneaut, 0., thinks that the last is the best liniment in the world. 4. German Rheumatic Fluid.—Oils of hemlock and cedar, of each £ oz.; oils of origanum and sassafras, each 1 oz.; aqua ammonia 1 oz.; capsicum, pulverized, 1 oz.; spirits of turpen- tine and gum camphor, each | oz.; put all into a quart bottle and till with 95 per cent, alcohol. The Germans speak equally in praise of this fluid, as a liniment, as Dr. Raymond does of his, besides they say it is very valuable for cholic in man or horse. Dose.—For choiic, for man, half a tea-spoon ; for ahorse, one-half to one ounce ia a little warm water, every fifteen minutes, until relieved. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 116 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. A gentleman purchased a horse for seventy-fire dollars, which had been strained in one of the fetlocks, worth before the strain one hundred and twenty-five dollars.. He cured him with this liniment, and sold him for the original value. He cured his wife also of neuralgia, with the same, since I have published this recipe. Judge ye of its value. 5. Cook’s Electro-Magnetic Liniment.—Best alcohol 1 gal. Ail of amber 8 ozs.; gum camphor 8 ozs.; castile soap, shaved fine, 2 ozs.; beef s gall 4 ozs.; ammonia 3 F.’s sirong, 12 ozs. mix, and shake occasionally for 12 hours, and it is fit for use. This will be found a strong and valuable liniment, and also cheap. It may be used in swellings, strains, &c., and rubbed upon the throat, breast, and lungs, in asthma, sore throat, &c. 6. Liniment for Spinal Affections.—Take a pt. bottle and put into it oil of origanum, wormwood, spirits of turpentine, and gum'camphor, of each 1 oz., and fill it with best alcohol. Mr. Barr, a gentleman with whom I have been acquainted for some four years, has been troubled with spinal weakness and pains, and he finds great relief from the use of this lini- ment ) and his daughter took it internally for a cough also, with success. 7. Great London Liniment.—Take chloroform, olive oil, and aqua ammonia, of each, 1 oz.; acetate of morphia, 10 grs. Mix, and use as other liniments. Very valuable. 8. Gum Liniment.—Take gum myrrh, gum camphor, and gum opium, of each, ± oz.; cayenne pepper i oz.; alcohol 1 pt.; mix. This liniment is ready for use in three or four days, and is very highly recommended by E. Burrows, of Matamora Lapeer Co., Mich. He prefers rum, if a good article caa be got, in place of the alcohol. This would be excellent io cholic, or diarrhea also. 9. Patent Liniment.—In order that those who purchase the patent liniments may know what they are buying. I give a formula, from which over twelve-thousand dollars worth of liniment was sold in two years' time, but one of the partners going out of the firm, and into the livery-business, gave me the plan as follows : Take whisky 15 gals.; and put into it 2 lbs. of capsicum, pul- verized, let stand 10 days and percolate, or draw oil the whisky, free of the sediment; in the mean time take 1 gal. of spirits of lur- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 117 pectine and put into it oils of origanum, horse-mint, sassafras, tod hemlock, 6 ozs. each; add gum camphor 2 lbs. Mix and it i'eady to sell, for the purpose of gulling those who suppose •wrybody to be honest because they are themselves so. j But that no loss may arise from the space this liniment eeipe occupies here, I will tell you how to make a good lini- ment, by using a part of that with the following: Take of the patent liniment 8 ozs.; sweet oil and oils of criga- Quia, sassafras and aqua ammonia, of each 2 ozs., and mix, shak- ing well as used, and this mixture will make a splendid horse fins roent, with which you can easily blister, by bandaging the part, if desired, and wetting the bandage with it. I'he first would cost less than $1.00 per gallon, whilst the retail price, two shillings per bottle, makes it over $2.00 per quart. See where your money goes. 10. Lobelia and Cayenne Liniment.—Take a quart bottle anu put into it $ oz. of cayenne, pulverized, then put in 2 ozs. of lo- hel.a herb, and fill up the bottle with whisky; in two wreeks it is ready for use, and applicable for cuts, bruises, strains, sprains, &c.; and it will heal cork cuts in the feet of oxen or horses, without stopping them from labor, and with but very little loieness, by applying 2 or 3 times daily. 1 know a gentleman who had a gash cut in his scalp, four inches in length, and to the scull in depth, by a falling limb, which by the use of this liniment only, as strange as it may appear, it healed without pain or soreness. But some may object to it as a whisky liniment. I admit it to be such, but by knowing how to make it yourselves, you get it for a whisky price, and if it be not found as good as one-half of the two-shilling-a-bottle liniments, then you may tell me that [ do not know when I have a good thing. 11. Liniment—Said to be St. John’s.—For 70 doz. bottles, take spirits of turpentine and seneca oils, of each, 4 gals.; lin- seed or sweet oil, 2 gals.; oils of origanum, hemlock, juniper, e>mher, and laudanum, of each, 3 qts.; spirits of ammonia 1 qt.; tincture of arnica 2 gals.; camphor gum 1 lb. Put all into a keg and shake well; when you wish to fill into small bottles, shake it well and draw into a convenient bottle or pitcher to. pour from; and shake it well every time you fill 5 bottles; and shake the bottle whenever you use the liniment; thus it might be called Shaking Liniment. No matter what you call it, how- ever, it is a good one. I obtained the recipe of a young gentleman \vho worked in Mr. St. John’s store over a year, yet much care was taken 118 DE. CHASE'S RECIPES. to prevent the knowledge of its exact composition from being found out by assistants ; it is a well known fact, however, that an observing mind can learn much, although not ex pressed in words. Perhaps he will blame me for publishing information gained in that way, but I obtain knowledge for the benefit of the people; and as I have called on the Doc- tor two different times, to sell my work, but could not suc- ceed, I do not feel under any special obligations to him, and if I did, I go in for the greatest good to the greatest number Were it not so, I should not publish much that is contained in this work, for there are many persons who have and are making fortunes out of single recipes, now published forth® benefit of the world. Because I could not sell my Recipes to I. L. St. John, a Druggist of Tiffin, 0., however, is not saying that I do not sell them to Druggists generally, as I do. In Aurora, 111., I sold to six, and in Pomeroy, 0., to seven, every one in either place, which is not common. They are, however, not only anxious to obtain information generally, but also willing to impart it to others; and how Mr. St. John should have obtained as good recipes as the ones here attributed to him, without sometime having bought, is a little surprising; for, as a general rule, those who put out “ Patent Medicines,* are uot themselves the originators of the recipes ; even Dr. Jayne is reported, 1 know not how truly, to have picked up the recipe, in an out-house, for his celebrated Alterative. I say, then, am I not justified in publishing these recipes? Nay, more ! am I not honorable in thus benefiting the peo- ple '( I rent the matter with them ; always willing to abide their decision. Persons only wishing to put up for their own use, will take one-seventieth of the various amounts, which will be about as follows : Turpentine and sencca oils, of each 7£ ozs.; sweet ofl and tincture of arnica, of each 8$ ozs.; oils of origanum, hemlock* juniper, amber, and laudanum, of each 1| ozs.; spirits of ammo- nia oz.; and gum camphor ± oz.; w hich makes a little less than 1 qt., there bring 64 qts., besides the gum camphor, in the whole amount. This calculation will be sufficiently near for all practical purposes. . I have sold the condition powder and liniment, out of the MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 119 drug store, made by the Doctor, which has always given good satisfaction. And I think any one who tries both will be as well pleased with those made from these recipes as with that which is sent out from Tiffin, and make it for one- fourth the cost of the other. COD LIVER OIL—Made Palatable and more Digesti- ble.—To each bottle, add fine table salt 1 oz. Mix well. By this very simple plan cod liver oil has its peculiar un- pleasantness overcome, as well as made far more easy for the stomach to dispose of. But even with this improvement, I do not consider a table-spoon of it equal, for consumption, to a glass of rich, sweet cream, with a tea-spoon of best brandy in it, to be drank at each meal. CONSUMPTIVES.—Syrup Very Successful.—Take tam- arack bark, without rossing, (the moss may be brushed off,) 1 peck; spikenard root £ lb.; dandelion root £ lb.; hops 2 ozs. Boil these sufficiently to get the strength, in 2 or 8 gals, of water, strain and boil down to 1 gal.; when blood warm add 3 lbs. of honey and 3 pts. of best brandy; bottle, and keep in a cool place. Dose—A wine-glass or a little less, as the stomach will bear, 3 or 4 times daily, before meals and at bed time. Consumption may justly be called the King of diseases, but he has, many times, been obliged to haul down his col- ors, and give place to health, and consequent happiness, when he came in contact with the above syrup. It does not, how- ever, contain any of the articles usually put into syrups for this disease—this of itself ought to obtain for it a considera- tion. I have been told, and that by a professional man, that there was not an article in it of any value for consumption. I hace acknowledged it does not contain any articles com- yioTrly used for that disease; but allow me to ask if they cure the disease in one case out of a hundred ? The answer is, No. I am now using this on a case within a few miles of the city, who had called one of our Professors. He promised benefit, and did benefit about one week; subsequently, two other physicians were also called without any lasting benefit. He had not cut his wood for nearly a year, nor done other labor to any extent; he has now taken our syrup nearly three months; he was weak, spare in flesh, and coughed very much, with cold feet and surface; he is now stout, fleshy, And scarcely any cough; surface and feet warm. What 120 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. more could be asked ? Yet he is very careless, for I called, on him on a cold, snowy day lately, and he was in the woods, for wood. Do I need better proof of its value 1 No one would expect sickness of the stomach to arise from its use, from the articles of which it is composed, but the first dose usually makes the person rather sick at the stomach, and sometimes vomits, but don’t fear to continue its use. i had rather trust to tamarack-bark tea than three-fourths of the consumptive syrups of the day. Let every one who is adher- ed with cough, be careful to avoid exposure as much as pos- sible. Ilemember, with this syrup, or disease, as long as there is life, there is hope. But it would be deceptive and wicked to hold out to a"l consumptives' the idea that they could be cured—-facts speak like this, although I have never seen it in print, nor heard the remark, but my own observation says that nine of every ten hereditary consumptives, will, in the end, die of the disease, while an equal number of those whose die- ease is brought on by colds being neglected, or from neglect of acute inflammations, &c., may be cured. Then those who know their parents or others in their family to have gone with this disease, need hardly expect a cure, notwith- standing much benefit may be derived from care, with the above treatment, good diet, and out-of-door exercise, while those whose systems are not tainted from parents may ex- pect a permanent cure. I shall now throw in a few thoughts of my own, and from the experience of many others in the profession, which X hope may benefit all, needing light on the subject. Ftrst, then—Do not go South, -to smother and die ; hut go North, for cool, fresh air, hunt, fish, and eat freely cf the roasted game; cast away care, after having trusted all in Christ, that it may be well, living or dying. Take a healthy, faithful friend with you, to lean upon when needed, in your rambles. So shall it be well with many who would other- wise sink to the- consumptive’s grave. Have your potatoes with-you, and roast them in the embers; your corn meal also, which you will mix with cold water, having a little salt in it, and bake on a board before the fire, and then say you cannot make out a good-flavored meal, and a healthy one also, from your roast venison, or broiled fish, with roast pota- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 121 toes and johnny-cake, I will then acknowledge that you are indeed far gone on the consumptive’s track, and especially if you have been wandering over hills and through the valleys of our northern country in pursuit of the game of which you are about to partake. Secondly—Do not leave home after having tried every- thing else in vain, and just ready to wrap the mantle of the grave around you; then you need all the care of many friends, and a quiet place to die; but strike out the first thing when you become certain that permanent disease has fastened upon the lungs; then you may not only reasonably expect a cure, but be almost certain. Have the means with you to avoid getting wet by rains ; but often wash and rub the wholo surface, wearing flannel next the skin, and clotho yourself according to the weather and sex ; for there is uo reason why females should not pursue about the same course. They can dress a la Bloomer, and with their father, hus- band, brother, or other Icnoion friend, derive the same bene- fit from out-door exercise, like field or forest rambles, botan- ical huntings, geological surveys, or whatever sports or realities may give just the amount of exercise not to fatigue the invalid. For females who have families and cannot leave them, gardening will be the best substitute for the travel, or of all the employments which can be engaged in. Lastly—Those who are already far down the consump- tive track and confined at home, will derive much benefit by using, at each meal, half a pint of rich, fresh cream. In all cases it is ahead of Cod-Liver Oil, with none of its disagreea- bleness. And if it can be borne, a tea, to a table-spoon of the best brandy may be added. Much is being said, now-a-days, about the necessity of constant inflation of the lungs by long-draWn breaths, hold- ing the breath, also, as mug as possible, when thus fully inflated; but, for those ■whose lungs are extensively diseased, it is not only useless, but very dangerous, from the liability so burst blood-vessels in the luugs, causing hemorrhage, if not rnstant death. In the commencement of the disease, however, or for those in health, the practice is decidedly good. 2. Half a pint of new milk, wit** a wine-glass of expressed 122 DR. CHASE 8 RECIPES. juice of green hoarhound, each morning for a month, is said to have worked wonders in relieving the soreness of the lungs, and giving tone to the general health in this disease. 3. Chlorate of Potash, for Consumption —A gen- tleman of Iowa read a paper about a year ago before the “ American Medical Association,” upon the subject of Chlo- rate of Potash in Consumption, giving the history of a lew cases only. For the want of a more extended trial of it, the Association thought best not to publish his paper, but referred it back to him, and to the consideration of the other members for further test. Amongst those members is Dr. A. B. Palmer, of this city one of the Vice-Presidents of the Association, and Proles- sor of “ Practice, Materia Medica,” Ate., in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor—by the way, a gentleman and a scholar. Having had much experience in practice, he saw fit to give it a trial. He has used it m about thirty cases, and with a single exception with marked success; and in that case there was at first much improvement, but the pa- tient was a German who does not understand our language very well, and from this fact when he found that it caused a boat or burning sensation in the stomach instead of going to the Professor and having the quantity lessened, he aban- doned it altogether. But through Prof. Banner's kindness I have been permitted to refer to other where a very marked amelioration has taken place. One 'f these, a mar- ried lady, although her lungs were full of tubercles, with mu\ eeks. The opium strength of this is about equal to paregoric, and it, is used for similar purposes, and doses. See the remarks below. 5. Godfrey’s Cordial.—Dissolve pure carbonate of 1 oz. in water 5 qts., and add nice golden syrup or best molasses 3 qts,, and heat until they begin to simmer; take off the scum, and add laudanum 9 ozs., and oil of sassafras 1 dr. Mix well. Used similar to the two last. Remarks.—It is a well known fact that much injury ia done to children by the use of anodynes, such as the above, and “ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup,” which is now taking the place, to a great extent, in towus of the foregoing, for I noticed a short time ago eighty-seven empty bottles with Mrs. Winslow’s label upon them, sitting on a counter of one of our drug stores, which led me to ask if they put up her syrup. The answer was no, a lady in this city has fed that much to one child within the past eighteen months. The question might be asked, why do you tell people how to make any of these anodynes ? Because they are good in proper cases, when properly used, and to give a place for these remarks; for those who arc evil disposed will find a way to accomplish their designs, whilst the well disposed will, or can, act only from knowledge, and if they do not know the evils arising from the constant use of anodynes on children, are as liable to do evil as the evil disposed. Then let it be remembered that the constant use of opium in any of its preparations on children, or adults, disturbs th«i nervous system, aud establishes a nervous necessity for it* continuation. Then use them only in severe pain, or ex. treuie nervousness, laying them by again as soon as possible under the circumstances of the case. Of course we do not give a receipe for the Soothing Syrup spokcu of, as its exact composition has not yet come out to the publio; but that it* MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 135 soothing properties are owing to opium, there is not the least doubt. See “ Carminatives/’ which are preferable to opiates, especially for children. RHEUMATISM’ S—Inflammatory Rheumatism—Bill Wright’s, and other Cures.—Sulphur and salt-petrc, of each 1 oz.; gum guaiac I oz.; colchicum root, or seed, and nutmegs, Of each f oz.; all to be pulverized and mixed with simple syrup or molasses 2 oz. Dose—One tea-spoon every 2 hours until it moves the bowels father freely; then 3 or 4 times daily until cured. Mr. Wright, of the Niagara Hotel, Toledo, 0., has several times proved this to be an excellent medicine, and since I obtained it I found a man at Marshall, Mich., one Saturday evening, with his feet aud legs so swollen with this disease, that he could but just crawl with two crutches. I filled this prescription and gave him a tea-spoon of it every two hours, until it moved- his bowels, then every four hours, and on Monday noon he could walk quite comfortably without cane or crutch, the medicine costing only twenty cents. 2. Rheumatic Alterative.—In Rheumatism of long standing, the following preparation has often proved very valuable: Colchicum seed, and black cohosh root, of each } oz., the root to be bruised ; best rye whisky 1 pt.; put together and let stand 3 or 4 days. Dose—From one tea-spoon to a table-spoon 3 times daily, before meals. The action will be to loosen the bowels, or cause a little sickness at the stomach ; and the dose may be modified not to cause too great an effect upon the patient either way, but increasing the dose if necessary until one of these specifio actions is felt, and lessening it if the action is too great in any case. 3. Rheumatic Liniment.—Olive oil, spirits of camphor, and chloroform, of each 2 ozs.; sassafras oil 1 tea-spoon. First add the oil of sassafras to the olive oil, then the spirits of camphor, and shake well before putting in the chloroform, shaking when used, keeping it corked, as the chloroform evaporates very fast if left open. Apply 3 or 4 times daily, rubbing it well, and al- ways towards the body. 1 had a brother-in-law cured of a very bad case of inflam- matory, or swelling rheumatism, by the use of this liniment— accomplished in about four days, without other treatment 136 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. He paid five dollars for tlie recipe after the cure. But I would recommend the use of this iu connection with “ Bill Wright’s Cure,” above, feeling perfectly assured that no attack will stand before the internal and external combina- tion. 4. J. B. IIitciicox, Ypsilanti, Mich., uses spirits of turpentine 1 pt.; tar 2 tea-spoons; oil ol vitriol 1 tea-spoon, mixing in a mug; then sets them on fire, letting it burn 15 minutes, and bot- tle for use. lie bathes the parts freely twice daily with this prepara- tion, then binds on the mashed tory-weed, as mentioned un- der the head of “ lleducing Swellings,” and gives a little spirits of turpentine internally. 5. Alvan Raymond—Takes Rum 1 pt.; neats-foot oil £ pt.. or if the joint is stitf, skunk's oil instead of the other; spirits u{ turpentine 1 gill, and simmers them together, and bottle for use, rubbing it in thoroughly 3 times daily. He also directs to soak the feet in hot water, scraping the bottoms of the feet with an old knife; then he has poke root roasted and mashed, mixing with it tar and sulphur to form drafts for the loot. With this method of treatment he assures me he has been very successful for 30 years. And it bears so strong a resemblance to Dr. Ivittredge’s prepara- tion, next following, lor stiffened joints in rheumatism, that it gives me double confidence in them both. 0. Dr. Kittredgk’s Remedy for Rheumatism and Stiff Joints.—Strong camphor spirits 1 pt.; neats-foot, coon, bear, or skunk’s oil 1 pt.; spirits of turpentine £ pt. Shake the bottle when used, and apply 3 times daily, by pouring on a little at a time and rubbing in all you can for 20 to 30 minutes. The old Doctor recommends this as a sure cure for chronic rheumatism, sprains, stiff-joints where they have not formed an anchylosis, that is, if the bones have not actually grown together; and as remarked iu connection with his ointment, No. 6, he has been a very celebrated Physician for many years ; but like many other men with superior minds, oh ! how fallen, llufft, and its advocates, have got a most fear ful account to balance. 7 French and Other Remedies for Chronic Rheu- matism.—Dr. Ronuet, of Graulbet, France, states in a letter to the Abeillc Medicale, that he “ has been long it the habit of prescribing : MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 137 u The essential oil of turpentine for frictions against rheuma- tism. And that he has used it himself with perfect success, having almost instantaneously got rid of rheumatic pains in both knees and in the left shoulder.” He was led to make the prescription from having used the oil of turpentine to wash coal-tar and other sticking mixtures from his hands. After having washed his hands in soap and water, and drying them, a pricking sensation like an electric spark upon the knuckles from a machine, lasting about two hours, was always experienced, and it is to this exciting action that he attributes its efficacy. It may be used twice or thrice daily. 8. Chronic rheumatism has been cured in twcnty-foui hours, after two years’ suffering, by using alcohol, spirits ot turpentine, sweet spirits of nitre, and oil of juniper, equal parts of each ; mix ; rub well into the parts, and take ten drops at bed time in water. 9. Bittehs for Chronic Rheumatism.—Prickly-ash berries, spikenard root, yellow poplar and dog-wood barks, of each £ lb.; all pulverized and put into a gallon jug, and fill it up with bran- dy. Dose—A wine-glass of it is to be taken 3 times daily be- fore meals. A baker of Lafayette, Ind., was cured by the use of this amount, of a very bad case of this disease of long standing. 10. David Mowky, of Greenville, Ohio, says yellow* poplar, dog-wood, prickly-ash, wild cherry and white-ash barks of the trees, equal quantities of each, a good large handful, boiled in 2 gals, of water, to 1, and add 1 gal. of good old rye, will, if taken freely 8 times daily, cure the worst inflammatory rheuma- tisiEi in the world. There is no question but what both of these preparations, and the next also, are good, if made sufficiently strong with the barks, llut I should consider them much more appli- cable in chronic cases, or rheumatism of long standing ; and in these cases very applicable indeed, and I am well satis- fied that no one will take them for the spirits. 11. Chronic Rheumatism, has been cured by taking the bark-* of a bearing crab-apple tree, and putting a suffi- cient amount of it into whisky to make it vert/ strong, then taking a wineglass three times daily, until a gallon was used. 12. Green Bay Indian’s Remedy for Rheumatism.—Walioo, Lark of the root, 1 oz.; blood root 1 oz.; black eohosh root 2 oza.; 138 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES swamp hellebore £ oz.; prickly ash, bark or berries 1 oz.; poke root, cut lire, 1 oz.; rye whisky 1 qt.; let stand a few days be- fore using. Dose—One tea-spoon every 3 or 4 hours increasing the dose to 2 or 3 tea-spoons, as the stomach will bear. Soak the feet well and go to bed, covering up warm, and taking the “ Sweating Drops” between each dose, as there directed, for three or four hours, and repeat the sweating every day until the disease surrenders to the treatment. If at any time the head feels too full, or the stomach sickens too much, drop down to the first dose of a tea-spoon, or even less, if necessary. This prescription is from Jacob S. Cornelius, an Indian of Green Bay, who was very successful in Illinois, with it, in this disease. 13. I know an old physician who assures me that he has cured cases where all other remedies failed, with saltpetre, beginning with twenty grains, and doubling the dose every three or four hours, until it reached half an ounce, in a very robust and plethoric patient; but this dose would be too large to venture upon by persons not of a plethoric habit. But as it is mostly prescribed, by putting a table-spoon to a pint of whisky, then a tea-spoon for a dose; you might as well expect to dip the Atlantic into the Pacific with a tea- spoon, as to cure rheumatism in that slow way. It may be taken in quantities from half an ounce to an ounce and a half in the twenty-four hours, being largely diluted with water. If pain should come on in the stomach, under its use, stop it at once, and give large quantities of mucilaginous drinks, such as slippery-elm water, gum-arabic water, flax- seed tea, Ac. 14. New Remedy.—Kerosene oil 3 ozs.; skunk’s oil 1 07.; mix, and shake when applied. Put it on rpiite freely, and heat it in by the stove, or by means of a hot shovel. A firm of grocers, Slawson & Geer, of this city, have been using this mixture during the past winter upon their own persons, and have recommended to many others amongst them, one of the Clergymen, and also the President of the University, and so far as they know, it has proved very suc- cessful, relieving the pain directly. 15. One of our physicians in the city has used a preparation very nearly resembling the above, but varying sufficient to MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 139 satisfy myself that any other animal oil will do as well as that from the highly-flavored one, above mentioned. He used kerosene oil 2 ozs.; neats-foot oil 1 oz., oil of origanum $ oz.; mixed and shaken as used. The smell of the kerosene is not very pleasant, hut if a pair of ankles and feet, badly swollen, so much so that you could not walk on them for months, could be cured in two ot three weeks, as it was in this case, it might be well to put up with its disagreeable smell. Rub and heat it in thor- oughly twice daily. ASTHMA—Remedies.—Elecampane, angelica, comfrey, and spikenard roots, with hoarliound tops, of each 1 oz.; bruise and steep in honey 1 pt. Dose—A table-spoon, taken hot every f«w minutes, until relief is obtained, then several times daily until a cure is effected. It cured a young lady, near the “ Falls of the Ohio/’ whom the doctors said it was wicked to disturb ; “ let her die in peace,” was their advice to the parents. An old lady, instead, let her live in peace. It will be found very excel- lent in any cough; even low consumptives will find great relief from its use. 2. Dr. J. K. Finley, of Pittsburg, cured a lady with whom I afterwards became acquainted, and from the com- pleteness of the cure, I was induced to write to the doctor atfd obtain the prescription. It is as follows: Oil of tar 1 dr.; tincture of verrrtrum viride 2 drs.; simple syrup 2 drs.; mix. Dose—For adults 15 drops 3 or 4 times daily. I have very great confidence in this prescription. 3. A lady at Yellow Springs, O., tells me that she cured herself of Asthma, by using, for her common drink, a tea made of the leaves of common chestnut, which had fallen from the tree in autnm; sweeten well, and continue its use for 2 or 3 months. She used it for a month at first, and it returned, when she continued its use for two months; and ten years havo elapsed without its return. It is certainly safe as well as simple, and of easy trial. Lobelia is considered by some a specifc in asthma, but the prejudice against it is so great I forbear speaking fur- ther of it; but: 1 Iodide of potasium ha9 cured a bad case of asthma, by 140 DR. CHASE8 RECIPES. taking 5 gr. closes, 3 times daily. Take i oz. and put U into « vial and add 32 tea-spoons of water—then 1 tea-spoon of it will contain the 5 grs., Which put. into i gill more ot water, and drink before meals. COMPOSITION POWDER—Thompsons.—“ Bayberry bark 2 lbs.; hemlock bark 1 lb.; ginger root 1 lb.; cayenne pep pel 2 ozs.; cloves 2 ozs.; all finely pulverized and well mixed. DosK-LOne-lmlf of a tea-spoon ot it, and a spoon of sugar; put them into a tea-cup and pour it half full of boiling water; l“t il stand a few minutes and fill the cup with milk, and drink free.y If no milk is to be obtained, fill up the cup with hot water. “This, in the first stages and less violent attacks of disease is a valuable medicine, and may be safely employed in ali eases. It is good in relax, pain in the stomach and bowcis, and to remove all obstructions caused by cold. A few doses, the patient being in bed with a steaming stone at the feet, or having soaked the feet fifteen or twenty minutes in hot water, driukiug freely of the tea at the same time, will cure a bad’cold, and often throw off disease in its first stages." I use it taking, or giving, lobelia emetics as mentioned under the bead of “"'Eclectic Emetics.” I use it also, as a : 2. DYsrF.rTTC Tea.—Where an attack has been brought on by over-indulgence at an extra rich meal, you will fiud immediate and generally pcrlect relief by having a cup of this tea made, and drinking about one-half of it fifteen min- utes before meals, and the balance just as you sit down to the meal, not taking any other fluid at all until after diges- tion is over, following up the same plan for a few days or weeks, as may be necessary. It stimulates the stomach to action, causing dijestion and absorption, preventing also the accumulation of gas, which is the cause of eructations of wind from the stomach, commonly called belching, and gives tone to the whole system. A cup of this tea taken when going out into extreme cold, will be found a better warmer than the whisky or any other ar lent spirit, which so many resort to upon such occasions ; and, what is best of all, it will be found : 3. A Perfect Cure for Drunkenness.—those who are accustomed to the excessive use of and who wish to skp the practice, I say, let such have a oup of this tea made, as directed, and drink a part of MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 141 It immediately on rising in the morning, and the balance just before meal time, keeping entirely away from the places of temptation, they will find a warm, healihy glow spreading from the stomach over the whole system, with a desire for food, instead of “ rot-gut.” Follow this up faiths fully two or three times daily, or whenever the craving begins, for the accustomed stimulus, for a few days or weeks, if necessary, and it will be found that the cayenne, which ia the purest stimulant in the whole Materia Medica, with its assistant, the bayberry, which stimulate without an after prostration, have gradually supplied and satisfied the previ- ous false appetite or cravings of the stomach ; whilst the combination has toned up the stomach together with the whole system, and again you find yourself a man. But remember, oh, remember ! your only safety is in keep- ing entirely away from places where intoxicating spirits are kept or sold ! A burned child will not play with fire. I would to God that a burned man was equally wise. For not one in a thou- sand can resist the solicitation of enemies, (called friends,) to take a glass, just one, and one glass acts like fresh coals upon extinguished brands, and the fire goes ahead again with a hundred fold more energy than if thrown upon wood which had never been charred; hence, the propriety of the sentence “ plucked as a brand from the everlasting burn- ings,”—for if re-kindled there is but little prospect of another extinguishment of the raging fire. Dr. Thompson, notwith- standing all that has been said against him, has done more good than any other medical man that ever lived j for he set the people to studying for themselves. STIMULANT—In Low Fevers, and After Uterine Hem- orrhages.—M18TURA Spiritcs vtni Galiaci.—Best brandy, and cinnamon water, of each 4 fluid ozs.; the yolks of 2 eggs, well beaten; loaf sugar i oz.; oil of cinnamon 2 drops; mix. Dose—From i to 1 (fluid) oz.; as often as required. This makes Doth eat and drink. Of course, any other flavoring oils can ba ased, if preferred, in place of the cinnamon. This mixture is an imitation of the well-known compound termed “ egg-fiip.” It is an exceedingly valuable stimulant and restorative, and is employed in the latter stages of low fevers, and in extreme exhaustion from uterine homon hagea. 142 DR. CHASE'S BrECIPE8. It may be used in place of the “ egg-nog” spoken of in th« treatment of consumption, No. 6. ALTERATIVES.—Syrup or Blood Purifier.—Honduras sarsaparilla 12 ozs.; guaiacum shavings 6 ozs.; -winter green leaf 4 ozs.; sassafras-root bark 4 ozs.; elder flowers 4 ozs.; yellow dock 3 ozs.; burdock-root 4 ozs.; dandelion-root 6 ozs.; bitter- sweet-root 2 ozs.; all bruised. Place these ingredients in a suit- able vessel and add alcohol 1 pt., with water sufficient to cover handsomely, set them in a moderately warm place for 3 or 4 days, pour off 1 pt. of the tincture and set it aside until you add water to the ingredients and boil to obtain the strength, pour off and add more water and boil again, then boil the two waters down to 1 qt.; strain, and add the liquor first poured off, and add 2i lbs. crushed or coffee sugar, and simmer to form a syrup; when cool, bottle and seal up for use, Dose—One to 2 table-spoons, according to the age and strength of the patient, I horn1 be4* * meals and at bed time. This, or any other alterative, when given, should be fol- lowed up for weeks or months, according to the disease for which it is prescribed, as scrofula, and for every disease depending upon an impure condition of the blood. It oughx, to be used in sore eyes of long standing, old ulcers, sak- rheum, &c. I would not give this for Jayne’s Alterative, nor Swain’s, Townsend’s or Ayer’s Sarsaparillas, because I know it is good, and we also know what it is made of. 2. Alterative, Very Strong.—Poke, mandrake, yellow dock, sassafras, blue flag, roots, and bark of the roots, guaiac wood raspings, and sweet elder flowers, of each 4 ozs.; caraway seed 3 ozb. ; bruise the roots, and put to the whole, alcohol 1 qt., and water to cover all handsomely; let stand 3 or 4 days in a warm place as the last recipe above, making everyway the same except to pour off 1 qt., instead of 1 pt., as in the first, of spirit; then boil the waters to 1 qt., adding 4 lbs. of sugai w’th the qt. of spirit tincture. The dose being only 1 table-spoon i times daily as above. But if that amount should make the bowels too loose, re- duce the quantity; and if that amount does not act upon the bowels at all, increase the dose to keep the bowels solv- ent. This may be used in the most inveterate diseases cf long standing, syphilis not excepted. 8. Alterative Cathartic—Powder.—Rochelle salts 5 ozs. \ oream of tartar 2 ozs.; sulphur 1 oz.; (epsom salts may be use** but are not quite as good,) place the salts in a dripping-pan and set in the stove oven until all the water of crystalization is dried out; then place all in a mortar and rub finely and thoroughly 143 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. together. Dose—Mix up a few spoons of the powder with mo .asses; then take a tea-spoon every 3 or 4 hours until a fre* cathartic action is kept up for 24 to 36 hours; then take once oi twice daily only, to act on the blood, increasing once in 10 day* to get up the cathartic action, as at first. This alterative is especially valuable in any disease of the skin, as itch, pimples, salt-rheum, and any other erup lions where an outward application is being made, or is about to be made, also valuable in sore eyes. 4. Alterative, Tonic, and Cathartic Bitters.—Best rye whisky, and water, of each,l qt.; best unground Peruvian bark, Colombo root, and prickly-ash berries, of each, 2 ozs.; prickly* ash, black cherry, and poplar barks, of each, 1 oz.; poke-root, mandrake-root, and cloves, of each, I oz.; all to be the dry arti- cles, and all to be pulverized before putting into the spirits; shake every dav for a week, by which time it will be ready tor use. Dose—One to 2 table-spoons at morning and evening meals. Although this alterative is mentioned last in the list, yob it is not least in value. I first made this prescription for my own use, feeling that I needed something of just such t nature, and it worked so admirably that I gave it to others. It has given such entire satisfaction, that I am now at the tenth edition, giving it a place to do a greater good than if kept from the world. If, in any case, it causes any griping sensations, or too great action upon the bowels, lessen the dose, and if neither of these actions are felt, increase the dose, or take it three times daily. I think any of the fruit wines Will do in place of the spirits and water, by adding alcohol one-half pint. It will be found very valuable in all cases of weakness from general debility, and especially so when the liver is inactive, known by constant costiveness. After using out the spirits, it may be filled again in the same way. It will be found very valuable in ague, ana after all fevers, preventing relapse, and strengthening up the gen- eral system. DIURETICS—Pill, Drops, Decoction, &c.—Solidified co- paiba 2 parts; alcoholic extract of cubebs 1 part; formed into pil's with a little oil of juniper. Dose—One or 2 pills 3 or 4 times daily. Druggists can obtain them of Tilden & Co., New York. 144 dk. ciiask's recipes This pill has been found very valuable in affections of th* kidneys, bladder, and urethra, as inflammation from gravel. fmorrhea, gleet, whites, lucorrhea, common inflammations. c. For giving them a sugar coat, soc that heading, if de- sired. „ 2. Diuretic Drops.—Oil of cubebs £ oz.; sweet spirits of nitre £ oz.; balsam of copaiba 1 oz.; Harlem Oil 1 bottle; oil of lavender 20'drops; spirits ol turpentine 20 drops; mix. Dose—Ten to 25 drops, as the stomach will bear, 3 times daily. It may be used in any of the above diseases with great satisfaction. 3. Diuretic Decoction.—Queen of the meadow, dwarf- elder, yellow dock and poke-roots, of each 1 oz.; dandelion, bur- dock, American Sarsaparilla, and blue flag roots, of each £ oz. grind or pound all up, and thoroughly mix. Dose—Take up a pinch with the ends of the fingers and thumb of one hand, say £ to £ oz., and pour upon it 1 pt. of boiling water, steeping awhile when cool, take a swallow or two sufficiently often to use up the pt. in the course of the day. Follow this plan two or three days, or as may be necessary, resuming the course once in ten or twelve days. It may be used in all obstructions of the kidneys, where the urine is high colored or scanty. 4. Diuretic Tincture.—Green or growing spearmint mashed, put into a bottle and covered with gin, is an excellent diuretic. 5. Diuretic for Children.—Spirits of nitre—a few drops in a little spearmint tea—is all sufficient. For very young children pumpkin seed, or watermelon seed tea is perhaps the best. DROPSY.—Syrup and Pills.—Queen of the meadow root dwarf-elder flowers, berries, or inner bark, juniper berries, horse- radish root, pod milkweed or silkweed, often called, root of each 4 ozs.; prickly-ash bark or berries, mandrake-root, bark of the root, of each 2 ozs.; white mustard seed 1 oz. • nol- land gin 1 pt. Four boiling water upon all, except the gin, and keep hoi for twelve hours; then boil and pour off twice, and boi. down to three quarts and strain, adding three pounds of sugar, and lastly the gin. Dose—Take all the stomach will bear, four times daily, say a wine-glass or more. This will be used in connection with the following: 2. Dropsy Pills—Jalap 50 grs.; gamboge 30 gr3.; podo- phyllin 20 grs.; elaterium 12 grs.; aloes 30 grs.; cayenne bo grs. ; castfie *oap shaved, dried and pulverized, 20 grs.; croton oS 00 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 145 drops; powder all finely, and mix thoroughly; then form into pill mass by using a thick mucilage made of equal parts of gum arabic and tragacanth, and divide into 3 gr. pills. Dose—One pill every 2 days for the first week, then every 3 or 4 days until the water is evacuated by the combined aid of the pill with the above syrup. In this disease the work must be very thorough, and I am inclined to think that if our directions are followed, that whoever find themselves under the operations of the medi- cine will consider the work to be about as thorough as we expect. Some sickness of the stomach may be expected under the operation of the pill, but never mind it, go ahead and four or five days will satisfy most persons of the value of the treatment; for you may expect to see the greatest evacuations, front and rear, that you ever have witnessed. If the patient should become weak and exhaust ;d under the continued treatment, slack up a little and throw in beef tea, wine, &c., with rich nourishing diet, and no danger need be apprehended. The above pill will be found very valuable in bilious colic, and other cases hard to operate upon. They have operated in fifteen minutes, but not usually so quick, of course; but it will generally be found best not to ven- ture over one pill at a dose j two have been taken, however but they made a scattering among the waste paper, causing fourteen evacuations, having to call for the second “ cham- ber” the first fire. Some have called them the “ Irish Pill,” from their resemblance to the Irish girl with her brush and scrub-broom. They make clean work. IRRITATING PLASTER.—Extensively Used by Eclec- tics.—Tar 1 lb.; burgundy pitch £ oz.; white pine turpentine * oz.; rosin 2 ozs. Boil the tar, rosin and gum together a short time, remove from the fire, and stir in finely pulverized man- drake root, blood root, poke root, and Indian turnip, of each 1 oz. This plaster is used extensively id all cases where counter irritation or revulsives are indicated ; as in chronic affec- tions of the liver and lungs, or diseased joints, &c. It is applied by spreading it on cloth and over the seat of pain, renewing it every day, wiping off any matter which may be on it, and also wiping the sore produced by it with a dry cloth, until relief is obtained, or as long as the patient caa bear it. Always avoid wetting the sore, as it will cause in- flammation, and you will be obliged to heal it up immeda- 146 ately, instead of which the design is to keep a running »or$ as long as may be necessary, using at the same time consti- tutional remedies as the case may require. INFLAMMATION,—Op the Liver.—Inflammation of the liver, or as it is generally called, “ Liver complaint,” is of two forms, acute and chronic. The acute form is known by a sense of weight and pain in the right side, un- der the short ribs, and often in that shoulder, or between the shoulders, pale or yellow appearance, often great depies* sion of spirits, not much appetite, costivencss, high colored urine, &c., and often with fever, and sometimes with pain similar to that of pleurisy, difficult breathing, dry cough, and sometimes sickness, with vomiting. In the chronic, or long standing complaint, in addition to the above, there is generally flatulence, with pain in the stomach, foul breath and mouth, coated tongue, indigestion, eyes yellow, stools clay colored, with great weakness and slow emaciation, frequently going on to ulceration, giving symp- toms as mentioned under the head of “ Ointment for Ulcer- ated Liver,” &c. In the acute form you will pursue the same course as mentioned under the head of “Pleurisy,” besides taking either of the Liver Pills or Liver Drops mentioned below, in full cathartic doses, until relieved ; but in the chronic form, the Pills, in connection with the “ Ointment,” or “ Irrita- ting Plaster,” will be found all sufficient, unless Jaundice has already set in; then look to the directions under that disease. 2. Eclectic Liver Pill.—Podophyllin 10 grs.; leptandrm 20 grs.; sanguinarin* 10 grs.; extract of dandelion 20 grs.; formed into 20 pills, by being moistened a little with some es- sential oil, as cinnamon or peppermint, &c. Dose—In chronic diseases of the liver, take 1 pill at night, for several days, or 2 may be taken at first to move the bowels; then 1 daily. Ih connection with the pill, wear the “ Irritating Plaster,” over the region of the liver, washing the whole body daily, by means of towels, and rubbing dry, being careful no. to wet the sore caused by the plaster; as an active cathartic DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. •NOTE.—These articles are kept bj Eclectic Physicians, and are beginning W be kept by Druggists generally. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 147 from two to three pills may be taken in all cases where cal omel or blue pills are considered applicable by “ Old School Physicians/' 3. Liver Till Improved.—Leptandrin 40 grs.; podophyllin and cayenne, 30 grs. each ; sanguinarin, iridin and ipecaf 15 grs. each; see that all are pulverized and well mixed; then form into lull-mass by using i dr. of the soft extract of mandrake and a lew drops of anise oil, then roll out into 3 grain pills. Bose—Two pills taken at bed time will generally operate by morning; but there are those that will require three, whilst one pill every night on retiring, will be found the best corrective of the liver of anything now in use, for com- mon cases; but in vory bad cases where the pill does uot arouse the liver to action, take the following: 4. Liver Drops for Obstinate Cases.—Tinctures of man- drake and blue flag roots, of each 1 oz.; and of culvers root 2 ozs. Dose—For adults, 1 tea-spoon every 3 to 5 hours, increasing the close gradually until you reach two or three tea-spoons, if the mouth does not become sore and the stomach not sickened nor the bowrels moved too freely. These drops are especially applicable in liver and spleen enlargements, and cases of very long standing disease of these organs; and in such cases it may be well to use externally, over the liver and spleen, especialy if there is believed to be ulceration, the following: 5. Ointment for Ulcerated Liver, Ague Cake, &c.—Take a good handful of smartweed, wormwood, and the bark of sumac root; boil all together to get the strength, then strain and noil down carefully to about £ pt., adding lard t lb., and simmering together; when nearly cool add a tea-spoon of spirits of turpen tine. Apply at night, by rubbing it over the liver or other organ which may have pain or disease located upon it, heat- ing it in well by the stove or by a heated iron, putting it on, rubbing, and heating it in three or four times each applica- tion. I obtained this prescription from the Rev. Mr. Fraser, of this city, whose nephew was so afflicted with ulceration of the liver that a council of Doctors said he must die; the pain was situated just under the short ribs of the right side, completely bowing him together, like the one of old who could “ in no wise lift up herself/’ He had had a sister, 148 DR. CHASE'S HEC1RE8. whc died some years before ; but at this juncture 3? tike esse the invalid dreamed of meeting her, and she gave hie prescription, which he told his mother in the morning; and she would not rest until it was tried, and it entirely cured patient. The Elder tells me lie has given it to a great nany persons, for pains of internal organs, ague cakes, &c., and that it has given great satisfaction—a perfect cure. The two first named articles I know to be good for what they are here recommended, but they are generally used by boiling and laying the herbs over the affected parts, or by steaming the parts over the herbs. I see no reason why spirits from the other world should not be permitted to communicate with the spirits of friends here; but that they are so per- mitted, to communicate in such a way as to be understood by us frail mortals, I never did, nor do I now believe, neither do I believe this to be the first dream of this character which lias proved valuable. There are many things of a similar 'haracter in the history of a number of individuals in the range of my acquaintance, more singular and more unac- countable than the above, which would be very interesting ■*> relate, but the nature of this work does not admit. If tnis shall benefit any, I shall be satisfied. PILLS—Nervous Pill.—Alcoholic extract of the Ignatia Amara, (St. Ignatius bean) 30 grs.; powdered gum arabic 10 grs. Make into 40 pills. Dose—One pill to be taken an hour after breakfast, and one an hour before retiring at night. Half a pill is enough for young, cr very old or very delicate persons. The pills may be easily cut if laid on a damp cloth for a few moments. These pills will be found applicable in bad Dyspepsia, nervous headache, sleeplessness, palpitation of the heart, con- fusion of thought, determination of blood to the head, fail- ure of memory, and all other forms of general nervous de- bility, no matter of bow long standing. Where a prominent advantage is discovered in two weeks from the commence- ment of the medicine, one a day will suffice until all are taken. The extract is made by pulverizing the seed or bean, and putting it into alcohol from ten to fourteen davs, then evap- orating to the consistence for working into pill mass with the powdered gum. 149 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. This is the prescription of the Rev. John M. Dagnal, the ‘ Retired Physician,” brought out in 1854, and to my at- tention, and that of the medical class, by Prof. Palmer, in the University of Michigan, in the winter of '56-7. lie said when this prescription fifst came out he was practicing in Chicago, and many persons sent for the pills, and derived much benefit from their use, at first, but soon after they seemed to lose their efficacy, and he presumed the reason to be that the demand was so great that something else waa substituted in place of the extract. This being the case, druggists ought to prepare the extract themselves, so as to furnish patients with the genuine article for home use. It is undoubtedly a splendid prescription, if put up with fidelity 2. Pills—To Sugar Coat.—Pills to be sugar-coated must be very dry, otherwise they will shrink away from the coating and leave it a shell, easily crushed off. When they are dry, you will: * Take rtarch, gum arable, and white sugar, equal parts, rubbing them very fine in a marble mortar, and if damp, they must be dried belore rubbing together; then put the powder into a suita- ble pan, or box, for shaking; now put a few pills into admail tin box having a cover, and pour on to them just a little simple syrup, shaking well to moisten the surface only, then throw into the box of powder and keep in motion until completely coated, dry, and smooth. If you are not very careful you will get too much syrup upon the pi'ls; if you do, put in more and be quick about it to prevent moistening the pill too much, getting them into the powder as soon as possible. 3. Anodyne Pills.—Morphine 9 grs.; extract of stramonium and hyosciamus, of each 18 grs; form into pill-mass by using solution of gum arabic and tragacanth, quite thick. Divide into 40 pills. Dose—In case of severe or nervousness, 1 pill taken at bed time will be found to give a quiet night of rest. The advantage of this pill over those depending entirely upon opium or morphine for their anodvne oroperties, is, that they may be taken without fear ot consupacion. CROUP—Simple, but Effectual Remedy.—This dis- ease is attended with inflammation of the windpipe, spasms of the muscles of the throat, occasioning a peculiar sound, hard to be described, but when once heard by a mother, 150 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES never to be forgotten ; cough, difficult respiration, ana fever. The phlegm or mucous often filling, or very much obstruct- ing the throat, and finally forming a false membrane wh'ch cuts off all possibility of breathing. The first thing to be done is to get liot water ready as soon as possible, having always on hand a bottle of emetic tincture, c«>m posed of equal parts of the tinctures of lobelia and blood root Dose—According to the age of the child; if 2 years old, about 1 tea-spoon every 10 to 15 minutes until frei> vomiting trikes place • if 5 years Old 2 tea-spoons, and increasing in proportion to ago to 1 table-spoon fora child of 10years,decreasing for very young children, say of 4 to 8 months, only 8 to 12 drops. Place the feet as soon as possible into hot water, and keep them there un- til vomiting takes place, laying cloths wrung out of hot water upon the breast and throat, changing sufficiently often to keep them hot. The next morning give sufficient of the “ Vegetable Physic ” to move the bowels rather freely. The emetic tincture should be given in some warm tea. Repeat the emetic as often as the returning svmptoms de- mand it, which usually occur the following nigh*, repeating the cathartic every second or third day, and I will guarantee success if commenced in any kind of reasonable time ; but usually uo repetition will be needed if parents keep the pre- paration in the house so as to begin with the beginning of the disease. 2. Dutch Remedy.—Goose oil, and urine, equal quantities. Dose—From a tea to a table-spoon of the mixture, according to the age ot the child. Repeat the dose every 15 minutes, if the first does nof vomit in that time. This remedy will be found valuable in mild cases, and where the first ip not at hand; and l know it to have saved a child when one of their best Doctors said it must die ; but bear in mind he had not used our first prescription ; yet an old Dutch woman came in at the eleventh hour, from the next door neighbors’ wash-tub, and raised the child with what she called “ p—s and goose grease.” I have used it with success. 3. Croup Ointment.—Take mutton suet and nice lard, of each 4 lb.; spermaceti tallow oz.; melt them together and add £ pt. of the best vinegar, and simmer until the vinegar is nearly evaporated, skimming weil, and constantly stirring, until it be- j gins to granulate; then add oils of amber and spruce, and pul verized sugar of lead, of each J oz.; now remove from lhe lire and stir it until cool Dose—For a child of 2 years old. viv« MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 151 from £ to 1 tea-spoon every i hour, until relief is obtained, or until vomiting lakes place; at the same time rubbing it upon the chest, and over the throat and lungs, freely. Dr. ——, of Finley, 0., says, from liis experience, lie knows it will cure as often as quinine will break up tho ague. HYDROPHOBIA AND SNAKE BITES—To Pre- vent, and Cure.—A. Hubhard, of Boone Co., 111., in a letter to the St. Louis Republican, says : “ Eighteen years ago my brother and myself were bitten by a mad-dog. A sheep was also bitten at the same time. Among the many cuies offered for the little boys, (we were then ten or twelve years old,) a friend suggested the following which he said would cure the bite of a rattlesnake : “ Take the root of the common upland ash, commonly called black ash, peel off the bark, boil it to a strong decoction, and of this, drink freely. Whilst my father wa9 preparing the above, the sheep spoken of began to be afflicted with hydrophobia. When it had become so fatigued from its distracted state as to be no longer able to stand, my father drenched it with a pint of the ash root ooze, hoping to ascertain whether he could depend upon it as a cure for his sons. Four hours after the drench had been given, to the astonishment of all, the animal got up and went quietly with the flock to graze. My brother and myself continued to take the medicine for 8 or 10 days, 1 gill 3 times daily. No effects of the dread poison were ever discovered on either of us. It has been used very successfully in snake bites, to my knowledge.” There is no doubt in the author’s mind but what this gen- tleman has made a mistake in the kind of ash meant, as the upland ash is white-ash, from which flooring is made, having a thick, rough outside bark, whilst the black lias a smooth bark, and grows in low, wet land, and is the same from which the flour barrel hoop is extensively manufactured, it is the upland white-ash that is to be used ; it is known, as he says, to cure rattlesnake bites, and a gentleman of this place has tried it with success in rheumatism, boiled very strong and taken in half gill doses. May vomit and purge if taken too freely. Yet a moderate action, either up or down, will not be amiss. I have cured a case of rheumatism, in a boy twelve or fourteen years of age, with the above, since it came to my knowledge. 152 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. 2. Saxon Remedy.—Gastell, a Saxon forester, now of the venerable age of eighty two, unwilling to take to the grave with him a secret of so much importance, has made public in the Leipsic Journal the means which he has used fifty ye?*s, and wherewith he affirms, he has rescued man} human oeings and cattle from the fearful death of Hydro- phobia. Take immediately after the bite, warm vinegar or tepid water, r/ash the wound clean therewith, and dry it; then pour upon ,he wound a few drops of hydrochloric acid, because mineral acids destroy the poison of the saliva. 3. Grecian Remedy.—Eat the green shoots of asparagus raw7 sleep and perspiration will be induced, and the disease can b( thus cured in any stage of canine madness. A writer in the Providence Journal, says a man m Ath- ens, Greece, was cured of Hydrophobia by this remedy, even after the paroxysms had commenced. 4. Quaker Remedy—Fifty Years Successful.— Jacob Ely, a good old honest Quaker merchant, of Lloyda- ville, 0., gave me the following plan which his father had used since 1806 with success, to his knowledge, both on per- sons and domestic animals; and the New York Tribune has recently published something of the same character. The dried root of elecampane, pulverize it and measure out 9 heaping table-spoons, and mix it with 2 or 3 tea-spoons of pul- verized gum arabic; then divide into 9 equal portions. When a person is bitten by a rabid animal, take one of these portions and steep it in 1 pt. of new milk, until nearly half the quantity of milk is evaporated; then strain, and drink it in the morning, fasting for 4 or 5 hours after. The same dose is to be repeated 8 mornings in succession, then skip 3, and so on until the 9 doses are taken. The patient must avoid getting wet, or the heat of th-e eun, and abstain from high seasoned diet, or hard exercise, and, if costive, take a dose of salts. The above quantity u for an adult—children will take less according to age. The Tribune’s publication is as follows : 5. Tribune’s Cure for Hydrophobia.—The following was sent to the N. Y. TriLunc1 by J. W. Woolston, of Philadelphia: “ Recipe.—First dose, 1 oz. of elecampane root, boiled in 1 pt. of milk imtil reduced to | pt. Second dose, (to be taken two MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 153 da,,* after the 8rst,) 1| ozs. of elecampane root, boiled in 1 pt ru milk, snme as the first. Third close, same as the second, (to he taken two days after,)—in all, three doses.” If there is any virtue in the elecampane, ac all, the pref- erence, of course, is to be given to the Quaker’s plan, which jives nine instead of three doses. But it substantiates Mr Ely’s plan, as it comes from the place of his father's forme? residence. Consequently it would seem to strengthen coni deuce in the first. 6. Snake Bites.—In case of being bitten by any of the po sonous snakes, the best plan is to wash off the place immediately then if the position of the wound is such that you can get tlir mouth to the spot, suck out all the poison in that way, or if anj other person is present, whose mouth is not sore, no danger need be apprehended. For all the poison may be upon the outside, and washed off, yet most likely penetrates more or lass into the wound, if a snake bite, as the arrangement of their teeth is each that the poison comes out near the point and when in the wound, thus you see the propriety of sucking it out. Or : 7. Spirits of ammonia, a small vial of it, can be carried in the pocket, and if bitten, sharpen a little piece of wood to a small point, dipping this stick into the ammonia, and then penetrating the wound with it. A piece of lunar caustic can be carried it the pocket, and sharpened, if needed, and used ihe same as the stick and ammonia—and one of the celebrated English farriers has reported that this caustic, used freely on the bite of the mad dog, destroys the poison ; but to insure even a reasonable hope of success, it must be used immediately. This holds good in any of the sucking or caustic applications. All persons working on or near marshes, or wherever the massasauger is known to inhabit, should always have one of these caustics with them. 8. But when a person is bitten in the absence of all thcs8 caustics, and not being able to reach the spot to suck out the poison, he must drink whisKy enough to get as drunk as a fool, or ids whole dependence must be upon the ash, asparagus, or elecampane. The National Intelligencer, a year or two since, published a recipe for the cure of the rattlesnake bite, which it claimed was infadiole. it having been tried in a number of cases, and always with success. It was nothing more nor lass than the use of whisky as above recommended, and it 154 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES is but justice to say that a daughter of Wm. Reed. of the town of Pittsfield, in this county, who was bitten on the arm some three years ago, was cured by drinking whisky uutii drunkenness and stupor were produced, and she has novel felt any inconvenience from the bite since, which goes to show that the bite of the Devil's tea is worse than the bite of a rattlesnake. 9. I know an old physician who was called to a boy bitten by a rattlesnake, and in the absence of all other remedies, he cured him upon the principle that, “ The hair of the dog will cure his bite,” taking a piece of the snake about two inches long, splitting it on the back, and binding it upon the bite. It cleansed the wound very white, and no bad effects were seen from it. 10. Sa derates, moistened and bound upon the bite; theD dissolve more, and keep the parts wet with it for a few hours has cured many massasauger-bites, as also bee-stings. 11. Snake Bitten Cattle.—Remedy.—Cattle or hor ses ?.7e usually bitten in the feet. When this is the case, ah that is necessary to do is to drive them into a mud-hole and keep them there for a few hours ; if upon the nose, bind the mud upon the place in such a manner as not to interfere with their breathing. And I am perfectly satisfied that soft clay mud would be an excellent application to snake bites on persons, for I know it to draw out the poisoning from ivy, and have been assured that it has done the same for snake bites, of persons as well as for cattle. EYE PREPARATTONS-Eye Water.—Table salt and white vitriol, of each, 1 table-spoon; heat them upon copper or earth en until dry; the heating drives off the acrid or biting water- called the water of c.rystalization, making them much milder in, their action ; now add them to soft water Apt.; putting in white sugar 1 table-spoon; blue vitriol a piece the size of a common pea. If it should prove too strong in any case, add a little more soil water to a vial of it. Apply it to the eyes il or 4 times daily If the eyes are very sore, or if the soreness has been of long standing, take the “ Alterative Syrup,” or the “ Ca- thartic Alterative,” continuing them for several weeks accord ing to the necessities of the case. I find it an excellent plan, in using any preparation for sore or weak eyes to apply it again about twenty minutes from the first applwa MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 155 tiui«. More than double speed is made by this repetition. For inflammation of any part of the body, apply this b) wetting cloths. Even for sores about the ears and groins of babes, reduce it, and three or four applications will cure tnem. I have also found it valuable for horses, as a wash, wacn they get the eye injured by straws, or otherwise, which Causes the eye to water, or matierate, using it freely. The use of this eye water enabled me to lay by the spec- tacles after four .years’ wearing, and 1 have since studied medicine and graduated as a physician, without resorting fcaaiu to their use, by the occasional application of the eye water. But I need not have resorted to the use of the eye water again, had I not done in study, as I do in all things use, that is, when I have anything to do, I do it with all my might. I read steadily, day by day, sixteen hours— more than five other students, read altogether, who roomed rtt the same house. Yet this counted in the end ; for when the class began to inquire and look around, near the end of the term, for one to deliver the Valedictory, on tbeir behalf, which is the custom in the Eclectic Medical Institute, I re- ♦•/ived that, the first honor of the class. I do not mention this to boast, by no means, but to show the necessity, as weli as the advantages, of hard study, especially to those who begin their studies late in life, and are obliged to pay their way with their own hands, and support a family also. This was my case exactly. In the commencement of my medi- cal studies, I worked all day, reading half of the night, copying off the latin terms, with their significations, on a slip of paper, which I carried in my pocket during the next day looking at two or three of the terms at a time, through the day, until all were committed. And thus I accomplished, no more than what any other man may do, if he goes at it with a will, and does as I did ; and that some one may be itiinulatcd to this course is the only object of this recital. See “ Advice to Young Men.” 2. D . Raymond, of Grass Lake, Mich., who obtained the abo\ s prescription of me, adds to each ounce of water used, one grain of morphine, and he tells me lie has great success with it; the addition of the morphine making it nearly resemble the celebrated prescription used by the Eng- lish surgeons in India, which is as follows : 156 DR. OIIASE 8 RECIPES. 3. India Prescription for Sore Eyes.—Sulphate of zinc 2 grs.; tincture of opium, (laudanum) 1 dr.; rose water 2 ozs.; mix. Put a drop or two in the eye 2 or 3 times daily. 4. An Eye Doctor, of Xenia, O., makes a great use of the ollowing: Sulnhate of zinc, acetate of lead, and rock salt, of each % oz., iuaf sugar 1 oz.; soft water 12 ozs.; miz without heat, and use as other eye waters. 5. Dr. Cook, of Ashtabula, Ohio, makes and sells large quantities, under the head of “ Cook’s Eye Water.” It is as. lollows: Sulphate of zinc 1 oz.; sugar of lead oz.; precipitated carbonate of iron oz.; salt, and sugar, of each 1 table spoon p the whites of 2 eggs; soft water 32 ozs.; mix the whites cl the eggs, zinc, salt, lead, sugar, and iron well together, then add the water. G. For Excessive Inflammation of the Eyes.—Politico by boiling a handful of hops in water, putting in from %\ol dr. of opium, while boiling; when still warm, lay the heps over the eyes and keep them wet ■with the water 'n which they were boiled. A lady who had been blistered and starved, / cording to tl;e cld plan, in this disease, was seen cured by inis pcultic .•ng and washing the eyes often with the hop-water contain ing the opium, with generous diet, &c., contrary to the ex- pectations of friends, and the predictions of enemies, to the plan. . 7. If sore eyes shed much water, put a little c f the oxide of zinc into a vial of water, and use it rather freely—ii will soon cure that difficulty. 8. Copperas and water has cured sore eyes of Jong stand ing and used quite strong, it makes an excellent application i n erysipelas. 9. Garden Pitttbarb.—The juice of the root applied to the eye, has cured bad cases. 10. Boil an egg, remove the yolk, and hav/e ready equal parts of sulphate of zinc and loaf sugar, pul rerized ; f 11 the place occupied by the yolk, and squeeze out the oiltlnough a linen cloth, while hot, and apply as needed. If too strong, add a little rain water. I sold a vook to a Mrs. Johnson, in TTay ne county, Mich who had used this preparation very successfully for several years, and had I not have a finely had ;o in my7 book, 1 MEDICAL 1)£Paui iUiSNT. 157 oould not have purchased it of her for less than five dollars and she regretted very much that I was taking from her a source of profit by selling the books in her neighborhood containing the recipe. 11. Sailor’s Eye Preparation.—Burn alum, and mix it with the white of eggs and put between two cloths and lay it upon the eyes; taking salts and cream of tartar, equal parts, to oleanse the blood. This was given to me, and very highly recommended, b) an old Scotch sailor, with whom I have had much enjoy inent, talking over the sufferings of the sea, he having used it many times in places where nothing else could be ob- tained. 12. Father Pinkney’s Preparation for Very Bad Sorb Eyes —Castile soap, scraped fine, and half the quantity of very finely pulverized chalk ; wet them up to a paste with strong juice of tobacco; when desired to apply to the eye, drop two or three drops of brandy into the box of paste; then take oiy a bit of it where the brandy was dropped, equal in size to tli| fourth of a grain of wheat, to the diseased eye; wet it on a bit of glass, and put it into the eye with a camel’s hair pencil. Apply it twice daily at first, and from that to only once in two days, for from one to two weeks, will, and has cured wretched bad cases, so says old Father Pinkney, of Wayne Co.. Mich., who has used it over fifty years, he being over ninety years of age. His only object in giving it an inser- tion here is to do good to his fellow creatures; and also for animals, it being equally applicable to horses or cattle. 13. Indian Eye Water.—Soft water 1 pt.; gum arabic 1 oz; white vitriol 1 oz.; fine salt | tea-spoon; put all into a bottle and shake until dissolved. Put into the eye just as you retire to bed. I paid Mrs. Pinny, south of Ypsilanti, Mich., fifty cents for this prescription. She would not, however, let her own family know its composition. Her husband had removed films from horses’ eyes with it, and cured Mr. Chidister, a merchant of Ypsilanti, by only two applications, as the say- ing is, after he had “ Tried everything else.” It came from an old Indian, but my knowledge of the articles would lead me to say for common, at least, it would require to be re- duced one-half. 14. Tobacco Eye Water.—Fine cut tobacco the size of a 158 BR. CHASE’S RECIPES common hickory nut; sugar ot lead equal in bulk; rain water 2 ozs.; opium the size of a pea. Reduce it with more water if necessary. 15. Verdigris and Honey, have cured inflamed eyes, by using just rafiicient verdigris to color the water a grass color, then making it one-third honey. It is also said to prevent scars by using upon burns. 1G. Raw Potato Poultice, for inflamed eyes, is one of the very best applications in recent cases, scraping tine and apply- ing frequently. 17. Sltepery-Elm Poultices, are also an excellent applica tion, used as above. 18. Films—To Remove from tile Eye.—Wintergreen leaf, bruised, and stewed in a suitable quantity of hens’ oil to make the oil strong of the wintergreen—strain and apply twice daily. The above cured a boy of this city, and I am satisfied that the hens’ oil has cured recent cases, without the winter- green, but with it, it has cured beasts also. For cases of a year or two’s standing, however, it is best to use the follow- ing : 19. Lime water 1 pt.; finely pulverized verdigris $ oz.; set on ambers for 1 hour; then strain and bottle tight. Touch the llm over the pupil, or on the speck, 2 or 3 times daily, by putting the point of a small camel’s hair pencil into the prepa- ration, then to the eye, holding away the lids for a short time by placing the thumb and finger upon them for that purpose. It will be found necessary to persevere for two or three months with this application, and also to use one of the “ Al- teratives,” to cleanse the blood. This course, pursued for three months, gave sight to a young lady who had not seeu light for two years, which Doctors could not do, nor were willing for others to do. 20. Eye Salve.—Take white precipitate 1 tea-spocn and mbit into a salve with 3 tea-spoons of fresh lard, and applied upon the outside of the lid of the w'orst chronic, (long continued), sore eyes, has cured them when they were so bad that even the eye- lashes, (cilia), had fallen out, from the disease. A Physician was cured wdth this eye salve when he could not cure himself. If red precipitate will cure the itch, why should not the white cure disease of the eye. 21. Sore Eyes—To Remove the Granulations.—Crystal ized nitrate of silver 2 grs.; morphia 1 gr.; blue vitriol 1 gr.; galammoiliac 1 gr.; pulverize each one separately, and mix. Ap- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 159 plv mcc daily, by putting a small bit of the mixture upon a piece of fr lass, moistening it with a little water, and putting into the eye oy means of a small camel’s liair pencil. 23. Another Method—Is to take a stick of tag-alder about 2 feet long, boring a hole nearly through the middle of the stick, crosswise, tilling it with salt, and plugging it up; then put one end into the tire and char it nearly to the salt, then the other end tlity same way; and finally pulverizing and applying the Bait, the same as the above, once daily only. In either case after the granulations (little lumps) are re- moved from the eye, or eyes, finish the cure by using any of the foregoing eye waters which you may choose; all the time using some of the alteratives for cleansing the blood. FEVER SORES—PLASTER, SALVES, &c.—Black Salve. —Sweet oil, linseed oil, and red lead pulverized, of each 1 oz. (or in these proportions). Put all into an iron disli over a moderate fire, stirring constantly, until you can draw your fingei over a drop of it on a board when a little cool, without slicking. Spread on cloth and apply as other salves. My brother, J. M. Chase, of Caneadea, N. Y. says he has used this salve about fifteen years, and knows it to be one ol the best in the world for all kinds of old sores, as ulcers, fever sores, and all inflamed parts, cleaning and taking out redness or inflammation, causing a white healthy appearance in a short time, and a certain preventive of mortification &c., &c., as well as to prevent soreness in more recent cuts and bruises, also; and from my own knowledge of a salve which is very similar, I have introduced it into this work, feeling assured that whoever may have occasion to try it, will uot regret the space it occupies, especially after reading the fol- lowing : A gentleman said to me during the past summer, “ I will give you one of the most valuable salves in the world, for I cured a man’s hand, with it, which was so swollen lint it looked more like a ham than a hand ; and two Doctors said it must be cut off, also ulcerated.” When he told me how it was made, I opened my book to the above salve, which was precisely the same as the oue he used. 2. Red Salve.—Some prefer to prepare the salve as fol- lows : Red lead 1 lb.; bees-wax and rosin, or each 2 ozs.; linseed and sweet oils, of each 8 table-spoons; spirits of turpentb* ,1 tea-spoon; melt all, except the first and last, together, thenstiir ua the lead and stir until cool, adding the turpentine. 160 dr. chase's recipkh. Usea. upon fever, and all other sores of an inflammatory character; at the same time taking the following pill to purify the blood : 3. Manduake root, dried and pulverized, £ oz.; blood root, i? the same way, i oz.; form into pills with extract of dandelion. Dose—Three pills may be taken at bed time, for 2 or 3 dayn, then add another pill, and at the end of a week take any cathar tic you choose; then take iodide of potash 10 grs., and put ii into a vial with 1 oz. of water, and take 20 to 30 drops of it in n. little more water, instead of the mandrake pill, for 3 or 4daysi then that pill again, as at first. By the time you have gone around three or four times, the blood will be pretty thoroughly cleansed—do not be afraid of the mandrake pill, as it will not act as a cathartic, but simply work upon the blood—if it does, reduce the number. You will be pleased with this method of purifi cation 4. Indian Cure.—G-. A. Patterson, of Ashtabula, 0., was cured by an Indian physician, in Cleveland, of cue of the worst fever sores almost ever known. The muscles of his leg were so contracted that no use could be made of his leg in getting about. Four months, and the following treat- ment, did the work : A syrup of Wahoo (Euonymus Atropurpureus)—and here let me say that the Wahoo is the great Indian remedy for purifying the blo.od—was made by boiling very strong, then molasses and rum added to make it palatable and' keep it from souring; this was used sufficient to keep the bowels solvent, sometimes chew* jng the bark of the root from which the syrup is made, prefer- ring it a part of the time to the syrup. The sore was dressed with the following salve: Rosin 1 lb.; mutton tallow 1 lb.; bees- wax 1 lb.; linseed oil 1 pt.; ambrosial (highly flavored) soap ozs.; to make it, mix in an iron kettle and simmer 2 hours, stir- ring all the time. Spread on cloth, and apply as needed. The contracted muscles were anointed with skunk’s oil only. Mr. Patterson also extols it very highly for all common purposes. And as I have a few other recipes for fever sores which have been so highly recommended by those who have used them, I cannot omit their insertion, and I would espe- cially recommend the next one following, called : 5. Kit ridge's Salve.—Bitter-sweet and sweet elder roots, of each H lbs.; hop vines and leaves, and garden plantain, top and root, of each $ lb.; tobacco 1 three-cent plug. Boil all in rain water to get out the strength; then put the herbs in a thick d/Ab MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 161 and press out the juice, and boil down carefully to } pt.; then titd unsalted butter 1 lb.; bees-wax and rosin, of each i oz., ami simmer over a slow fire until the water is all out. I obtained the above from S. B. Newton, a farmer Doctor near Mooreville, Mich., who had cured fever seres, with it, of thirty-five years’ standing; used it also on swellings in every case, once upon a boy who had an eye kicked out and swelled very bad; he keeps it in his stable all the time foi wounds of horses and cattle, in castration, &c., &c. I know it must be a very valuable salve. 6. Fever Sore Poultice.—Sassafras, bark of the root, drie < and pulverized very fine ; make a bread and milk poultice quila thin, and stir in of the above powder to make it of proper eon sistenee, applying 3 times in the 24 hours for 3 weeks; ther. heal with a salve made by thickening honey to a salve with when. Hour. If there are loose bones it will be quite sore wh 'e they are working out, but persevere. A case was cured Ly it of twelve years’ standing; the same man cured eight other cases, never having a failure, and it has proved successful on an abscess of the loins also. 7. Yeast Poultice.—Fresh yeast, the thick part, thickened with Hour and applied to fever sores has proved very valuable, continuing *t fo: several weeks, touching any points, which does not heal readily, with finely puiveri/.ed verdigris rubbed up with a little mrd; then putting the poultice directly over the whole again. This heals, leaving the parts white and natural, instead of dark, as I have seen many ouses which had been cured. 8. Salve for Fever Sores, Abscesses, Broken Breasts, &c.—Thoroughly steep tobacco i oz., in soft water 1 pt., strain- ing out from the tobacco and boiling down to 1 gill; then have melted, lard, rosin, and bees-wax, of each £ oz. sijnniering to a thick salve, then stirring in 1 gill of old ruin, and, if necessary, continuing the simmering a little longer. To be used as other lalves. 9. Ointment.—Sweet clover (grown in gardens) slewed in lard ; then add bet s-wax and white pine turpentine, equal parts, Vj form an ointment, is highly recommended. 10. Salve for Fever Sores, Cuts, &c.—Spirits of turpentine and honey, of each £ pt., simmered over a slow fire until they unite by stirring; then set aside to cool until you can pul in the yolk of an egg without its being cooked by the heat; stir it in and return it to the fire, adding camphor gum f oz., simmer and rtir until well mixed. 162 DR. CHASE'8 RECIPES. By putting in the egg when cool, it combines with the other, but it' put in while the salve is hot it cooks, but dor? not combine. This is very highly recommended, as above indicated. 11. William Howell, a farmer living about six miles fiom Jackson, Mich., says he had a fever sore on his ship for twenty years, sometimes laying him up for months, anf at one time preparations were made to cut off the limb, bu an old man, in New Jersey, told him to: Scrape a fresh turnip and apply it every 4 hours, night am day, until healed, which cured him. And he feels assured, from using it in other cases, that all will be pleased with it who have any occasion for its use Apply it ofteaer if it becomes too offensive. SALVES.—Green Mountain Salve.—Rosin 5 lbs.; Bur- gundy pitch, bees-wax, and mutton taNow, of each 1 lb.; oil of hemlock, balsam of hr, oil ol origanum, oil of red cedar, and Venice turpentine, of each 1 oz.; oil of wormwood i oz.; ver- digris, very finely pulverized, 1 oz.; melt the first articles to- gether and add the oils, having rubbed the verdigris up with a little of the oils, and put it in with the other articles, stirring well; then pour into cold water and work as wax until coot enough to roll. This salve has no erjual for rheumatic pains, or weakness in the side, back, shoulders, or any place where pain mo.) lo- cate itself. Where the sktu is broken, as in ulcers, and bruises, I use it without the verdigris, making a white salve, even superior to “ Releg White’s old salve.” it is valuable in Dyspepsia, to put a plaster of the green salve over the stom- ach, and wear i-t as long as it will stay on, upon the bacK also, or any plaice where pain or weakness may locate, in cuts, bruises, abrasions, &c., spread the white saive upon cloth and apply it as a sticking plaster until well ; for rheu- matism or weakness, spread the green salve upon soft ieather and apply, letting it remain on as long as it. will stay, hor corns, spread the green salve upon cloth and put upon tnc corn, letting it remain until cured. It has cured them. A gentleman near Lancaster, O., obtained one of my books having this recipe in it, and one year afterwards lie told me he had sold over four-thousand rolls of the salve, curing au old lady of rheumatism in six weeks, who ha4 medical department 163 hen confined to her bed for seven weeks, covering all the the large joints with the salve, without other treatment. For rolling cut salves, see the cut below. 2. Conklin’s Celebrated Salve.—Rosin 411)3.; bees-wax, burgundy pitch, white pine turpentine, and mutton tallow, each i lb?; campiior gum and balsam o( fir, of each £ oz.; sweet oil t oz.; and alcohol $ pt. Melt, mix, roll out, and use as other salves. VV'ouders have been done with it. 3. Balm op Gilead Salve.—Mutton tallow i lb.; balm of gilead buds 2 ozs.; white pine gum 1 oz.; red precipitate £ oz.; hard soap i oz ; white sugar 1 table-spoon. Stew the buds in the tallow until the strength is obtained, and press out or strain, scrape the soap and add it with the other articles to the tallow, using sufficient nnsalted butter or sweet oil to bring it to a proper consistence to spread easily upon cloth. When nearly cool, stir ai the red precipitate, mixing thoroughly. This may be more appropriately called an ointment. It to used for cuts, scalds, bruises, &c.,and tor burns by spread- ing very thin—if sores get proud flesh in them, sprinkle a little burned alum on the salve before applying it. It has been in use in this county about forty years, with the great- est success. 4. Adhesive Plaster, or Salve, for Deep Wounds, Cuts, &c., in Place op Stitches.—White rosin 7 ozs.; bees-wax and mutton tallow, of each 4 oz.; melt ail together, then [H>ur into cold water and work as wax until thoroughly mixed, then roll out into suitable sticks for use. It may be spread upon firm cloth and cut into narrow strips. In case of deep wounds, or cuts, it will be found to fit mly hold them together, by first pressing one end of a strip upon one side of the wound until it adheres, then draw the edges of the wound closely together, and press down the other end of the strip until it adheres also. The strips should reach three or four inches upon each side of the cut, and run in different directions across each other, to draw ever) part of the wound firmly in contact It will crack easil) after being spread until applied to the warm flesh, ye if made any softer it be be depended upon tor length of time, but as it is, it has been worn as a strength- ening plaster, and remained ou over a year. 5. Peleg White’s Old Salve.—This, formerly cele- brated, salve was composed of only three very simple articles. 164 DR. CHASJE S RitCIPlSti Our “ Green M juntain Salve*' is far ahead of it, yet for tb» satisfaction of its old friends I give you its composition : Rosin 3 lbs.; mutton tallow icc. oceswax.ol each $ lb.; melt ed together and poureu into cold water, then pulled, and w orket as iboe-makers wax. it was recommended for old sores, cuts, bruises, tbeu r Rt.ic-plastcrs, &e., &c. APPARATUS FOR MAKING SALVES AND LOZENGES The above cut represents a board prepared with upon it of the derired thickness for the diameter of the rolls of salve, also a piece of board with a handle, with whjon to roll utc salve when properly cooled for that purpose, ihe salve is laid between the strips, which arc generally one inch thick, then, with the handle piece, roll it until that board comes down upon the strips which makes the rolls all of oue size, use a little tallow to prevent stickiug to the boards oi hands; then cut off the desired length and put a label upon them, to prevent them sticking to each other. A roller, and tin-cutter, is also represented in the same cut, with which, and another board, having thin strips upon it to correspond with the thickness of lozenges required, you can roll the mass down until the roller touches the stripe; and thus you can get them as well as the salve, of uniform thickness; then cut out with the cutter, laying them upon paper until dry. • V KinriFUGES.—Rastontn Lozkxgp.s.—Santonin 00 grs.; pulverized sugar 5 ozs.; mucilage of gum tragacanth sufficient to make into a thick paste, worked carefully together, that the tantouLu shall be evenly mixed throughout the whole mass* MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 165 then, if not in too great a hurry, cover up the mortar i. which you have rubbed them, and let stand from 12 n>24 hours to tem- per; at which time they will roll out better than it done imme- diately; divide into 120 lozenges. See apparatus, above, lot rolling, and cutting out. L)osh;—For a child 1 year old, 1 lozenge, night and morning; of 2 years, 2 lozenges; of 4 years, y; of 8 years, 4; of 10 years or more 5 to 7 lozenges; in all cases, to betaken twice daily, and continuing until the worm* start on a voyage of discovery. A gentleman came into the drug store one morning, with the remark, “ Do you know what your lozenges have becD doing?” As though they had killed some one, the answer was, no, is there anything wrong; he held up both hands together, scoop shovel style, saying, “ They fetched away the worms by the double handful.” It is needless to at- tempt to give the symptoms by which the presence of* worms might be distinguished ; for the symptoms of nearly every other disease is, sometimes, manifested by their presence But if the belly be quite hard and unusually large, with a peculiar and disagreeable breath, in the morning, foul or furred tongue, upper lip swollen, itching of the nose and anus, uniky white urine, bowels sometimes obstinately cos- tive, then as obstinately loose, with a craving appetite, then loathing food at times; rest assured that worm medicine will not be amiss, whether the persou be child, or adult. It Would he well to take a mild cathartic after four to six days use of the lozenges, unless the worms have passed off suffi- ciently free before that time, to show their general destruc- tion. Very high praise has also been given to the follow- ing: 2. Vermifuoe Ott,—Prof. Freeman’s.—Tn the May number of* tbe Eclectic Medical Journal of Cincinnati, O., 1 find so valuable a vermifuge from Prof. Z. Freeman, that I must he excused for its insertion, as the articles can always be obtained, whilst in some places you might tie; be able to get the santonin called for in the lozenges. Mis remarks following the recipe will make all needed explanations, end give confidence in the treatment. 'J he explanations in brackets are my own, according to the custom through the whole work. “ Take oil of ehenopodii, 4 oz. (oil of worm-seed,); oil of ter- eLxuth, 2 dra. (oil of turpentine,); oil of ricini, 14 ozs. (castoi 166 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. oil,); fluid extract of epigelia, £ oz. (pink) hydrastin 10 grs ; syrup of menth. pip. 4 oz (syrup of peppermint.) Dose—To a child 10 years of age. a tea-spoon 8 times a day, 1 hour beiore each meal ; if it purges too freely, give it less often. “ This is an excellent vermifuge, tonic, and cathartic, and has never failed (as well as 1 can judge,) to eradicate worms, if any were present, when administered for that purpose I have given no other vermifuge for the last five years, and often one tea-spoon hits brought away from three to twenty of the lutnbriea. Only a few days ago I presented one fluid drachm of it, (about one tea-spoon.) and causfO the ex- pulsion of sixty lutnbricoids, aud one fluid drachm, taken a few days afterwards, by the same child, brought away forty more, some of them six inches in length. Whern no worms are present, it answers the purpose of a tonic, cot recti rig the Condition of the mucus membrane of the stomacn and bow- els. improving the appetite aud digestion, aud operating as a mild cat hart ic.” 3. Wo km Tea.—Carolina pink-root, senna leaf manna, and American worm-seed, of each 4 oz.; bruise and pi nr on boiling water 1 pt.,11ml steep without boiling. Sweeten well, add half as much milk. Dose—A child of li ve years, may take 1 gill 3 tones daily, before meals, or sufficient to move the bowels rather freely. If this does not carry off any worms, wait one day and tepeat the operation ; hut if the bowels do not move by the first day’s work, increase the dose and continue to give it until that end is attained before stopping the medicine. This plan will he found an improvement upon the old where the lozenges or oil cannot be obtaiued, as above. 4. Worm Cake—English Remedy.—Wheat flour and jalap, of lb.; calomel, grain-tin, and ginger, of each 1 oz. Mix thoroughly and wet up as dough, to a proper consistence to roll Bill; then roll out as lozenge cakes, to three-sixteeiMlis of ail inch in thickness; then cut out } inch square and dry them. D<>sk—For a child from 1 to 2 years. J of a cake; 4 to 5 years, } tike; from o to 7 years. If cakes; from 7 to 10. 1f; trotn 10 to 12, 1} ; from 12 to 14, 2; from 11 to 17. 2f; from 17 <0 50 years, and all above that age, 24 cakes, but all men above that age 3 cakes. ‘•Children may eat them, or they ran be shaved oF very fine and mixed m a little treacle, houey, or preserves. If after taking the first dose, they do not work as you dew-w*. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 167 increase the dose a little. The patient to take the medicine tw;oe a week—Sundays and Wednesdays. To be taken iD tne morning, lasting, and to be worked off with a little warn tea. water trruel, or warm broth. N. B.— Milk must not be used in working them otl, and be careful of catching cold. • itnot/ilt, 1 "rintrr, (Jakkum, Kmj.” 1 obtained the above of an English family who praised it very highly as a cathartic for common purposes, as well as for worms. And all who are willing to take culumel, I have ao doubt will be pleased with its operations. TAPE-WORM.—Simple, but Effectual Remedy. - -This, very annoying and distressing, worm has been re- moved by taking two ounce doses of common pumpkin-seeds, pulverized, and repeated every four or five hours, for four or five days; spirits of turpentine, also in doses of one-half to two ounces, with castor oil, have proven very effectual; the root of the male feru, valeriau, bark oi the pomegranate root, Ac., have been used with success. Hut object iu speaking upon this subject, is to give the successes of Drs. Beach, of New York, and Bowler, of Beardstown, 111., from their singularity and perfect eradication of the worm, iu both cases: The first is from “ Beach’s American Practice, and Family Physician,” a large work, of three Volumes, costing Twenty Dollars, consequently not generally circulated ; whilst the latter is taken from the “ Eclectic Medical and College Journal,” of Cincinnati, and therefore only taken by physicians of that school. The last was first published by the “ New Orleans Medical and Surgical Jour- nal.” First then, Dr. Beach says: “ The symptoms of a tape-worm, as related to me by Miss Dunmuline, who had suffered with it for twenty-five years, are in substance as follows: It commenced at the age of ten, and afflicted her to the age of thirty-five. The worm often made her distressingly sick at the stomach ; she would sometimes vomit blood and be taken suddenly ill. an 1 occasionally while walking. It caused symptoms of many Other diseases, great wasting of the flesh, &c. Her appetite was very capricious, heiny at times good, and then poor tor •months, during which time her symptoms were much aggra- vated ; sickness, vomiting, great pain in the chest, stomach 168 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. and side, motion in the stomach, and also in the boweis, witfc pain, a sense of fullness or swelling, and beating or throb- bing in the same, dizziness, heaviness se—One tea-spoon eveiy 3 or 4 hours, according to the severity of the case. This speaks from ten years successful experience. 5. Diarrhea Syrup—For Cases brought on by Long Con- tinued Use of Calomel.—Boxwood, black cherry and prickly ash barks, with dandelion root, of each 2 ozs ; butternut bark 1 oz.; boil thoroughly, strain and boil down to 1 qt.; then add loaf sugar 2 lbs., and alcohol 1 gill, or brandy $ pt. Dose—A wine-glass from 3 to 5 times daily, according to circumstances. This regulates the bowels and tones up the system at the same time, no matter whether loose or costive. In one case of costiveuess it brought a man around all right who had been sowed up tight for twelve days. On the other hand, it has regulated the system after mouths of calomel-Diarrhea. 6. Wintergreen Berries have been found a valuable cor- rector of Diarrhea brought on by the use of cal- omel in cases of fever, eating a quart of them in 3 days time. The gentleman of whom I obtained this item tells nee that wintergreen essence has done the same tiling, when the berries could not be obtained. In the first place, “ every- thing else,” as the saying is, had been tried in vain, and the man's wife, in coming across the woods, found these berriea 178 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES and picked some, which when the husband saw, he craved, and would not rest without them, and, notwithstanding the fears of friends, they cured him. Many valuable discove- ries are made in a similar manner. 7. Dried Whortleberries, steeped, and the juice drank freely, has cured Diarrhea and Bloody Flux, both in children and adults. 8. Diarrhea and Canker Tea.—Pulverized hemlock bark, (it is generally kept by Druggists,) 1 table-spoon, steepen w half & tea-cup of water. For young children, in Diarrhea, or Canker, or wren they are combined, feed a tea-spoon of it, or less, according to the child’s a«re, two oi ttuee times daily, until cured. To ovo.oon e costiveness, which may arise from its u>e, scorch tresn nutter, and give it in place of oil, and in quantities corresponding with oil. Children have been saved with three cents worth of this bark which “ Alopath’ said must die. If good for children, it is good for adults, by simply increasing the dose. 9. Sumac hobs, steeped and sweetened with loaf sugar, has beer found very valuable for Diarrhea; adding in very severe cases, alum pulverized, a rounding tea-spoon, to 1 pt. of the strong tea. Dose—A tea, to a table spoon, according to the age of the cmld, and the severity of the case. It saved tfie life of a child when two M. D.’s (Mule Drf vers,) said it could uot be saved. CHOLERA TINCTURE.—Select the thinest cinnamon bark, cloves, gum gauiac, all pulverized, of each 1 oz. ; very best brandy 1 qt. Mix, and si ake occasionally for a week or two. Dose—A tea-spoon to a tabie-spoon for an adult, according to the condition and robustness or strength of the system. It may be repeated at intervals of 1 to 4 hours, if necessary, or much more often, according to the condition of the bow els. This I have from an old railroad-boss who used it with hit men during the last Cholera in Ohio, and uever lost a man whilst other jobbers left the road, or lost their men in ahund auee, thinking the above too simple to be of any value 2. Isthmus Cholera Tincture.—Tincture of rhubarb, ray enne, opium, and spirits of camphor, with essence of pepper mint, equal parts of each, and each as strong as can be made Dose- From 5 to 80 drops, or even to 00, and repeat uutil relief vg obtained, eveiy 5 to 80 iniuutes. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 179 C. FI. Cuyler, who was detained upon the Isthmus du- ring the cholera period, was saved by this prescription, as alsw many others. S Cholera Preventive.—Hoffman’s anodyne and essence of peppermint, of each 2 ozs.; tincture of ginger 1 oz.; lauda- num spirits of camphor, and tincture of cayenne, of each I oz.; mix. Dose—For an adult, from a tea to a table-spoon, accor- ding o symptoms. 4. • iHOi.EitA Cordial.—Chloroform, spirits of camphor, laud- anum and aromatic spirits of ammonia, of each 1 dr.; cinna- mon crater 2 ozs.; mix. Dose.—From 1 tea to a table-spoon, to be well shaken, and taken with sweetened water. 5. German Cholera Tincture.—Sulphuric ether 2 ozs; and pin into it castor and gentian, of each I ox.; opium and aganc, aeh 1 dr.; gum camphor £ oz.; let them stand 2 days, then adu alcohol 1 qt., and let stand 14 days, w hen it is ready for use. Dose.—One tea-spoon every 15 or 20 minutes, accor- ding to * tie urgency of the case. I obtained this prescription of a German at Lawrence- burgh, L*d., who had done very much good with it during the last <. nolera period in that place. 6. Egyi riAN Cure for Cholera.—Best Jamaica ginger root, bruised 1 »z.; cayenne 2 tea spoons; boil all in 1 qt. of water to i pt., and add loaf sugar to form a thick syrup. Dose.—One table-spoon every 15 minutes, until vomiting and purging ceases, then follow up with a blackberry tea. The foregoing was obtained of a physician who practiced in Egypt, \ not the Illinois Egypt,) during the great devas- tation of the cholera there, with which he saved many lives. 7. India Fpescription tor Cholera.—First dissolve gttm camphor ± o/ «n 1£ ozs. of alcohol—second, give a tea spoon of spirits of lia-tshorn in a wine glass of water, and follow it every 5 miuutes wik Children.—Angelica and white roots, of each 4 oz.; valerian and sculcap roots, with poppy heads, of each 2 ozs.; sweet-flag root J oz.; anise, dill, and fennel seed, with catmint leaves and flowers, motherwort and mace, of each 1 oz.; castor and cochineal of each £ oz ; camphor gum 2 scru- ples, benzoic acid (called flower of benzoin) i oz.; alcohol and water, of each 1 qt., or rum, or brandy 2 qts.; loaf or crushed sugar 1 lb. Pulverize all of the herbs and roots, moderately fire, and place in a suitable sized bottle, adding the spirits, or aieohe. and water, and keep warm for a week, shaking once or twice every day; then filter or strain, and add the camphor and ben- zoin, shaking well; now dissolve the sugar in another quart of water, by heat, and add to the spirit tincture, and all is com plete. Dose.—For a very ”«ung child, from 11 to 5 drops; it 1 year old, about 10 drops, and from that up to 1 teaspoon if 2 to 5 years old, Ac. For adults, from 1 to 4 tea-spoons, according tc the severity of the pain--to be taken in a cup of catmint or cat- nip tea for adults, and in a spoon of the same for children, it may be repeated every 2 to 6 hours, as needed. Uses.—It eases pain, creates a moderate appetite and perspiration, and produces rei'reshing sleep ; is also excel lent for removing flatulency or wind cholic, and valuable in hysteria and other uervous affections, female debility, Ac , in place of the opium auodyues. 8EIDLITZ POWDERS—Genuine—Rochelle salts 2 drs. , bi-carbonate ot soda 2 scruples; put these into a blue paper, and put tartaric acid 145 grs. into a white paper. To use, put each MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 183 Into different tumblers; fill \ with water and put a little loaf sugar iii with the acid, then pour together and drink. This makes a very pleasant cathartic, and ought to be used more generally than it is, in place of more severe medicines. Families can buy 3 ozs. of the Rochelle-salts, and i oz. of the bi-earbouate of soda, and mix evenly to- gether, using about 2 tea-spoons for 1 glass, and have the taitaric acid by itself, and use a little over i a tea-spoon of it for the other glass, with a table-spoon of sugar, all well dissolved, then pour together and drink while effervescing; and they will find this to do just as well as to have them weighed out and put up in papers, which, cost three times as much, aud do no better. Try it, as a child will take ii with pleasure, as a nice beverage, and ask for more. A lady once lost hei life, thinking to have a little sport, by drinking one glass of this preparation, following it directly with the other ; the large amount of gas, disen- gaged, ruptured the stomach immediately. D1PTH KIM A—Dr. Phinney’s Remedy, of Boston — Dr. Phiuney, of Boston, turmsnes the Journal of that city with a recipe for diptheria, which has recently been re-published by the Detroit Daily Advertiser, containing so much sound sense, and sA decidedly the best thing that I have ever seen recommended for it, that I cannot forbear giving it an insertion, aud also recommend it as the de- pendence in that disease. lie says “the remedy on which I chiefly depend is the Actea Racemosa, or black snake-root, which is used both locally as a gargle and taken internally. As a gargle, 1 tea-spoon of the tincture is added to 2 table- spoons of water, and gargled every hour for twenty-jour hours' or till the progress of the disease is arrested; after which the inter- vals may he extended to an hour and a half, or more, as the symptoms may justify. In connection with the use of the gar- ble, or separately, the adult patient should take internally to the amount of two or three tea-spoons of the tincture iu the course of twenty-four hours. ■‘Iu addition to the foregoing, give 10 drops of the muriated tincture of iron 3 times in the 24 hours, and a powder trom 3 to 5 giaius of the chlorate of potash in the intervals. “ Uuder this treatment a very decided improvement takes place within the first twenty-four hours, the ash colored 184 i>&. chase’s recipes. nembrane disappears usually within two days, and the patient overcomes the malignant teudcney of the disease “ The foregoing doses are for adults; for children they should of course he diminished according to age, &c. If will he observed that great importance is attached to the Frequent use of the gargle—that is, every hour—in order to overcome the morbific tendency of disease hy a con- stantly counteracting impression. In order to guard against a relapse, an occasional use of the remedies should be continued for several days after the removal of the membrane and subsidence of unpleasant symptoms. To complete the cure, a generous diet and other restoratives may he used as the intelligent practitioner shall direct.” CATHARTICS.—Vegetable Physic.—Jalap and pepper- mint leaf, of each 1 oz.; senna 2 ozs.; pulverize all very finely and sift through gauze, bottle it and keep corked. Dose—Put a rounding tea-spoon of the powder and a heaping tea-spoon of sugar into a cup, and pour 3 or 4 spoons of boiling water upon thJin; when cool stir it up and drink all. The best time for taking it is in the morning, not taking breakfast, hut drinking freely of corn-meal gruel. If it does not operate in 3 hours, re- peat half the dose until a free operation is obtained. Dr. Beach first brought this preparation, nearly in its preset,, proportions, to the notice of the Eclectic practition- ers who have found it worthy of very great confidence, and applicable iu all eases where a general cathartic action is re- quired. It may be made into syrup or [fills, if preferred. 2. Indian Catiiabtic Pills.--A Iocs and gamboge, of each 1 oz.; mandrake and blood-root, with gum myrrh, of each t oz.; gum camphor and cayenne, of each 14 drs.; ginger 4 ozs.; all finely pulverized ami thoroughly mixed, with thick mucilage (made by putting a little water upon equal quantities of gura arabic and gum tragacanth,) into pi 11 mass; then formed into common sized pills. Dose—Two to 4 pills, according to the obustuess of the patient. Families should always have some of these cathartics, as well as other remedies, in the house, to be prepared for acci- dent, providence, or emergence, whichever you please to call it. They may be sugar-coated, us directed umier tLai head, if desired. TOOTHACHE AND NEURALGIA REMEDIES.—Mag- netic Tooth Cordial and Pain Killer.— Heat alcohol 1 oz. laudanum 4 oz.; chloroform, liquid measure, § oz.; gum cam 185 phor $ 02.; oil of cloves I dr.; sulphuric ether f oz.; and oil of lavender 1 dr. If there is a uerve exposed this will quiet it. A.pp!y with lint. Hub also ou the gums and upon the face agaiifst the tooth, freely. ‘•The ruling tootliache why endure, when there is founds perfect cure, fl Inch oaves the tooth and stops the pain, and gives the sufferer ease again.” In the case of" an ulcerated tooth at Georgetown, Ohio, Mr. Jenkins, the proprietor of the “Jenkins’ House,” had been suffering for eight days, and I relieved him by bathing the face with this preparation, using a sponge, for two or three minutes only, taking a tea-spoon or two into the mouth, for a minute or two, as it had broken upon the inside. The operation of the cordial was really nuiyicul, according tc old notions of cure. I offered to sell a grocer a book, at Lawrenceburgh, Ind. He read until he saw the “ Magnetic Tooth Cordial” men* mentioned, then he says, “If you will cure my toothache, I wih buy one.” I applied the cordial, it being late Saturday evening. and on Monday morning he was the first man ou baud for Ins book. 'i he Sheriff of Wayne Co., Ind., at Centerville, had been raftering three days of neuralyia, and l gave him such de- cided relief in one ex cuing, with tins cordial, that he gave me a three-dollar piece, with the remark, “Take whatever you please.” In passing from Connoatville, Pa., upon a canai boat, the cook, (who was wife of one of the steersmen,) was taken, after supper, with severe pain in the stomach. There be- ing no peppermint on boa id, and as strange as it may appear, no spirits of any kind whatever; I was applied to as a phy- sician to contrive something ior her relief; L ran my mind over the articles I had with me, and could not hit upon any other so lively to benefit as the “ Tooth Cordial,” arguing in my mind that if good for pain where it could be applied to tne spot externally, l could apply it to the point of pain internally in this case, (the stomach,) as well. I gave her a tea-spoon of it in water, and waited five minutes without relief, hut concluding to go “ whole hog or uone,” l re- peated the dose, and inside of the next five minutes she was perfectly cured, tier husband, the other steersman also, and one of the drivers, bought each a book, and the next week, in Erie, one of her neighbors bought another, upon MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 186 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES her recommendation ; since which myself and agents hav* freely used it, and recommend it for similar conditions wilb equal success. The cases are too numerous to mention more. I mention these to give confidence to purchasers, that all, who need it, will not fail to give it a trial. It is good for any local pain, wherever it can be applied. Pain will not long-exist under its use. 2. lIoirvoPATHTC Tooth Cordial.—Alcohol J pt.; tircture of arnica and chloroform, ol each 1 oz.; oil of eloves 4 oz. Mix and apply as the other. There are many persons who would prefer this last to the foregoiug, from the presence of arnica ; and it is espe- cially valuable as a liuimeut for bruises involving ellusion of blood under the skiu. 3. Neuralgia—Internal Remedy.—Sal-ammoniac * dr., dissolve in water 1 oz. Dose—One table-spoon every 3 minutes, for 20 minutes, at tlie end of which time, if not before, the i>aiu will have disappeared. Tb«* foregoing is from a gentleman who had been long afflicted with the disease, who found no success with any other remedy. Instead of common water, the “ (laiuphoi Water” or Mint Water” might by some be preferred The ammonia is a very diffusable stimulant, quickly ex- tending to the whole system, especially teuding to the sur- face. 4. Ktng of Ott.s, for Neuralota and Uhettmattrm.—Horn- ing fluid 1 pt.; oils of cedar, hemlock, sassafras, and origanum, o* each 2 ozs.; carbonate of ammonia, pulverized, 1 oz.; mix. Directions.—Apply freely to the nerve and gums, around the tooth; and to the face, in neuralgic pains, by wetting brown paper and laying on the parts, not loo long, for fear of blister- ing,—to the nerves of teeth by lint. A blacksmith, of Sturgis, Mich., cured himself and others, with this, of neuralgia, after physicians could give ni relief. 5 Several years ago, T was stopping for a number of v.rek's at a hotel near Detroit ; whilst there, toothache was once made the subject of conversation, at which tune the lantPady, a Mrs. Wood, said she had been driven bv it. to an extreme measure—no less than boiling wormwood herb in alcohol and taking a table-spoon of it into the mouth MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 187 boiling hot, immediately closing the mouth, turning the head in such a way as to bring the alcohol into contact with all of the teeth, then spitting it out and taking the second immediately, in the same way, having the boiling kept up by sitting the tin containing it upon a shovel of hot coals, bringing it near the mouth. She said she never had toothache after it, nor did it injure the mouth in the least, but, for the moment, she thought her head had cob lapsed, or the heavens and earth come together. And although the lady’s appearance and deportment was such ts to gain general esteem, 1 dared not try it or recommend to others. But during the last season l found a gentle- man who had tried the same thing, in the same way, ex- tent he took four spoons in his mouth at a time, and did aot observe to keep his mouth closed to prevent the con- tact of the air with the alcohol, the result of which was a scalded mouth, yet a perfect cure of the pain and no re- currence of it for twelve years up to the time of conversa- tion. And I do uot now give the plan expecting it to be- come a general favorite, but more to show the severity of the pain, forcing patients to such extreme remedies. It would not be applicable only in cases where the pain was confined entirely to the teeth. 6. Horse-radish Hoot, bruised and bound upon the face, or other parts where pain is located, has been found very valuable for their relief. And 1 think it better than the leaf fur drafts to the feet, or other parts. 7. Teeth—Extracting with little or no Pain.— Dr. Dunlap, a dentist of Chillicothe, (_)., while filling a tooth for me, called my attention to the following recipe, given by a dental publication, to prevent pain in extracting teeth. He had used it. It will be found valuable fur all who must have teeth extracted, for the feeling is suffi- ciently unpleasant even when all is done that can be for .is relief. Tincture of aconite, chloroform, and alcolol of each 1 oz., morphine 6 grs. Mix. Manner of Application.—Moisten two pledgets of cotton with the liquid and apply to the gums on each side of the tooth to he extracted, holding them to their place with pliers or some other convenient instrument for 5 to 16 minutes rubbing the gum freely inside and out. 188 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. My wife has had six teeth taken at a sitting, b it the last twrt she wished to have out., she could not mak i up her mind to the work until I promised her it should not hurt in the extraction, which I accomplished by accompanying her to Dr. Porter's dental office, of this city, and adminis tering chloroform in the usual way, just to the point ol nervous stimulation, or until its effects were felt over the whole system, at which time the teeth were taken, not causing pain, she says, equal to toothache for one minute Not the slightest inconveuience was experienced from trie effects of the chloroform. I consider this plar, and so does Dr. Porter, far preferable to administering it until entire stupefaction, by which many valuable lives have been lost. 8. Dentrtfice wmcH Removes Tartareofs Adhesions, Arrests Decay, and Induces a Healthy Action of the Gums.—Dissolve 1 oz. of borax in 1£ pints of boiling water, and when a little cool, add 1 tea-spoon of the tincture of myrrh and 1 table-spoon of the spirits of camphor, and bottle for use. Di- rections.—At bedtime, wash out the mouth with water; using a badger’s hair brush (bristle brushes tear the gums and should never be used); then take a table-spoon of the dcnlritice with as much warm water, and rub the teeth and gums well, each night until the end is attained. 9. Tooth-Wash—To Remove Blackness.—Pure muriatic acid 1 o/„; water 1 oz.; honey 2 ozs.; mix. Take a tooth brush and wet it freely with this preparation, and briskly rub tin black teeth, and in a moment's time they will be perfectly whiu : then immediately wash out the mouth with water, that the aciimay not act upon the enamel of the teeth. It need not be used often, say once in three or foui months, as the teeth become black again, washing out quickly every time. Without the washing after its use it would injure the teeth, with it, it never will. This blackness is hard to remove, even with the brush and tooth powder. 10. Dr. Thompson, of Evansville, Ind., gives the above n twenty drop doses, three times daily, for laryngitis or bron- chitis, taken in a little water, throwing it back past the teeth. 11. Tooth PoVder—Excellent.—Take any quantity of finely pulverized chalk, and twice as much finely pulverized charcoal; make very fine; then add a very little suds made with Castile soap, and sufficient spirits of camphor to wet all u MKMCAL DEPARTMENT. 189 ft thicK paste. Apply with the finger, rubbing thoroughly, and it will whiten the teeth better than any tooth powder you can Duy. I noticed the past season, a piece going the rounds of the papers, “ That charcoal ought not to be used on the teeth.” 1 will only add that a daughter of mine has used this pow- der over six years, and her teeth are very white, and no damage to the enamel, as yet. Six years would show up the evil, if death teas in the pot. Coal from bsisswood or other soft wood is the easiest pulverized. ESSENCES.—Druggists’ rules for making essences is to use one ounce of oil to one quart of alcohol, but many of them do not use more than half of that amount, whilst most of the peddlars do not have them made of over one-fourth that strength. I would hardly set them away if presented I have always made them as follows : Peppermint oil 1 oz.; best alcohol 1 pt. And the same amount of any other oil for any other essences which you desire to make. Dose—A dose of this strengin of essence will be only hum 10 to fit) drops. AVith most essences a man can drink a whole bottle with- out danger, or beuefit. Peppermint is colored with tincture of tumeric, cinnamon with tincture of red sandal or sunders wood, and wintergreen with tincture of kino. There is no color, however, for essences, so natural as to put the green leaf of which the oil is made into the jar of essence, and let it remain over night, or about twelve hours ; then pour off, or filter if for sale. Hut ii families are making for their owu use they need nut bother to color them at all. Put many believe if they are high colored they are neces- sarily strong, but it has no effect upon the strength what- ever, unless colored with the leaf or bark, as here recom- mended. Cmnamon bark does in place of the leaf. See “ Extracts.” TINCTFRES.—In making any of the tinctures in com tnoo use. or in making any of the medicines called for in this work, or in works generally, it is not only expected, but absolutely necessary, that the roots, leaves, barks, &c., should be dry, unless otherwise directed ; then : Take the root, herb, bark, leaf or gum called for, 2 ozs.; and bruise it, then poar boiling water i pt.f upon it, and when cold 190 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. add best alcohol £ pt., keeping warm for from 4 to 6 days, or letting it stand 10 or 12 days without warmth, shaking once oi twice daily; then filter or strain ; or it may stand upon the dregs and he carefully poured off as needed. With any person of common judgment, the foregoing directions are just as good as to take up forty times as much space by saying—take lobelia, herb and seed, 2 ozs.; alcohol l pt.; boiling water £ pt.,—then do the same thing, over and over again, with every tincture which may be called for; or at least those who cannot go ahead with the foregoing in- structions, are not fit to handle medicines, at all; so 1 leave the subject with those for whom the given information is sutn eieut. In making compound tinctures, you can combine the simple tinctures, or make them by putting the different arti- cles into a bottle together, then use the alcohol and water it would require if you was making each tincture separately. TETTER, RINGWORM, AND BARBER’S ITCII—To Cuke.—Take llte best Cuba cigars, smoke one a sufficient length of time to accumulate f or £ inch of ashes upon the end of tho cigar; now wet the whole surface of the sore with the saliva from the mouth, then rub the ashes from the end of the eigat thoroughly into, and all over the sore; do this three times a day, and inside of a week all will be smooth and well. I speak from exteusive experience ; half of one cigar cured myself when a barber would not undertake to shave me It is equally successful in tetters on other parts of the body, hands, Ac Tobacco is very valuable in its place (medicine)— like spirits, however, it makes slaves of its devotees. 2. Narrow" leaved (yellow) dock root, sliced and soaked in good vinegar, used as a wash, is highly recom- mended as a cure for tetter, or ring-worm. BALSAMS.—Dr. R. W. Hutchins’ Indian ITe a lino, form- erl*, R-ckham’s Cnu»H Balsam.—Clear, pale msii, 3 lbs., and melt it, adding spirits of turpentine 1 qt.; balsam of tulu 1 oz i; balsam of fir 4 ozs.; oil of hemlock, origanum, with Venice tur- pentine, of each 1 oz.; strained honey 4 ozs.; mix well, and bottle. Dose—Six to 12 drops; fora child of six, A to 5 drops, on a little sugar. The dose can he varied according to the ability of the stomach to hear it, and the necessity of the ease. It is a valuable preparation for coughs, internal Daiua. or •trains, and works benignly upon the kidneys. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 191 t. Doctor Mttcttel’s Balsam, for Cuts, Bruises, Arc — fenugreek seed, and g. m myrrh, of each 1 oz.; sassafras root- bark, a good handful; alcohol 1 qt. Put all into a bottle, ana keep warm for 5 days. Dr. Mitchel, of Pa., during his life, made great use of *1 is balsam, for cuts, bruises, abrasions, Ac., and it will be f( und valuable for such purposes. ARTIFICIAL SKIN—Fok Burns, Bruises, Arfasions, Ac. Proof Against Water.—Take gun cotton and Venice turpen- tine, equal parts of each, and dissolve them in 20 times as much sulphuric ether, dissolving the cotton first, then adding the tur- pentine; keep it corked tightly. The object of the turpentine is to prevent pressure or pinching caused by evaporation of the ether when applied to a bruised surface. Water does not affect it, hence its value for cracked nipples, chapped hands, surface bruises, etc., etc. DISCUTIENT8—To Scatter Swellings.—Tobacco and cieuta (water hemlock) leaves, of each 2 ozs.; stiamonium, (jimpsom) and sofanum nigrum (garden night shade, sometimes erroneously called deadly night shade,) the leaves, and yellow dock root, of each 4 ozs.; bitter-sweet, bark of the >-oot. 3 ozs. Ex l. act the strength by boiling w ith water, pressing out. and re-boiling, straining and carefully boiling down to the consist- ence of an ointment, then add lard lb ozs., and simmer together. It will be used for stiff joints, sprains, bruises attended with swelling when the skin is unbroken, for cancerous lumps, scrofulous swellings, white swellings, rheumatic swellings, Ac. It is one of the best discutieuts, or scatterers in use, keeping caucers back, often for months. SMALL POX—To Prevent Pitting the Face.—A great discovery is reported to have recently been made bv a Surgeon of the English army in China, to prevent pitting or marking the face. The mode of treatment is as follows: When, in small pox, the preceding fever is at its height, and just before the eruption appears, the chest is thoroughly rubbed with Croton Oil and Tartaremetic Ointment. This causes the w hole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body to the relief of the rest. It also secures a full and complete eruption, and thus prevents the disease from attacking the internal organs. Tins is said to he nmv the established mode of treatment in the English army in China, by general orders, and is regarded aa perfectly effectual. 192 Dtt. CHASE (i RECIPES. It is a well known fact, that disease is most likely to make its attack upou the weakest parts, and especially upon places in the system which have been recently weakened by previous disease; hence, if an eruption (disease) is caused by the application of croton oil mixed with a little of the Tartaremetic Ointment, there is every reason to believe that the eruption, in Small Pox, will locate upon that part in- stead of the face. The application should be made upon the breast, fore part of the thighs, &c., not to interfere wuk the posture upon the bed. It has been suggested that a similar application will re- lieve whooping-cough, by drawing the irritation from the lungs; if so, why will it not help to keep measles to the surface, especially when they have a tendency to the inter- nal organs, called, striking in. It is worth a trial, in of these cases. See “ Causes of Inflammation," under the head of “ Inflammation.” 2. Common Swellings, to Reduce.—Tory-weed pounded sa as to mash it thoroughly and bound upon any Uminou swelling, will very soon reduce the parts to their natural size. This weed may be known from its annoyance to sheep raisers, as ic furnishes a small burr having a dent on one side of it. There are two species of it, but the burr of the other kind has no dent—is round. It will be found very valuable iu rheumatisms attended with swellings. WENS—To Cure.—Dissolve copperas in water to rnako it very strong; now take a pin, needle, or sharp knife and prick, or cut the wen in about a dozen places, just sufficient to caus<> it to bleed; then wet it thoroughly with the copperas water, once daily. This, followed for four weeks, cured a man residing within four miles of this city, who hud six or eight of them, some of them on the head as large as a hen’s egg. The preparation is valuable, as a wash, in erysipelas. BLEEDINGS—Internal and External—Styivtio Balsam—For internal hemorrhage, or bleeding from tho lungs, stomach, nose, and iu excessive menstruation or bleeding from the womb, is made as follows : Put sulphuric acid 2| drs. by weight, in a \Vedgewood mortar and slowly add oil of turpentine 1 fluid dr., stirring it constantly with the pestle, then add slowly again, alcohol 1 fluid dr., and MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 193 continue to stir as long as any fumes arise from the mixture, then bottle in glass, ground stoppered, bottles. It should be a clsur red color, like dark blood, but if made of poor materials it 'will be a pale, dirty red, and unfit for use. Dose—To be given by putting 40 drops into a tea-cup and rubbing it thorough- ly witn* a tea-spoon of brown sugar, and then stir in water until the cup is nearly full, and drink immediately—repeat every hour for or 4 but its use should be discontinued as soon as no more fresh nlood appears. Age does not injure it, but a skina forms on the top which is to be broken through, using the medi- cine below h. This preparation was used for thirty years, with uniform success, by Dr. Jas. Warren, before he gave it to the pub- lic ; since then, Dr. King, of Cincinnati, author of the Ec- clectic Dispensatory, has spread it, through that work, and many lives have been saved by it. It acts by lessening the force of the circulation (sedative power,) as also by its as- tringent effects in contact with the bleeding vessels. And the probability is that no known remedy can be as safely depended upon for more speedy relief, or certainty of cure, especially for the lungs, stomach, or nose; but for bleedings from the womb, or excessive menstruation, I feel to give preference to Prof. Platt’s treatment as shown in the recipe for “ Uterine Hemorrhages.” .No relaxation from business need be required, unless the loss of blood makes it neces- sary, nor other treatment, except if blood has been swal- lowed, or if the bleeding is from the stomach, it would be well to give a mild cathartic. Bleeding foom the stomach will be distinguished from bleeding from the lungs by a sense of weight, or pain, and uuaccompanied by cough, and discharged by vomiting, and in larger quantities at a time than from the lungs. The blood will be darker also, and often mixed with particles of food. Exercise in the open air is preferable to inactivity; and if any symptoms of returning hemorrhage show themselves, Degin with the remedy without loss of time, and a reason- able hope of cure may be expected. 2. External Styptic Remedies.—Take a glazed earthem vessel that will stand heat and put into it water 21 pts.; tincture of benzoin 2 ozs.; alum I lb., and boil for 6 hours, replacing the water which evaporates in boiling, by pouring in boiling water so as not to stop the boiling process, constantly stirring. At the end of the 0 hours it is to be filtered or carefully strained and bottled, also in glass stoppered bottles. Application—Wet lint 194 DR. OQASK’S RECIPES. and lay upon the wound, binding with bandages to prevent the thickened blood (coasrula) from being removed from the mouths of the vessels, keeping them in place for 24 to 48 hours will be- sufficient. If any doubt is felt about this remedy, pour a few drop* of it into a vessel containing human blood—the larger the quantity of the styptic, the thicker will be the blood mass, until it becomes black and thick. Pagliari was the first to introduce this preparation to public notice.—Eclectic Dis- pensatory. 3. Styptic Tincture—External Application.—Best bran- dy 2 ozs.; finely scraped Castile soap 2 drs.; potash 1 dr.; mix all, and shake well when applied. Apply warm by putting lint ujvm the cut, wet with the mixture. I have never had occasion to try either of the prepara- tions, but if I do, it will be the “ Balsam,” or “ Externa) Styptic” first, and if they should fail I would try the “ Tinc- ture,” for I feel that it must stop blood, but I also am cer- tain that it would make a sore, aside from the cut; yet, better have a sore than lose life, of course. These remedies ire such, that a physician might pass a lifetime without oo- Jasion to use, but none the less important to know. BRONCKOCELE—Enlarged Neck—To Cure.—Iodide of potassium (often called hydriodateof potash,)2 drs.; iodine 1 dr.; water 2 $ ozs.; mix and shake a few' minutes and pour a little into a vial for internal use. Dose—Five to 10 drops before each meal, to be taken in a little water. External Application.— "With a feather wet the enlarged neck, from the other bottle, night and morning, until well. It will cause the scarf skin to peel off several times be- fore the cure is perfect, leaving it tender, but do not omit the application more than one day at most, and you may rest assured of a cure, if a cure can be performed by any means whatever; many cures have been performed by it, and there is no medicine yet discovered which has proved one-hundreth part as successful. 2. But if you are willing to be longer in performing the cm*, to avoid the soreness, dissolve the same articles in alcohol ] pt., and use the same way, as above described, (i. e.) both intern*! aud external. PAIN KILLER—Said to be Perry Davis’.—Alcohol 1 qt.; gum guaiac 1 oz.; gums myrrh and camphor, and cayenne pul- verized, of each £ oz. Mix. Shake occasionally for a week of MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 195 10 days and filter or let settle for use. Apply freely to surface pains, or it may be taken in tea-spoon doses for internal pains, and repeat according to necessities. If any one can tell it from its namesake, by its looks or actions, we will then acknowledge that the old minister, from whom it was obtained, was greatly deceived, although he was perfectly familiar for a long time with Mr. Davis, and his mode of preparing the pain-killer. POISONS—Antidote.—When it becomes known that a pov- iou has been swallowed, stir salt and ground mustard, of each a heaping tea-spoon, into a glass of water, and have it drank immediately, it is the quickest emetic known. It should vomit in one minute. Then give the whites of two or three eggs in a cup or two of the strongest coffee, tf no coffee, swallow the egg in sweet-cream, and if no cream sweet-milk, if neither, down with the egg. I have used the mustard, with success, in the case of my own child, which had swallowed a “ Quarter ” beyond the reach of the finger, but remaining in the throat, which, to all appearances, would have soon suffocated him. I first took “ granny’s plan” of turning the head down and patting on the back; failing in this, I mixed a heaping tea-spoon of mustard in sufficient water to admit its being swallowed readily; and in a minute we had the quarter, dinner, and ail; without it, we should have had no child. I knew the mustard to work well once upon about twenty Elen in a boat-vard, on Bede iiiver, Newport, Mich. I had been furnishing them with “ Switched’ at twenty cents per bucket, made by putting about a pound of sugar, a quart of vinegar, aud two or three table-spoons of ginger to the bucket of water, with, a lump of ice. An old man, also in the grocery business, offered to give it to them at eighteen ponce per bucket, but, by some mistake, be put in mustard instead of ginger. They had a general vomit, which made them think that Cholera had come with the horrors of “ Thirty-Two,” but as the downward effects were not experienced, it passed off with great amusement, safely establishing my custom at the twenty cents per bucket. INFLAMMATORY DISEASES—Description.—Be- fore I attempt to speak of the inflammatiou of particular organs, I shall make a few remarks upon the subject in geu 196 DR. CHASE'S RECITES. eral,'which will throw*out the necessary light for those noi already informed ; and I should be glad to extend my treat- ment to all of the particular organs of the body, but the limits of the work only allows me to speak of Pleurisy, In- flammation of the Lungs, &c.; yet, Eclectic ideas of inflam- mation are such, that if wc can, successfully, treat inflam- mation in one part of the system, (body,) we can, with but little modification, succeed with it in all of its forms: And my general remarks shall be ot such a nature as to enable any judicious person to, successfully, combat with inflamma- tions in every part of the system. Then : First.—Inflammation is, generally, attended with pain, increased heat, redness, ar d swelling. Some, or all of these signs alicays accompanyii g it, according to the structure of the organ affected. Second.—The more loose the structure of the organ, the less severe will be the pain ; and the character of the structure also modifies the character of the pain. In mucout membranes, it is burning or stinging. In serous membrauep it is lancinating, and most usually very sharp and cutting In fibrous structures, it is dull, aching, and gnawing. In nervous structures, it is quick, jumping, and most usually excruciatingly severe; and in nearly all structures more or less soreness is soon present. Third.—To make the foregoing information of value, it becomes necessary to know the structure of the various parts of the system. Although the ultimate portions of muscle or flesh, as usually called, is fibrous, yet, there is a loose cellular structure blended with it, which fills up and rounds the form to its graceful beauty—hence, here, we have more swelling, and less severity of pain. With the rose, or red of the lips, commences the mucous membrane, which forms the lining coat of the mouth, stomach, &c., through the whole alimentary canal, also lining the urethra, bladder, ureters, vagina, womb, fallopian tubes, &c., hence the heat always felt in inflammation of these organs Tbe whole internal surface of the cavity of the body is lined uy a serous membrane, which is also reflected or folded upon the lungs—here called pleura, (the side,) hence pleurisy, (inflammation of the pleura or side,) and also folded upon MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 197 i&e upper side of the diaphragm; the diaphragm forming a partition between the upper and lower portions of the cav- ity of the body, the upper portion containing the lungs, heart, large blood vessels, &c., culled the chest, more com- monly the breast—the lower portion containing the stouiacn, liver, kidneys, intestines, bladder, &c., called the ubdome* —more commonly the bowels. The sides of the abdomen are covered with a continuation of this serous membrane, which is also reflected upon the lower side of the diaphragm, liver, stomach, small and large intestines, bladder, &c.,— here called peritoneum, (to extend around) in all places it secretes (furnishes) a moistening fluid enabling one organ of the body to mjve upon itself or other organs without friction. This serous membrane is thin, but very firm, heuce the sharpness of the pain when it is inflamed, as it cannot yield to the pressure of the accumulating blood. Fourth.- -The ligaments or bands which bind the dif- ferent parts of the body together at the joints, and the gracefully contracted ends of the muscles (called tendons) which pass the joint, attaching themselves to the next bone above, or below, and the wristlet-like bauds which are clasped around the joints through which these tendons play, as over a pully, when the joint is bent, are all of a Jihrous construction, hence the grinding or gnawing pains of rheu- matism (inflammations), and injuries of. or near joints ; and it also accounts for that kind of pain in the latter stages of intestinal inflammations, as the stomach, intestines, ld ; the blood is driven in upt" the internal organs, and the one which is the least able to bear the pres- sure gives way before the invading enemy, and an inflamma- tion is the result ; which, if left to itself, will terminate in death ; but heat and moisture are applied to the coustringed trfaee—the blood is brought back: and held there, and « MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 199 cure is speedily effected—the natural or physical effect of the cause is obviated or avoided. Theu why should it be thought impossible with God that a moral remedy should be provided against moral evils ? Thanks be to God, it has been provided to the willing and obedient, through our Lord Jesus Christ, but only to tne willing and obedient, morally as well as physically, tor if a person will not permit a proper course to be pursued to over- come tne consequences arising to his body from cold, he must suffer, not only the inflammation to go on, but also guilt ol uiiud for neglecting his known duty. The same is true in either poiut of view, only it looks so curious that there should be those who can reason of physical things but utterly refuse to give up their mural blindness; the con- sequences be upou their owu heads. Just in proportion to the susceptibility of an organ to tak» jo diseased action, is the danger of exposure ; for example if a person has had a previous attack of pleurisy, or inflam- mation of the lungs, those organs, or the one which has been diseased, will be almost certain to be wjnin prostrated, usu- ally called relapse; which is in most cases, ten times more severe than the first attack ; then be very careful about ex- posures when just getting better from these, or other disease. Inflammation terminates by resolution, effusion, suppura- tion, or mortification. Ly resolution, is meant that the parts return to their natural condition ; by effusion, that blood may be thrown out from the soft parts, or from mucous membranes,—that lymph, or serurrf, a colories- part of the blood may be thrown out by serous membranes, which ofteD form adhesions, preventing the after motions of the affected parts—and here what wisdom is brought to light, in the fact that whatever is thrown out from the mucus surface never, or at least very seldom adhere, or grow up ; if it did, any part of the alimentary canal from the mouth to the stom- ach and so on through the intestines, would be constantly adhering ; s, .also of the lungs; for these various organs are more frequently affected by inflammations than any other parts of the body—by suppuration, when abscesses are formed containing pus (matter,) or this may take place upon the surface, when it is usually called canker, or corroding ulcers cancers, &c.; by gangrene, (mortification,) when death of 200 DR CHASE’S RECrPES the parts take place; in this case, if the part is sufficiently extensive, nr if' it is an internal part, death of‘ the whole body, if unt relieved, is the result. The methods of inflammatory termination is believed tc result from the grade of inflammation—for instance, at the circumference of a boil, the inflammation is weak, serum is thrown out; near the centre, where the inflammation is a little higner, lymph is poured out and adhesion takes place; —next jius—at the centre, mortijictwn and consequent sloughing takes place. In boils, the tendency is to suppuration ; in carbuncles, the tendency is to mortification; but in rheumatism, mumps, &c., there is a strong tendency to resolution ; and it is often very difficult to avoid these natural terminations. '1 he five different tissues of the body also modify the i» flammation according to the tissue inflamed, viz: the cellular (fleshy) tissue, is characterized by great swelling, throbbing pain; and by its suppurating in cavities—uot spread ng all over that tissue. Inflammation of the serous tissue, has sharp lancinating pain, scarcely any swelliug, but much reaction (fever), throws out lymph, and is very liable to form adhesion—not likely to terminate in mortification, ex- cept in peritonitis (inflammation of the lining membrane of the abdominal cavity), which sometimes terminates thus in a few hours, showing the necessity of immediate action. Inflammation of the mucous tissue, is characterized by burning hea1 or stinging pain (hence the heat of the stom- ach, bowels, &c.)—without swelliug, not much febrile re- action, and never terminates in resolution (health) without a copious discharge of mucus, as from the nose and lungs, in colds, catarrhs, coughs, |» instrument, full breathing 202 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES not being indulged, from its increasing the difficulty; the cough also aggravates the paiu ; great prostration of strength, the countenance expressing anxiety and suffering. The breathing is short, hurried, and catching, to avoid increase of pain ; in some cases, the cough is only slight. It may be complicated with inflammation of the lungs, or bronchia) tubes, and if so complicated, the expectoration will be mixed or streaked with blood. Vet it makes but very little difference, as the treatment is nearly the same—with th» exception of expectorants, quite the same; although ex- pectorants are not amiss in pleurisy, but absolutely ueres sun/ in inflammation of the lungs. Even Mackintosh, of the “ Regulars,” says: “ It must be recollected that pueu monia ” (inflammation of the lungs) “and pleuritis ” (pieu- risy) “ Frequently co-exist ” (exist together); “ But neither is that circumstance of much consequence, being both inflammatory diseases, and requiring the same genera* remedies.” But there I stop with him, for I cannot go the bleeding, calomel, and antimony. I have quoted his words to satisfy the people that the “ Regulars ” acknowledge the necessity of a similar treatment in all inflammatory diseases, the difference between the two branches of the profession existing only in the remedies used. Causes of Pleurisy.—Cold, long applied, constringe? (makes smaller) the capillaries (hair-like blood-vessels; which cover as a net-work the whole surface, impairing tne circulation, driving the blood internally, causing congestion (an unnatural accumulation of blood) upon the pleura, nenee pleurisy. Exposures to rains, especially cold raitnj. cold, wet feet, recession (striking in) of measles, scarier, fever, rheumatism, &c., often cause inflammation of trail char- acter. Indications.—Relax the whole surface, whien removes the obstructions—restore, and maintain, an equal circulation, and the work is accomplished. The ternpersrare of the surface and extremities is much diminished, snowing tnat the blood has receded (gone) to the internal, diseased, or- gans, the temperature of which is much increased ; for with the blood goes the vitality (heat) of the body. This condi- tion of’ the system clearly indicates the treatment, viz: the application of heat to the surface in such a way as to he MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 203 «tle to Veep it there until nature is again capable of carry* mg on her own work, in her own way. Treatment.— It has been found that the quickest and least troublesome way in which heat could be applied to the whole surface, is by means of burning alcohol, formerly called a “Iium sweat,” because rum was stronger than at present, and more plenty than alcohol; but now alcohol is the most plenty, and much the strongest and cheapest. It should always be in the house (the 1)8 per cent.) ready for use ns described under the head of “ Sweating with Burning Alcohol,” (which see), or if it is day time, and tires are burning, you can give the vapor-bath- sw«s»t, by placing a pan, hall or two-thirds full of hot water, under the chair, having a comforter around you; then putting into it occasionally a hot stone or brick, until a free perspiration is produced and held for from 15 to 80 minutes, according to the severity of the case; and if this is commenced as soon as the atiack is fairly settled upon the patient, in not more than one .case out often will it be necessary to do anything more; but if fairly established, or if of a day or two’s standing, then, at the same time you are administering the meat, place the patient’s feet in water as hot as it can be borne ; have also a strong tea made of equal parts ol pleurisy-root and catnip, (this root is also called white root—Doctors call it asclepias tuberosa) into a taucer ol this hot tea put 2 tea-spooi sof the “Sweating Drops,” Irinking all at one time, repeating the dose every hour for 5 or ( hours, using only 1 tea-spoon of the drops at other times, ex- ;ept the first, giving the tea freely once or twice between doses. As soon as the sweating is over, place the patient comfortably m bed so as to keep up the perspiration from 6 to 12 hours, or an til the pain aud uneasiness yield to the treatment. If neces- sary, after the patient takes the bed, place bo ties of hot water to i he feet and along the sides, or hot bricks, or stones wrapped with flannel wet with vinegar, to help keep up the perspiration. Mustard may also be placed over the seat of pain, and upon the foet aiso rubbing the arms and legs with dry flannel, which very mu< h aids the process when the attack is severe. If the pain wnU hugs severe, and perspiration is hard to maintain, steep cay- enw , or common red peppers in spirits and rub the whole sur- face with it, well and long, and 1 will assure the blood to come 3ut '-oon and see what is going on externally. Keep the patient well covered all the time, and avoid dralts cf cold air. As the pain (ill symptoms begin to subside, the doses of medicine may be lessened, and the time between doses lengthened, until the disease is fairly under control; then administer a dose of the “Vegetable Physic,” or some other cathartic, if preferred, or if that is not at hand, this course may be repeated or modified to meet returning or changing symptoms. Wetting he surface daily, with alcohol and water, equal parts, will be found an excellent assistant in treating any disease, es- pecially, internal inflmmations, as Pleurisy, Inflammation of the Lunge, Consunapton, Bronchi ta, »yain fell asleep. When I awoke in the morning I could just realize a little pain, or rather uneasiness, upon taking a full breath, hut did nothing more, being very careful abowt exposure however, through the day ; hut at bed time I took another alcohol sweat, and that was the last of the pleurisy. Again : Mr. , a medical student rooming in the same house where I lived, awoke in the night, attacked with pleurisy, the same as myself, after exposure ; but as he was attending the lectures of alopathic professors, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 205 course, he must have one of them to attend him ; one was called, three pints of blood were taken, calomel and anti- mony were freely given; and in about three or four days the disease gave way to time, or the treatment; but a calo- mel-Di&rrhea set in, and came very near terminating his life, and kept him from college and his studies over six weeks; and he said if he was ever calomelized again, he would prosecute the doer to the end of his life; out he graduated in that school of medicine, and no doubt is now expecting to go and do the same tliiug. Choose ye your serv- ant. Shall he be reason, with common-sense resuds, o-i shall he be silver-slippered fashion, with hi® heaith-ckstroy ing policy? It need not ne arsmed that these woie not parallel cases, for I had the pleurisy when young, ana was treated in the fashionable style, and was constantly liable to, and had frequent attacks of it during my earlier life. In chronic cases, which sometimes occur, and frequently under other treatment, it will be necessary, not only to use the foregoing treatment, but to add to it an emetic about once a week, alternating with the sweating process, with much external friction, occasionally, with the pepper aud spirits to hold the blood to the surface. Since the first publication of the foregoing, I have seen a statement going the rounds of the “ Papers," that a bad case of burning had taken place in N. Y., by the alcohol process of sweating, calling it new ; but it has been in use more than forty years; I have used it, I speak safely, more than a hundred times, and never before heard of its injuring any one; but still it is possible that some accident may have occurred in its use, or that some one has undertaken it who was not capable of prescribing; but if calomel could claim one year’s use under its most accomplished prescribers with only one case of injury, I would say, let it be continued, but in place of one, it is hundreds; farther comment is unnecessary. Put, those who prefer, or from the absence of alcohol, or other necessities, can take “ grandmother’s plan," i. place the feet into hot water, and drink freely of pennyroyal, sage, or other hot teas, for fifteen to twenty minutes; then get into bed, continuing the teas for a short time, remaining in bed for a few hours; which, if commenced soon after the 206 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. attack of colds, or even more severe diseases, will, in pic* out of ten cases, not only relieve, bat prevent days, perhaps weeks, of inconvenience and suffering. Where there are complications with the substance of the lungs, you will find explanations under the next head. 3. Inflammation of the Lungs —Is usually, by phy- sicians, called Pneumonia, from the Greek, Pneitmon, the Lungs. It may involve the whole lung, on one or both sid*-s, but is more generally confined to one side, and to the lower portion, than to the whole lung. Causes.—Exposure to cold, wet, cold feet, drafts of air, especially if in a perspiration, recession of eruptive diseases, ike., and consequently more liable to come on in the winter, or cold wet changes of spring, than at any other time; and upon those whose lungs are debilitated by previous attacks, or are predisposed to, or actuallysuffering under disease. Symptoms.—Inflammation of the Lungs, like other dis- eases of an inflammatory character, nearly always commen- ces with a chill, soon followed by fever, more or less violent, according to which, the severity of the case may be some- what predetermined, unless of a congestive character; in which case, instead of a hot and fevered surface, there will be a cold, clammy feel to the hand, as well as unpleasant to the* patient. There will be difficulty in taking full breaths, as well as an increased number of breaths to the minute, which in healthy persons is generally about twenty. Dull pain, with a tightness of the chest, short and perpetual hack- ing cough, scanty expectoration, which is tough, and sticks to the vessel used as a spittoon, and is more or less streaked with blood, or more like iron-rust in color, and may have so much blood in it as to make it a brighter red The pulse is variable, so much so that but little confidence can be placed in it. The tongue soon becomes dry and dark: but a div and glossy tongue, with early delirium, are considered dan- gerous symptoms, that is, under Old School treatment.'* But with our rational treatment we very seldom have a fatal termination, yet it is occasional, and really wonderful that it, is not more frequent, when we take into account the neglect erf some physicians and imprudence of many patients. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 207 Indications.—As the blood has receded from the sur- fs jc and centered upon the lungs; the indications are to return it to its original vessels, by judiciously applying bear and moisture, which is sure to relax their constringed condition, instead of cutting a hole and letting it run out (hireding), which prostrates the patient and retards his recovery. Treatment.—The treatment of Inflammation of the Lungs in rece.il cases, will be, at first, the same as tor “ Pleurisy,” that is, to pioduce free perspiration—soak the feet in hot water while administering the “Alcohol Sweat,” or Vapor Bath, as there di rected, with the white-root tea and “ Sweating Drops,” for sev- eral hours, with bottles of hot water or hot bricks to the feet and sides, mustard-drafts to the feet also, as they can be borne; and after o or 8 hours, the •' Vegetable,” or other cathartic should be administered, and great care not to expose the patient to drafts of aii during its operation, especially if in perspiration. If this course is faithfully persevered in, it will call the blood to the surface—prevent congestion of the lungs (unnatural accumula- tion of blood)—lessen the fever—ease the pain and aid expecto- ration. But if the expectoration becomes difficult, and the dis- ease should not seem to yield in from 8 to 12 hours at farthest, or by the time the cathartic lias freely operated, then, or soon after, give the “ Eclectic,” or “ Lobelia-seed Emetic,” as directed under that head ; and if called to a case which is already con- firmed, it is best to l>egin with the emetic, then follow7 upas above directed in recent cases. An expectorant, in confirmed (estab- lished) ca-es will be needed—let it be composed of tincture of lobelia 1 oz.; tincture of ipecac | oz.; tincture of blood-root j oz.; simple syrup or molasses 2 ozs.; mix. Dose—One tea- spoon every 2 hours, alternately with the white-root tea and “ Sweating Drops,” except the first dose may be 2 tea-spoons. The case must then be watched carefully; and any part or all of the treatment may be repeated, lessened, increased, or modi- fied, to suit returning or remaining symptoms. Persons having this book in the house, and being gov- erned by it, having also the leading medicines on hand; and commencing with this disease, or inflammation of any other organs, modifying the treatment by common sense, according to the remarks on “ General Inflammation,” will aot have to repeat the course in one case out of ten. In inflammations of the stomach, known by heat, accor- ding to the degree of the inflammation, drinks of slippery- elm water, or mucilage of gum arabic, &c., may be freely taken ; and in inflammation of other organs, other modifi- cations will be required; as for Dysentery, which is an in- DB. CHASE’S RECIPES. 208 flammation of the large intestines, the “Injection” must ha freely used, as also the perspiring processes, in all cases. In chronic inflammation, the emetic should be given once a week; and some other time during the week, the sweating should be gone through also, with dry frictions to the whole surface, by means of a coarse towel, for fifteen to twenty min- utes each time, twice daily ; and if the feet are habitually cold, wash them in cold water and wipe them dry, at bed time, then rub them with a coarse cloth or the dry hand until they are perfectly warm and comfortable; and it may be expected that these long standing cases will soon yield to this rational course. Female Debility and Ihhegulatuties.—It is a self evi- dent fact that the finer the work, and the more complicated a piece of machinery, the more liable is it to become deranged, or out'of order; and the more skillful must be the mechanic who undertakes to make any necessary repairs. Upon this consideration I argue that the system of the female is the finer and more complicated, having to mmftjrm a double work, (child bearing,) yet cnfined to the jess dimensions than the male. And to perform this double func tion of sustaining her own life, and giving life to her species, it becomes necessary in the wisdom of God to give her such a peculiar formation, that between the ages of fifteen and forty-five, or the child-bearing period, she should have a san- guineous, monthly flow, called by various names, as, monthly periods, menstruation, menses, catamenia, courses, &c., &c. Why it should have been so arranged, or necessary, none can tell. We are left to deal with the simple fact; and it would be just as wise in us to say that it was not so, as to say there was no one who planned it, because we cannot see and fully understand the reason why it is so. This flow varies in amount from one to three, four, or five ounces, lasting from three to four or five days only, when usual health is enjoyed. And as this book will fall into the hands of very many farai lies who will have no other medical work for reference upon this subject, it will not be amiss for me to give the necessary instructions here, that all may be able to qualify themselves to meet the exigencies (demand) of all cases. A day or two previous to the commencement of these periods, for the first time, an uneasiness often amounting to pain, in the parts, is felt, with sense of heaviness also in the womb—lying in the lower part of the abdomen. Some females are very nervous at these periods, others have a flushed face accompanied with dizziness and headache sickness at the stomach, &c. In young girls these new feel- ings produce uneasiness, for want of knowledge as to theii cause and result, and should lead them to seek maternal 209 advice and counsel, unless they have some hook of this kind which explains the whole matter. And it would certainly be advisable, in all cases, for girls to not only seek such advice from the mother, or lady with whom they may be living, but be guided by it also. And although, with many girls, there may be uneasiness in the mammie, often amounting to rea. pain, yet, no real danger need be apprehended; for these unpleasant sensations will continue, and increase in severity, nntil in healthy young females there will be what is knows as a “show” which will afford immediate relief, not from the quantity of the flow, at the first few periods, lut from the fact that the organs peculiar to the female have accompli lied their mysterious work. Ordinarily these periods begin at about fifteen years of age, some earlier or later even as much as a year and s metimes more. With girls who take an active part in the labors of the house, freely romping, play- ing, &c., their health and strength becoming fully developed thereby, these periods come on a little earlier, and are more healthy and regular. Allow me here to give a word of caution about taking cold at this period. It is very dangerous. I knew a young girl, who had not been instructed by her mother upon this subject, to be so afraid of being fofind with this show upon her apparel which she did not know the meaning of, that she went to a brook and washed herself and clothes—took cold, and immediately became insane—remaining so as long as I knew her. Any mother who so neglects her duly to her child, in not explaining these things, nor by putting a work of this kind into her hands, runs the risk of injury to her daugh- ter that may never be remedied, even with the best treatment, after the harm is done. After this flow takes place, the unpleasant feelings usually subside, and the health again becomes good for the month, ■when all of the foregoing sensations recur again, with a larger flow and longer continued, recurring every four weeks, and is then called menses Ac., &c. This function of the female system, from the fineness and complication of the structures, is very liable to become deranged in various ways. It may be partially suppressed or entirely stopped, called, amenorrhea,—it may become painful or impeded, dysmenor- rhea,—it may be very free or excessive, menorrhagia, (like hemorrhage, for the treatment of which see recipe for Uterine Hemorrhage in another part of the book),—or, it may be irregular in its recurrence and duration, or a continual glairy flow which indicates an inflammation of the parts, leucorrhea. But as this monthly flow is absolutely necessary to health, between these periods of life, say fifteen to forty-fine—its oup- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 210 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. pression,—-painfulness—excessiveness, or irregularity, wil- soon produce general debility. Causes.—The female organism is such that what affects tho general system of the male, much more frequently aflects the organs peculiar to her system only. No reason can be given for it except the wisdom of the Create r, and the necessities of her construction. But this debility and irregularity are so interwoven together that what causes one must necessarily affect the other. In the good old grandmother-days, when girls helped with the work of the household, warm but loose clothing, plain food, good thick-soled shoes, and absence of novels, to excite the passions, &c., such a thing as a feeble, debilitated woman or girl was seldom known ; but now, sedentary habits, stimu- lating food, every conceivable unphysiological style of dress, paper-soled shoes, checking perspiration, excitable reading, repeated colds by exposure going to and from parties, thinly clad, standing by the gate talking with supposed friends (real enemies) when ' ey ought to be by the tire or in bed, all tend to general dehih *; and the real wonder is that there is not more debility tl a there is. Symptoms.—The very word debility, shows plainlv the leading symptom, weakness She appears pale, especially about the lips, nose, &c., with a bluish circle about the eyes, which appear rather sunken, she feels dull, languid, and drowsy, stomach out of order, nausea, often with fluttering about the heart; the nervous system sometimes becoming so much involved as to bring on fits of despondency leading many to commit suicide. The feet and limbs frequently be- come swollen, restless in sleep, often craving unnatural food, as clay, soft stones, &c. There may also be a sensation of bearing down, or even falling of the womb, as it is called, (prolapsus uteri) which is much the most common among the married. The bowels are usually costive, often griping pains which cause much suffering. Pains in the h ad and back also; but instead of being looked upon as unfavorable, they rather show that nature is trying to accomplish her work, and needs the assistance of rational remedies. It is not to be supposed that every patient will experience all of these symptoms, at one time, or all of the time; but they commence as pointed out, and if allowed to go on with- out proper correction, they will increase in severity until they may be all experienced in a greater or less degree. Indications—The symptoms indicate (point out) the treat- ment, tint is, if there is debility, tonics are required ; paleness shows that the blood lias become deficient in iron; and the MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 211 softness of the flesh indicates that a more nutritious diet is needed. Tiie dullness and drowsy languidness indicate the necessity of out-door, active exercise. Travel, or, agreeable home company, to ramble over hill and dale, resting as often and as long as may be necessary, not to tire, but sufficient to cream an app- tite and aid digestion—using, once a week, any gentle cathartic to move the bowels once or twice only at each time, with the “ Tonic Wine Tincture,” given in another part of this work, or the iron and ginger, given below, as deemed best or most convenient to obtain. In cases of inflammation of these organs, known by a glairy flow, cooling and astringent injections are called for, both as an act of cleanliness, as also of cure. In cases where the womb has fallen—se'tled low in the pelvis—the necessity is shown for a pessary support until the general treatment relieves the.dif- ficulty. Costiveness, points out laxatives, whilst nature’s ef- forts, shown by pains in the head, back, &c, call for the whole general remedies above pointed out; and which shall be a lit- tle more parlicularized in the following: .- V Treatment.—For the weakness and geney>J debility of the patient, let the “Tonic Wine Tincture” be treely taken in connection with iron to strengthen and invigorate the system; bcth-root, (often called birth-root, Indian balm, ground lily, &e„) the root, is the part used, Solomon’s seal and columbo spikenard, comfrey, gentian, the roots, with camomile flowers, of each 1 oz.; with a little white-oak bark, may be added to the wine tincture to adapt it to these particular cases, taking a wine glass, if it can be borne, from 3 to 5 times daily. Do- mestic wine can be used in place of the Port, in making the tonic wine tincture. to 1. A very good way to take iron, is to go to a blacksmith and have him take a piece of nail-rod, a foot or two in length, and heat it, letting it cool in the cinders of the forge, which softens it; then have him file it all up for you, saving the filings, on a piece of paper, with which filings, mix as much ground ginger, rubbing them thoroughly together. Dose— Half of a tea-spoon three times daily, in a little honey or mo lassesT The natural action of the iron upon the system will be to make the stools dark, or nearly black, so do not be fear- ful about that condition ; for, without it, we should not be sure of the desired action of the iron. Let the use of the iron be kept up for twro or three months at least, or until health is obtained. In places where it may be difficult to get the iron filings, given in No. 1., the sweet liquor of the protoxide of iron, kept by druggists, the technical name ot which is Liq. Ferri Protox- tdi JDulc., may be used in place of that, a dose of which will 212 DK. chase’s KKCIPES. be about one teaspoon 3 times daily, just after meals. I have prescribed this preparation with very great success, contin- uing its use, in one very bad case, nearly a year. With the above treatment, let there be a warm bath taken, once a week, putting into the water a quart or two of weak- lye, made by putting a fire-shovel or two of wood ashes into the water and stirring up well, and let stand a while, then, pour off into the bathing water. Castile-soap will do about as well, but common soap is not as good. Wash well, and wipe off the water from the body, then with a dry coarse tow- el, have some one to rub the whole body and limbs briskly unti £he surface glows with warmth and comfort. For diet, moderate quantities of broiled pork, broiled beef, baked beef or mutton, wild game &c., baked or broiled, with bread baked, at least, the day before, roast or baked potatoes, with but little butter, unless very nice, or just made, then, not very freely. This treatment, and diet, will soon overcome the softness of the flesh, and give strength for the necessary exercise, which will remove the dullness and drowsy, languid feelings. The exercise may be labor about the house, but better to be out of doors, as gardening, romping, swinging, singing and riding, or running, when it can be"borne, with agreeable company, travel, &c. The following pill will be found a gentle and excellent cathartic, or laxative: 2. Female Laxative Pill.—Aloes, macrotin, and cream of tartar, of each 2 drs.; podOphylin and ground ginger, 1 dr, each ; make into common sized pills by using oil of pepper- mint 15 to 20 drops and thick solution of gum Arabic mucil- age. Dose—One pill at bed time, or two if found necessary, and sufficiently often to keep the bowels just in a solveat con- dition, but not less often than once a week. If the aloes should not agree with any, they may use the following: 3. Female Laxative and Anodyne Pill.—Macrotin and rhubarb, of each 10 grs.; extract of hyoscyamus, 10 grs; Castile-soap, 40 grs.; scrape the soap and mix well together, forming into common sized pills with gum solution as in the above recipe. Dose—One pill, as the other, or sufficiently often to keep the bowels solvent, but not too loose. The hy- oscyamus tends to quiet the nerves without constipating the bowels. Some females are always troubled with pains, to a greater or less degree, in the commencement of these periods, and some through the whole period. The following pill will be found very soothing and quieting to the nervous system of all such persons. MED16AJL DEPARTMENT. 213 » Ptlt, for Painful Menstruation—Anodyne—Ex- 1 -et of stramonium and sulphate of quinine, of each 16 grs.; nmototin * 3 grs.; morphine, 1 g .; make into 8 pills. Dose —One pill, repeating once or twice only. 40 minutes to an hnu • apart, if the pain does not subside. If the pain subsides, then is no need of repeating the dose. The advantage of this pill i that costiveness is not increased, and pain must subside undt r its use. 5. Tea—Injection for Leucorritea.—In cases of leucor- ihea which continue any length of time, the following decec- liou, w 11 be found very valuable as an injection : The inner bark of the common hemlock tree, and the leaves and bark of the witch-hazel, sometimes called spotted-alder, an ounce of each, will make a quart of the decoction, a little of which, with a female syringe, should be injected, morning and evening, while in a recumbent position. If the case does not yield to the above in a few clays then use a uttle of the following, in the same way: 6. Injection for Leucorrhea.—White vitriol and sugar of lead, of each 10 grs.; common salt, loaf sugar and pv iverized alum, of each 5 grs.; sole water, 1 pt. Sim- mer ail over a slow fire for ten or fifteen minutes, when cool strain’and bottle, keeping well corked. When desired to use, pour out about halt as much as needed and put an equal amount of soft water with it, and inject, as of the above. It may be reduced with more soft wrater if there should be sufficient inflammation to cause much uneasiness. A little uneasines is expected, however, and necessary. 7. In cases of permanent falling of the womb, a good pes- sary may be made of a piece of fine, firm sponge, cut to a proper size to admit, wdien damp, of being placed in the vagina to hold the womb to its place. The sponge should have a stout piece of small cord sewed two or three times through its center, and left of sufficient length to aid in its removal, morning and evening, for the purpose of cleansing it, using the necessary injections, &c. After having injected either No. 5 or 6 of the above, as thought preferable, tlie sponge having been thoroughly washed and pressed dry, it will be again introduced sufficiently high to hold the womb in place. Remembering, however, in almo-t all of these cases of falling of the ivomb, that the patient will find it necessary to keep the bed until well, or very much relieved. One.thins: is very evident in these cases of debility; the blood is deficient in iron; consequently that article should en- * Note.—Macrotin, Podopliylin, tfc.. are kept by all Eclectic Phy- sicians and should be kept by all druggists. 214 MR. CHASE’S RECIPES. ter largely into any medicine intended for its relief; and in rnost cases the iron-filings and ginger, or the sweet liquor, will be found, continued for two or three months, all the medicine required; and the iron must not be omitted in any case whatev- er. Iron is the main-spoke in these fem de-wheels, and very valuable in general debility of males as well as females. For real hemorrhage, which may be known by the coagula- tion (clotting) of the blood, as the menstrual flow does not coagulate, see “Uterine Hemorrhage,” or the “Styptic Bal- sam,” but for profuse or long continued flowing of wasting, use the following: 8. Powder for Excessive Flooding —Gums kino and catechu, of each 1 dr.; sugar of lead and alum, of each 12 dr.; pulverize all and thoroughly mix, then divide nto 7 to 10 grain powders. Dose—One every 2 to 8 hours until checked, then less often, merely to control the flow. If any female, into whose hands this book shall come, will carefully study and use the foregoing rational remarks and prescriptions, and is not a i hundred times better pleased with the results than she would have been by calling half of the physicians of the day, I should be very much disappointed, anil I would be sure that the remedies did not have their com- mon effects, which, I feel, will not be the case from the great good they have already done, many times ; besides they save the delicacy of exposures, in many instances; and they will al- ways save the delicacy of conversing with and explaining their various feelings and conditions, to one of the opposite sex. So li'ghly important is this fact—that the information should become general—every girl, old or young, ought to be furnished with “ Dr. Chase’s Recipes,” and also receive all the additional instruction that a mother’s experience can give her. lANNER’S, SHOE, AND HARNESS MAKER’S DEPARTMENT. COLORS—Best Color for Boot, Shoe, and Harness Edge, and Ink Which Cannot Freeze.—Alcohol 1 pt.; tine ture of iron 1£ oz.; extract of logwood 1 oz.; nutgalls, pulver- ised, 1 oz.; soft water £ pt.; mix. Or: 2. Take alcohol 1 pt.; extract of log-wood and tincture of iron, of each 1 oz.; nutgalls, pulverized, 1 oz.; and sweet oil j oz.; mix. I Lave found shoemakers using these colors, each think- ing lje had the best color in the world. The sweet oil is believed to prevent the hot iron from sticking, and to make a better polish. The first one makes a very passable ink for winter use, carrying a quick hand to prevent it from spreading in the paper, from the presence of the alcohol, which, of course, is what prevents it from freezing, and that is the only argu- ment in favor of it as an ink for writing purposes. 3 Cheap Color for the Edge.—Soft water 1 gal.; extract of logwod 1 oz.; and boil them until the extract is dissolved, ,hen remove from the fire and add copperas 2 ozs.; bi-chromate of potash and gum arabic, of each £ oz.; all to be pulverized. This makes a cheap and good color for shoe or harness edge, but for cobbling or for new work, upon which you do not wish to use the “ hot kit,” but finish with heel-ball, you will find that if, as you pour this out into the bottle to use. you put a table-spoon of lamp-black to each pint of n it will make a blacker and nicer finish. It makes a good coior for cheap work, but for fine work, nothing will supercede the first colors given. This also makes a very good ink lor writing purposes, if kept corked to avoid evaporation, which makes it gummy or sticky. See also “Grain Side Blacking.” 4. Sizing for Boots and Shoes, in Trreing-out.—Take water 1 i|t., and dissolve in it, by heat, isinglass 1 oz., adding more water to make up for evaporation; when dissolved, add 6tarch 6 oz.; extract of logwood, bees-wax, and tallow, of each 2 oz.; and continue the heat until all is melted and well mixed. Rub the starch up first, by pouring on sufficient boiling watet for kkat purpose. 215 216 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES It makes boots and shoes soft and pliable, applying it when treeing-out, and is especially nice to clean up work which has stood long on the shelves. 5. Water-Proof Oil-Paste Blacking.—Take camphene 1 pt., and put into it all the India-rubber it will disso've; when ■dissolved, add currier’s oil 1 pt.; tallow <5 lbs.; lamp-black 2 ozs. mix thoroughly by heat. This is a nice thing for old harness or carriage tops, as well as for boots and shoes. Or you can dissolve the rubber in tne oil by setting them in rather a hot place tor a day or two; and save the expense of campkene, as chat is of no use only as a solvent to the rubber. Inere are those, how- ever, who do not like to use the rubber, tmnkiug it rots the leather ; then use the following : 6. Water-Proof Paste Without Kttbbf.b.—Take tallow 1 lb.; bees-wax i lb.; castor or neats-i'ooi oii i pt.; and lamp-black i oz.; mix by heat. Or: 7. Neat’s-Foot Oil, brought to n proper consisted: with a little bees-wax and tallow ; colored with lamp-black, will be found proof against snow or water. 8. Some, however, may prefer the following manner of preserving their boots and shoes, from a orrespoudent of the Mechanics’ Gazette ; but if they do ine boots must be made large, from the fact that the has a ten- dency to shrink the leather. lie savs : “ I have had only three pair of boots for the last six years, (no shoes) and I think I shall not require any more the next six years to come. The reason is, that 1 treat thorn in the following manner: “ I put 1 lb. of tallow and £ pound of rosin in a pot on the fire; when melted and mixed, i warm the boots and apply the hot stuft with a painter’s brush until neither the sole nor the upper wul soak in any more. If it is desired that the boots should immediately take a polish, dissolve 1 oz. of wax in spirits of tur- pentine, to which add a tea-spoon of lamp-black A day after the boots have been treated with the tallow and rosin, rub over them this wax in turpentine, but not before the fire. “ Thus the exterior will have a coat of wax alone, and will shine like a mirror. Tallow or any other grease becomes rancid, and rots the stitching as well as the leather, but the rosin gives it that antiseptic quality which preserves the whole. Boots aud shoes should be made so large as to ad- LEATHER-WORKING DEPARTMENT. 217 uitrof wearing cork soles. Cork is so bad a conductor of heat, that with it in the boots, the feet are always warm on the coldest stone floor.” 9. Black Varnish for Edge.—Take 98 per cent alcohol 1 pt.; shellacS ozs.; rosin 2 ozs.; pine turpentine 1 oz.; lamp- black £ oz. ; mix, and when the gums are all cut, it is ready to use; but bear in mind that low proot alcohol will not cutguma properly, for any varnish. This, applied to a boot or shoe edge, with a brush, gives it the shining gloss resembling much of the Eastern work. It is also applicable to wood or cloth requiring a gloss, after naving been painted. 10. Varnish for Harness, the Best in UsE.--Take 98 per cent alcohol 1 gal.; white pine turpentine H lbs.; gum shellac 1| lbs.; Venice turpentine 1 gill. Let these stand in a jug ii the sun or by a stove until the gums are dissolved, then add sweet oil 1 gill, and lamp-black 2 ozs., rub the lamp-black first with a little of the varnish. This varnish is better than the old style, from the fact that it’s polish is as good, and it does not crack when the harness is twisted or knocked about. If you wish a varnish for fair leather, make it as the above, in a clean jug, but use no lamp-black. The pine turpentine and sweet oil make it pliable, yet not sticky. TANNING, BLACKING, AND FINISHING.—Process for Calf, Kip, and Harness, in from Six to Thirty Days.—For a 12 lb. calf skin, take terra-japonica 8 lbs.; common salt 2 lbs., a'um 1 lb.; put these into a copper kettle with sufficient wrater to dissolve the whole by boiling. The skin, or skins, will first he limed, haired, and treated 'u every way as for the old process ; then it will be put nto a vessel with sufficient water to cover it, at which time fou will put in one pint of the composition, stirring it well; tdding the same amount each night and morning for three lays, when you will add the whole ; handling two or three dines daily all the time tanning ; you can continue to use the tanning liquid by adding half the quantity each time, of new liquor, and by keeping these proportions for any miount, and if you desire to give the leather the appearance of bark color, you will put in one pound of Sicily sumac. Kip skins will require about twenty days, light horse iides for harness, thirty days, to make good leather, while 218 DR. CIIASE'S RECIfES. calf skins will only require from six to ten days at most The japonica is put up in large cakes of about one hundred and fifty pounds, and sells, in common times, at about fou* cents per pound, in New York Byron Bose, a tanner, of Madison, 0., says that one quart of oil of vitriol to fifty sides of leather with the japon- ica and alum, as above, leaving out the salt, will very much improve it; the acid opens the pores, quickening the p>u cess without injury to the leather. 2. Canadian Process.—The Canadians make feu* liquors in using the japonica: The first liquor is made by dissolving, for 20 sides of upper, 15 lbs. of terra japonica in sufficient water to cover the upper, being tanned. The second liquor contains the same amount of japonica, and 8 lbs. of saltpetre also. The third contains 20 lbs. of japonica. and lbs. of alum. Tlie fourth liquor con- tains only 15 lbs. of japonica, an*l 14 lbs. of sulphuric acid; and the leather remains 4 days in each liquor for upper; anil for sole, the quantities and time are both doubled. They count 50 calf skins in place of 20 sides of upper, but let them lie in each liquor only 3 days. 3 Deer Skins—Tanning and Bufftng for Gdovfs.—For each, skin, take a bucket of water, and put into it 1 qt. of lime; let t-be skin or skins lay in from 3 to 4 days; then rinse in clean water, hair, and grain; then soak them in cold water to get out the glue; now scour or pound in good soap suds, for half an hour; after which take white vitriol, alum, and salt, 1 table- spoon of each to a skin; these will be dissolved in sufficient water to cover the skin and remain in it for 24 hours; wring out as dry as convenient; and spread on with a brush i pt. cf currier’s oil, and hang in the sun about 2 days; after which you will scour out the oil with soap sui:ig business on a large scale, by means of the regular beam and flesh-knife ; when drye or nearly s \ soften by pulling and rubbing with the hands, and also with a piece of pumice-stone. This, of course, is the quickest way of tanning, and by only wetting the skins with, the acid and soaking out m twenty minutes, they are noe rotted 5. Another Method.—Oil of vitriol ■£■ oz.; salt 1 teaenpof milk sufficient to handsomely cover the skin, not exceeding 3 qts.; warm the milk, then add the salt and vitriol; stir the skin in t'.ie liquid 4J minutes, keeping it warm; then dry aud- work it as directed in No. 4. 0 Tannins* Sheep-Skins, Applicable for Mittens Door Mats, Roee3, &c.—Dor mats, take two long-wooled skins, make a strong suds, using hot water; when it is cold wash the skins m it, carefully squeezing them between the hands to get the dirt out of the wool; then wash the soap out with clean cold water. Now dissolve alum and salt, of each half a pound, with a little hot water, which put into a tub of cold water sufficient to cover the skins, and let them soak in it over night, or twelve hours, then bang over a pole to drain. When they are well drained, spread or stretch carefully on a hoard to dry. They need not be tacked if you will draw them out, several times with the hand, while drying. When yet a little damp, have one ounce, each, of saltpetre and alum, pulverized, and sprinkle on the flesh- side of each skin, rubbing m well; then lay the flesh-sides together and hang in the shade for two or three days, turn mg the under skin uppermost every day, until perfectly dry Then scrape the flesh-side with a blunt knife, to remove any remaining scraps of flesh, turn off projecting points, and rub 220 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. the flesh-side with pumice or rotten stone, and with tbt hands ; they will be very white and beautiful, suitable toi a foofimat, also nice in a sleigh or wagon of a cold day They also make good robes, in place of the buffalo, if col- ored, and sewed together. And lamb-skins, (or sheep-skins if the wool is trimmed off evenly toabout one-hall' or three fourths of an inch in length) make most beautiful and warm mittens for ladies, or gentlemen. 7. Tanning Fur and Other Skins—Fifty Dollah Recipe.—First,—Remove the legs and other useless parts, and soak the skin soft; then remove the fleshy substances and soak in warm water for an hour; now : Take for each skin, borax, saltpetre, and glauber-salts,,of each £ oz.,and dissolve or wet w ith soft w ater sufficient to allow it to be spread on the flesh-side of the skin. Put it on with a brush, thickest in the centre or thickest part of the skin, and double the skin together, flesh-side ir keeping it in a cool place for twenty-four hours, not allow ing it to freeze, however. Second,—Wash the skin clean, and then : Take sal-soda 1 oz.; borax £ oz.; refined soap 2 ozs.; (Col fate’s white soap is recommended as the best, but our “ White lard Soap” is the same quality, ); melt them slowly together, being careful not to allow them to boil, and apply the mixture tc the flesh-side as at first—roll up again and keep in a warm place for 24 hours. Third.—Wash the skin clean, as above, and have salera- tus two ouuces, dissolved in hot rain water sufficient to well saturate the skin, then : Take alum 4 ozs.; salt 8 ozs.; and dissolve also in hot rain water; when sufficiently cool to allow the handling of it with- out scalding, put in the skin for 12 hours; then wring out t ne water and hang up, for 12 hours more, to dry. Repeat this last soaking and drying from 2 to 4 times, according to the desired oftness of the skin when finished. Lastly,—Finish by pulling, working, &c., and finally by rubbing with apiece of pumice-stone and fine sand-paper. This works admirably on sheep-skins as well as on fur- skins, dog, cat, or wolf-skins also, making a durable leathei Well adapted to washing. A man in our county paid fiifty dollars for this recipe, and LEATHER-WORKING DEPARTMENT. 221 cas made Ins money out of it many times. It is very valu- able. 8. Tanning Deer and Woodchuck-skins for Whtps, Strings, &c.—Prepare the skin according to the last recipe, then: Take oil of vitriol 1 oz.; salt 1 pt.; milk 3 qts.; mix. Now dip the skin in warm rain water having sufficient saleratus in it to make it rather strong, or as in the third head of last recipe, and work and squeeze it well for a few minutes, then wring dry as convenient and put it into the vitriol mixture for fifty minutes, stirring all the time; now wring out and soak awhile; and finally dry and work until soft. 9. Grain-side Blacking, for Ten Cents a Barrel.—Take a barrel and put into it quite a quantity of old iron, cast oi wrought, then fill nearly full of soft water, and add 1 pt. of oil of vitrol; stir it up well, and in a month or two yoa have just as good blacking for the grain-side, as could be made by using vinegar in place of water. This makes good blacking for boot, shoe, or harness edge, also. The acid used is so trifling that no injury will arise to the leather. Tanners will, of course, first apply the urine before ap- plying the blacking, saving from ten to twenty dollars yearly, in this way, instead of the old plan of using vine- gar. ' 10 French Finish, for Leather.—Take a common wooden pail of scraps, (the legs and pates of calf-skins are the best) and put a handful each, of salt and pulverized alum amongst them and let them stand three days ; then boil them until you get a thick paste; in using you will warm it; in the first application, put a little tallow with it, and for the second, a little soft soap, and use it in the regular way of finishing, and your leather will be soft and pliable, like the French calf-skin. I have no doubt that this would make a good preparation for shoemakers to use in treeing-out, leaving a soft pliable- ness, not otherwise obtained. 11. French Latent Leather.—The process which has been so successfully adopted by the French artisans in glaz- ing leather, so as' to give it the repute for superior quality 222 DR. chase’s recipes. and beauty which it now universally sustains, is as follows: Work into the skin with appropriate tools three or four sue cessive coatings of drying varnish, made by boiling linseed-oil with white-lead and litharge, in the proportion of one pound of each of t he latter to a gallon of the former, and adding a por- tion of chalk or ochre—each coating being thoroughly dried be- fore tin* application of the next. Ivory black is then substituted for the chalk or ochre, the varnish thinned with spirits of tur- pentine, and five additional applications made in the same man- ner as before, except that it is put on thin and not worked in, The leather is rubbed down with pumice-stone, in powder, and then placed in a room at 90 degs., out of the way of dust. The last varnish is prepared by boiling ± lb. of asphaltum with 10 lbs. of the drying oil used in the first step of the process, and tnen stirring in 5 lbs. of copal varnish and 10 lbs. of turpentine. It must have a month’s age before it is fit for use, b? order to exhibit its true characteristics.— U. S. Gazette. PAINTER’S DEPARTMENT. DRYING OILS—To Prepare for Carriage, Wagon, and Floor Painting.—Take linseed oil 1 gal., and add gum shellac 2 ibs.; litharge £ lb.; red-lead £■ lb.; umber 1 oz. Boil slowly, 2 or 3 hours, until the gums are dissolved. Grind your paints in this (any color) and reduce with turpentine. Yellow ochre is used for floor painting. This dries quick and wears exceedingly well. 2. Drying Oil, Equal to the Patent Dryers.—Linseed-oil 2 gals., and add lithanre, red-lead, and umber, of each 4 ozs., and sugar of lead and sulphate of zinc, of each 2 ozs. Roil until it will scorch a feather. Use this, or either ol the others, in quantity to suit the object of the work being done. 3. Japan Dryer of the Best Quality.—Ta.e linseed oil 1 gal., and put into it gum shellac $ lb. ; litharge «nd buru'ed Tur- key umber, of each 4 lb.; red lead £ lb., and “ agar of lead (5 ozs. Boil in the oil until all are dissolved, which will require ab»ut 4 hours; remove from the tire, and add spirits of turpentine 1 gal., and it is done. While in Princeton, Ind., after seli'ng one of my books to T. & J. T. Ewing, extensive carriage manufacturers of painter’s department. 223 that place, I obtained the foregoing recipe. It was pub- lished in a work printed in Columbus, ()., devoted to the art of painting, From this fact, and also that the gentle- men from whom I obtained it, had tested it and were using it. I have not myself tried it, but know, from the nature of the articles used, that nothing better will be required. 4. Another.—Another dryer is made by taking linseed oil 5 gals., and adding red-lead and litharge, of each Tj lbs.; raw umber 1£ lbs.; sugar of lead and sulphate of zinc, of each | lb.; pulverize all the articles together, and boil in the oil until dis- solved ; when a little cool, add turpentine, 5 gals., or to make it of a proper consistence. The gentleman of whom I obtained this recipe paid ten dollars for it. lie was using it successfully, and said he used two or three drops of it to a quart of varnish also and especially when the varnish did not dry readily. OIL—PAINT—To Re duck with Water.—Take gtttn sliel lac 1 lb.; sal-soda £ lb.; water 8 pts.; put all into a suitable kettle and boil, stirring till all is dissolved If it does not all dissolve, add a little more sal-soda; this, when cool, can be bot- tled for use. If it smells bad when opened it does not hurt it Directions for Using.—Mix up two quarts of oil paint as usual, except no turpentine is to be used—any color de- sired. Now put one pint of the gum shellac mixture with the oil paint when it becomes thick, and may be reduced with water to a proper consistence to lay on with a brush. Two coats will be required, and with the second coat sand may be applied if desired. I used this upon a picket-fence with white-lead and yellow ochre for the body and a little lamp-black to give it a dark shade, putting on sand with the second coat. It is still firm and good, the work being done nearly four years ago. The sand was applied with a tub-like box, with many small holes to allow the even spreading of the sand, as with a pepper-box. I do not regret using this kind of paint, nor the sanding, as it adds much to the durability of any out- door painting. But a better plan of sauding is represented in the “ Painter’s Sanding Apparatus” below. 9 Another Method.—Take soft water 1 gal., and dissolve in it, pearlash 8 ozs.: bring to a boil, and slowly add shellac 1 lb.; when cold it is ready to. be added to oil-paint, in equal pro- portions. The expense of these is only one-third of oil-paint 224 DR. CHASE'S UEOiPES. Some persons may think it bad policy to learn painters to reduce oil-paint with water, but I think every man should be told of the plan, who is going to have a job of work done, and if he makes up his mind to try any thing of the kind, it is then his own business; and I am perfectly sincere in recommending it, for if there was any great fault in it four years would show it. painter’s sanding apparatus. 8. It is made of tin; the tube C, enters upon the of a small bellows; the sand is put into the funnel B, which stands perpendicular upon the apparatus when the broad mouth-piece A. is held level in using. The funnel dis- charges the sand, just before the nozzle of the bellows ; and by working the bellows the sand is blown evenly upon the freshly put on paint, through the mouth-piece A, the escape orifice not being over the sixteenth part of an inch in depth, and may be made two and a half or three inches wide. Many persons like the plan of sanding generally, after painting; but from the fact that when it is desired to renew the paint, brushes cannot last long upon the sand, I think it only proper to sand fences or fronts, where boys’ blivet would be too freely used. PAINT SKINS—To Save and Reduce to Oil.—Dissolve sal-soda p lb., in rain-water 1 gal. The skins that dry upon the top of paint, which has been left standing for any length of time, may be made fit for use again by covering them with the sal-soda-water and soaking them therein for a couple of days ; thou heat them, adding oil to reduce the mixture to a proper consistence for paint- ing, and straining. Painters who are doing extensive busi- ness will save many dollars yearly by this simple process. painter's department. 225 NEW TIN ROOFS—Valuable Process for Paint- ing.—Scrape off the rosin as clean as possible and swsep the roof; now: Dissolve sufficient sal-soda in a bucket of water to make it quite strong; wash the roof thoroughly with the soda-water and let it remain until it is washed off by the rains, or after a few hours, washing off with clean water, rinsing well. When dry give it one coat of pure Venetian-red, mixed with one-third boiled, and two-thirds raw linseed-oil; tho second coat may be any color desired. The soda-water dis- solves the rosin remaining after scraping; destroys the greasy nature of the solder, and of the new tin, so that there wili be sufficient “ Grip ” for the paint to adhere firmly. The pure Venetian-red is one of the most durable paints for metallic-roofs, but is often rejected on account of its color. The above mode of painting will set aside this difficulty. 2. Pike-Proof Paint—for Hoofs, &c.—Slack stone-lime by putting it into a tub, to be covered, to keep in the steam. When slacked, pass the powder through a fine sieve; and to each 6 qts. of it add, 1 qt. of rock-salt, and water 1 gal.; then boil and skim clean:. To each 5 gals, of this add, pulverized alum 1 lb. pulvedzed copperas | lb.; aud still slowly add powdered potast | lb.; then fine sand or hickory ashes 4 lbs. N vw add any desired color, and apply with a brush—looks better than paint, aud is as durable as slate. It stops smal. leaks in roofs, prevents moss, and makes it incombustible • and renders brick impervious to wet.—Maine Farmer. 3. Water-Proof, Oil-Rubber Paint.—Dissolve about 5 lbs. of India rubber in 1 gal. of boiled linseed- oil, by boiling. If this is too thick, reduce with boiled-oil; if too tliiu, use "more rubber. Especially applicable to cloth, but valuable for any other material. Frosting Glass.—The frosty appearanc 3 of glass, which we often where it is desired to keep out tho sun, or “ JVlan a observing eye,” is done by using a paint composed as follows : Sugar of lead well ground in oil, applied as other paint; then pounced, while fresh, with a wad of batting held between the thumb and finger. After whieh it is allowed to partially dry; then with a ftraight-odge laid upon the sash, you run along by the side 226 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. of it, a stick sharpened to the width of line you wish to ap- pear in the diamonds, figures, or squares, into which you choose to lay it off; most frequently, however, straight lines are made an inch or more from the sash, according to the size of light, then the centre of the light made into dia- monds. 'ORIENTAL-—Crystal Painting.—The eolors used are Prussian-blue, crimson, white, and yellow-lakes, Roa- scan, white-zinc, and No. 40 carmine. Druggists keep them, in small tubes. They must be mixed with Demar-varnish, rubbing with a table-knife or spatula upon glass. Directions for Making Various Shades, or Compound Colors.—Proportion them about as follows—for green 1-5 blue, 4-5 yellow—purple, 1-0 blue, 5-6 crimson—orange, 4 crimson, $ yellow—wine-color, 1-12 blue, 11-12 crimson—pink, add a little crimson to white-zinc—brown, mix a dark purple and add yel- low according to the shade desired—black, add crimson to dark green until the shade suits you—to make the compound colors lighter, add tl>e lightest cokw in it, and make darker by using more of the darkest color in the compound. For backgrounds —white, white-zinc, or pink white with turpentine find boiled inseed oil and Demar-varnish—black, lamp-black, with asphal um-varnish and boiled linseed-oil and turpentine in equal quan- tities—flesh-color, white-zinc with a small portion of crimson und chrome yellow to suit. For sketching out the figures on the ground-work, use a little lamp-black with asphal turn-varnish, turpentine and boiled linseed-oil to make it flow freely. Directions for Painting.—Make your glass perfectly clean, and place it over the picture you wish to copy; then with the sketching preparation, trace on the glass all the lines connected with the figures of the picture which yow are copying, bciug careful to sketch vines very distinct; when tliG sketching is done and dry, proceed to lay on tho background inside of the sketched lines until all the sketch- ing is closed; and when the background is dry, proceed to put on the colors, commencing with green, if any in the figures, ending with yellow. "When the eolors are all laid, put the background upon the balance of the glass; and when all is dry have tin foil - erumpled very much in yox*i hand, and then partly straightened out, and lay it over tha figure and keep it in its place by pasting paper over it in each a manner that it cannot slip away, letting the pawei cover the whole back of the glass, or a wood-back c PAINTERS' DEPARTMENT. 227 placed behind the glass, and all is complete, and will look, well oi ill, according to the practice and taste of the painted 2. Fancy Green.—Unscorclied, pulverized coffee, piiz into the white of an egg will, in twenty-four hours, produce a very beautiful green for fancy painting—proof of poison, in unbrowned coffee. SKETCHING PAPER—To Purp; mu.—Bleached linseed-oil turpentine and balsam of fir, equal parts of each ; mix. Have a frame of a little less swe than the paper to be prepared, and apply paste or thick gum solution to one side and the outer edge of it; wet the paper in clean water and lay it upon the frame and press it down upon the pasted side of the frame, and turn the outer part of the paper over the outside of the frame upon the paste there, which holds it firm ; and when it becomes dry it is tight like a drum- head; whilst in this condition, with a brush saturate it with the above mixture; three or four coats will be needed, giv- ing each one time to dry before applying the next. Only sufficient is needed to make it transparent, so that when you wish to sketch a rose, or other flower or leaf, from nature, the paper can be placed upon it like the glass in the “ Ori- ental Painting ”j then trace the lines and finish it up in the same way also, as there described; or that you may see through it in taking perspective views of distant scenery. DOOR PLATES—To Make.—Cut your glass the right size, and make it perfectly clean witli alcohol or soap; then cut a strip of tin-foil sufficiently long and wide for the name, and with a piece of ivory or other burnisher rub it lengthwise to make it Bmootli; now wet the glass with the tongue, (as saliva is the best sticking substance,) or if the glass is very large, use a weak solu- tion of gum arabic, or the white of an egg in half a pint of water and lay on the foil, rubbing it, down to tlie glass with a hit of cloth, then also with the burnisher; the more it is burnished the better will it look; now mark the width on the foil which is to be the bight of the letter, and put on a straight-edge and hold it firmly to the foil, and with a sharp knife cut the toil and take off the superfluous edges; then either lay out the letters on the back of tlie foil, (so they shall read correctly on the front) by your own judgment or by means of pattern-letters, which can be purchased for that purpose; cut with tlie knife, carefully hold- ing down the pattern or straiglit-edge, whichever you use ; then rub down the edge of all the letters with the back of the knife, ©r edge of the burnisher, which prevents the black paint or japan which you next put over tlie back of the plate, h orn get- 228 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. ting unde; the foil; having put a line above and one tMnvw the name, or a border around the whole plate or not, as you oargain for the job. The japan is made by dissolving asphaltum in just enough turpentine to cut it (see “Asphaltum Varnish”); apply with a brush as other paint over the back of the letters and over the glass, forming a background. This is used on the iron frame of the plate also, putting it on when the plate is a little hot, and as soon as it cools it is dry. A little lamp-black may be rubbed into it if you desire it any blacker than it is without it. If you choose, you can remove every other foil letter, after the japan is dry, and paint in its place, red, blue, or other colored letters, to make a greater variety out of which for your customers to choose, as the one they desire you to follow in getting up their plate. Tin foil being thicker than silver or gold foil, will not show the paint through it in little spots as they do ; but if these foils are desired to be used, you can put on two thicknesses by proceeding as follows, which prevents the paint from showing through them: Lay on the first coat of these foils the same as di- rected for the tin-foil, and smooth it down by rubbing on the front of the glass; then breathe on it until a dampness is caused ; now put on the second and burnish well, having paper over it; but instead of the knife to cut around your pattern or straight-edge, take a sharp needle, using the point, make lines through the leaf around the pattern letter or straight-edge; then with a bit of Jewelers' wood, or other hard wood, made to a narrow and sharp point, remove all up to the lines, both in and around the letters, as these foils have not the substance to peel off as the tin-foil, japan- ning over them the same as the other letters. Paper letters can be cut out of advertisements and put on by wetting the glass the same aB for the foil, jappanning over them, and when dry, removing them and painting the places out of which they came with various colors as desired, as the japan will not peel, but makes a sharp and distinct edge; and these painted letters look well, in this way; and by taking advantage of printed letters, saves the skill and time neces- sary to form them. To illustrate; in the name given below, A may be gold foil; W will be blue; C, red; H, black; A, gold-foil; S, blue; E, red ; M, black; and again D, gold-foil, which any one can see makes a more showy plate than if all were oj one foil, or one color. PAINTER* b mCPARlittENT. 229 Set your glass in the frame with putty, and put a thin coat of putty over the whole plate, as the plaster of Paris filling which is generally used soon eats out the japan or paint, and spoils the job. Persons with any ingenuity can very soon make a nice plate if they will pay attention to the above rules, as well as to pay five dollars for instructions, as a little practice must be had to become perfeet, even if you do pay five dollars for an hour or two’s telling "and showing. Shellac varnish colored with lamp-black is good in place of the japan. See “ Varnish—Transparent, for Wood.” ETCHING AND GRINDING UPON GLASS—For Signs, or Side Lights.—Take the “ Asphaltum Varnish,” and with a small pencil lay out the name or design, not putting the varnish upon the letters, but around it, leaving the space which the let- ters of the sign are to occupy, free and clear, as seen in the fol- lowing door plate, represented in the wood cut, and by the way, a very nice style of letter for that purpose also, we think: The varnish is to cover the black surface in the sign or name. The white line around the outside represents a border which improves the appearance of the plate; when the varnish is dry have some melted bees-wax and as it begins to cool, with a knife take some of it up and scrape it otf upon the edge of the glass, being etched, so as to form a wall to hold the acid upon the glass while etching; now lay the glass flat and pour a little flouric acid on to the name, letter, or design thus prepared, and let it remain on for one hour, not allowing the glass to be touched or moved for that time; then pour off the acid into your bottle and it can be used again. The asphalt prevents the acid from eating or etching only the letter, and the wax wall prevents th« acid from flowing off and being wasted. When you pour oil the acid wash the glass with a little water, scrape off the wax, and remove the asphalt with a little turpentine, and all is done. The above directions are for plain glass; but if you desire, you can gild the letter which is etched (eat out,) or you can gild all except the letter, if desired, as described in the recipe for “ Door PlateH,” or you can grind the surface of the glass 230 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. as described under the head of “ Glass-grinding for Sign*, Shades,” &c. This applies equally well to “ flashed,” or what is called “ stained glass,” worked in the same way as above, putting the design or letters upon the stained side, which eats away tbe color and leaves the design clean and white; or you can etch only a part of the way through the Btain, which shows up the letter or flower lighter in coloi than’ the rest of the glass, which makes it look very beauti- ful for side-lights in halls, lamps, druggists’ windows, &c. There are two kinds of colored glass—one is called “ Pot metal,” the other “ Flashed.” The pot-metal glass is made by mixing the stain or coloring with the melted glass, while making, and consequently is alike all the way through.— The stained glass is made by applying the color to one side of the glass after it is made, then applying sufficient heat to allow it to take hold of the glass only—the color is all on one side ; this is the kind desired. If it is desired to etch upon druggists’ or other jars, it can be done by preparing the name to be put on, with the varnish and wax; then have a lead box without top or bot- tom ; in shape on the lower edge to tit the shape of the jar, and press this down upon the wax to make it tight; then pour your acid into the box which keeps it in its place the same as the wax does on a flat surface. Ornaments or flourishes can be put on as well as letters. The old plan was to cover the whole surface with wax, then remove it fjom the letter, which was very slow and troublesome, and if a bit of wax remained upon the bottle, the acid could not cut where the wax remained, then to hold the glass over the fumes of the acid, instead of put- ting the acid upon the glass. 2. Glass-Grinding for Sings, Shades, &c.—After you l ave etched a name or other design upon uncolored glass, and wish to have it show off to a better advantage by permitting the light to pass only through the letters, you can do so by: Tak!ng a piece of flat brass sufficiently large not to clip into the letters, but pass over them when gliding upon the surface of the glass; then with flour of emery, and keeping it wet, you can grind the w hole surface, very quickly, to look like the ground glass globes, often seen upon lumps, except the letter which is eaten below the general surface. painter’s department. 231 "Whole fights of glass can be ground in this way instead »f frosting, or the frosting can be done here in place of the grinding, if preferred. 3. Fi.uomo Acid, To Mark for Etching Purposes—You can make yom own fluoric (sometimes called hydro-fluoric) acid, by getting the floor or Derbyshire spar, pulverizing it and put- ting all of it into sulphuric acid which the acid will cut or dis- solve. Druggists throngh the country do not keep this acid gen- erally. but they can get it in the principal cities and furnish it for about seventy-five cents per ounce, and that ounce will do at least fifty dollars worth of work. It is put up in gutta or lead-bottles, and must be kept in them when not in use, having corks of the same material. Glass, of course, will not hold it, as it dissolves the glass, otherwise it would not etch upon it. PORCELAIN FINISH—"Very Hard and White, for Par- lors.—To prepare the wood for the finish, if it be pine, give one ortwocoatsof the“ Varnish—Tiansparent for Wood,” which pre- vents the pitch from oozing out causing the finish to turn yellow; next, give the room, at least, four coats of pure zinc, which may be ground in only sufficient oil to enable it to grind properly, then mix to a proper consistence with turpentine or naptha. Give eacli coat time to dry. When it is dry and hard, sand- paper it to a perfectly' smooth surface when it is ready to receive the finish, •which consists of two coats of French zinc ground in, and thinned with Demar-varnish, until it works prop- erly under the brush. Mr. Miles, of this city, one of our scientific painters, lias been sufficiently kind to furnish me this recipe prepared ex- pressly for this work, therefore, the most implicit confidence may be placed in it, yet any one can judge for themselves, from the nature of the articles used, that it must be white and hard. He goes on to say that if the French-zinc in varnish cannot be procured, the varnish may be whitened with zinc ground in oil as a very good substitute, being care- ful not to use too much, in which case it will diminish th-a gloss, and be more liable to turn yellow. A little turpen- tine or naptha may be added, if too thick to work well, but in no instance should oil be used to thin the paint. This finish, if properly applied, is very beautiful, and al- though purely white, may be kept clean more easily than other kinds of painting by simply using a dusting brush; of 232 t>A. chase’s recipes if soiled, a sponge wet in cold soft water without Boat» the better way. N. B.—Not a particle of white-lead should be used where this finish is to be applied, either in the priming, or any sub- sequent coats, or a brush used that has been in lead without being thoroughly cleansed, as a yellow hue will soon present 'tself, which is caused by a chemical change taking place fcjtween the lead and zinc PAINTERS’ ECONOMY IN MAKING COLORS.—Pims- sian Blue.—1st. Take nitric acid, any quantity, ami as much iron shavings from the lathe as the acid will dissolve; heat the iron as hot as can be handled with the hand ; then add it to the acid in small quantities as long as the acid will dissolve it, then slowly add double the quantity of soft water that there was of acid, and put in iron again as long as the acid will dissolve it 2nd. Take Prussiate of potash, dissolve it in hot water to make a strong solution, and make sufficient of it with the first to give the depth of tint desired, ar.d the blue is made. Or: 2. Another Method.—A very passable Prussian-blue is made by taking sulphate of iron (copperas) and Prussiate of potash, equa1 parts of each, aud dissolving each separately in water, then mixing the two waters. 3. Chrome Yellow.—1st. Take sugar of lead and Paris white, of each 5 lbs.; dissolve them in hot water. 2nd. Take bi-cliromate of potash ozs., and dissolve it in hot water also, each article to be dissolved separately, then mix all together, put- ting in the bi-cliromate last. Let stand 24 hours. 4. Chrome Green.—Take Paris-white 64 lbs.; sugar of lead, and blue vitriol, of each 3£ lbs.; alum 10£ ozs.; best soft Prus- sian blue and chrome yellow, of each 3£ lbs. Mix thoroughly while in fine powder, and add water 1 gal., stirring well and let stand 3 or 4 hours. 5. Green, Durable and Cheap.—Take spruce yellow and color it with a solution of chrome yellow and Prussian-biue, until you give it the shade you wish. 6. Paris Green.—Take unslacked lime of the best quality slack it with hot water; then take the finest part of the powdei said add alum water, as strong as can be made, sufficient to form a thick paste, then color it with bi-chromate of potash and sul- phate of copper, until the color suits your fancy. N. B.—The sulphate of copper gives the color a blue tinge—the bi-chromate ol potash a yellow. Observe this aud you will never fail. 7. Another Method.—Blue vitriol 5 lbs.; nugar of lead lbs.; arsenic 2i lbs.; bi-chromate of potash li ozs.; mix them thoroughly in fine powder, and add water 3 pu., mixing well again and let stand 3 or 4 hours. blacksmiths’ department 233 3 Pea Brown.—1st. Take sulphate of copper, any quantity and dissolve it iu hot water. 2nd. Take prussiate of potash, dis- solve it in hot water to make a strong solution; mix of the two solutions, as in the blue, and the color is made. t>. Bose Pink.—Brazil wood 1 lb., and boil it for 2 hours, having 1 gal. of water at the end; then strain it and boil alum 1 lb. in the same water until dissolved ; when sufficiently cool to admit the hand, add muriate of tin £ oz. Now have Paris- white 12| lbs., moisten up to a salvy consistence, and when the first is cool stir them thoroughly together. Let stand 24 houra. When any of the above mixtures have stood as mentioned, in their respective recipes, all that is necessary is to drain off the water by placing the preparations into muslin bags for that purpose, and then exposing the mixture to the air, to dry for use. Glass, stone, or wood vessels only should be used, as the acids soon work upon iron, tin, copper, &c., giving you a tinge not desired in the color, and always observe that if water is to be mixed with strong acids, it must be added slowly, es- pecially if in light vials, or you will break the vessel by means of the great heat which is set free by the combina- tion Painters can use their own judgment about making these colors ; but if they do not do it for profit there will be pleasure in testing them, eveb invials-full only, as the chem- ical action is just as fine in small as in large quantities. BLACKSMITHS’ DEPARTMENT. FILES AND RASPS—To Re-cut by a Chemical Procem. dissolve saleratus 4 ozs., to water 1 qt., sufficient to cover the flies, and boil them in it for half an hour; then take out, wash and dry them ; now stand them in a jar, filling it up with rain- water and sulphuric acid, in the proportion ot water 1 qt., to acid 4 ozs. If the files are coarse, they will need to remain in about twelve hours ; but for fine files, six to eight hours will be all-sufficient. When you take them out, wash them clean, dry quickly, and put a little sweet oil upon them, to prevent rust. This plan is applicable to blacksmiths, gun-smiths, tin- ners, copper-smiths, machinists, &c., &c. Copper and til 234 DR. cease's RECIPES. workers will only require a short time to take the article* out of their files, as the soft metals with which they become filled, are soon dissolved, leaving the files about as good as new. For blacksmiths and saw-mill men, it will require the full time. They may be re-cut two or three times, making in all more service than it took to wear out the file at first. The preparation can be kept and used as long as you see action take place upon putting the files into it. Keep it oovered wheu not in use. If persons, when filing, would lift up the file, in carrying back, there would be no necessity of a re-cutting, but in drawing it back they soon turn a wire-edge, which the acid removes. It also thins the tooth. Many persons have doubted this fact; but I know that the common three-square file, (used for sharpening saws,) when worn out and thrown by, for a year or two, may be again used with nearly the same advantage as a new oue. The philosophy of it is this —the action of the atmosphere acts upon the same principle of the acid, corrodes (eats off) the surface, giving a-new, a square, cutting edge. Try it, all ye doubtful; I have tried both, and know their value. Boiling in the saleratus- water removes grease, and allows the acid to act upon the steel. VARNISHES—To Prevent Rust on Iron or Steel.—Tal- low 2 ozs.; rosin 1 oz.; melt and strain while hot. Apply a light coat of this, and you can lay away any arti cles not in constant use, for any length of time, such as knives and forks, or mechanics’ tools which are being laid by, or much exposed. But for axes or other new tools, which are exposed to the air before sold, you will find the following varnish preferable: 2. Transparent, for Tools, Plows, &c.—Best alcohol 1 gal.; gum sandarach 2 lbs.; gum mastic I lb. Place all in a tin can which admits of being corked; cork it tight, and shake it frequently, occasionally placing the can in hot water. When dissolved, it is ready to use. This makes a very nice varnish for new tools which are exposed to dampness; the air, even, will soon (more or less) tarnish new work. 8. Bkek-No-Fartheb, fob Iron ob Steel.—Take best or pal blacsmithb’ department. 235 Tarnish, and add sufficient olive oil to make it feel a little greasy; then add nearly as much spirits of turpentine as there is of varnish, and you will probably seek no farther. 4. Transparent Blue, for Steel Plows.—Take Demar varnish } gal.; finely ground Prussian-blue i oz; mix thor oughly. For ground steel-plows, or other ground steel, one or two eoats of this will be found sufficient to give a nice blue ap- pearance, like highly-tempered steel; some may wish a little more blue; if so, add the Prussian-blue to your liking. Copal varnish is not so transparent as the Demar, but if you will have a cheap varnish, use No. 4. 6. Black, Having a Pomsn, for Iron—Pulverized guru esphaltum 2 lbs.; gum benzoin J lb.; spirits of turpentine 1 gal. o make quick, keep in a warm place and shake often; shade to juit with finely ground ivory black. Apply with a brush. And it ought to be used on iron exposed to the weather as well as on inside work desiring a nice appearance or polish. Or: 7. Varnish for Iron.—Asphaltum 8 lbs.; melt it in an iron kettle, slowly adding boiled linseed-oil 5 gals.; litharge 1 lb.; and Bulphate of zinc | lb.; continuing to boil for 3 hours; then add dark gum amber 1£ lbs., and continue to boil 2 hours longer When cool reduce to a proper consistence, to apply with a brush, with spirits of turpentine. 8. I wish here, also, to state a fact which will benefit those wishing to secure vines or limbs of trees to the sido of a white house, with nails, and do not wish to see a streak of rust down the white paint, as follows : Make a hole, m which to start the nail, putting a little 6trip of zinc into the hole, and drive the nail in contact with the zinc. The electrical action of the two metals, in contact, pre- vent rust, proven by ever eight years trial. WELDING—Cast Steel Without Borax.—Copperas 3 ozs.; saltpetre 1 oz.; common salt 6ozs.; black oxydeof man- ganese 1 oz.; Prussiate of potash 1 oz.; all pulverized and mix- ed with nice welding sand 3 lbs., and use it the same as you would sand. Higher tempered steel can be used with this better than with borax, as it welds at a lower heat—such a? pitchfork tines, toe-corks, &c. The pieces should be held together while heating. I have found some blacksmiths using it 236 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. without the manganese; but from what I know of the puri- fying properties of that article upon iron, 1 am sure it must be preferable with it, as that is the principal purifyer in the next recipe. POOR IRON,—To Improve.—Black oxide of manganese 1 part; copperas and common salt 4 parts each; dissolve in soft water and boil until dry; when cool pulverize and mix quite freely with nice •welding sand. When you have poor iron which you cannot afford t? throw away, heat it and roll it in this mixture, working fo* a time, re-heating, &c., will soon free it from all impurities, which is the cause of its rottenness. By this process you can make good horse-nails, even out of only common iron. WRITING upon Ikon or Steel, Silver or Gold, not to Cost tiie Tenth Part of a Cent per Letter.—Muri- atic acid 1 oz.; nitric acid 4 oz. Mix, when it is ready for use. Directions—Cover the place you wish to mark, or write upon, with melted bees-wax ; when cold, write the name plain with a file point or an instrument made for the pur- pose, carrying it through the wax and cleaning the wax all out of the letter ; then apply the mixed acids with a feather, carefully filling each letter; let it remain from one to ten minutes, according to the appearance desired ; then put on some water, which dilutes the acids and stops the process. Either of the acids, alone, would cut iron or steel, but it requires the mixture to take hold of gold or silver. Aftei you wash off the acids it is best to apply a little oil MILL-PICKS,—To Temper.—To 6 qts. of soft water, put ii> pulverized corrosive sublimate 1 oz., and 2 bands of common salt; when dissolved it is ready for use. The first gives tough- ness to the steel, whilst the latter gives the hardness. I have found those who think it better to add sal-ammoniac, pulverized, 2 ozs., to the above. Dire.ctionns.—Heat the picks to only a cherry red and plunge them in and do not draw any temper. In working mill-picks, be very careful not to over-heat them, but work them at as low a heat as possible. The reason why so many fail in making good picks, is that they don’t work them at as low heat as they should. With care upon that point, and the above fluid, no trouble will be experienced, eves on the best diamond burrs. Be sure to keep the prepara- blacksmiths’ department. 237 tion covered when not in use, as it is poison. Pigs or dogs might drink of it, if left uncovered. This is the mixture which has gained me the name of having the best prepara- cation in use for mill-picks, and the certificates on this sub- ject, but as I have some others which are very highly spo- ken of, I give you a few others. 2. An English Miller, after buying my book, gave me the following recipe, for which he paid ten dollars. Ho had used it all his life, or from the time he began business for himself, (about thirty years,) and he would use no other. Salt £ tea-cup; saltpetre £ oz.; alum, pulverized, 1 tea-spoon; soft water 1 gal.; never heating over a cherry red, nor drawing any temper. 3. Salt petrk, sal-ammoniac, and alum, of each 2 ozs.; salt H Ihs.; water 3 gals.; and draw no temper. There must be something in this last, as the next one I obtained at least five hundred miles from where I did this, and both from men who knew their value, and yet they re- semble each other near enough to be called “ The twins.” 4. Mill-Picks and Saw Gummers, to Temper.—Saltpetre and alum, each 2 ozs.; sal-ammoniac i oz.; salt 1$ lbs.; soft water 3 gals. Heat to a cherry-red and plunge them in, and draw no temper. The steel must never be heat above a cherry-red, and in working and drawing the picks there ought to be quite an amount of light water-hammering, even after the steel is cool. Once more and I am done: yet it may be pos- sible that the last, in this case, maybe the best; read it. i h Mtll-Pick-Temthrino as Done by Church, op Ann Ar- bor. - Water 3 gals.; salt 2 qts.; sal-ammoniac and saltpetre, of each 2 ozs.; ashes from white ash bark 1 shovel, which causes the picks to scale clean and white as silver. I obtained this recipe of a blacksmith who paid young Mr. Church five dollars for it, he coming into the shop and showing him how to work the picks, as also the composi- tion—his instructions were, not to hammer too cold, to avoid flaws; not to heat too high, which opens the pores of the steel, nor to heat more than one or two inches of the pick when tempering The gentleman says, if care is taken in heating and working, that no other tempering liquid wiU 238 Dft. <-TlAbe’s equal it, yet lie spoiled the first batch by over heating, even after Mr. Church had taken all pain* to show him. They (the Messrs. Church) have picks sent H) them, for temper- ing, from Illinois and even Wisconsin BUTCHER-KNIVES—Spring-Temper and Beauti- yul Edge.—In forging out the knifo as you get it near to its proper thickness, be very careful sot to heat it too high, and to water-hammer as for mill p’cks; when about to temper, heat only to a cherry-red and hold it in such a way that you can hold it plumb as you pM it into the water which prevents it from springing—put i' plumb into the water and it will come out straight. Take it from the water to the fire and p»*s it through the blaze until a little hot; then rub a candle over t upon both sides and back to the fire, passing it backward am* forward, in the blaze, turning it over often to keep the heat evtm over the wrhole surface, until the tallow passes off as though it went into the steel; then take out and rub the candle over it again (on both sides each time) and back to the fire, passing i as before, until it starts into a blaze, with a snap, being careful "hat the heat is even over the whole length and width of the toe**, then rub the tallow over it again and back, for 3 times, quickly \s it burns off; and lastly rub the tallow over it again and push ** into the dust of the forge, letting it remain until cold. If these directions are followed with dexterity you will have the temper alike from edge to back ; a**d the edge will be the best you ever saw, as Davy Crockett used to say “ It will jump higher, dive deeper,” shave mor« hogs, bend farther without breaking, and give better satisfaction than ail other knives put together. It works equally well on drawing-knives and **ther thin tools; and for trap-springs which are to be s**t on dry ground; but if set in water, “ pop goes the we*ael ” the first time the trap is sprung; but the following is *Cie plan for tempering springs for general trapping. 2. TRVP SPRINGS—To Temper.—For tempering steel trap springs, all that is necessary is to heat them in the juat that you may see it is read, then cool them in lukewarm water. This is a short recipe, but it makes long-lasting springs. The reason why darkness is required to temper springs is that a lower degree of heat can be seen in the night than by day-light; and the low heat and warm water give th« desired temper. blacksmiths’ department. 239 SILVER PLATING—For Carriage Work,—First, let the i iris which are to receive the plate be filed very smooth; then apply over the surface the muriate of zinc, which is made by dissolving zinc in muriatic acid; now hold this part over a dish containing hot soft-solder, (pewtei solder is probably the softest) and with a swab apply the solder to the part, to which it ad- heres ; brush off all superfluous solder, so as to leave the surface smooth; you will now take No. 2 fair, silver plate, of the right size to cover the surface of the part prepared with solder, and lay the plate upon it, and rub it down smooth with a cloth which is moistened with oil, then, with a soldering-iron, pass slow-ly over all the surface of the plate, which melts the solder under- neath it, and causes the plate to adhere as firmly as the solder does to the iron; then polish the surface, finishing with buck- Bkin. The soldering-irons must be tinned, and also kept very smooth, and used at about the same heat as for soldering tin. IRON—To Prevent Welding.—Where it is desired to weld two bars of iron together, for making axletrees or other purpo- ses, through which you wish to have a bolt-hole, without punch- ing out a piece of the iron, you will take a piece of wet paste- board, the width of the bar and the length you desire not to weld, and place it between the two pieces of iron, and hold them firmly upon the pasteboard while taking the heat, and the iron will weld up to the pasteboard, but not where it is; then open the hole, with swedge and punch, to the desired size. In this way blacksmith’s tongs may be relaid, without the trouble of cutting the joints apart and making a new jaw. Simply fit two pieces of iron, the thickness you wish to add to the jaw of the tongs, have them of the right length and width also, then take them both between the jaws and heat them so you can pound them together, that they will fit closely for a weld; now put a piece of the wet pasteboard between the pieces which you are to weld, having the handles of the tongs stand sufficiently apart that you may put on a link or ring to hold all firmly; then put into the fire, and take a good welding heat; and yet they do not weld where the paper was between them ; if they stick a little at the end, just put them on the swedge and give them a little tap with the hammer, and they will fly right apart as nice as new. I am told that the dust from the ground or floor of the blacksmith-shop is as good as the pasteboard, 1*1 have not seen that tried; but I know there is no mis- 240 DR. CHASE'8 RECIPES. take in the other; and yet I have found one blacksmith who declared he would not believe it could be done, even it he saw it. CAST-IRON—To Case-Harden.—Cast-iron may be ease- hardened by heating to a red heat, and then rolling it in a com- position composed of equal parts of Prussiate of potash, sal- ammoniac, and saltpetre, all pulverized and thoroughly mixed • then plunged, while yet hot, into a bath containing 2 ozs. of the Prussiate, and 4 ozs. of the sal-ammoniac to each gal. of cold water.—Scientific Artisan. 2. Cast-Iron—The Hardest, To Soften for Drilling.— Heat to a cherry red, having it lie level in the fire, then with a pair of cold tongs put on a piece of brimstone, a little less in size than you wish the hole to be when drilled, and it softens en- tirely through the piece ; let it lie in the fire until a little cool, when it is ready to drill. Sleigh-shoes have been drilled, by this plan, in five min- utes, after a man had spent half a day in drilling one- fourth of an inch into it. It is applicable to any article which can be heat without injury. WROUGHT - IRON—To Case - Harden.—To case-harden wrought-iron, take the Prussiate of potash, finely pulverized, and roll the article in it, if its shape admits of it, if not, sprinkle the powder upon it freely, while the iron is hot. This is applicable to iron-axletrees, by heating the axle- tree and rolling the bottom of it in the powder, spread out for that purpose, turning it up quickly and pouring cold water upon it, getting it into the tub of cold water as quick as possible. They will wear for years, without showing wear. 2. Welding a Small Piece of Iron Upon a Large One, with Only a Light Heat.—It is often desirable to weld a small bit of iron upon a large bar, when the larg6 piece must be heated equally hot as the small one. Te save this : Take borax 1 lb.; red oxide of iron 1 to 2 ozs.; melt them to- gether in a crucible; and when cold, pulverize it and keep the powder dry for use. When you want to perform the operation, just bring the large piece to a white heat, having a good welding heat up- on the small slip; take the large one from the fire, and sprinkle some of the powder upon the plaoe, and bring ths blacksmiths- department. 241 other upon it, applying the hammer smartly, and the weld will be as good as could bo made with the greater lieat without the powder. BRONZING—For Iron or Wood.—First, make a black paint; then put in a little chrome-yellow, only sufficient to give it a dark-green shade; apply a coat of this to the article to be bronzed ; when dry, give it a coat of varnish; and when the varnish is a little dry, dust on bronze by dipping a piece of vel- vet into the bronze and shaking it upon the varnish; then give it another coat of varnish, and when dry, all is complete. Cast-iron bells, which are now being extensively intro- duced to the farming community, will be much improved in their appearance by this bronzing, and also protected from rust, without injury to itt sound. Iron fences around yards, porches, verandas, &c., wii1 be much improved by it. It may also be applied to wood, if desired. TRUSS SPRINGS.—Directions for Blacksmiths ro Make—Better than the Patent Trusses.—After having, tried the various kinds of trusses, over two years, having to wear one upon each side, I gave them all up as w«»rse than useless. I then went to a blacksmith and had springs made, bending them as represented in the cut. Then they were bent to suit the shape of the body, and to press upon the body only sufficient, after the pads are put on, to hold back that which would otherwise protrude. The pad upon the back end of the spring I make of sole-leather, covered with cotton or linen cloth, having stuffed in a little batting to make it rest as easy as possible. The front pad I make by haying a piece of wood turned the shape and size of a small hen’s egg, sawing it through the center lengthwise, putting two screws into it through the holes represented in the end of the spring for that purpose. The back pad is secured bv one screw only. The spring is oiled, then covered with sheep skin, to prevent rusting. The_i it is secured around the body with a leather strap and TRUSS SPRING. 242 i»r. ohase’is recipes buckle, or with a piece of cloth sewed into a string of suitable width to sit easy where it bears upon the hip, in passing to tie upon the other end of the spring, just back of the front pad. The bend which is given the spring, before it is bent to the shape of the body, gives it room to rise when the leg is raised, without lifting the pad from its position, saving the necessity of another strap to pass around under the thigh, as with the patent truss, which is very annoying to the wrearer. Make the springs nt spring-steel, about £ or £ of an inch in width, and about 1-16 in thickness, and of sufficient length to have a bearing just short of the spine. I now speak from eight years personal experience, which ought to be a sufficient length of time for an experiment to be well established. TINNER’S DEPARTMENT. BLACK VARNISH—For Coal Buckets.—Asphaltum 1 lb.'{ lamp-black ± lb.; rosin i lb.; spirits of turpentine 1 qt. Dissolve tlie asphaltum and rosin in the turpentine; then rub up the lamp-black with linseed-oil, only suffieient to form a paste, and mix with the others. Apply with a brush. JAPAN FLOW FOR TIN—All Colors.—Gum sandarach 1 lb.; balsam of fir, balsam of tolu, and acetate of lead, of each 2 ozs.; linseed-oil | pt.; spirits of turpentine 2 qts. Put all into a suitable kettle, except the turpentine, over a slow fire, at first, then raise to a higher heat until all are melted; now take from the fire, and when a little cool, stir in the spirits of turpentine and strain through a fine cloth. This is transparent; but by the following modifications any or all the various colors are made from it. 2. Black.—Prussian blue i oz.; asphaltum 2 ozs.; spirits of turpentine | pt. Melt the asphaltum in the turpentine; rub up the blue with a little of it, mix well and strain; then add the whole to one pint of the first, above. ft. Blue.—Indigo and Prussian blue, both finelv pulverized, ot'each i oz.; spirits of turpentine 1 pt. Mix well and strain. Add ot this to one pint of the first until the color suite TINNER’S DEPARTMENT. 243 1 Tfn-o.—Take spirits of turpentine % pt.; acTdccchineal oz. < .vt stand 15 hours, and strain. A dd of this to the first to suit the fancy. 5 Yellow.—Take 1 oz. of pulverized root cf curcuma and stir of it into 1 pt. of the first, until the color pleases you, Id stand a few hours and strain. 6. Green.—Mix equal parts of the blue and yellow together then mix with the first until it suits the fancy. 7. Orange.—Mix a little of the red with more of the yellow and then with the first as heretofore, until pleased. 8. Pink.—Mix a little of the blue to more in quantity of the red, and then with the first until suited. In this simple and philosophical way you get all the vari- ous colors. Apply with a brush. GOLD LACQUER FOR TIN.—Transparent, All Col- oks.—Alcohol in a flask i pt. f add gum shellac 1 oz.; turmeric I oz.; red-sanders \ oz. Set the flask in a warm pfece, shako frequently for 12 hours or more, then strain off the liquor, rinse the bottle and return it, corking tightly for use. When this varnish is used, it must be applied to the work freely and flowing, or, if the work admits cf it, it may bo dipped into the varnish, and laid on the top of the stove to dry, which it will do very quickly; and they must not )a rubbed or brushed while drying; or the article may be hot when applied. One or more coats may be laid on, as the color is required more or less light or deep. This is applied to lanterns, &c. If any of it should become thick from evaporation, at any time, thin it with alcohol. And by the following modifications, all the various colors are obtained. 2. Rose Color.—Proceed as above, substituting £ oz. of finely ground, best lake, in place of the turmeric. 8. Blue.—The blue is made by substituting pulverized Prua aian blue £ oz. in place of the turmeric. 4. Purple.—Add a little of the blue to tlie first. 5. Green.—Add a little of the rose-color to the first. Here again philosophy gives a variety of shades witk only a slight change of materials or combinations. LACQUER FOR BRASS.—Transparent.—Turmeric root, ground tine, 1 oz.; best dragon’s blood I dr.; put into alcohol 1 pt.; place in a moderate heat, shake well for several days. It must be strained through a liuen cloth and put back into the bottle, and add powdered gum shellac 3 ozs.; then keep as be* 244 DE. CHASE B EEClJtWS fore in a warm place for several days, frequently shaken; than again strained, bottled and corked tight. Lacquer is put upon metal for improving its appearance and preserving its polish. It is applied with a brush when the metal is warm, otherwise it will not spread evenly. IRON—To Tin for Soldering or Other Purposes.—Take any quantity of muriatic acid and dissolve all the zinc in it that it will cut; then dilute it with one-fourth as much soft water a* of acid, and it is ready for use. This rubbed upon iron, no matter how rusty, cleanses it and leaves some of the zinc upon the surface, so that 6older readily adheres to it, or copper as mentioned below for cop- pering iron or steel. 2. Iron, Iron Wire, or Steel, to Copper the Surface.— Rain water 3 lbs.; sulphate of copper 1 lb. Dissolve. Have the article perfectly clean; then wash it with this solution and it immediately exhibits a copper surface. Lettering on polished steel is done in this way; flower- ing or ornamenting can also be done in the same way Sometimes dilute muriatic acid is used to clean the surface; the surface must be clean by filing, rubbing, or acid ; then cleaned by wiping off. COPPER—To Tin for Stew-Dishes or Other Purposes.— Wash the surface of the article to be tinned, with sulphuric acid ; and rub the surface wTell, so as to have it smooth and free of blackness caused by the acid; then sprinkle calcined and finely pulverized sal-ammoniac upon the surface, holding it ovei a fire where it will become sufficiently hot to melt a bar of sol- der which is to be rubbed over the surface; if a stew-dish pull the solder into it and swab it about when melted. You will wipe off any surplus solder, and also for the purpose of smoothing the surface, by means of a tow or cot- ton swab, tied or tacked to a rod. In this way any dish oi copper article may be nicely tinned. BOX-METAL—To Make for Machinery.—Copper 4 parts i lead 1 part—zinc is sometimes substituted for the lead—either makes a durable box for journals. Printer’s worn out type, in place of the lead, makes an improvement. SOLDERS—For Brazing.—Copper 3 parts ; zinc 2 parta or sheet brass 3 pails; zinc 1 part. 2. Solder for Lead.—Take tin 1 part; lead 2 parta. t Sold kb fob Tot.—Load 10 parta; tin 7 *»•***. TINKERS DEPARTMENT 245 4. Fold Eli for Britannia.—Bismuth $ of one part; tin 1 part, lead 1 part. BRITANNIA—'To Use Old, instead of Block Tin, in Sol- der.—Take old Britannia and melt it; and ■while hot sprinkle sulphur over it and stir for a short time. This burns out the other articles in it, and leaves the bhick tin, which may now be used for making solder as good new tin. TIN—To Pearl, or Crystalize.—Sulphuric acid 4 ozs.; soft water 2 to 3 ozs., according to strength of acid.; salt 1 oz.; mix. Heat the tin quite hot over a stove or heater; then with a, sponge wet with the mixture, washing off directly with clean water. Dry the tin; then varnish it with Demar- varnish. This brings out the crystalline nature of the tin. Used in making water-coolers, spit-toons, &c. 2. Tinning Flux—Improved.—It has been customary for tinners to use the muriate of zinc only ; but if you take 1 lb. of muriatic acid and put in all the zinc it will cut; then put in 1 oz. of sal-ammoniac, yra will have no more trouble with aid dirty or greasy seams. Sometimes I think it is still improved by adding to it an equal amount of soft water. 3. Liquid Glue, for Labeling Upon Tin.—Boiling water one quart; borax, pulverized, two ounces ; put in the Dorax; then add gum shellac four ounces, and boil until dissolved. Labels put upon tin with common glue or common paste will not stick Jong. But this preparation obviates the diffi- culty entirely. SCOURING LIQUID—For Brass, Door-Knobs, &c.—Oil of vitrol 1 oz.; sweet oil £ gill; pulverized rotton stone 1 gill; rain-water 1£ pts.; mix all, and shake as used. Apply with a rag, and polish with buck-skin or old wool- en. This makes as good a preparation as can be purchased, and for less than half the money. It does not give a coat- ing, but is simply a scourer and polisher. The following gives it a silver coating : SILVERING POWDER—Fob Copper or worn Plated Goods.—Nitrate of silver and common salt, of each 30 grs.; cream of tartar 8£ dra.; pulverize finely, mix thoroughly and bottle for use. 246 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. When desired to re-silver a worn spoon or other article, first clean them with the “ Scouring Liquid ” ; then moisten a little of the powder and rub it on thoroughly with a piece of buck-skin. For Jewelry, see “Jewelry Departixznt.” OIL CANS—Size of Sheet, for from 1 to 100 G;axl.ons.— For 1 gallon, 7 by 20 inches 3* “ 10 by 28 “ 5 “ 12 by 40 “ 6 “ 14 by 40 “ 10 “ 20 by 42 “ 15 “ 30 by 42 “ 25 gallons, 30 bj 56 inches, 40 “ 30 bj 63 “ 50 “ 40 by 70 “ 75 “ 40 by 84 “ 100 “ 40 by 98 “ This includes all the laps, seams, &c., which will be found sufficiently correct for all practical purposes. GUNSMITHI NG DEPARTMENT. GUN-BARRELS—Browning Process—Spirits of n5***e 1 lb. t alcohol 1 lb.; corrosive sublimate 1 oz.; mix in a bottle and keep corked for use. Directions.—Plug both ends of the barrel, and let the plugs stick out three or four inches, to handle by, and also to prevent the fluid from en< .ring the barrel, causing it to rust; polish the barrel perfectly; then rub it well with quick-lime by means of a cloth, which removes oil or grease; now apply the br< filing fluid with a clean white cloth, apply one coat and set in a warm, dark place, until a red rust is formed over the whole surface, which will re- quire, in warm weather, from ten to twelve hours, and in cold weather, from fifteen to twenty hours, or until the rust be. comes red ; then card it down with a gun-ruaker’s card and rub off with a clean cluth ; repeat the process until thi color suits, as each coat gives a darker shade. 2. Quicker, and Laborious Process.—While in Evansville, Ind., 1 sold one of my books to C. Keller, a man who carries on g insmithing, extensively. lie gave me the following, which he was using, and says it makes & dark brown, with but lit- le labor compared with the first. 3oft water 1 qt., and dissolve in it blue vitriol 2 ozs.; corrosive gunsmiths’ department 247 sublimate 1 oz.; and add 1 oz. of spirits of nitre. Have the barrel bright and put on one coat of the mixture; and in 1 hour after, put on another, and let the barrel stand 12 hours; then oil it and rub it with a cloth, of course having the ends of the bar rel tightly plugged, as in the first case. But Mr. Sutherland, the gunsmith of this city, says the brown from this recipe will soon rub off; none being per- manent unless carded down properly, as directed with the first recipe, that mixture being also superior. 3. Browning for Twist Barrels.—Take spirits of nitre £ oz.; tincture of steel £ oz.; (if the tincture of steel cannot be obtained, the unmedicated tincture of iron may be used, but it is not so good) black brimstone £ oz.; blue vitriol £ oz.; corro- sive sublimate £ oz.; nitric acid 1 dr. or CO drops; copperas £ oz.; mix with 1£ pts. of rain water, keep corked, also, as the other, and the process of applying is also the same. You will understand this is not to make an imitation of twist barrels, but to be used upon the real twist barrels, which brings out the twist so as to show; but if you use the first upon the real twist barrels, it will make the whole surface brown like the common barrel. CASE-HARDENING—For Lock-work.—Take old boots and shoes and lay them on a fire, and burn them until charred; now put them into a clean kettle and pulverize them coarsely, while hot; be careful not to get any wood coals mixed with them. Directions.—Take the pulverized leather and place in a iheet-iron box, placing the articles to be hardened in the centre of the box, or amongst the pulverized leather, and cover with a sheet-iron cover; or make the box so as to shut up; now blow up a fire of very dry charcoal; the coarser the charcoal the better; then open the fire and place the closed box in the centre, cover it up and let stand from forty to sixty minutes, not blowing; but if the coals burn off and leave the box exposed, you will put on more ; at the expiration of the time, take the box and pour its content* into clean, moderately cool or cold water—never use warm water; these articles will now be found very hard, and will easily break; so you will draw the temper to suit. BROKEN SAWS—To Mend Permanently.—Pure silver 19 fwls; pure copper 1 part; pure brass 2 parts; all are to be filed into powder and intimately mixed. If the saw is not re* tently broken, apply the tinning preparation of the next recipe. 248 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES Place the saw level upon the anvil, the broken edges in close contact, and hold them so; now put a small line of the mixture along the seam, covering it with a larger bulk of powdered charcoal; now, with a spirit-lamp and a jewel- ers’blow-pipe, hold the coal-dust in place, and blow sufficient to melt the solder mixture; then with a hammer set the joint smooth, if not already so, and file away any superfluous so.dor; and you will be surprised at its strength. The heat upon a saw does not injure its temper as it does other tools, from the fact that the temper is rolled in, in place of by heat and water. TINNING—Superior to the Oi/d Process.—Take first, the same as the old way ; that is, muriatic acid 1 pt., and as much pure block or sheet zinc as it will cut, in an open dish, a bowl, or something of that character, as much heat is set free and bot- tles are often broken by it; now take sal-ammoniac 4 ozs.; pul- verize it and add to the other, and boil 10 minutes in a copper kettle—bear in mind, only copper is to be used to boil in. You will find this will cause the solder to flow right along without difficulty. Keep corked tight when not in use. VARNISH AND POLISH FOR STOCKS—German.—Gum shellac 10 ozs.; gum sandarach 1 oz.; Venice turpentine 1 drachm ; alcohol 95 to 98 proof 1 gal.; shake the jug occasion- ally for a day or two, and it is ready for use. After using a few coats of this, you can have a German- polish, by simply leaving out 8 ozs. of the shellac; and a coat or two of the polish makes an improvement on the varnish, and does not require the rubbing, that it would if the full amount of shellac was used, in the last coat or two. It is recommended also to put upon cuts, sores, &c., burnt excepted. JEWELERS' DEPARTMENT. GALVANIZING—W fra out a Battery.—Dissolve cyanuret of potassium 1 oz., in pure rain or snow water 1 pt., to which *add a 1 dr. bottle of the chloride of gold, and it is ready to use. Scour the article to be plated, from all dirt and grease, with whiting, chalk, or rotten stone, pulverized, and put in alcohol, 249 JEWELERS DEPARTMENT. apt rig a good brush—or the “ Polishing Compound,” No. 8; if there are cracks, it may be necessary to put the article in a solu- tion of caustic potash—at all events, every particle of grease and iirt must be removed; then suspend the article to be plated in Uie cyanuret of gold solution, with a small strip of zinc cut t,bout the width of a common knitting-needle, hooking the top sver a stick which will reach across the top of the jar holding lie solution. Every live to ten miuutes, the article should be taken out ind brushed over with the scouring preparation ; or on smooth surfaces it may be rinsed off and wiped with a piece of cotton cloth, and return until the coating is sufficiently heavy to suit. When the plating fluid is not in use, bottle it, keeping it corked, and it is always ready for use, bearing in mind that it is as poison as arsenic, and must be put high, out of the way of children, and labeled—Poison, although you will have no fears in using it; yet accidents might arise, if its nature were not known. The zinc strip, as far as it reaches into the fluid, will need to be rubbed occasionally, until it is bright. 2. Galvanizing With a Shilling Battery.—I have found some persons who thought it much better to use a eimpie battery, made by taking a piece of copper rod about three-eighths of an inch in thickness, and about eighteen Oi twenty inches long, and bend it, as seen in the accompany- ing cut: The rod should be about 4 or 5 inches in the circle or bend, then run parallel, having 5 strips of sheet zinc, an inch wide and 6 to 8 inches long, bent in their centre around the copper, with a rivet through them, close to the rod, as shown above; these strips of zinc are to be placed into tumblers, the rod resting oa top of the tumblers, which are to be nearly filled with rain wai- ter ; then pour into each tumbler a little oil of vitriol, until you tee that it begins to work a little on the zinc. SHILLING BATTERY. 250 OR. CHASE’S RECIPao. The article to be plated is to be suspended upon the stnj of zinc, as represented upon the long end of the rod, which is to be placed as before spoken of, in a jar containing the gold solution, instead of having it upon the stick spoken of when plating without the battery. And all the operations are the same as before described. JEWELRY—Cleaning and Polishing Compound.—Aqu* ammonia 1 oz.; prepared chalk £ oz.; mix, and keep corked. To use, for rings, or other smooth-surfaced jewelry, wet a bit of cloth with the compound, after having skaken it, and rub the article thoroughly; then polish by rubbing with a silk handkerchief or piece of soft buck-skin. For articles which are rough-surfaced, use a suitable brush. It is applicable for gold, silver, brass, britannia, plated goods, &c. FARRIERS’ DEPARTMENT. CHOLIC—Cure for Horses or Persons.—Spirits of turpentine 3 ozs.; laudanum 1 oz.; mix, and give all for a dose, by putting it into a bottle with half pint of warm water, which prevents injury to the throat. If relief is not obtained in one hour, repeat the dose, adding half an ounce of the best powdered aloes, well dissolved together, and have no uneasiness about the result. Symptoms.—The horse often lies down, suddenly rising again, with a spring; strikes his belly with his hind feet, stamps with his fore feet, and refuses every kind of food, &c. 1 suppose there is no medicine in use, for cholic, either in man or horse, equal to this mixture. For persons, a dose would be from 1 to 2 tea-spoons—children or weak persons, less, according to the urgency of the symptoms, to be taken in warm water or warm tea. I have been familiar with it for about five years, and know that it has been successful in many cases—all where it has been used. Many think it the best cholic remedy in the world. 2. Another.—Laudanum i oz.; sulphuric ether 1 oz. Mix, and for a horse, give all at a dose, in warm water as above. Dose for a person, as the first. A Mr. Thorpe, of whom I obtained this recipe, tells mt he has cured cholic in horses in every case with th« firs farriers’ department. 251 dose, except one, and in that case by repeating the dose thirty minutes after the first. There is no question but what it is good, and some would prefer it to the turpentine i know it is valuable. BOTS—Sure Remedy —When a horse is attacked with bots, it may be known by the occasional nipping at their own sides, and by red pimples or projections on the innei surface of the upper lip, which may be seen plainly by turning up the lip. First, then, take new milk 2 qts.; molasses 1 qt.; and give tha torse the whole amount. Second, 15 minutes afterwards give very warm sage tea 2 qts. Lastly, 30 minutes after the tea, you will give of currier’s oil i pt , (or enough to operate as physic.) La.ru has been used, when the oil could not be obtained, with the same success. The cure will be complete, as the milk and molasses cause the bots to let go their hold, the tea puckers them up, and the oil carries them entirely away. If you have any doubt, one trial will satisfy you perfectly. In places where the currier’s oil cannot be obtained, substitute the lard, adding three or four ounces of salt with it; if no lard, dissolve a double handful of salt in warm water three pints, and give all. RING-BONE AND SPAVINS—To Cure.—Egyptiacum and wine vinegar, of each 2 ozs.; -water of pure ammonia, spirits of turpentine, and oil of origanum, of each 1 oz.; euphorbium and cantharides, of each | oz.; glass made fine and sifted through gauze 1 dr.; put them in a bottle, and when used let them be well shaken. This is to be rubbed upon the bone enlargement with the hand or spatula, for half an hour each morning, for six or seven mornings in succession. Let the horse be so tied that he cannot get his mouth to the place for 3 or 4 hours, otherwise he will blister his mouth and blemish the part. Then let him run until the scab comes off of itself without scraping, which injures the roots of the hair. Then repeat as before, and follow up tor 3 or 4 times blistering, and all bone enlargements will be te absorbed, if not of more than a year or two’s standing. It is also good for callous sinews, and strains of long standing, spavin*, big-head, Ac., but if there are ring-bouea or spavins of so long standing that this does not cause their e ire, you will proceed as follows : 2. Add to the above compound, corrosive sublimate in powder } oz.; oil of vitriol $ oz.; and common salt I oz.; when it is again 252 DR CHASE’S RECIPES. ready for use, always shaking well as you U9e either preparation Now clip the hair and prick the bone or callous part as full of holes as you can with a pegging-awl, which is just long enough to break through the callous part only Or a better way to break up this bony substance is to have a han- dle like a pegging-awl handle, with three or four awls in it, then tap it in with a stick and give it a wrench at the same time, which does the hurting part with more speed. This done, bathe the part with vinegar, until the blood stops flowing; then apply the double compound as at first, for four or five mornings only, repeating again if necessary; and ninety-nine out of every hundred ring-bones or spavins will be cured; and most of them with only the first preparation. The Egyptiacum is made as follows : 3. Take verdigris and alum in powder, of each 1| ozs.; blue vitriol, powdrred, £ oz.; corrosive sublimate, in powder, i vinegar 2\ ozs.; honey lb.; boil over a slow fire until of a proper consistence. When used it must be stirred up well, as a sediment will deposit of some of the articles. If the hair does not come out again after using the last blister, use the “ Good Samaritan Liniment” freely, on the part; but the first will never disturb the growth of hair. It is best always to commence this kind of treatment early in the season, so as to effect a cure before cold weather monies on. 4. O. B. Bangs’ Cuke fok Ring-Bone and Spavin.—Take of cantharides pulverized; British oil; oils of origanum and am- ber ; and spirits of turpentine, of each 1 oz.; olive oil $ oz.; oil of vitriol 3 drs.; put all, except the vitriol, into alcohol, stir the mixture, then slowly add the vitriol and continue to stir until the mixture is complete, which is known by its ceasing to smoke. Bottle for use. Directions.—Tie a piece of sponge upon a stick and rub the preparation by this means, upon the spavin or ring-bone »s long as it is absorbed into the parts; twenty-four hours ifter, grease well with lard; and in twenty-four hours more, rash off well with soap-suds. Mr. Bangs lives at Napoleon, Mich., and has sold books for me nearly* two years. De says one application will generally be sufficient for spavins, but may need two; ring-bones always require two or thr«s aprl'cations, three or four days apart, which prevents th« 108d of hair; if not put on oftener than once in three o* farriers’ department. 253 fom days, the hair not coming out at all. Said to cure wind-galls, splints, &c. He obtained five dollars for curing a neighbor’s horse of ring-bone, with this preparation; stop- ping all lameness, but not removing the lufcip. 5. In very bad cases of long standing, he thinks it pre- ferable to first apply the following : Take alcohol 1 pt.; sal ammoniac, corrosive sublimate, and oil of spike, of each 1 oz.; mix. Apply, by washing off and using lard afterwards, as above directed, washing also forty-eight hours after; and when dry, apply the first liniment once or twice, according to di- rections. The object of this last is to open the pores of the skin, and soften the lump. 6. Ring-bone Remedy.—Pulverized cantharides, oils of spike, origanum, amber, cedar, Barbadoes tar, and British oil, of each 2 ozs.; oil of wormwood 1 oz.; spirits of turpentine 4 ozs. ; common potash I oz.; nitric acid 6 ozs.; and oil of vitriol (sul- phuric acid) 4 ozs.; lard 3 lbs. Directions.—Melt the lard and slowly add the acids, stir well and add the others, stirring until cold. Clip off the hair and apply by rubbing and heating in ; in about three days or when it is done running, wash off with suds and apply again. In old cases it may take three or four weeks, but in recent cases two or three applications have cured. It has cured long standing cases. 7. Rawson’s Ring-bone and Spavin Cure.—Venice turpen- tine and Spanish-flies, of each 2 ozs.; euphorbium and aqua ammonia, of each 1 oz.; red precipitate i oz.; corrosive subli- mate f oz.; lard H lbs. Pulverize all and put into the lard simmer slowly over coals, not scorch or burn, and pour off free of sediment. Directions.''-For ring-bones, cut off the hair and rub the ointment w**ll into the lumps once in forty-eight hours. For spavins, once in twenty-four hours for three mornings, has perfectly cared them. Wash well, each application, with cuds, rubbing over the place with a smooth stick to sqeez out a thick yellow matter. Mr. Itawson, of Rawsonville, Mich., has cured some ex- ceedingly had cases of ring-bones, one as thick as a man’, arm; and spavins as unpromising in size. If properly cooked it will foam like boilinp- sugar. 254 DR. chase’s REOIPE3. 8. Indian Method.—Bind a toad upon it; or two, if one dot* not cover it, and keep it on from 8 to 10 days. An Indian cured a horse in this way, near St. Louis, foi which he coveted, and recieved a riiie. The cure proved permanent. 9. Bone-Spavins—French Paste—$300 Recite.—Corrosive sublimate, quicksilver, and iodine, of each 1 oz.; with lard only sufficient to form a paste. Directions.—llub the quicksilver and iodine together, then adding the sublimate and finally the lard, rubbing ciioroughly. Shave off the hair the size of the bone enlargement; then grease all around it, but not where the hair is shaved off; this prevents the action of the medicine, only upon the spavin; now rub in as much of the paste as will lie on a three cent piece only, each morning for four mornings only; in from seven to eight days the whole spavin will come out; then wash out the wound with suds, soaking well, for an hour or two, which removes the poisonous effects of the nedicine and facilitates the healing, which will be done by ny of the healing salves; but I would prefer the green ointment to a»y other in this case. Mr. Andrews, late of Detroit, who during his life, knew a good horse, and also desired to know how to take good care of them, did not hesitate to pay three hundred dollars for this recipe after seeing what it would do ; he removed a spavin from a mare’s leg with it, and she afterwards won him more than the expense. 10. Bone-Spavins—Norwegian Cure.—S. B. Mar- shall, the Champion Horse-Slioer, and Farrier, of White Pigeon, Mich., obtained this plan of an old Norwegian Far- rier, and also his plan of curing poll-evil, which see, and assures me that he has been very successful with them. 1 obtained them of him for the purpose of publication, and sincerely think I can recommend them to all who need them : Take clog’s grease \ pt.; best oil of origanum li ozs ; puller ized cantharides i oz. Mix, and apply each morning, for three mornings; heating it in with a hot iron each time; then skip 3 mornings, and again, as before, until it has been applied 9 times; after which wait about 10 days, and if it is not all gone, go over again in the same way FARBLEBS’ DEPAKTMENT. 255 He says it does not remove the hair, but that it cures the largest and worst cases. He gives a test for good uil of origanum, saying that much of it is reduced with turpen- tine; and if so reduced, that it will spread on the skiu, like turpentine; but if good, that it does not spread on the skin, but stands, like other oil, where a drop is put on. I am not certain about the genuineness of this test; yet I find quite a difference in the spreading of the oils; for that which is known to contain turpentine spreads fast and freely; whilst that which is believed to be pure, spreads very slowly, yet does finally spread. The pure is of a dark wme color, whilst the poor is of a lighter shade, and some what cloudy. 11. Spavin Liniment.—Oils of spike, origanum, cedar, Brit- ish and spirits of turpentine, of each 1 oz.; Spanish-flies, pul- verized £ oz. Apply once in six to nine days only—removes the lump of spavins, splints, curbs, &c., if of recent occurrence ; and tfte man of whom I obtained it, says he has scattered poll- evils before breaking out, with cedar oil, alone. 12. Another.—Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each $ pt„; gum camphor, laudanum, and oil of cedar, of each 1 oz.; oils of hemlock and rhodium and balsam of fir, of each I oz.; iodine 1 dr.; mix. Apply night and morning, first washing clean and rub- bing dry with a sponge ; then rub the liniment into the spavin with the hand. It causes a gummy substance to ooze out, without injury to the hair—has cured ring-bones, also removing the lumps in recent cases. It cured the lameness in a case of three years standing. 13 Si",tnt and Spavin Liniment.—Take a large mouthed botlie and put imo it oil of origanum 6 ozs.; gum camphor 2 ozs.; mercurial ointment 2 ozs.; iodine ointment 1 oz.; melt by putting tne bottle into a kettle of hot water. Apply it to bone-spavins or splints twice daily, for four or five days. The lameness will trouble you no more. I have had men cure their horses with this liniment and re- mark that this recipe alone was worth more than the price of the book. 14. Bog-Spavin and Wind-Gall Ointment, also good fob Curbs, Splints, Ring-bones, and Bone-Spavin.—Take pulver- ised cantharides 1 oz.; mercurial ointment 2 ozs.; tincture of 256 DR. OHA.SE-8 RECIPES. iodine 1£ ozs.; spirits of turpentine 2 ozs.; corrosivo sublimate drs.; lard 1 lb. Mix well, and when desired to apply, first cut off the hair, wash well and anoint, rubbing it in with the hand or glove, if preferred. Two days after, grease the part with lard, and in two days more, wash off and apply the oint- ment again. Repeat the process every week, as long as necessary. SWEENY—Liniment.—Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each 8 ozs.; camphor gum, pulverized cantharides, and capsi cum, of each 1 oz.; oil of spike 3 ozs. Mix. Perhaps the best plan is to tincture the capsicum first and use the tincture instead of the powder, by which means you are free of sediment; bathe this liniment in with a hot iron. The first case has yet to be found where it has not cured this disease when faithfully followed. 2. Another.—Sal-ammoniac 2 ozs.; corrosive sublimate 1 oz.; alcohol 1 qt.; water 1 qt., pulverize and mix. This last has cured many cases of sweeny, and also kid- ney complaints, known by a weakness in the back, of horses or cattle. Bathe the loins with it; and give one to two table-spoons at a dose, daily. POLL-EVIL AND FISTULA—Positive Cure.—Common potash i oz.; extract of belladona i dr.; gum arabic i oz. Dis- solve the gum in as little water as practicable; then having pul- verized the potash, unless it is moist, mix the gum water with it and it will soon dissolve; then mix in the extract and it is ready to use; and it can be used without the belladona, but it is more painful without it, and does not have quite as good an effect. Directions.—The best plan to get this into the pipes is by means of a small syringe, after having cleansed the soro with soap-suds; repeat once in two days, until all the cal- lous pipes and hard fibrous base around the poll-evil or fis- tula, is completely destroyed. Mr. Curtis, a merchant of Wheaton, 111., cured a poll-evil with this preparation, by only a single application, as the mare estrayed and was not found for two months—then completely sound; but it will generally require two or three applications. This will destroy corns and warts, by putting a little of it upon the wart or corn, letting it remain from five to ton minutes, then wash oil and apply oil or vinegar, not squeez- ing them out, but letting nature remove them. FARRIERS’ DEPARTMENT. 257 T. Potash, jo Make.—It you cannot buy the potash, called for in the last recipe, you can make it by leaching best wood telies and boiling down the lye to what is called black salts, and continuing the heat in a thick kettle until they are melted; the aeat burns out the black impurities and leaves a whitish-gray lubstance, called potash. This potash, pulverized and put into all the rat holes ibout the cellars, causes them to leave in double quick time, *s mentioned in the Kat Exterminator.” The black salts will do about as well for rats, but is not quite so strong. They get their feet into it, which causes a biting worse than their own, and they leave without further ceremony. Potash making in timbered lands is carried on very ex- tensively ; using the thick, heavy potash-kettle to boil and melt in ; then dipping it out into three and five pail iron- kettles to cool. 3. Poll-Evil and Fistula—Nouwkgian Cure.—Cover the head and neck with two or three blankets; have a pan or kettle of the best "warm cider vinegar; holding it under the blankets; then steam the parts by putting hot stones, brick, or iron, into the vinegar,Rtul continue the operation until the horse sweat- freely; doing this 3 mornings and skipping 3, until 9 steaming have been accomplished. Mr. Marshall says, the pipes, by this time, will seem to have raised up and become loose, except the lower end, which holds upon the bone or tendons, like a sucker’s mouth; the apparent rising being caused by the going down of tlie swelling in the parts ; now tie a skein of silk around the pipes and pull them out; washing the parts with weak copperas water until the sore heals up and all is well. lie told me that he cured, in this way, a horse which had inter- fered until a pipe had formed at the ‘place -of interference, upon the leg, that when drawn out was as his finger. See the “ Norwegian Cure for Bone-Spavin.” 4. Another.—Hock salt and blue vitriol, of each 1 oz. * cop- peras £ oz.; pulverize all finely and mix well. Fill a goose-quill with the powder and push it to the bofc tom of the pipe, having a stick in the top of the quill, so that you can push the powder out of the quill, leaving it at the bottom of the pipe ; repeat again in about four days, end in two or three days from that time you can take hold <$f the pipe and remove it, without trouble. 258 im. CnASE’s RECIPES 5. PoLii-Enii, to Scatter.—Take a quantity of mandrake ••oot, mash, and boil it; strain and boil down until rather thick? then form an ointment by simmering it with sufficient lard for that purpose. Anoint the swelling once a day, for several days, until well. It has cured them after they were broken out, by putting it into the pipes a few times, also anointing around the sore. 6. Another.—Poll-evils and Fistulas have been cured by pushing a piece of lunar caustic into the pipe, then filling the hole with currier’s oil. Or: 7. Another.—Corrosive subli mhe the size of a common beait, pulverized and wrapped in tissue paper, and pressed to the bot- tom of the pipes, leaving it in eight days, then take out, and applying the blue ointment, (kept by druggists,) has cured them. Or: 8. Another.—Arsenic, the size of a pea, treated in the sama way, has cured the same disease. But if the Norwegian pian wiil work as recommended, it is certainly the best ot all. 9. Another.—Oil of vitriol put into the pipes has cured many poll-evils. I found one man, also, who had cured poll-evil by placing ■ barrel of water about fifteen feet high, on a platform, upon two trees—administering a shower bath daily upon the sore ; drawing the water by a faucet, through a dinner horn placed little end down; tying the horse so as to keep him in posi- tion until the water all runs out. Fifteen or twenty baths cured him, but it broke out again the next season, when a few more baths made a final cure. LOOSENESS OR SCOURING IN HORSES .OR CATTLE— In Use over Seventy Years.—Tormentil root, powdered. Dose for a horse or cow 1 to oz. It may be stirred in 1 pt. of milk and given, or it may be steeped in H pts. of milk then given from 8 to o times daily until cured. It has proved valuable also for persons. Dose for a per- son would be from one-half to one tea-spoon steeped in milk} but if used for persons I should recommend that half ad much rhubarb be combined with it. An English gentleman from whom it was obtained, had been familiar with its use nearly eighty years, and never knew a failure, if taken in any kind of seasonable time. The tormentil, or septfoil, is an European plant, and very as- tringent. farriers’ department 259 $ Beef bones for Scours.—Burn the bones thoroughly and pulverize finely; then give 1 table-spoon in some dry feed, 3 hmcs daily, until checked. This preparation has thirty years experience of an Amer- ican gentleman, near Fentonville, Mich., to recommend it to general favor. 3. Scours and Pin-Worms of IIorses and Cattle.—White ash bark burnt to ashes and made into rather strong lye; then mix \ pt. of it with warm water i pt., and give all, 2 or 3 times daily. Whenever it becomes certain that a horse or cow is troubled with pin-worms, by their passing from the bowels, it is best to administer the above, as they are believed to be the cause, generally, of scours, and this remedy carries off the worms, thus curing the inflammation by removing the cause. CORSE OINTMENT—De Gray or Sloan’s.—Rosiu 4 ozs.; boes-wax 4 ozs.; lard 8 ozs.; honey 2 ozs. Melt these articles slowly, gently bringing to a boil; and as it begins to boil, re- move from the fire and slowly add a little less than a. pint of spirits of turpentine, stirring all the time this is being added, and stir until cool. This is an extraordinary ointment for bruises, in flesh or hoof, broken knees, galled backs, bites, cracked heels, &c\, &e.; or when a horse is gelded, to heal and keep away flies. It is excellent to take fire out of burns or scalds in human flesh also. CONDITION POWDERS—Said to be St. John’s.—Penu greek, cream. *>f tartar, gentian, sulphur, saltpetre rosin, black antimony, and ginger, equal quantities of each, say 1 oz.; all to be line’y pulverized; cayenne, also fine, half the quantity of any oue of the others, say | oz. Mix thoroughly. It is used in yellow water, hide-bound, coughs, colds, dis- temper, and all other diseases where condition powders are generally administered. They carry off gross humors and purify the blood. Dose—In ordinary cases give two tea spoons onc-c a day, in feed. In extreme cases give it twic daily. If these do not give as good satisfaction as St. John’s or any other condition powder that costs more than double what it does to make this, then I will acknowledge that travel and study are of no account in obtaining infor- mation. 260 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES 2. Cathartic Condition Powder.—Gamboge, alum, salt petre, rosin, copperas, ginger, aioes, gum-myrrh, salts, and salt, and if the horse is in a very low condition, put in wormwood, all the same quantities, viz., 1 oz. each. Dose—One tat/e spoon in hr in twice daily ; not giving any other grain for a few days; then once a day with oats and other good feed. This last is more applicable for old worn-down horses which need cleaning out and starting again into new life * *nd in such cases, just the thing to be desired. HORSE LINIMENTS—For Stiff-Neck from Poll- Evils.—Alcohol one pint; oil of cedar, origanum, and gum-camphor, of each two ounces; oil of amber one ounce use freely. 2. English Stable Liniment—Very Strng.—Oil of spike, aqua ammonia, and oil of turpentine, of each 2 ozs.; sweet oil and oil of amber, of each If ozs.; oil of origanum 1 oz. Mix. Call this good for any thing, and always keep it in the stable as a strong liniment; the Englishman’s favorite foT poll-evils, ring-bones, and all old lameness, inflammations, &c.; if much inflammation, however, it will fetch the hair, but not destroy it. 3. Nerve and Bone Liniment.—Take beef’s gall 1 qt.; alco- hol 1 pt.; volatile liniment 1 lb.; spirits of turpentine 1 lb.; oil of origanum 4 ozs.; aqua ammonia 4 ozs.; tincture of cayenne i pt.; oil of amber 3 ozs.; tincture of Spanish-flies 6 ozs.; mix. Uses too well known to Deed description. Tims is more particularly applicable to horse flesh. 4. Liniment for One-Shilling a Quart.—Best vinegar 2 qts.; saltpetre, pulverized £ lb.; mix and set in a warm place, until dissolved. It will be found valuable for spavins, sprains strains, bruises, old swellings, &c. BROKEN LIMBS—'Treatment, Instead of Inhumanly Shooting the Horse.—In the greater number of fractures it is only necessary to partially sling the horse by means of a broad piece of sail or other strong cloth, (as represented in the figure,) placed under the animal's belly, furnished with two breechings and two breast girths, and by means of ropes and pulley* at- tached to a cross beam above, he is elevated or lowered, as may be required. It would seldom be necessary to raise them entirely ofi of their feet, as they will be more quiet, generally, when FARRIERS’ DEPARTMENT. 261 allowed to touch the ground or floor. The head-stall should be padded, and ropes reaching each way to the stall, at tvell as forward. Many horses will plunge about for a time, but soon quiet down, with an occasional exception ; when they become quiet, set the bone, splint it well, padding the splints with batting, securiug carefully, then keep wet with cold water, as loug as the least inflammation is present, using light food, and a little water at a time, but may be given often. The use of the different buckles and straps will be easily umderstood. SUPPORTING APPARATUS IN LAMENESS OF HORSES. If he is very restive, other ropes can be attached to the eorrier rings, which are there for that purpose, and will afford much additional relief to the horse. I knew a horse’s thigh to crumble upon the race-course without apparent cause, which lost him the stake he would have easily won; he was hauled miles upon a sled, slung, and cured by his humane owner. Then let every fair means be tried, before you consent to take the life, even of i broken-legged horse 262 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. WOUND BALSAM—For Horse or Human Flesh.—Gum benzoin, in powder, (i ozs.; balsam of tolu, in powder, 3 ozs.; gum storax 2 ozs.; Irankii,cense, in powder, 2 ozs.; gum myrrh, m powder, 2 ozs.; Socotorine aloes, in powder, il 1 qt.; now rub tbs fore legs, long and well, wdtli water as hot as can be borne with- out scalding. This remedy entirely cured a horse which had been foundered on wheat, two days before the treatment began. PHYSIC—Ball foh Houses.—Barbadoes aloes from 4 to 5, or C drs., (according to the size and strength of the horse); tar trate of potassia 1 dr.; ginger and castile soap, of each 2 drs.; oD of anise ply with a sponge (it is best in the sun or a warm room) about three coats, one directly after the other as fast as dry, say fifteen to twenty minutes apart; then have a small bunch of cotton batting tied up in a piece of woolen ; wet this in al- cohol and rub over the surface well; now go over the surface with a piece of tallow, then dust on rotten stone from a wool- en bag and rub it with, what is often called, the heel of the band; now wipe it off with cotton cloth, and the more you rub with this last cloth, the better will be the polish. Although this professes to be for new work, it does not hurt the looks of old, not the least bit; try it all who want their furniture to show a gloss and answer in place of looking, glasses. i J 270 DB. CHASE'S RECIPES. If soldiers will try it on their gun-stocks, they will find it just the thing desired. 2. Pomsii fok Reviving Old Furniture, Equal to tfj “ Brother Jonathan.”—Take alcohol 1£ ozs.; spirits of salt* (muriatic acid) i oz.; linseed-oil 8 ozs.; best vinegar £ pt.; and butter of antimony 1£ ozs.; mix, putting in the vinegar last. It is an excellent reviver, making furniture look nearly equal to new, and really giving a polish to new work, always shaking it as used. But if you cannot get the butter of antimony, the following will be the next best thing : 8. Polish for Removing Stains, Spots, and Mildew, from Furniture.—Take of 98 per cent, alcohol £ pt.; pulverized rosin and gum shellac, of each £ oz. Let these cut in the alco- hol ; then add linseed-oil £ pt.: shake well, and apply with a sponge, brush, or cotton flannel, or an old newspaper, rubbing it well after the application, which gives a nice polish. These are just the thing for new furniture when sold and about to be taken out of the shop ; removing the dust and giving the new appearance again. 4. Jet, or Polish for Wood or Leather, Black, Red, oh Blub.—Alcohol (98 per cent.) 1 pt.; sealing wax, the color de- sired, 8 sticks; dissolve by heat, and have it warm when applied A sponge is the best to apply it with. For black on leather it is best to apply copperas water first, to save extra coats; and paint wood the color desired also, for the same reason. On smooth surfaces, use the tal- low and rotten stone as in the first polish. It may be ap- plied to carriage-bodies, cartridge-boxes, dashes, fancy-bas- kets, straw-bonnets, straw-hats, &c. FURNITURE—Finishing with only One Coat of not Using Glue, Paste, or Shellac.—Take boiled linseed-oil and give the furniture a coat with a brush; then immediately sprinkle dry whiting upon it and rub it in well with your hand, or a brush which is worn rather short and stiff, over all the sur- face—the whiting absorbs the oil; and the pores of the wood are thus filled with a perfect coat of putty, which will last foi ages; and water will not spot it nor have any effect upon it. For mouldings and deep creases in turned work, you can mix them quite thick, and apply them together, with the old brush, but on smooth surfaces, the hand and dry whit- ing are best. If black walnut is the wood to be finished, you will put a trifle of burned umber in the whiiiug,—if for cherry, a little Venetian-red ; beech or maple wdl re CABINET MAKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 271 quire less red. Only sufficient is to be used, in either case, to make the whiting the color of the wood, being finished. Bedstead-posts, banisters, or standards for bedsteads and all other turned articles can have the finish put on in the lathe, in double quick time; spreading a newspaper on the lathe to save the scattering whiting, applying it with the hand or hands, having an old cloth to rub off the loose whiting which does not enter the pores of tho wood,—the same with smooth surfaces also. This preparation is cheap; and it is a wonder that furni- ture men have not thought of it before. Three coats of varnish without it is not as level ns one with it. From the fact that some of the varnish enters the pores of tho wood and does not dry smooth; but with the pores filled with this preparation, of course, it must dry smooth and level, with- out rubbing down. STAINS—Mahogany on Walnut, Natural as Nature.— Apply aquafortis by means *f a rag tacked to a stick ; .for if you use a brush it will very soon destroy it. Set the furniture in the hot sun to heat in the aquafortis, if no sun, heat it in by a stove or fire. It is better if heat in, but does quite well without heat- ing. Finish up in every other way as usual. This finish is applicable to fancy tables, 6tands, lounges, coffins, &c., and equally beautiful on knots and crotches, giving walnut the actual appearance of mahogany, and as it is appearances only that most people depend upon, why will not this do as well as to trasport timber from beyond the seas. 2. Rose-wood Stain, Very Bright Shade—Used Cold.— Take alcohol 1 gal.; camwood 2 ozs.; let them stand in a warm place 24 hours ; then add extract of logwood 3 ozs.; aquafortis 1 oz.; and when dissolved it is ready for use; it makes a very bright ground, like the most beautiful rose-wood—one, two or more coats, as you desire, over the whole surface. This part makes the bright streaks or grains; the dark ones is made by applying, in waves, the following: Take iron turnings or chippings, and put vinegar upon them; let it stand a few hours and it is ready to apply over the other, by means of a comb made for graining ; or a comb made from thinnish India-rubber; the teeth should be rather good length ; eay hall an inch, and cut close together or further apart, as de- sired ; and with a little practice, excellent imi tation will be m&dt- 272 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. This, for chairs, looks very beautiful to apply me darkea ing mixture by means of a flat, thin-haired, brusn, leaving only a little of the red color in sight; and if you want U make the cringles, as sometimes seen in rose-wood, it is done with a single tooth or pen, bearing on sometimes hard and then light, &e., Ac. All can and must be got by prac fcice. The above stain is very bright. If, however, you wish a lower shade, use the next recipe. 3. Rose-wood Stain—Light Shade.—Take equal parts of logwood and redwood chips, and boil -well in just sufficient wrater to make a strong stain; apply it to the furniture while hot, 1 oi 2, or even 3 coats may be put on, one directly after the other, according to the depth of color desired. For the dark lines, use the iron chippings as in the above Tecipe. Or, if a rose-pink is desired, use the following: 4. Rose-Pink, Stain and Varnish, Also Used to Imitatb Rose-wood.—Put an ounce of potash into a quart of water, with red sandprs ozs.; extract the color from the wood and strain: then add gum shellac i lbs.; dissolve it by a quick lire—used upon logwood stain for rose-wTood imitation. 5. Black Walnut Stain.—Whenever persons are using walnut which has sap-edges, or if t wo pieces are being glued together which are different in shade, or when a poplai pannel, or other wood is desired to be used to imitate black walnut, you will find the following to give excellent satis- faction : Spirits of turpentine 1 gal.; pulverized gum asphaltum 2 lbs. Put them into an iron kettle and place upon a stove, which prevents the possibility of fire getting at the turpentine; dissolve by beat, frequently stirring until dissolved. Put into a jug or can while hot. When desired to use any of it, pour out and reduce with turpentine to the right shade for the work being stained. With a little practice you can make any shade desired. II used with a brush over a red stain, as mentioned in the rose* wood stain recipes, especially for chairs and bedsteads, it very nearly resembles that wood. Mixing a little varnish with tire turpentine when reducing it, prevents it from spot ting, and causes it to dry quicker. By rubbing a little lamp-black with it you can make it a perfect black, if de- sired. cabinet makers’ department 273 6. Chebwy Stain.—Take rain water 3 qi,s.; anotta 4 oza.; boil in a copper kettle until the anotta is dissolved; then put in a piece of potash the size of a common walnut, and keep it on the fire about half an hour longer, and it is ready lor use. Bottle for keeping. This makes poplar or other light-colored woods so near the color of cherry that it is hard to distinguish j and even improves the appearance of light-colored cherry. VARNISHES—Black, with Asphaltum.—Spirits of turpen tine 1 gal.; pulverized gum asphaltum 2± lbs.; dissolve by heat, over a stove lire. It is applied to iron, frames of door plates, back-grounds in crystal painting, etching upon glass, and also for fence- wire, or screens which are to go into water above mills to turn leaves and driftrwood, &c. 2. Patent Varnish, for Wood or Canvass.— Take spirits of turpentine 1 gal.; asphaltum lbs.; put them into an iron kettle which will fit upon a stove, and dissolve the gum by heat When dissolved and a little cool, add copal varnish 1 pt., and boiled linseed-oil | pt.; when cold it is ready for use. Perhaps a little lamp-black would make it a more perfect blacK. If done over a common fire, the turpentine will be very likely to take fire and be lost; and, perhaps, fire the house or your clothes. This is valuable for wood, iron, or leather; but for cloth, first make a sizing by boiling flax-seed one quart, in water one gallon; applying of this for the first coat; the second coat of common thick black paint; and lastly a coat of the varnish. Some think that sperm oil, the same quantity, makes a little better gloss. 3. 'V arnish, Transparent, for Wood.—Best alcohol 1 gal.; nice gum shellac lbs. Place the jug or bottle in a situation to keep it just a little warm, and it will dissolve quicker than if hot, oi left cold. This varnish is valuable for plows, or any other articls where you wish to show the grain of the wood, and for pine, when you wish to finish up rooms with white, as the “ Por- celain Finish;” a coat or two of it effectually prevents the pitch irom oozing out, which would stain the finish. If this stands in an open dish, it will become thick by evaporation; in such cases add a little more alcoboi, and it is as good as before. Some do use as much as three and a 274 DR. CHASE 8 RECIPES. half pounds of shellac, but it is too thick to spread well, better apply two or more coats, if necessary. When a blacK varnish is wanted, you can rub lamp-black with this, for that purpose, if- preferred before the asphaltum, iu>* given. BARBERS’ AND TOILET DEPARTMENT. HAITI DYE—In Two Numbers.—No. 1. Take gallic acid oz.; alcohol 8 ozs.; soft waiter 16 ozs.; put the acid in the alcohol, then add the water. No. 2. Take for No. 2, crjrstalized nitrate of silver 1 oz.: am- monia, strongest kind, 3 ozs.; gum arabic f oz.; soft water (5 ozs. Observe, in making it, that the silver is to he put into the ammo- nia, and not corked until it is dissolved ; the gum is to be dis- solved in the water, then all mixed, and it is ready for use. Barbers will probably make this amount at a time, as it comes much cheaper than in small quantities; but if fami- lies or others, for individual use, only wish a little, take drachms, instead of ounces, which you sec will make only one-eighth of the amount. Directions for Applying.—First, wash the whiskers or hair with the “ shampoo,” and rinse out well, rubbing with a towel until nearly dry; then with a brush apply No. 1, wetting completely, and use the dry towel again to re- move all superfluous water; then with another brush, (tooth-brushes are best,) wet every part with No. 2, and it becomes instantaneously black; as soon as it becomes d’y, wash off with hard water, then with soap and water; apply a little oil, and all is complete. The advantages of this dye are, that if you get any stain upon the skin, wipe it off with a cloth at the time, and tho washing removes all appearances of stain ; and the whis- kers or hair never turn red, do not crock, and are a beauti ful black. However, cyanurct of potassium 1 dr., to 1 oz. of water, will take off any stain upon the skin, arising from nitrate of silver; but it is poison, and should not touch sore places nor be left where children may get at it. barbers’ and toilet department. 275 f ersiras whose hair tt. CHASE 8 iii.011 Ls men add, oi castor on t iu.; oay rum x gm ; men taites awaj the peculiar freshness of the marrow ; then use the extract ot the common rose-geranium to give it the flavor desired. Half as much suet as marrow, also makes a very nice article; and '’an be used where the marrow is not easily ob taiued. BALM OF A TI-IOUSANB FLOWERS.—As strange as it may seem, some of the most astonishingly named am- cles, are the most simple in their composition. Although thousands of dollars have been made out of the above named article, it is both cheap and simple : Reoderized alcohol 1 pt.; nice white-bar soap 4 ozs.; shave the soap when put in ; stand in a warm place until dissolved; then add oil of citronella 1 dr.; and oils of neroli and rosemary, of each 4 dr. It is recommended as a general perfume ; but it is more particularly valuable to put a little of it into warm water, with which to cleanse the teeth. RAZOR STROP-PASTE.—Take the very finest superfine flour of emery and moisten it with sweet oil; or you may moist- en the surface of the strop with the oil, then dust the flour of emery upon it, which is perhaps the best way. Nothing else is needed. You must not take any of the coarse flours, nothing but the finest will do. It is oftcD mixed with a little oil and much other stuff which is of no use, and put up in little boxes and sold at two shillings, not having more than three cent’s worth of emery. BAKERS’ AND COOKING DEPARTMENT Remarks.—It may not be considered out of place to make a few remarks here, on the art, as also on the prinei pies, of cookery. For nearly all will acknowledge cooking not only to be an art, but a science, as well. To know how to cook economically is an art. Making money is an art, Wow is there not more money made and lost in the ki token than almost any where else ? Roes not many a hard-work- ing man have his substance wasted in the kitchen ? Roca bakers’ and cooking department. 281 not many a shiftless man have his substance saved in the kitchen ? A careless cook can waste as much as a man can earn, which might as well be saved. It is not what we earn, as much as what we save, that makes us well-off. A long and happy life is tlief reward of obedience to nature's laws, and to be independent of want, is not to want what we do not need Prodigality and idleness constitute a crime against hu- manity. But frugality and industry, combined with moral virtue and intelligence, will insure individual happiness and national prosperity. Economy is an institute of nature and enforced by Bible precept: ‘'Gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost.” Saving is a more difficult art than earning ; some people put dunes into pies and puddings, where others only put in cents ; the cent dishes are the most healthy. Almost any woman can cook well, if she have 'plenty with which to do it; but the real science of cooking is to be able to cook a good meal, or dish, with but little out of which to make it. This is what our few recipes shall assist you ju doing As to the principles of cooking, remember that water can, not be made more than boiling hot—no matter how much you'hasten, the lire, you cannot hasten the cooking, of meat potatoes, &e , one moment • a brisk boil is sufficient. When meat is to be boded for eating, put it into bofling water at the beginning, by which its juices are preserved But if you wish to extract these juices for soup or broth, put the meat- in small pieces, into cold water, and let it simmer slowly. The same principle holds good m baking, also. Make the oven the right heat, and give it tim'e to bake through, is the, true plan , if yon attempt to hurry it, you only burn, instead of cooking it done. If you attempt the boiling to hurry the wood only is wasted • Bat, in attempting the baking to burry, the lood, as veil, ten t fit to he tasted. CAKES—Fedetial Cake —Flour lbs.; pulverized white sugar \\i lbs.: fresh butter 10 ozs ; 5 eggs well beaten ; car- bonate of ammonia }'s oz ; water % pt., or milk is best, if you have it Grind down the ammonia, and rub it with the sugar. Rub ilie butter into the flour; now make a bowl of the iiour, (unless you choose to work it up in a dish,) and jmt 282 ©a. chase’s recipes in the egg J milk, sugar, &c., and mix well, and roll out to about a quarter of an inch in thickness ; then cut out with a round cutter, and place on tins so they touch each other and instead of rising up thicker, in baking, they till up tne space between, and make a square-looking cake, all attached together. While they are yet warm, drench over with white coarsely-pulverized sugar. If they are to ne kept hi a show-case, by bakers, you can have a board as large as th« tin on which you bake them, and lay a dozen or more tius- ful on top of each other, as you sprinkle on the sugar. 1 cannot see why they are called “Federal,” for really, they are good enough tor any “ Whig.” Ammonia should be kept in a wide-mouthed bottle, tight ly corked, as it is a very volatile salt. It is known by va rious names, as “ volatile salts,” “ sal volatile,” “ hartshorn,' “ hartshorn-shavings,” Ac., Ac. It is used for smeliing-bot ties, fainting, as also in baking. 2. Rough-and-Ready Cake.—Butter or lard 1 lb.; molasses 1 qt.; soda 1 oz.; milk or water £ pt.; ground ginger 1 table- spoon; and a little oil ot lemon; flour sufficient. Mix up the ginger in flour, and rub the butter or lard in also ; dissolve the soda in the milk or water; put in tho molasses, and use the flour in which the ginger and buttei Ls rubbed up, ano sufficient more to make the dough oi a proper consistence to roll out; cut the cakes out with a long and narrow cutter, and wet the top with a little mo- lasses and water, to remove the flour from the cake; turn the top down, into pulverized white sugar, and place in an oven sufficiently hot for bread, but keep them in only to bake, not to dry up. This, and the “ Federal,” are great favorites in Pennsylvania, where they know what is good, and have the means to make it; yet they are not expen- sive. 3. Sponge Cake, Wura Sour Mit.k.—Flour 3 cups; flue white sugar 2 cups; G eggs; sour milk £ cup, with saleratna l ica-spoon. Dissolve the saleratus in the milk ; beat the eggs sepa- rately ; sift the flour and sugar; first put the sugar into the milk and eggs, then the flour, and stir all well together using any flavoring extract which you prefer, 1 tea-spoon — lemon, however, is the most common As soon as the flow bakers’ and cooking department. 283 I \ stirred in, put it immediately into a quick oven ; and if it iS all put into a common square bread-pan, for which it makes the right amount, it will require about twenty to thirty minutes to bake ; if baked in small cakes, proportion ately less. 4. Sponge Cake with Sweet Milk.—As sour milk cannot always be had, I give you a sponge cake with sweet milk Nice brown sugar 1£ cups; 3 eggs; sweet milk 1 cup; floui 84 cups; cream of tartar and soda, of each 1 tea-spoon ; lemon essence i tea-spoon. Thoroughly beat the sugar and eggs together; mix the cream of tartar and soda in the milk, stirring in the flavor also, then mix in the flour, remembering that all cakes ought to be baked soon after making. This is a very nice cake, notwithstanding what is said of “ Berwick/' below. 5. Berwick Sponge Cake without Milk.—Six eggs, pow- dered white sugar 3 cups; sifted flour 4 even cups; cream of tartar 2 tea-spoons; cold water 1 cup; soda 1 teaspoon; one icmon. First, beat the eggs two minutes, and put in the sugar and beat five minutes more ; then stir in the cream of tar- car and two cups of the flour, and beat one minute; now dissolve the soda in the water and stir in, having grated the rind of the lemon, squeeze in half of the juice only; and finally add the other two cups of flour and beat all one min- ute, and put into deep pans in a moderate oven. There is considerable beating about this cake, but if itself does not beat all the sponge cakes you ever beat, we will'acknowl edge it to be the beating cake, all around. G. Surprise Cake.—One egg; sugar 1 cup; butter -£ cup; sweet milk 1 cup; soda 1 tea-spocn; cream of tartar 2 tea- spoons. Flavor with lemon, and use sufficient sifted flour to mak the proper consistence, and you will really be surprised t see its bulk and beauty. 7. Sugar Cake.—Take 7 eggs and beat the whites and yolks separately; then beat well together; now put into them sifted white sugar 1 lb.; with melted butter £ lb., and a small tea- spoon of pulverized carbonate of ammonia. Stir in just sufficient sifted flour to allow of its being rolled out and cut into cakes. 284 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. 8. Gingek Cake.—Molasses 2 cups; butter, or one-half lard if you choose, 1% cups; sour milk 2 cups; ground ginger 1 tea-spoon, saleratus 1 heaping tea-spoon. Mash the saleratus, then mix all these ingredients together in a suitable pan, and stir in flour as long as you can with a spoon; then take the hand and work in more, just so you can roll them by using flour dusting pretty freeiy; roll out thin, cut and lay upon your buttered or floured tins; then mix one spoon ot molasses and two of water, and with a small brush or bit of cloth wet over the top of the cakes? this removes the dry flour, causes the cakes to take a nice brown and keep them moist; put into a quick oven, and ten minutes will bake them if'the oven is sufficiently hot. Do not dry them all up, but take out as soon as nicely bi owned. We have sold cakes out of the grocery for years, but never ound any to give as good satistaction as these, eithei at table for counter They keep moist, and are sufficiently rich and ight for an cake eaters. 9 Tea on Cttp Cake—Four eggs; nice brown sugar 2 cups; saleratus 1 tea-spoon; sour milk 3 cups ; melted butter or half lard 1 cup ; half a grated nutmeg, flour. Put the eggs and sugar into a suitable pan and beat to- erether- dissolve the saleratus in the milk and add to the fcgcs and sugar - put in the butter and nutmeg also sur ad well- then sift in flour sufficient to make the mass to such a consistence that it will not run from a spoon when lfted upon it. Any one preferring lemon can use that in place of nutmeg. Bake rather slowly. 10 Cake, Nice, Avithout Ews or Mtek — A verv nice cake is made as follows, and it will keep well also; Flour ?A£ lbs. ; sugar lb ; butter 1 lb • water U nf- having l tea spoon of saleratus dissolved in it.' 2 ' Roil'lkii. and bake on tin sheets 11. Pork Cake, without Butter. Mrr,K, or Egos-*) most delightful cake is made by the use of pork, which saves the expense of butter, eggs, and milk. It must be tasted to appreciated, and another advant-ge ot it h tiu>t you make enough, some leisure day, to last the season Miroimh,. for I have eaten it two months after it was baked, stiil nice and moist. Uil43' BAKERS AND COOKING DEPARTMENT 285 Fat, salt pork, entirely free of lean or rind, chopped so fine 8$ to be almost like lard 1 lb.; pour boiling water upon it pt.; ra:sins seeded and chopped 1 lb.; citron shaved into shreds \ lb.; sugar 2 cups; molasses 1 cup ; saleratus 1 tea-spoon, rubbed tine and put into the molasses. Mix these all together, and stir in sifted flour to make the consistence of common cake mixtures, then stir in nutmeg and cloves finely ground 1 oz. each ; cinna- mon, also fine, 2 ozs.; be governed about the time of baking it by putting a sliver into it—when nothing adheres it is done. It should be baked slowly. You can substitute other fruit in place of the raisins, if desired, using as much or as little as you please, or none at al l, and still have a nice cake. In this respect you may call it the accommodation cake, as it accommodates itself to thf wishes or circumstances of its lovers. When p?rh will do all we here claim for it, who will lon- ger contend that it is not fit to eat ? "Who ! 12. Cider Cake.—Flour G cups; sugar 3 cups; butter 1 cup; 4 eggs; cider 1 cup; saleratus 1 tea-spoon; 1 grated nutmeg. Heat the eggs, sugar, and butter together, and stir in the flour and nutmeg; dissolve the saleratus in the cider and stir into the mass and bake immediately, in a quick oven. 13. Ginger Snaps.—Butter, lard, and brown sugar, of each } lb.; molasses 1 pt.; ginger 2 table-spoon; flour 1 qt.; saleratus 2 tea-spoons; sour milk 1 cup. Melt the butter ard lard, and whip in the sugar, molas- ses, and ginger; dissolve the saleratus in the milk and put in ; then the flour, and if needed, a little more flour, to en- able you to roll out very thin; cut into small cakes and bake in a slow oven until snappish. 14. Jet ly Cake —Five eggs; sugar 1 cup; a little nutmeg; sal- eratus 1 tea-spoon; sour milk 2 cups; flour. Beat the eggs, sugar, and nutmeg together ; dissolve the saleratus in the milk, and mix; then stir in flour to make only a thin batter, like pan-cakes; three or four spoons of the batter to a common round tin; bake in a quick oven Three or four of these thin cakes, with jelly between, form one cake, the jelly being spread on while the cake is warm 15. Boll, Jelly Cake.—Nice brown sugar 1£ cups; 3 eggs; sweet skim milk 1 cup; flour 2 cups, or a little more only; cream of tartar and soda, of each 1 tea-spoon; lemon essence 1 tea- spoon. Thoroughly beat the eggs and sugar together; mix the 286 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. cream of tartar and soda with the milk, stirring in the fla- vor also ; now mix in the flour, remembering to bake soon, spreading thin upon a long pan ; and as soon as done spread jelly upon the top and roll up ; slicing off only as used j the jelly does not come in contact with the fingers, as in the last, or fiat cakes. CAKE TABLE, FIFTEEN KINDS. U 3 jd o . * H e3 $0 S rj V- to Ph W S W 16. Pound, 1 lb. 11b. lib. — 8 rose-water three spoons, mace, &c. 17. Genuine Whig, 2 “ 8 ozs. 8 ozs. 1 pt. — raise with yeast. 18. Shrewsbury, i “ lib. fib. — — ■ rose-water, «Src. 19. Training, 3 “ J. u 44 ■ ciu’n, nutmeg. 20. Nut-Cake, 7 “ f “ 2 “ — 7 cin’n, wet with milk, raise with yeast, or wet and raise with sour milk & saleratus. ?1. Short-Cake, 5 “ 8 ozs. f“ — .8 rose-water and nutmeg. *2. Cymbals, 2 “ 8 “ 4 “ — 6 rose-water and a little spice. 23. Burk Cake, 5 “ 8 “ f “* 1 pt. 9 rose-water, raise with yeast. 24. Jumbles, 6 “ 1 lb. 2 “ — 6 roll out in loaf sugar. 25. Ginger-Bread, 1 “ 4 “ 4 “ — 3 yolks only—gin ger to suit. 26. Wonders, 2 “ 4 “ 4 “ — 10 cinnamon. 27. Cookies. 3 “ £ “ £ “ — 3 or without eggs —wet up, raise w i t h saleratus and sour milk. 28. York Biscuit, 8 “ **» 1 1 wet up, and raise with sour milk and saleratus. 29. Common, 12 “ 8 “ 3 “ 2 qts. — yeast, spice to taste. SO. Loaf, 9qts. 3 “ 4 “ 1 gal.— wine 1 pt. yeast 1 pint. 81. Molasses Cake.—Molasses H cups; saleratus 1 tea spoon; sour milk 2 cups; 2 eggs; butter, lard, or -pork gravy, what you would take up on a spoon; if you use lard add, a little sa L. bakers’ and cooking department. 287 Mix all by beating a minute or two with a spoon, dis- avowing the saleratus in the milk ; then stir in flour to give the consistence of soft-cuke, and put directly into a hot oven, being careful not to dry them up by over-baking, as it ,s a soft, moist cake, that we are after. 32. Marbled Cake.—Those having any curiosity t.c gratify upon their own part, or on the part of friends, will be highly pleased with the contrast seen when they take a piece of a cake made in two parts, dark and light, as follows : Light Part.—White sugar 1 j cups; butter £ cup; sweet milk | cap; soda $ tea-spoon; cream of tartar 1 tea-spoon. whites of 4 eggs ; flour 2i cups; beat and mixed as “ Gold (Jake.’! Dark Part.—Brown sugar 1 cup; molasses 4 cup ; butter $ cup, sour milk £ cup; soda £ tea-spoon; cream of tartar 1 tea- spoon ; flour cups ; yolks of 4 eggs; clows, allspice, cinna- mon, and nutmeg, ground, of each j table-spoon; beat and mixed as “ Gold Cake.” Directions.—When each part is ready, drop a spoon of dark, then a spoon of' light, over the bottom of the dish, in which it is to be baked, and so proceed to 611 up the pan; dropping the light upon the dark as you continue with the different layers. 33. Silver Cake.—Whites of 1 doz. eggs.; flour 5 cups; white sugar and butter, of each 1 cup; cream or sweet milk 1 cup; cream of tartar 1 tea-spoou; soda * tea-spoon; beat and mix as the “ Gold Cake.” Bake in a deep pan. 84. Gold Cake.—Yolks of 1 doz. eggs; flour 5 cups; white sugar 3 cupa; butter 1 cup ; cream or sweet milk cups ; soda i tea-spoon • cream of tartar 1 tea-spoon. Bake in a deep loaf pan. Beat th* eggs with the sugar, having the butter softened by the fire; then stir it in; put the soda and cream of tar- tar into the cream or milk, stirring up aud mixing all to gether ; then sift aud stir in the flcur. The gold and silver cakes dropped as directed in the u Marbled Cake,” gives you still another variety. 35. Bride Cake.—Presuming that this work may fall into the hands of some persons w7ho may occasionally have a wedding amongst them, it would be imperfect without a H wedding cake,” and as I have lately had an opportunity to test this one, upon “ such an occasion,” in my own family, l can bear testimony, so can the '‘'printer,” to its adapta- tion for all similar displays. I)R. CHASE’S RECIPES. Take butter H lbs.; sugar If lbs., half of which is to be Or- leans sugar; eggs well beaten, 2 lbs.; raisins 4 lbs.; having the seeds taken out, and chopped; English currants having the grit picked out and nicely washed 5 lbs.; citron, cut tine, 2 lbs tifted flour 2 lbs.; nutmegs 2 in number, and mace as much in bulk; alcohol 1 gill to £ pt., in which a dozen or fifteen drops c f oil of lemon have been put. When ready to make your cake, weigh your butter and eut it in pieces, and put it where it will soften, but not melt Next, stir the butter to a cream, and then add the sugar, and work till white. Next beat the yolks of the eggs, and pui them to the sugar and butter. Meanwhile another person should beat the whites to a stiff froth and put them in. . Then add the spices and flour, and, last of all, the fruit, except the citron, whiali is to he put in about three layers, the bottom layer about one inch from the bottom, and the top one, an inch from the top, and the other in the middle, smoothing the top of the cake by dipping a spoon or two of water upon it for that purpose. The pan in which it is baked should be about thirteen inches across the top, and five and a half or six inches deep, without scollops, and two three-quart pans also, which it will fill; and they will require to be slowly baked about three to four hours. But it is impossible to give definite rules as to the time required in baking cake. Try whether the cake is done, by piercing it with a broom splinter, and if nothing adheres, it is done. Butter the cake pans well; or if the pans are lined with buttered white paper, the cake will be less liable to burn. Moving cakes while baking tends to make them heavy. The price of a large “ Bride Cake,” like this, would be about twelve dollars, and the cost of making it would be about three dollars ouly, with your two small ones, which would cost as much to buy them as it does to make the whole three. The foregoing was written and printed over a year ago. The daughter came home, and took dinner with us, one year from the marriage ; and her mother set on some of the cake as nice and moist as when baked. 36. Fruit Cake.—As side accompaniments to the “Bride Cake,” you will require several “ Fruit Cakes,” which are to be made as follows : 289 BAKERS' and cooking department. Butter, sugar, English currants, eggs, and flour, of each 5 lb9 Mix as ir the “ Bride Cake.” Bake in about six cakes, which would cost from one doi lar and fifty cents to two dollars a-picce, if bought for the occasion. 87. Frosting, ok Icing, for Cakes.—The whites of 8 eggs beat to a perfect froth and stiff; pulverized white sugar 2 lbs.; starch 1 table-spoon; pulverized gum arabic £ oz.; the juice of 1 lemon. Sift the sugar, starch, and gum arabic into the beaton egg, and stir well and long. When the cake is cold lay on a coat of the frosting; it is best not to take much pains in putting on the first coat, as little bits of the cake will mix up with it, and give the frosting a yellow appearance; but on the next day, make more frosting the same as the first, and apply a second coat, and it will be white, clear, and beautiful. And by dipping the knife into cold water as applying, you can smooth the frosting very nicely. 38. Excellent Crackers.—Butter leup; salt 1 tea-spoon,- flour 2 qts. Kub thoroughly together with the hand, and wet up with cold water; beat well, and beat in flour to make quite brittle and hard ; then pinch off pieces and roil out each cracker by itself, if you wish them to resemble bakers’ crackers. 39. Sugar Crackers.—Flour 4 lbs.; loaf sugar and butter, of each £ lb.; water 1 £ pts. Make as above. 40. Naples Biscuit.—White sugar, eggs, and flour, of eacn 1 lb. If properly pulverized, sifted, beat, mixed, and baked the size of Boston crackers, you will say it is nice indeed. 41. Buck w ilea r Siiout-cake.—Take 8 or 4 tea-cups of nice sour milk, 1 tea-rpoon of soda-saleratus dissolved in the milk; if die milk i i very -jour, you must use saleratus in proportion, with -» little salt; mb up a dough with buckwheat flour, thicker than you would mix the same for griddle-cakes, say quite stiff; put into a buttered tin, and put directly into the stove oven and bake about 30 minutes; or as you would a short-cake from com- mon flour. It takes the place of the griddle-cake, also of the short- cake, in every sense of the word—nice with meat, butter, honey, molasses, &c No shortening is used, and no nqed of getting your dish of batter over night, for a drunken 290 PR. chase’s recipes. husband to set his foot in. Wet the top a little, and warm it up at next meal, if any is left—it is just as good as when first made, while griddle-cakes have to be thrown away. It is also very good, cold. Was the beauty of this cake known to the majority of persons, throughout the country generally, buckwheat would become as staple an article of commerce as the com- mon wheat. Do not fail to give it a trial. Some persons, in trying it, have not had good luck the first time ; they have failed from the milk’s being too sour for the amount of saleratus used, or from making the dough too thin. I think I can say we have made it hundreds of times with success, as I could eat it while dyspeptic, when I could eat no other warm bread. 42. Yeast Cake.—Good lively yeast 1 pt.; rye or wheat flour to form a thick batter; salt 1 tea-spoon ; stir in and set to use when risen, stir in Indian meal, until it will roll out good. When again risen, roll out very thin; cut them into cakes and dry in the shade; if the weather is the least damp, by the fire or stove. If dried in the sun, they will 'erment. To use: Dissolve one in a little warm water, and stir iD a couple of table-spoons of flour; set near the fire, and when light, mix into the bread If made perfectly dry, they will keep for six months. BREADS—Yankee Brown Bread.—For each good sized loaf being made, take II pts. corn meal, and pour boiling winter upon it, to scald it properly; let stand until only blood 'warm, then put about 1 qt. of rye flour upon the meal, and pour in a good bowl of emptyings, with a little saleratus dissolved in a gill of water, kneading in more flour, to make of the consistence of common bread. If you raise it with yeast, put a little salt in the meal, but if you raise it with salt-risings, or emptyings which I prefer, no more salt is needed. Form into loaves, and let them set an hour and a half, oi Until light; in a cool place, in summer, and on the hearth, or under the stove, in winter; then bake about two hours. Make the dough fully as stiff as for wheat bread, or a little harder; for if made too soft it does not rise good. The old style was to use only one-third rye flour, but it does no* wear if made that way; or, iu other words, most persons tired of it when mostly corn meal, hut I never do wh® mostly rye flour. bakers’ and cooking department. 291 Let all persons bear in mind that bread should never be eaten the day on which it is baked, and positively must this bfc observed by dyspeptics. Hotels never ought to be with- out this bread, nor families who care for health. 2 Graham Bread.—I find in Zion’s Herald, of Bos- ton, edited by Bev. E 0 Haven, formerly a Professor in the University at this city, a few remarks upon the u Differ ent Kinds of Bread,” including Graham, which so full explain the philosophy, and true principles of bread- making, that I give them an insertion, for the benefit of bread-makers. It says: “ Bice flour added to wheat flour, enables it to take up an increased quantity of water.” [See the “ New French Method of Making Bread.”] “ Boiled and mashed potatoes mixed with the dough, cause the bread to retain moisture, and prevent it from drying and crumbling. Bye makes a dark-colored bread; but it is capable of being fermented and raised in the same manner as wheat. It retains its freshness and moisture longer than wheat. An admixture of rye flour with that of wheat, decidedly improves the iat ter in this respect. Indian corn bread is much used in thi. country. Mixed with wheat and rye, a dough is produced capable of fermentation, but pure maize meal cannot be fer- mented so as to form a light bread. Its gluten lacks the tenacious quality necessary to produce the regular cell-struc- ture. It is most commonly used in the form of cakes, made to a certain degree light by eggs or sour milk, and saleratus, and is generally eaten warm. Indian corn is ground into meal of various degrees of coarseness, but is never made so fine as wheaten flour. Bread or cakes from maize require a considerably longer time to be acted upon by heat in the baking process, than wheat or rye. If ground wheat be unbolted, that is,. if its bran be not separated, wheat meal or Graham flour results, from which Graham or dyspepsia bread is produced. It is made in the same general way aa other wheaten bread, but requires a little peculiar manage- ment. Upon this point, Mr, Graham remarks: The wheat meal, and especially if it is ground coarsely, swells considerably in the dough, and therefore the dough should nut at first be made quite so stiff as that made of superfine flour; and when it is raised, if it is found too soft to mould ivell, a little 292 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. more meal may be added It should be remarked that dough made of wheat meal will take on the acetous fermentation, or become sour sooner than that made of tine flour. It requires ? hotter oven, and to be baked longer, but must not stand so long after being mixed before baking, as that made from flour. 3. Brown Bread Biscuit.—Take com meal 2 qts.; rye flom 8 pts.; wheat flour 1 pt.; molasses 1 table-spoon ; yeast 3 table spoons, having soda 1 tea-spoon mixed with it. Knead over night for breakfast. If persons will eat warm rread, this, or buckwheat short-cake, should be the only kinds eaten. 4. Dyspeptics’ Biscuit and Coffee.—Take Graham-flour (wrheat coarsely ground, without bolting,) 2 qts.; corn meal sift- ed, 1 qt.; butter i cup; molasses 1 cup; sour milk to wet it up with saleratus’ as for biscuit. Roll out and cut with a tea-cup and bake as other biscuit and when cold they are just the thing for dyspeptics. And if the flour was sifted, uoDe would refuse to eat them : For the Coffee.—Continue the baking of the above biscuit in a slow oven for six or seven hours, or until they are browned through like coffee. Directions.—One biscuit boiled f of an hour will be plenty for 2 or 3 cups of coffee, and 2, for 0 persons; serve with crean and sugar as other coffee. Dyspeptics should chew very fine, and slowly, not drinking until the meal is over • "then sip the coffee at their leisure, not more than one cup, however. This will be found very oice for common use, say with one-eighth coffee added • hardly any would distinguish the difference between it and that made from coffee alone. The plan of buying ground coffee is bad ; much of it is undoubtedly mixed with peas, which you can raise for less than fifteen or twenty a pound, and mix for yourself. 5. London Baker’s Superior Loaf Bread. -The Michigan Farmer gives us the following; any one can see that it contains sound sense : “ To make a half-peck loaf, take & lb. of well boiled mealy potatoes, mash them through a tine cullender or coarse s>'cve, add i pt. of yeast, or f oz. of German dried-yeast, and If pre. of luke-warm water, (88 deg. Fah:.) together with f lb. of flom, to render the mixture the consistence of thin batter; this mixture is to be set aside to ferment: if set in a warm place it will rise in less than 2 hours, when it resembles yeast, except in coiefi. BJW11.R8' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. 293 The sponge so made is then to be mixed with 1 pt. of water, nearly blood warm—viz. 92 deg. Fahr., and poured into a half, peck of flour, which has previously had 1£ ozs. of salt mixed into it; the whole should then be kneaded into dough, and allowed to rise in a warm place for 2 hours, when it should be kneaded into loaves and baked.” The object of adding the mashed potatoes is to increase the amount of fermentation in the sponge, which it does tc a very remarkable degree, and consequently, renders the bread lighter and better. The potatoes will also keep the bread moist. 6. Old Bachelor's Bread, Biscuit, or Pie-Crust.—Floui 1 qt.; cream of tartar 2 tea-spoons; soda £ tea-spoon; sweet milk to wet up the flour to the consistence of biscuit dough. Rub the flour and cream of tartar well together ; dissolve the soda in the milk, wetting up the flour with it and bake immediately. If you have no milk, use water in its place, adding a spoon of lard to obtain the same richness. It does well for pie-crust where you cannot keep up sour milk. 7. New French Method op Making Bread.—Take rice | lb.; tie it up in a thick linen bag, giving ample room for it to swell; boil it from 3 to 4 hours, or until it becomes a perfect paste; mix this while warm with 7 lbs. of flour adding the usual quantities of yeast and salt; allow the dough to work a proper time near the fire, then divide into loaves. Dust them in, and knead vigorously. This quantity of flour and rice makes about thirteen and one-half lbs. of bread, which will keep moist much longei than without the rice. It was tested at the Loudon Poly technic Institute, after having been made public in Prance, with the above results. 8. Baking Powders, for Biscuit Without Shortening. -Bi-carbonate of soda 4 ozs.; cream of tartar 8 ozs.; and properly dry them, and thoroughly mix. It should be kept in well corked bottles to prevent dampness which neutralizes the acid.- Use about three tea-spoons to each quart of flour being baked ; mix with milk, if you have it, if not, wet up with cold water and put directly into the oven to bake. TIES.—Lemon Pie, Extra Nice.—One lemon; water 1 cup; brown sugar 1 cup; flour 2 table-spoons; 5 eggs; white sugar 2 tabie-spoons. Grate the rind from the lemon, squeeze out the juice, and chop up the balance very fine; put all together and 294 HR. CHASE’S RECIPES. add the water, brown sugar, and flour, working the mass into a smooth paste; beat the eggs and mix with the paste, saving the whites of two of them; make two pies, baking with no top crust; while these are baking, beat the whites of the two eggs, saved for that purpose, to a stiff’ froth and stir in the white sugar; when the pies are done, spread this frosting evenly over them, and set again in the oven and brown slightly. 2. Pie-Crust* Glaze.—In making any pie which has a juicy mixture, the juice soaks into the crust, making it soggy and unfit to eat; to prevent this : Beat an egg well; and with a brush or bit cf cloth, wet the crust of the pie with the beaten egg, just before you put in the pie mixture. For pies which have a top crust also, wet the top with the same before baking, which gives it a beautiful yellow brown. It gives beauty also to biscuit, ginger cakes, and is just the thing lor rusk, by putting in a little sugar. 3. Apple Pie which is Digestible.—Instead of mix ing up your crust with water and lard, or butter, making it very rich, with shortening, as customary for apple pies: Mix it up every way just ns you would for biscuit, using sour milk and salcratus-, with a little lard or butter only: mix the dough quite stiff, roll out rather thin, lay it upon your tin, or plate; and having ripe apples sliced or chopped nicely and laid on, rather thick, and sugar according to the acidity of the ap- ples, then a top crust, and bake well, putting the egg upon the crusts, as mentioned in the “ Pie Crust Glaze,” and you have got a pie that is lit to eat. Put when you make the rich crust, and cook the apples and put them on, it soaks the crust, which does not bake, and no stomach can digest it, whilst our way gives you a nice light crust, and does not take half the shortening of the other plan ; yet perhaps nothing is saved pecuniarily, as butter goes as finely with the. biscuit-crust-pies, when hot, as it does with biscuit; but the pie is digestible, and when it is cold, does not taste bad to cut it up on your plate, with plenty of sweetened cream. 4. Ah'le Custard Pie—The Nicest Pie ever Eaten.— Peel sour apples and stew* until soft and not much water left in them; then rub them through a cullender—beat 3 eggs for each pie to be baked; and put in at the rate of 1 cup of butter and 1 of sugar for 3 pies; season with nutmeg bakers’ and cooking department. 295 My wife has more recently made them with only 1 egg to each pte, vnth only half of a cup of butter and sugar each, to 4 or 5 pica; but the amount of sugar must be governed somewhat by the acidity of the apples. Bake as pumpkin pies, ■which they resemble in appear- ance; and between them and apple pies in taste; very nice indeed. We find them equally nice with dried appies by making them a little more juicy. If a frosting was put upon them, as in the “ Lemon Pie,” then returned, for a lew moments, to the oven, the appear- ance, at least, would be improved. 5. ArrLE Custard, Very Nice.—Take tart apples, that are Quite juicy, and stew and rub them, as in the recipe above, anc to 1 pt. of the apple, beat 1 eggs and put in, with 1 table-spoon of sugar, 1 of butter, and of a grated nutmeg. Bake as other custards. It is excellent; and makes a good substitute for butter, apple butter, &c. 6. Paste for Tarts.—Loaf sugar, flour, and butter, equal weights of each; mix thoroughly by beating with a rolling-pin, for half an hour; folding up and beating again and again. When properly mixed, pinch off small pieces and roll out each crust by itself, which causco them to dish so as to hold the tart-mixture. And if you will have a short pie-crust, this is the plan to make it. PUDDINGS—Biscuit Pudding, Without Re-Baking.— Take water 1 qt.; sugar i lb.; buuer the size of a hen’s egg; flour 4 table-spoons; nutmeg, grated | of one. Mix the flour with just sufficient cold water to rub up ali the lumps while the balance ot the water is heating, mix all, and split the biscuit once or twice, and put into this gravy while it is hot, and keep hot until used at table. It uses up cold biscuit, and I prefer it to richer puddings. It is indeed worth a trial. This makes a nice dip gravj also for other puddings. 2. Old English Christmas Plum Pudding—The Harrisburg Tdeyrajih furnishes its readers with a recipe for the real “ Old English Christmas Plum Pudding.” After having given this pudding a fair test, I am willing to endorse every wrord of it; and wish for the holiday to come oftenei than once a year : “ To make what is called a pound pudding; take of raisina 296 DR. CUASF/S RECIPES. well stoned but not chopped, currants thorough*' washed, 1 lb. each; chop suet 1 lb. very finely, and mix with tnem; add f lb of flour or bread very finely crumbled; 3 ozs. of sugar; H ozs of grated lemon peel, a blade of mace, £ of a small nutmeg, 1 tea-spoon of ginger, £■ doz. of eggs, well beaten; work it well to get her, put it in a cloth, tie it firmly, allowing room to swell; put it into boiling water, and boil not less than two hours. If should not be suffered to stop boiling. The cloth, when about to be used, should be dipped into oiling water, squeezed dry, and floured ; and wher the pudding is done, have a pan of cold water ready, and dip it in for u moment, as soon as it comes out of the pot, which prevents the pudding from sticking to the cloth. For a dip gravy for this or other puddings, see the “Biscuit Pudding, without Re-Baking,” or “Spreading Sauce for Puddings.” 3. Indian Pudding, To Bank.—ISice sweet milk 1 qt.; but- ter 1 oz.; 4 eggs, well beaten; Indian meal 1 tea-cup; raisins i lb.; sugar ± lb. Scald the milk, and stir in the meal whilst boiling; then let it stand until only blood-warm, and stir all well togeth- er, and bake about one and a half hours. Eaum with sweet- cued cream, or either of the pudding sguces mentioned in the “ Christmas Pudding.” 4. Indian Pudding, To Boil.—Indian mca* 1 qt.. with a little salt; 0 eggs; sour milk 1 cup; saleratus 1 tea-spoon; rai sins 1 lb. Scald the meal, having the salt in it ; when cool stir in the beaten eggs ; dissolve the saleratus in the milk and stir in also, then the raisins; English currants, dried, currants, or dried berries, of any kind, answer every purpose, and are, in fact, very nice in place of the raisins. Boil about one and a half hours. Eaten with sweetened cream or any of the pudding sauces. Any pudding to he boiled must not be put into the water until it boils, and taken out as soou as 'one, or they become soggy and unfit to eat. 5. Quick Indian Pudding.—Take cups of sour milk, 2 eggs well beaten; 1 small tea-spoon of saleratus; dissolved in the milk; then sift iii dry corn meal, and stir to the consistence of corn bread; then stir in $ lb. of any of the fruits mentioned above; or, if you have no fruit, it is quite nice without; Tie up and boil one hour; sweetened cream with a little nutmeg makes a nice sauce. As I have just eaten of thia for my diuucr, I throw it in extra, for it is worthy. BAKERS' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. 297 6. Flour Pudding, To Boil.—When persons have plenty of dried apples or peaches, and not much of the smaller fruits; or desire to change from them in puddings** Take wheat flour sufficient to make a good pan of biscuit, and mix it up as ior biscuit, with sour nfflk, saieratus, and a little butter or lard, roll out rather thicker than for pie-crust; now having your apples or peaches nicely stewed wet the crust over with the “ Pie Crust Glaze,” then spread a layer ot the fruit upon it, adding a little sugar, as it lies upon the table; and if you i boose, scatter over them a handful of raisins, or any other of the dried fruits mentioned; ’•oil up the whole together, and boil 1 hour. Eaten with any sauce ivhich you may prefer, hut the corn meal puddings are much the most healthy, and I pre- fer their taste to those made from flour. 7. Potato Pudding.—Itub through a cullender G large or 12 middle sized potatoes ; beat 4 eggs, mix with 1 pt. of good milk ; stir in the potatoes, sugar and seasoning to taste; butter the dish; bake i an hour. This recipe is simple and economical, as it is made of a hat is wasted in many families, namely, cold potatoes; which may be kept two or three days, until a sufficient quantity is collected. To be eaten with butter. 8. Green Corn Pudding.-—Green corn, raw, 2 doz. ears; sweet milk 8 to 4 qts.; G eggs ; sugar 1 to 2 cups. Salt to suit the taste. Split the kernels lengthwise of the ear with a sharp knife; then with a case knife scrape the corn from the cob, which leaves the hulls on the cob ; mix it with the milk and other articles, and bake from two to three hours. To be eaten with butter and sugar. 9. Steamed Pudding.—Two eggs; sugar 1 cup; sour milk 1 cup; saieratus £ tea-spoon ; a little salt; dried whortleberries, currants, raisins, or other fruit 1 cup ; flour. Beat the eggs and stir in the sugar; dissolve the salera tus iu the milk, and mix in also the fruit and salt; thee thicken with flour, rather thicker than for cake ; put into a iwo-quart pan and set in the steamer, and steam an hour and a half; and I think it will crack open on the back—if Dot, try again. It is worth the trouble, especially if you kave plenty of sweetened cream. 10. Spreading Sauce, eok Puddings.—Butter 4 ozs.; sugar 6 ozs.; 1 nutmeg. 298 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. Grate the nutmeg, and rub all together; these are aoout the proper proportions, but more or less can be made, as desired, and more or lea8 nutmeg can also be used; or any other flavoring in their place. This sauce is nice on baked puddings, hot or cold; and to tell it all, it is not bad or bread. See the “Biscuit Pudding,” for dip-sauces. DOMESTIC DISHES— Queen Corn Omelet.—Green con. boiled 1 doz. ears; 5 eggs; salt and pepper to suit the taste. Remove the corn from the cob, as mentioned in the “ Green Corn Pudding.” The splitting allows the escape of the pulp, whilst the hull is held by the cob ; season, form into small cakes, and fry to a nice brown, and you have a very nice omelet. 2. APPLES—To Bake—Steamboat Style—Better than Preserves.—Take moderately sour apples, when ripe; and with a pocket-knife cut out the stem, and flower-end also, so as to remove the skin from these cup-shaped cavities ; wash them, and place them in a dripping-pan; now fill these cavities with brown sugar, and pretty freely between them also, with sugar; then lay on depth. The lard must be hot belore the slices of apples are put in. Let one side of them fry until brown; then turn,#and put a small quantity of sugar on the browned side of each slice. By the time the other side is browned, the sugar will be melted' and spread over the 'whole surface. Serve them up hot, and you will have a dish good enough for kings and queens, or any poor man’s breukfasi; and 1 think that even the President would not refuse a few ■lioes. if properly cooked. There is but little choice be- bakers’ and cooking department. 299 sween frying and baking by these plans; either one in very nice. 4. Apple Fritters.—Sour milk 1 pt.; saleratusl tea-spoon* dour to make a batter not very stiff; G apples, pared and cored, 3 eggs. Dissolve the saleratus in the milk; beat the eggs, and put in ; then the flour to make a soft batter ; chop the ap pics to about the size of small peas, and mix them well it the batter. Fry them in lard, as you would dough-nuts Eaten with butter and sugar. 5. Apple Merange.—An Excellent Substitute for Pie or Pudding.—First, take a deep dish and put a bottom crust into it, as for a pie; have nice sour apples, pared, sliced, and stewed, sweetening slightly; place a layer of the stewed apple upon the crust, say about half an inch in thickness, then put on a layer of nice bread, spread with butter, as for eating, then another layer of the apple ; now place in the oven and bake as a pudding, or pie; when done, have the whites of eggs beat- en and mixed with a little loaf or other white sugar, say 2 eggs for a 2-quart dish; place this upon the merange and return it to the oven for a few minutes, to brown the egg mixture, or frost- ing. Serve with sugar dissolved in a little water, adding a little butter, with nutmeg, or lemon, as desired or preferred. G Bread, To Fry—Better than Toast.—Take bread that is dry; the dryer the better, so it is not mouldy; first dip it rathi i quickly into cold water, then into eggs which are well beat, having a little salt in them; then immediately fry for a short time in hot lard until the surface is a pretty yellow or light brown, according to the heat of the lard. I have never eaten bread cooked in any form which suits me as well as this. But the following is very nice. 7. Toast—German Style.—Bakers’ bread 1 loaf, cut into slices of half an inch in thickness; milk 1 qt.; 3 eggs, and a little salt; beat the eggs and mix them with the milk, and fla- vor as for custard, not cooking it however. Dip the sliced bread into the mixture occasionally until it is all absorbed ; then fry the pieces upon a buttered griddle. Serve, for dinner, with su gar syrup, flavored with lemon. This is the German style of making toast; but is quite good enough for an American. And I have no doubt that home-made bread will answer all purposes; ours does, cer- tainly. 8. Back-woods Preserves.—Moderately boil a pint of mo- lasses, from 5 to 20 minutes, according to its consistency; then 300 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. add 3 thoroughly beaten, hastily stirring in, and con- tinue" boil a few minutes longer; then season with a nu..mcg or lessen. Do tot fail to give it a trial. 9. FkjSNCH Honey.—White sugar 1 lb.; 6 eggs, leaving out the whites of 2; the juice of 3 or 4 lemons, and t‘>e grated rind of 2; and i lb. of butter. Stir over a slow tire until it is cbou the consistency of honey. This and the last, will be found to come much name what they represent, than the Yankee’s “Wooden nutmegs"' did, upju trial 10. Muffins.—To each qt. of sweet milk add 2 egg- well beaten ; a lump of butter half the size of an egg, ano hour enough to make a stiff batter. Stir in 1 pt. of yeas*-; let them stand until perfectly light, and then bake on a griddle, n tin rings, made for that purpose. These are merely strips of tin, three-quarters of at inch wide, made into rings from two and a half to three inches in diameter, without bottom—the ring being simnly placed on a griddle, and ilie batter poured iu to till it. 11. Mock Oysters.— Six, nice, plump, ears of rsveet corn, uncooked; grate from the cob; beat 1 egg, stirring into it dour and milk, of each 1 table-spoon; season with a little salt and pepper. Put about a tea-spoon of butter into a suitable pan tor frying, having mixed in the corn also, drop the mixture into the hot butter, one spoon of it in a place, turning them so as to fry brown. Serve hot, for breakfast. Whether they imitate oysters or not, no one need xegrel giving them a trial. 12. Fruit Jams, Jellies, and Preserve* —The difference between common preserves, jellies, and jams, is this: Preserves are made by taking fruit and sugar, pound for pound, and simply cooxing them together until the fruit is done. 13. Jellies are made by squeezing and straining out the juice only, of the fruit; then taking a pound of sugar for a pound of juice, and cooking until it jells, which is told by taking out a little upon a cold plate. 14. Jams are made by weighing the whole fruit, wash- ing, slicing, and putting in sufficient water to cook it well, then when cool, rubbing it through a fine sieve, and with this pulp, putting in as much sugar as there was of the bAKEES’ AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. 301 fruli naly, and cooking it very Carefully, until the weight of the jam is the same as the fruit and added sugar ; the water, you see, is all gone; and this is easily told by having previously weighed the kettle iu which you are cooking it. The jam, if nicely done, contains more of the fruit flavor than the jell, and is as valuable as the jell to put into water as a drink for invalids; and better for flavoring syrups foi soda-fountains, &c. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries peaches, and pine-apples, make very nice jams for flavoring syrups. Much of the flavor of the fruit resides iu tho skin, pits, &c. And jams made in this way, from the black- berry/ are good for sore mouth, diarrhea, dysentery, exclude the air. I put in no bone. 8. Salt Pork for Frying—Nearly Equal to Fresh.—For the benefit of thoe.3 who are obliged to us6 considerable salt pork, the following method much improves it for frying: Cut as many slices as may be needed; if for breakfast, the night previous, and soak till morning in a quart or two of milk and water, about one-half milk, skimmed-milk, sour milk, or buttermilk;—rinse till the water is clear and thee fry. It is nearly or quite as nice as fresh pork,—both the fat and lean parts. Occasionally I like to have this rolled in corn meal before frying, as it makes such a nice imitation of fresh fish. 9. FREsn Meat—To Keep a Week or Two, in Summer.— Farmers or others, living at a distance from butchers, can keep fresh meat very nicely, for a week or two, by putting it into sour milk, or butter-milk, placing it in a cool cellar. The bone or fat deed not be removed. Rinse well when used. 312 DR. CHASE’S RECIPE8. 10. Smoked Meat—To Preserve for Years, or for Sea Voyages.—How often are we disappointed in our hopes of having sweet hams during the summer ? After carefully curing and smoking, and sewing them up in bags, and while- washing them; we often find that either the fly has com- menced a family in our hams, or that the choice parrs around the bone are tainted, and the whole spoiled. Now this can be easily avoided, by packing them in pulvei ized charcoal. No matter how hot the weather, nor how thick the flies; hams will keep, as sweet as when packed, loi years. The preservative quality of charcoal will keep them till charcoal decays; or sufficiently long to have accompanied Cook three times around the world. 11. Tite Rural New Yorker’s Method.—It says: “ In the Spring, cut the smoked ham in slices, fry till partly done, pack in a sl/me jar alternate layers of ham and gravy. If the ham should be very lean, use lard for gravy. Be sure and fry the ham in the lard, so that it will be well seasoned. "When wanted for use, take up, finish frying, and it is ready for the table.” The only trouble is, that we can’t keep it half long enough, it is so good and handy. 12. The New England Farmer’s “ Saving iiis Bacon.”—About a couple of years ago, we were enter- tained, at the house of a friend, with a dinner of eggs and bacon. We complimented our host on the superior quality of his bacon; and were curious to inquire the way to like suc- cess in the preparation of a dainty article of diet, though one that is better fitted for the palate of an epicure than for the stomach of a dyspeptic. To our surprise we were informed that that portion of ogr meal was cooked eight months before. Upon asking for an explanation, he stated that it was his practice to slice and fry his bacon immediately on its being cured, and then pack it in its own fat. When occasion canfe for using it, the slices, slightly re-fried, have all the freshness and flavor of new bacon just prepared. By this precaution, our friend always succeeded in “ Saving his bacon,” fresh and sweet, through the hottest of weather.—New England Fawner. I have no doubt but what it will do as well to pack meats fried in this way, in tubs or barrels as in jars ; but I rather prefer covered jars, putting a couple of thicknesses of cloth over the jar before putting on the cover; placed in a cool cellar. MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 313 r also find it necessary to put in lard occasionally as you 9re frying, a3 there is not generally enough brought out by the frying to fill the crevices between the slices, which mu«* be filled. CANNING FRUITS—Peaches and Pears.—After paring and coring, put amongst them sufficient sugar to make them palatable lor present eating,—about 3 to 4 lbs. only for each bushel; let them stand a while to dissolve the sugar, not using auy water; then heat to a boil, and continue the boiling, with care, from 20 to 30 minutes; or sufficiently long to heat through which expels the air. Have ready a kettle of hot water, into which dip the can long enough to heat it; then fill in the fruit while hot, corking it immediately, and dip the end of the cork int<~ the “ Cement for Canning Fruits.” When cold it is bes to dip the second time to make sure that no air holes are left which would spoil the fruit. All canned fruits are to be kept in a very cool cellar. We have, yesterday and to-day, been eating peaches put up in this way, two years ago, which were very nice indeed. See “ Peaches, To Peel.” 2. Berries, Plums, Cherries, &c.—Raspberries, blackber- ries, whortleberries, currants, cherries, and plums, need not be boiled over 10 to 15 minutes; using sugar to make palatable, in all cases; as it must be put in some time, and it helps to pre- serve the fruit. They require the same care in heating cans, &c., as ubove, for peaches. 3. Strawberries.—For strawberries, put sugar % lb. for each lb. of berries; and proceed as for berries above. Strawberries are so juicy, and have such a tendency to fermentation, that it is almost impossible to keep them I have found it absolutely so, until I adopted the plan of using the amount of sugar above named ; if others can do with less, they can benefit the public by telling me how they do it. 5. Tomatoes.—For tomatoes, scald and peel them as for other cooking; then seald, or rather boil for about 15 minutes only, ani can as above. Or what I think best, is to use a little salt, and put them into ha 4-gallon jugs; for we want them in too great quanti- ties w stop on a few glass jars, such as we use for other 314 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. fruits; as for tin cans, I never use them; if you do uia tin cans for tomatoes it will not do to use salt with them, as ;t has a tendency to cause rust. 6. Cement for Canning Fruits.—Rosin 1 lb.; lard, tallow d bees-wax, of each 1 oz. Melt and stir together ; and have it hot, ready to dip into, when canning. 7. Rural New Yorker’s Method.—The editor says ; From four years experience with, not only strawberries, but peaches, cherries, raspberries, pine-apples, &c., without losing a single jar, the flavor being also perfect: Use only self-sealing glass jars. Put into a porcelain preserving kettle, enough to till two, quart jars; sprinkle on sugar ± lb.; place over a slow lire and heat through, not cooked. While the fruit is heating, keep the jars filled with hot water. Fill up to the brim, and seal im- mediately. As it cools a vacuum is formed which prevents bursting. In this way every kind of fruit will retain its flavor. Some- times a thick leathery mould form, on the top—if so, all the better. CATCHUP—Tomato Catchup.—Take perfectly ripe tomatoes I bushel; wash them clean and break to pieces; then put over the tire and let them come to a boil, and remove from the fire; when they are sufficiently cool to allow your hands in them, rub through a wire sieve; and to what goes through, add salt 2 tea-cups ; allspice and cloves, of each, ground, 1 tea-cup ; best vinegar 1 qt. Put onto the fire again and cook 1 hour, stirring with great care to avoid burning. Bottle and seal for use. If too thick when used, put in a little vinegar. If they were very juicy they may need boiling over an hour. This recipe is from Mrs. Hardy, of the American Hotel, Dresden, 0., and is decidedly the best catchup which I have ever tasted; the only fault 1 have ever heard attributed to it was, “ I wish we had made more of it.” “ We have not got half enough of it,” &c. Rut there are those who can- not use tomatoes in any shape ; such persons will, undoubt- edly like the following: 2. Currant Catchup.—Nice fully ripe currants 4 lbs.; sugai II lbs.; cinnamon, ground 1 table-spoon ; salt, with ground cloves and pepper, of each 1 tea-spoon; vinegar 1 pt. Stew the currants and sugar until quite thick; then add the other ingredients, and bottle for use. MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 315 PRESERVES—Tomato Pres^ves.—As some per- sons will have preserves, I give them the plan of making the most healthy of any in use : Take ripe, scalded and peeled tomatoes 13 lbs.; nice, scalding hot molasses 1 gal.; pour the molasses upon them and let stand 12 hours; then boil until they are properly cooked; now skim out the tomatoes, but continue boiling the syrup until quite thick; then pour again upon the tomatoes and put away as other preserves. A table-spoon of ginger tied up in a bit of cloth and boiled in them, gives a nice flavor; or the extracts can be used ; or lemon peel, as preferred—if sugar is used, pound for pound is the amount. But I prefer to put them, or any other fruit, into jugs, cans, or bottles, which retains the natural flavor and does not injure the stomach, which all preserves do, to a greater or less extent. Yet I give you another, because it does so nicely in place of citron, in cakes. 2. Preserved Water-Melon in Place of Citron, for Cares.—The harder part of water-melon, next the skin, made into preserves with sugar, equal weights; cooking down the evrup rather more than for common use, causes it to granulate, like citron, which is kept for sale. This chopped fine, as citron, makes an excellent substi- tute for that article; and for very much less cost. Call in the neighbors, to help eat about a dozen good sized melons, and you have outside enough for the experiment; and if the Doctor is near he will help without a fee. They are nice, also, in mince-pies in place of raisins. CURRANTS—To Dry with Sugar.—Take fully ripe cur rants, stemmed, 5 lbs.; sugar 1 lb.; put into a brass kettle, stir- ring at first, then as the currants boil up to the top, skim them off; boil down the juicy syrup until quite thick and pour it over the currants, mixing well; then place on suitable dishes, and dry them by placing in a low box over which you can place musketo-bar, to keep away flies. When properly dried, putin jars and tie paper over them. Put cold water upon them and stew as other fruit for eating or pie-making, adding more sugar if desired. TIN-WARE—To Mend by the Heat of a Candle.—Take a vial about two-tliirds full of muriatic acid, and put into it, little bits of sheet zinc, as long as it dissolves them; then put in a crumb of sal-ammoniac and fill up with water, and it is ready to use. With the cork of the vial wet the place to be mended. DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. with the preparation ; ihen put a piece of sheet zinc ove\ the hole and hold a lighted candle or spirit lamp under the place, which melts the solder on the tin and causes the zinc to adhere without further trouble. Wet the zinc also with the solution. Or a little solder may be put on in place of the zinc, or with the zinc. WATER FILTER—Home-Made.—Rainwater is much healthier than hard water as a beverage; and the following will bo found an easy and cheap way to fit it for drinking purposes: Have an oak tub made, holding from half, to a barrel, accord- ing to the amount of water needed in the family; let it stand on end, with a faucet near the bottom; or, I prefer a hole through the bottom, near the front side, with a tube in it which prevents the -water from rotting the outside of the tub; then put clean pebbles 3 or 4 inches in thickness over the bottom of the tuo; now have charcoal pulverized to the size of small peas (tLM made from hard maple is best) and put in half a bushel or so it a time; pound it down quite firmly, then put in more and pou id again until the tub is filled to within 8 inches of the top; awd again put on 2 inches more of pebbles; then put a piece of ele m white flannel over the whole top as a strainer. The flannel can be washed occasionally, to remove Pie impurities collected from the water, and it might be well to put a flannel between the pebbles and flannel at the bottom also. When the charcoal becomes foul, it can be reneved as before, but will work a whole season without renew! ig. Put on your water freely until it becomes clear; when you will be as well satisfied as you would be if it run through a patent filter, costing six times as much as this. A large jar to hold the filtered water can be set in an ice- box if preferred; or an occasional piece of ice can bt put in the water; but if the filter is set in the cellar, us it should be, the water will be sufficiently cool for hi lltli. This makes a good cider filter, also, first straining the ' ider hrough cotton to free it from the coarsest pomace. TIRE—To Keep on the Wheel.—A correspond at of the Southern Planter says : “ I ironed a wagon some years ago for my own use, and before putting on the tires 1 filled the fellies with linseed-oil; and the tires have worn oui, and were never loose. I ironed a buggy for my own use seven years ago, and the tires are now as tight as wb en j at on MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 317 &Iy method of filling the fellies with the oil is as follows . I use a long, cast iron oil-heater, made for the purpose; the oil is brought to a boiling heat, the wheel is placed on a stick, so as to hang in the oil, each felly an hour, for a common sized felly. The timber should be dry, as green timber wdll not take oil. Care should be taken that the oil be not made hotter than a boiling heat, in order that the timber be not burnt. Timber filled with oil is not susceptible to water, and is much more du- rable.” I was amused some time ago when I told a blacksmith how to keep tires tight on wheels, by his telling me it was a profitable business to tighten tires; and the wagon maker will say it is profitable to him to make and repair wheels— but what will the farmer, who supports the wheel-wright and the blacksmith say ? The greatest good to the greatest u umber, is my motto. WEEDS—To Destroy in Walks.—The following method to destroy weeds is pursued at the mint in Paris, with good effect: Water 10gals.; stone lime 20 lbs.; flour of sulphur 2 lbs Boil in an iron kettle; after settling, the clear part is to be poured off and sprinkled, freely, upon the weedy walks. Care must be taken, for it will destroy weeds; and as certainly destroy edging and border flowers, if sprinkled on them. CEMENTS—Cement for China, &c., "which Stands Fire and Water.—With a small camel’s-hair brush, rub the broken edges with a little carriage oil-varnlsh. If neatly put together, the fracture will hardly be per ceptible, and when thoroughly dry, will stand both fire and water. 2. Russian Cement.—Much is said about cements; but there is probably nothing so white and clear, and certainly nothing better than he following : Russian isinglass dissolved in pure soft water, snow water is best; for it takes 12 hours to soften it by soaking in pure soft water, then considerable heat to dissolve it; after which it is ap- olieable to statuary, china, glass, alabaster, &c., &c. In all cements the pieces must be secured until dry. It i*> easy to reason that if twelve to fifteen hours are required io soften this isinglass that no disl -washiug will ever effect 318 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. it. You may judge from the price whether you get the Russian, for thirty-seven cents per ounce, is as low as the genuine article can be purchased in small quantities, whilst the common, bear a price of only from ten to twelve cents, md even less. 3. Cement, Cheap and Valuable.—A durable cement is made by burning oyster-shells and pulverizing the lime from them very tine; then mixing it with white of egg to a thick paste and applying it to the china or glass, and securing the pieces together until dry. When it is dry, it takes a very long soaking for it to become soft again. I have lifted thirty pounds by the stem of a wine-glass which had been broken, and mended with this cement. Common lime will do, but it is not so good ; either should be fresh burned, and only mix what is needed, for when once dry you cannot soften it. 4. Cement—Water-Proof, for Clotii or Belting.— Take ale 1 pt.; best Russia isinglass 2 ozs.; put them into a com- mon glue kettle and boil until the isinglass is dissolved; then add 4 ozs. of the best common glue, and dissolve it with the other; then slowly add l|ozs. of boiled linseed-oil, stirring all the time while adding, and until well mixed. When cold it will resemble India-rubber. When you wish to use this, dissolve what you need in a suitable quantity of ale to have the consis- tence of thick glue. It is applicable for earthenware, china, glass, or leather; for harness; bauds for machinery; cloth belts tor cracker machines for bakers, &c., &c. If for leather, shave oif as it for sewing, apply the cement with a brush while het, laying a weight to keep each joint tirmly for 6 to 10 hours, oi over night. This cement will supersede “ Spaulding’s Prepared Glue/' and all the white cements you can scare up, if you use good articles to make it of,—not less than thirty or forty cents a pound for common glue, and three shillings per ounce for the Russian isinglass; but the expense of this will cause it only to be used when dampness is to be con- tended with. If you have not a glue kettle, take an oyster can ana punch some holes through the top of it, putting in a string to suspend it on a stick in a common kettle of boiling wa- ter, and keep it boiling in that way. 5. Cement, or Furniture Glue, for House Use.—To mend marble, wood, glass, china and ornamental ware—take water 1 gal ; nice glue 3 lbs. • white lead 4 ozs.; whisky 3 qta. MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 319 Mix by dissolving the glue in the water; remove from the fire and stir in the white lead, then add the v»hisky, which keeps it fluid, except in the coldest weather. W arm and stir it up when applied. 6. Whiie Cement.—Take white (fish) glue, 1 lb. 10 ozs.; drj white lead 8 ozs.; soft water 3 pts.; alcohol 1 pt. Dissolve the glue by putting it into a tin kettle, or dish, containing the water, and set this dish into a kettle of wa- ,er. to prevent the glue from being burned; when the glue all dissol/ed, put in the lead and stir and boil until all is thoroughly mixed ; remove from the fire, and, when coo/ enough to bottle, add the alcohol, and bottle while it is yet warm, keeping it corked. This last recipe has been sold about the country for from twenty-five cents to five dollars, and one man gave a horse for it. 7. German Cement.—Two measures of litharge, and 1 each of unslacked lime and flint glass; each to be pulverized sepa- rately before mixing; then to use it, wet it up with old drying-oil. The Germans use it for glass and china ware only. Wa- *er hardens it instead of softeniug. 8. Scrap-Book Paste, or Cement.—A piece of common glue, 2 square inches; dissolve it ill water, adding as much pul- verized alum, in weight, as of the glue; now mix flour £ tea- spoon in a little water; stir it in and boil. When nearly cool stir in oil of lavender 2 tea-spoons. This should make a pint of paste, which will keep a long time if tightly covered when not in use. Cement—Preventing Leaks about Chimneys, &c.—Dry saud 1 pt.; ashes 2 pts.; clay dried and pulverized 3 pts.; all to be pulverized and mixed into a paste with linseed-oil. Apply it while soft, as desired, and when it becomes hard, water will have no effect upon it. It may be used for walks, and I think it would do well iu cisterns, and on roofs, &c. MAGIC PAPER.—Used to Transfer Figures in Em- broidery, or Impressions of Leaves for Herbariums.— l ake lard-oil, or sweet-oil, mixed to the consistence of cream, with either of the following paints, the color of which is desired: Piuasian blue, lamp-black, Venitian red or chrome green, either of which should be rubbed, with a knife on a plate or stone un- til smooth. Use rather thin, but firm paper; put on with a eponge and wipe off as dry as convenient; then lay them be- tween uneolored paper, or between newspapers, and press by laying books or some other flat substance upon them, until tfia surplus oil is absorbed, when it is ready for use. 320 UK. CHASE S RECIPES. Directions.—For taking off patterns of embroidery place a piece of thin paper over the embroidery to prevent soiling; then lay on the magic paper, and put on the cloth you wish to take the copy on, to embroider; pin fast, and rub over with a spoon handle ; and every part of the raised figure will show upon the plain cloth. To take impressions of leaves on paper, place the leaf between two sheets of this paper, and rub over it hard, then take the leaf out and place it between two sheets of white paper; rub again, and you will have a beautiful impression of both sides of the leaf or flower. Persons traveling without pen or ink, cau write with a sharp stick, placing a sheet of this paper over a sheet of white paper. RAT DESTROYERS—Rat Exterminator.—Flour 3 lbs ; water only sufficient to make it into a thick paste ; then dissolve, phosphorus 1 oz., in butter 1| oz., by heat. Mix. This you will leave, thickly spread on bread, where rats can get at it; or make into balls, which is preferable, cov- ered or rolled with sugar. If it is desired to sell this article and you wish to color to hide its composition, work into it pulverized turmeric 2 oz. Or : 2. Take warm water 1 qt.; lard 2 lbs.; phosphorus 1 oz. Mix, and thicken with flour. It is found best to make only in small quantities, as the phosphorus loses its power by exposure. Some will ob- ject to killing rats about the house; but I had rather smell their dead carcasses than taste their tail-prints, left on every thing possible for them to get at, or suffer loss from their foot/t-prints on ad things possible for them to devour, or destroy. 3. Death for the Old Sly Hat.—Some rats get so cunning that it is almost impossible to overcome their shrewdness. Then get a few grains of strychnine, having a little fresh lean meat broiled; cut it into small bits, by using a fork to hold it, for if held by the fingers, they will smell them and not eat it; cutting with a sharp penknife; then cut a little hole into the bits, and put in a little of the strychnine, and close up the meat together agaiv. Put these on a plate where they frequent, but not near their holes, laying a piece of paper over the meat; when MISCELUANKOUS Df'i’ARTMENT. 321 tfaaxe arc eateu put more, for three or four days, aud you are soou done with the wisest of them. •i Rats—To Drive A wav Ai„ive.—If you choose to drive them away alive, take potash pulverized, and put quite plenty of it into all their holes about the house. If the potash is pul- verized and left in the air, it becomes pasty; then it can be daubed on the boards or planks, where they come through into rooms. They will sooner leave, than be obliged to have a contin- ual re-application of this “ Doctor Stuff,” every time they go through their holes. See “ Potash to Make.” 5. Scotch snuff, or pulverized cayenne pepper, mixed together, or separate; if freely put into their burrowing-holes, will cer- tainly send them off, at a sneezing pace. 6. IIat Poison—From Sir Humphrey Davy.—A tasteless, odorless and infallible rat poison, he says, is made as follows : u Mix carbonate of barytes 2 ozs., with grease 1 lb.” It produces great thirst, consequently water must be set by it, for death takes place immediately after drinking, not (riving them time to go back to their holes. 1 obtained this at such a late day, that I have not had opportunity of testing it Be suro that no other animal can get at it, except rats and mice; for it is a most deadly poison, Should this be found as effectual as recommended, it will prove just the thing for rat-killing, as they can oe gathered up and carried away, thus avoiding the steneh arising from their dead carcasses. FISH—Art of Catching.—Mix the juice of lovage or smell- age, with any kind of bait, or a few drops of the oil of rhodium. India cockle also, (Coculus Iudicus,) is sometimes mixed with Hour dough and sprinkled on the surface of still water. This intoxicates the hsk and makes them turn up, on top of the water. Mullein seed, pulverized, and used in place of the India sc oklo is about equal to that article. They may be eaten without fear, but this will destroy many fish. Oil of rhodium is the best plan. “ It is generally supposed,” says Mr. R. I. Pell, “ that £sh are not possessed of the sense of smell. From the fol- lowing experiments I am convinced they are : I placed a hook, well baited with an angle-worm, enticingly before a vjerch weighing one aud a half pounds ; he did not take the 322 Dll. phase’s recipes least notice of it. It was .withdrawn, and a drop of rhodira- brought in contact with it, when it was dropped very care- fully several feet behind him; he immediately turned and seized the bait. This experiment was several times repeat- ed, with like suceess. It has been denied that iish hare the sense of hearing. I find many varieties very sensitive to noise, and by numerous experiments am convinced that t heir sense of hearing is acute.” STRAW AND CHIP HATS—To Varnish Black. —Best alcohol 4 ozs.; pulverized, black sealing-wax 1 oz.; put tin in intc a vial, and put the vial into a warm place, stirring or suukinf occasionally, until the wax is dissolved ; apply it when warm by means of a soft brush, before the fire or in the sun. It gives stiffness to old straw hats or bonnets, makes a beautiful gloss, aud resists wet; if anything else is required, just apply it to small baskets also, and see how nicely they will look. 2. Straw Bonnets—To Color a Beautiful Slate.—First soak the bonnet in rather strong warm suds for fifteen minutes, this is to remove sizing or stiffening; then rinse in warm water o get out the soap; now scald cudbear 1 oz., in sufficient water o cover the hat or bonnet—work the bonnet in this dye at 180 .egrees of heat, until you get a light purple; now have a bucket of cold Witter blued with the extract of indigo, about £ oz., and work or stir the bonnet in this, until the tint pleases. Dry, then rinse out with cold water aud dry again, iD the shade. If you get the purple too deep in shade, the final slate will be too dark. See “ Extract of Indigo, or C hemic.” STUCCO PLASTERING—For Brick and Gravel Houses. —First make up as much mortar as you need for the job, with f;ood common lime; using only £ or four-fifths, at most, as much ime as needed for common work—the other fourth or fifth is to be water-lime; and not to be put in only as used. The sand must be coarse, and free from loam or dirt. To prepare the white and colored washes, run off common lime enough with hot water, to make a white wash to go ovet the whole job. This white-wash is to be colored the tint de- sired for the work. Be sure to make color-wash enough at one time, or you will find it hard to get the shades alike; saving a little of the white-wash without color, to pencil the seams, and also lor specking, as mentioned below. The colers used art lamp-black, Spanish-brown, or Venetian-red, as preferred, aad these are cut or dissolved in whisky; then pitting into *1, white-wash to suit MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 323 fflicn these washes are all prepared, wet up as much of Lfe mortar as can be put on in 20 to 40 minutes, and mix in th@ fourth or fifth of the cement, and put on as fast as possible; first 'retting the wall very wet with water. Some cement will set in 20 and some in 40 to 50 minutes. When you see the time neces- sary tor the kind you are using, act accordingly, and only mis the cement into as much mortar as your help will put on before it sets; beginning at the top of the wall with jour scaffolding and working down, which prevents too much specking from the colors. Have a man to follow right after with a float, keeping the stucco very wet while floating do\vn level and smooth; anu the longer it is floated and wet, the better will be the job. Even after it is floated down well, keep a man wetting it with a brush until you get the whole line on, around the house, as the w'ater- ik.e must be kept quite wet for some considerable time, to set properly. Heed this caution, and if water never gets in hr .incj the plastering from bad cornice or leaky roofs, it will neve peel off. When this line of scaffolding is plastered, take out t .ough of the color-wash, running it through a sieve, and go over the plastering; lamp-biack alone gives it a bluish slate color; if a little of the brown is added with the black, it will he a little reddish, and if the red is used without the brown, it will be quite red. 1 prefe. sufficient of the black only to make a gray stone color. A brown, however, looks exceedingly well. If you choose, you can make one-half of the color-wash darker than the other—having .aid it off' into blocks resembling stone, by means of a straightedge, and piece of board about half an inch thick, paint every other block with the darker wash to represent different shades of stone. Some of our best buildings are done in this way, and look well. Then to give it a granite appearance, take a small paint-brush and dip it nto the white-wash, saved for this purpose; strike it across a hammer-handle so as to throw the specks from the brush upru the wall, then the same with black and red. Pencil the seams with the white-wash, which gives it the appearance of mortar, a3 in real stone-work. Now you are ready to move down the scaffold, and go wvei ♦he same thing as before. After the colors have boeu with spirits, they can be redueed with water, or what is better for them and the color-wash also, is skimmed - milk ; and where milk is plenty, it ought to be used ip place of water, for white-wash or color-washes, as it helps to resist the weather, and prevents the colors from fading—see P-int, to Make without Lead or Oil,” which gives you the philosophy of using milk. Speck quite freely with the wli’te, then about half as much with the black, and then rather face again with the rod. The proportion of bate, 324 DK. CHASE'S REClbES. probably, should not exceed one, to six or seven ol' sand Our University buildings, represented iu the frontispiece; except the Laboratory, and Law-building, which have been more recently put up, are finished with it, and also whole blocks in the business part of our city Prof. Douglass’ house is probably the prettiest color of ny in the city—an imitation of “ Free-stone,” made with amp-black, yellow ochre, and a larger proportion of Spanish Drown, But all will have a preference tor some special color ; then, with*a little ingenuity and patience, nearly any colored stone can be imitated. GRAVEL HOUSES—To Make—Proportions op Lime, Sand, and Gravel.—It has become quite common to put up gravel houses ; and many persons are at a great loss to know what proportion of materials to use. Various proportions have been proposed; but from the fact that the philosophy was Dot explained, no real light was given upon the subject. All that is required to know, is, that sand and lime are to be used iu proportion to the size of the gravel,—say for 15 bushels of clean gravel, from the size of peas up to that of hen’s eggs, it will take about 3 bushels of clean sharp sand and 1 of lime to fill the crevices without swelling the bulk of the gravel. If the gravel is coarse, up to 5 bushels of sand may l>e required, but the lime will not need to l>e increased but very little, if any. Then the philosophy of the thing is this--about 1 to If bushels of lime to 15 bushels of gravel, and just es>r>d enough to fill tne crevices without increasing the bulk as above mentioned. If the gravel is free of dirt, the sand also clean, and the weather dry, the walls can ho raised one foot each day, if you have help to do that amount of labor. Some prefer to make the gravel and sand it*to mortar and press it into bricks ; then lay into walls, but the wall must be stronger if laid up solid, in board frames, made to raise up as required. Many persons argue for the eight-square or octagon house ; but I like the square form much the best, carrying up the hall and main partiton walls of the same material. The eight square house looks like an old fort, or water tank, and is very expensive to finish; costing much more than me same room with square an, ; for mechanics cannot j*u» up cornice outside, or in. iD iss than double the time quired for making the common square mitre. miscellaneous department. 325 Prof. Winchell, of the University, and State Geologist, fn this city, has put up one of the octagons which looks well, however, for the style of finish is what attracts atten- tion, instead of the style of form. WHITEWASHES AND CHEAP PAINTS.—Bril- liant Stucco Whitewash—Will Last on Brick or Stone, Twenty to Thirty Years.—Many have heard ot the brilliant stucco whitewash on the east end of the President’s house at Washington. The following is a recipe for it, as gleaned from the National Intelligencer, with some additional improvements learned by experiments : Nice unslaked lime I bushel; slake it with boiling water; cover it during the process, to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it, salt 1 peck; previously well dissolved in water; rice 3 lbs.—boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot; Spanish whiting i lb.; clean nice glue 1 lb., which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle, immersed in a la”ger one filled with water. Now add hot water 5 gals., to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered fr*m the dirt. It should be put on not. For this purpose it can be kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. Brushes more or less small may be used, according to the neatness of job re- quired. It answers as well as oil paint for brick or stone, and is much cheaper. There is one house in our city which had this applied twelve years ago, and is yet nice and bright. It has re- tained its brilliancy over thirty years. Coloring matter, dissolved in whisky, may be put in and made of any shade you like; Spanish brown stirred in will make red-pink, more or less deep, according to quantity. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes reddish stone color. Yellow-ochere stirred in makes yellow wash, but chrome goes further, and makes a color generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases the darkness of the shade, of course, is determined by the quantity of the coloring used. It is difficult to make rules, because tastes are different— it would be best to try experi- ments on a shingle and let it dry. Green must not be mix- ed with lime. The lime destroys the color, and the color 326 rat. chase’s recipes. has an effect on the whitewash, which makes it crack, and peel. When inside walls have been badly smoked, and you wish to make them a clean, clear white, it is well to squeeze indigo plentifully through a bag into the water you use, be fore it is stirred into the whole mixture, or blue vitriol pul verized and dissolved in boiling water and put into white- wash, gives a beautiful blue tint. If & larger quantity than live gallons be wanted, the same proportions should be ob- served. 2. Whitewash—Vekv Nice for Rooms.—Take whiting 4 lbs.; white or common glue 2 ozs.; stand 'lie glue in cold water over night; mix the whiting with cold water, and heat the glue until dissolved; and pour it into the other, hot. Make of a proper consistence to apply with a common whitewash brush. Use these proportions for a greater or less amount. In England scarcely any other kind of whitewash is used A lady, of Black lliver Falls, Wis., who had one of my books, w'rote to me, expressing her thankfulness for the beauty of this whitewash. 2. Paint—To Make without Lead or On..—Whiting 5 lbs; skimmed milk 2 qts.; fresh slaked lime 2 oz-s. Put the lime into a stone-ware vessel, pour upon it a sunicient quantity of the milk to make a mixture resembling cream; the balance of the milk is then to be added; and lastly the whiting is to be crumbled upon the surface of the liuid, in whhh it gradually sinks. At this period it must he well stirred in, or ground as you would other paint, and it is fit for use. There may be added any coloring matter that suits the fancy, (see the first whitewash for mixing colors,) to bo ap- plied in the same manner as other paints, and in a few hours it will become perfectly Another coat may then be added and so on until the work is done. This paint is of great tenacity, bears rubbing with a coarse cloth has little smell, eveu when wet, and when dry is inodorous The above quantity is sufficient for fifty-seven yards.—Aa >< apotiis Jic]tublican. “ We endorse the recipn. The casein or curd of the milk, by the action of the caustic-lime, becomes insoluble, and has been used, for time immemorial, as a lute for chem- ical experiments. It is a good, and. in comparison with white lead, u durable paiut.”—Moore’s Rural New Yorker Most of the cheap paints will require about throe coats. MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 327 VYrhite lead always requires two, but some peoplo think bo- iause they get a cheap paint that one coat ought to make a good job. Two will generally do with any except white. 4. White Paint—A New Way of .Mafnuactlrino. —The following was communicated by a man who was for- merly a carpenter in the U. S. Navy. During a cruise in the South Pacific, we went into the harbor of Coquimbo; and as the ship had been out a long time, she was covered with rust from stem to stern. It was the auxious wish of the commander that she should be re- stored to .her original colors; but on examining the store- room, it was ascertained that there was not a pound of white lead in the ship. In this emergency I bethought me of an expedient which concocted an admirable substitute, com- posed of the following ingredieuts : “Air-slaked lime, pulverized until it was of the fineness of flour, which was then passed through a seive. Rice h. died in a large kettle until the substance was drawn entirely out of the grain ; the water, then of a plastic nature, was strained to sepa- rate the grain, &o., from the clear liquid. A tub, about the size of a half barrel, of the prepared lime and rice-water, was mixed with 1 gallon of linseed-oil; and the material had so much the appearance ol paint that a novice could not have told the dif- ference. “ The ship was painted outside and inboard with the above mixture (which cost next to nothing,) and never pre- sented a finer white streak on her bends, or cleaner bulwarks and berth-deck than on that occasion, and no other kind of white paint was used during the remainder of the cruise.” If this is good for ships out and inboard, it is worth try- ing for fences and ont-work requiring a cheap white paint. 5. Black and Green Paint—Dcradle and Cheap, for Out-Door Work.—Any quantity of charcoal, powdered; a surti crnrit quantity of litiiarage as a dryer, to be well levigated (rubbed smooth) with linseed-oil; and when used, to be thinned with well boiled linseed-oil. Tire above forms a good black pamt. By adding yellow ochre, an excellent green is produced, which is preferable to the bright green, used by painters, for all garden work, as it does not fade with the sun. This composition was first used by Dr. Parry, of Path, on some spouts; which, on being examined, fourteen years afterwards, were found to bo as perfect as when first put ap. 328 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. 6. Milk Paint, for Barns—Any Color.— ‘Mix water lime with skim-milk, to a proper consistence to apply with a brush, and ic is ready to use. It will adhere well to wood, whether smooth or rough, to brick, mortar or stone, where oil has not been used, (in which case it cleaves to some extent,) and forms a very hard substance, as durable as the best oil paint. It is too cheap to estimate, and any one can put it on who can use a irush.”— Country Gentleman. Any color may be given to it, by using colors of the tinge desired, dissolving in whisky first, then adding in to suit the fancy, as in the first recipe. If a red is preferred, mix Venetian-red with milk, noi using any lime. If looks well for fifteen years. LIQUID, AND WATER-PROOF GLUES.-Liquid Glue —To have a good glue always ready for use, just put a bottle two-thirds full of best common glue, and fill up the bottle with common whisky; cork it up, anil set by for 3 or 4 days, and it will dissolve without the application of heat. It will keep for years, and is always ready to use without heat, except in very cold weather, when it may need to t>' 3et a little while in a warm place, before using. 2. Imitation of Spalding’s Glue.—First, soak in cold watei all the glue you wish to make at one time, using only glass, earthen, or porcelain dishes; then by gentle heat dissolve the glue in the same water, and pour in a little nitric acid, sufficient fo give the glue a sour taste, like vinegar, or from I oz to 1 oz. to each pound of glue. The acid keeps it in a liquid state, and prevents it from spoiling; as nice as Spalding’s or any other, fm a very trifling expense. If iron dishes are used, the acid corrodes them and turns the glue black. Or : 3. Acetic acid 1 oz.; pure soft water 6 oz.; glue 3 oz.; gum tragacanth 1 oz. Mix, and if not as thick as desired, add a little more glue. This keeps in a liquid state, does not decompose; and is valuable for Druggists in labeling; also for house use ; and if furniture men were not prejudiced, they would find it valuable in the shop. 4. Water-Proof Glue—Is made by first soaking ‘he glue in cold water, for an hour or two, or until it becomes a little soil, yet retaining its original form; then taking it from the watei and dissolving it by gcutie heat, Stirling in a little boiled iin- seed-oil MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 329 If mahogany veneers were put on with this glue, they *ould not fall off, as they now do, by the action of the at- mosphere. FIIIE KINDLERS.—To make my nice fire kindlers, take rosin, any quantity, and melt it, putting in for tach pound being used, from 2 to 3 ozs. of tallow, and when all is hot, stir in pine saw-dust to make very thick ; and, while yet hot, spread it ou* about 1 inch thick, upon boards which have fine saw-dust spri.nL.led upon them, to prevent it from sticking. When cold, break up into lumps about 1 inch square. But if for sale, take a thin board and press upon it, while yet warm, to lay it off into 1 inch, squares ; this makes it break regularly, if you press the crease sufficiently deep, greasing the marking-board to prevent it from sticking. One of these blocks will easily ignite with a match, and burn with a strong blaze long enough to kindle any wood tit to burn. The above sells readily in all our large towns and (ities, at a great profit. 2. Most of the published recipes call for rosin 3 lbs.; tar 1 qt.j and 1 gill of turpentine ; but they make a black, sticky mess of stuff, which always keep the hands daubed. On tne other hand, this makes a rosin-colored kiudler, which breaks nicely also when cold ; and they are decidedly a uice thing; aud much more certain to start a tire than shavings. If the tar plan is used, 1 pt,. is enough for 5 lbs of rosin. * STARCH POLISH.—White-wax 1 oz.; spermaceti 2 ozs.; melt them together with a gentle heat. When you have prepared a sufficient amout of starch, in the usual way, for a dozen pieces—put into it a piece of the polish tko size of a large pea; more or less, according to large or small washings. Or, thick gum solution (made by pouring boiling water upon gum arabic,) one table-spoon to a pint of starch, gives clothes a beautiful gloss. PERCUSSION MATCHES—op the best quality.—Chlo- rate of potash } lb.; glue 3 lbs.; white lead, dry, 5 lbs.; red lead i lb; phosphorus 2$ lbs. Dibections.—First put the chlorate into a dish made for the purpose, deep, and of a suitable size to set mto a kettle of water, which can be kept on the file for 2 or 3 days, having 2 qts. of water on the chlorate; then put the glue on"top of the chlorate water, and let soak until all is perfectly dissolved; then add the leads aud heat up quite hot, and tho- roughly mix; let cool aud add the phosphorus, let it dissolve and 330 DR. CHASE’S RECIPi.8. be careftil never to heat hot after the phosphorus is added; stV occasionally while dipping, and if little particles of phosphorus fires, push it down into the mixture, or put on warm water; if you put on cold water, it will tly all over you. Keep it rather thin after the phosphorus is put in, and there will be no danger; although the chlorate of potash is considered a dangerous arti- cle to work with; so is powder, yet when you k"ow how to work with them, you can do as safely with one as the other. When iry give them a coat of varnish. I have been acquainted with a man for about fourteen years who makes them, and several others for a les3 time, without trouble or accident. A bettor match was never made to stand dampness, or bear transportation without set- ting on fire. 1 have used and sold them much of the time, and speak from knowledge. One explosion has since taken place. The plan pursued here in preparing the splints is as fol- lows : Sawed ue timber from four to eight inches each way, is cut off the right length for the match, then one end of it is shaved smooth, with a drawing-knife; the biock is held upon the horse by a brace from the top of the horse head against the back side of the block, so as to be out of the way of the knife instead of putting the block uader the jaws of the horse head, as the dents made in the end of match timber would not answer; the front edge comes against a strip put on for that purpc*9e ; then glue the other end and put on brown paper, which holds them together when split; machines are used to split with which feeds up tke block enough each time the kuife is raised, to make the size of the match when split the other way, or about ten to the inch. These machines cost about fifty dollais, and the work goes ahead like a young saw-mill, by simply turning a crank as shown in the figure. A A, shows two standards bolted upon a base plank, four feet in length ; these standards support a shaft, with crank and balance wheel D, which is two feet in diameter, the nhaft has upon it an oval wheel, G, which sinks the knife, F, twice in each revolution, the knife passing down through a space in a thin iron strip, H, standing out from the two Mocks, C C, under which the match block passes by the drawing of the chain seen to pass over a small drum, P, upon the shaft of the rag wheel, B, the notches being only one-fourth inch apart, and fed up by the baud, M, attached to MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 331 the iron frame, L, being kept back to the cam wheel, E, which has two swells upon it, by a light spring which is not shown MATCH SPLITTING MACHINE. The hand, M, is kept down into tho cogs or notches by the littie spiral wire spring, K ; the match block, to he split, sets in the frame forward of the block, I, which has a pin in it to draw back the frame. IV hen the block of matches is split, this frame goes forward to touch a catch, the same a3 a saw-mill, which lets anothe- spring not seen, raise the hand, M, when the feeding operation ceases. The frame is then drawn back and the same repeated. As the match is split they open and require a rounding mortise made through the base plank between the blocks, C C, which allows them to remain in a half circular form—the knife is raised by a line attached to a spring pole, T, the knife is screwed upon a piece of cast iron which works in the guide, N, having tho back end firmly fastened by a bolt through tbe standard, O This knife stands a-t right angles with the shaft. When the matches are split and sufficiently dry to work upon, they are dipped in melted brimstone, kept hot, and the match also kept hot on a sheet iron stove, and all the brimstone is thrown ofi which can possibly be by jerking the block with the hand, it any brimstone remains upon the end it must be scraped oil before dipping into the match composition. Without the chlorate, the composition makes a first class 332 DR CHASE’S RECIPES. 1 Friction Match.” It ought to be known, bowovor, that the match business is an unhealthy occupation, from the poisonous effects of the phosphorus. STEAM BOILERS—To Prevent Lime Deposits.—Put iDt<> your cistern or tank, from which the boiler is fed, a suflicieut amount of oak tan-bark, in the piece, to color the water rathei dark; run 4 weeks and renew. This plan has been much used, in the lime-stone sections of Washington, O., giving general satisfaction. 2. Ohio River Plan.—Sprouts from barley, in malting, are recommended by Capt. Lumm, part owner of a steamboat, and engineer on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to prevent the de- posit of lime upon boilers, and he says tightens up old leaky boilers, also. It. may be used in quantities of from 3 pts. to 2 or 3 qts., according to the size of boilers. When it is put in you must know the quantity of water in the boiler, for unless you heat up quite slow it causes a foaming of the water, and might deceive the engineer about the amount of water in the boiler, but if heat up slow there is no danger of this deception. 3. To Prevent Explosion, with the Reason why they Explode.—At a recent meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science, Mr. Hyatt, of New i'ork, presented what we believe to be the true cause. lie pre- sented the following table, showing the rapidity with which pressure is doubled by only a slight increase of heat. At 212 degrees of heat water begins to boil; at 868 degrees irou becomes of a red beat: 212 degrees of heat, 15 pounds to square inch, 251 “ “ 30 “ “ “ 294 “ “ 60 “ “ “ 342 “ “ 120 “ “ « 398 “ “ 240 “ “ " 464 “ “ 480 “ “ “ 868 “ “ 7680 “ u u It was stated by Mr. Hyatt, that, from experiments he bad made, this great increase of pressure could be obtained m «1t, to seven minutes, with an engine at rest. This rapid doubling of pressure, with but a small increase of heat, is due to the conver- sion of what is termed latent heat, in steam, into sensible heat If we immerse a thermometer into boiling water, it stands at 212; if we place it in steam immediately above the water, it indicates the same temperature. The question then arises, what becomes of all the heat which is communicated to the water, MISCELLANE0U5 DEPARTMENT. 333 alnce it is neither indicated by the water nor oy the steam formed from it? The answer is, it en'ers the water and converts it into steam without raising its temperature. One thoma/ul degrees ox' heat are absorbed in the conversion of water into steam, and this is called its latent heat. And it is the sadden conversion oi latent heat into sensible heat that produces the explosion. If an engine is stopped, even if there is but a moderate fire, if the es- cape valve is closed, there is a rapid absorption or accumulation of latent heat. The pressure rises with great rapidity, and when the engineer thinks everything is safe, the explosion comes. That this is the true cause of nearly all the explosions that occur, will be plain to every one who will look at the relations between latent and sensible heat. Prof. Henry and Prof. Silliman, Jr., endorse the view. What, then, is the security against explosions ? We know of no securities but these—a sufficiency of water in the boilers, and the escape valves open at light pressure, tvhen the engine is at rest.—Springfield Republican. There is no question about the foregoing explanations be- ing founded in true philosophy; and if engineers will be governed by them, instead of by a desire to hold on to steam for the purpose of getting ahead or of keeping ahead, as the case may be, of some other boat; or on land, to save the expense of fuel, not one explosion would take place wnere now there is, at least, a hundred. Awful will be the reckoning with these murderers ; for in Heaven’s sight they are one and the same A series of experiments have recently been concluded oa the l.i. 8. Steamer Michigan, and a full but voluminous re- port laid before the Navy Department, upon the subject of steam expansion. It would pay all interested in steam works to obtain and read it. PLUMS AND OTHER FRUIT—To Prevent Insects from Stinging.—Take new, dry lime, sulphur, and gunpowder, equal parts, pulverized very fine, and throw it amongst the flowers when in lull bloom; use it freely so that all may catch a little. This has been tried with success. Working upon the principle of pepper, to keep flies from meat. The injury to fruit being done while in blossom. BED-ROOM CARPETS—For Twelve and a half Cents per Yard.—Sew together the cheapest cotton cloth, the size of the room, and tack the edges to the floor. Now paper the cloth as you would the sides of a room, with cheap room paper; put- 334 DR. GHASF/S KECJPK8. ting a border around the edge ;f desired. The paste will be t 4 better if a little gum arabic is m. ted with it. When thoroughly dry, give it two coats of furniture or carriage varnish, and w hen dry it is done. It can be washed; and looks well in proportion to the quality and figure of the paper used. It could not be ex- pected to stand the wear of a kitchen, for any length of time, but tor bed-rooms it is well adapted. COFFEE—Mohe Healthy and Better Flavored, fob Onb-Foukth the Expense of Common.—Coffee, by weight ot measure, one-fourth, rye three-fourths. Look them over separately, to lemove bad grains; then wash to remove dust, draining off the water for a moment as you take it with the hands, from the washing water, putting directly into the browning skillet, carefully stirring, all the time, to brown it evenly. Brown each one sepa- rately; then mix evenly, and grind only as used; settling with a beaten egg, seasoning with a little cream and sugar as usual. And I do sincerely say the flavor is better, and it is one hundred per cent, more healthy than all coffee. You may try barley, peas, parsnips, dandelion roots, &c. but noue of their flavors are equal to rye. Yet all of them are more or less used for coffee. PICKLING FRUITS, AND CUCUMBERS—Pickling Ap ples.—Best vinegar 1 gal.; sugar 4 lbs.; apples all it will cover handsomely; cinnamon and cloves, ground, of each 1 table- spoon. Pare and core the apples, tying up the cinnamon and cloves in a cloth and putting with the apples, into the vine- gar and sugar and cooking until done, oniy. Keep in jars They are nicer than preserves, and more healthy, and keep a long time ; not being too sour, nor too sweet, but an agree- able mixture of the two. It will be seen below that the different fruits require different quantities of sugar ami vinegar, the reason for it, is, the difference in the fruit. 2 Pickling Peaches.—Best vinegar 1 qt; sugar 4 lbs.; peaches, peeled and stoned 8 lbs.; spices as desired, or as foi apples. Treated every other way as apples. If they should begia to ferment, at any time, simply boil down the juice; the» boil the peaches in it for a few minutes only. MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 335 3. Peaches—To Peel.—la peeling small peaches with a knife, too much of the peach is wasted ; but by having a wire-cage, similar to those made for popping corn; fill the cage with peaches and dip it into boiling water, for a mo- ment, then into cold water for a moment and empty out • going on in the same way for all you wish to peel. This toughens the skin and enables you to strip it off, saving touch in labor, as also the waste of peach. Why not, as well as tomatoes? 4. Pickling Plums.—Best vinegar 1 pt.; sugar 4 lbs.; plums 3 lbs.; spices to taste. Boil them in the mixture until soft; then take out the plums, and boil the syrup until quite thick and pour it over them again. 5. Pickling Cucumbers.—Pick each morning; stand in weak Drine 3 or 4 days, putting in mustard pods and horseradish leaves to keep them green. Then take out and drain, covering with vinegar for a week; at which time take out and drain again, putting into new vinegar, adding mustard seed, ginger root, cloves, pepper and red pepper pods, of each about 1 or 2 oz.; or to suit different tastes, for each barrel. The pickles will be nice and brittle, and pass muster a any mau’s table, or market. And if it was generally known that the greenness of pickles was caused by the action of the vinegar on the copper kettle, producing a poison, (ver- digris,) in which they are directed to bo scalded, I think no one would wish to have a nice looking pickle at the ex- pense of health; if they do, they can continue the bad prac- tice of thus scalding; if not, just put your vinegar on cold, and add your rad peppers, or cayennes, cloves, and other spicks, as desired; but the vinegar must be changed once, as the large amount of water in the cucumber reduces the vinegar so much that this change is absolutely necessary ; and if they should seem to lose their sharp taste again, just *dd a little molasses, or spirit, and all will be right. SANDSTONE—To Prevent Scaling by Fbost.—Raw lin- #eed-oil, 2 or 3 coats. Apply in place of paint, not allowing the first coat to get entirely dry until the next is applied; if it does, a skin is formed which prevents the next from penetrating the «toue. Poorly burned brick will be equally well preserved by the same nrooeso. 336 DR. CHASE’S RECIPES. SEALING WAX—Red, Black, and Blue.—Gum Shellac 3 oz.; Venice turpentine 4 ozs.; Vermillion ozs.; alcohol 2 ozs.; camphor gum \ oz. Dissolve the camphor in the alcohol, the» the shellac, adding the turpentine, and finally the vermillion, be- .mg very careful that no blaze shall come in contact with its tames ; for if it does, it will fire very quickly. Blue.—Substitute fine Prussian-blue for the vermillion, sami quantity. Black.—Lamp-black only sufficient to color. Either color n.ust be well rubbed into the mixture. ADVICE—To YOUNG MEN AND OTHERS, OUT OF EM- PLOYMENT.—Advice—How few there are that will hear advice at all; not because it is advice, but from the fact that those who attempt to give i.t are not qualified for the work they assume ; or that they endeavor to thrust it upon their notice at an inappropriate time ; or upon persons over whom no control is acceded, if claimed. But a book or paper never give offense from any of these causes; there- fore, they are always welcomed with a hope that real benefit may be derived from their suggestions. Whether that end will be attained in this case, I leave to the judgment oi those for whom it is intended ; hoping they may find them- selves sufficienly interested to give it a careful perusal, and candid consideration. And although my remarks must, in this work, be necessarily short, yet every sentence shall be a text for your own thoughts to contemplate and enlarge upon; and perhaps, in some future edition of the -work, I may take room and time to give the subject that attention which is really its due; and which would be a pleasure to devote to its consideration. First, then, let me ask why are so many young men and other persons out of employment ? The answer is very positive as W'ell as very plain. It is this—indolence, coupled with a determination that they will do some great thing, only And because that great thing does not turn up without effort, they are doing nothing. The point of difliculty is simply this; they look for the end, before the beginning. Bu» just consider how few there are that really accomplish any great thing, even with a whole life of industry and economi- cal perseverance. And yet most of our youth calculate that their beginning shall be amongst the greats. But as no ona comes to offer them their expectations, indolence says wart; MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 337 and so they are still waiting. Now mind you, as long as your expectations are placed upon a chance offer of some- thing very remunerative, or upon the assistance of others; even in a small way, so long will you continue to wait in vain. At this point, then, the question would arise, what can be done ? and the answer is equally plain with the other. Take hold of the first job you can find, for it will not find you. No matter how insignificant it may be, it will be bet- ■cr than longer idleness; and when you are seen doing something for yourselves, by those whose opinions are worth any consideration, they will soon offer you more and better ;obs; until, finally, you will find something which agrees with your taste or inclination, for a life business. Hut re- member that the idle never have goocl situations offered them. It is the industrious and persevering orly, who are needed to assist in life’s great struggle. There are a few lines of poetry called “ The Excellent Man,” which advocates the principles I am endeavoring to advance, so admirably that I cannot deny myself the plea- sure of quoting them. The old proverb, “ God helps those who help themselves,” is as true as it is old, and after all that is said and done, in this country, if in no other, a man must depend on his own exertions, not on patronage, if he would have or deserve success: “ They gave me advice and counsel in store, Praised me and honored me more and more Said that I only should ‘ wait awhile,’ Offered their patronage, too, with a smile But with all their honor and approbation, I should long ago have died of starvation, Had there not come an excellent man, Who, bravely to help me along began Good-fellow! he got me the food late, HU kindness and care I shall never forget: Yet I cannot embrace him—though other folks can, For I, myself, am this excellent man 1” Cp, then, and at it, for there is | Knitting and sewing, and reaping and mowing, And all kinds of work for the people to do, To keep themselves busy, both Abram and Lizxie; Begin, then, ye idle, there is plenty for yon. When you have found a situation or a job of work, provo 338 DR. CIIACE’S RECIPES. yourself honest, industrious, persevering, and faithful in every trust, and no fears need be apprehended of your final success. Save a part of your wages as a sinking fund, or rather as a floating fund, which shall keep your head above water in a stornj; or to enable you, at no distant day, to commence a business of your own. A poor orphan boy, of fourteen, once resolved to save half of his wages, which were only four dollars per month, for this purpose; and actually refused, even in sickness, although really suffering for comforts, to touch this business fund. He was afterwards the richest man in St. Louis. His advice to young men was always this: “ Go to work save half your wages; no matter how small they may be, until you have what will enable you to begiu what you wish to follow; then begin it, stick to it; be economical, pru- dent, and careful, and you cannot fail to prosper.” My advice is the same, with this qualification, however that in choosing your occupation, you should be governed by tire eternal principles of right! never choosing that which, when done, injures a fellow creature more than it can possibly benefit yourself—I mean the liquor traffic. But with the feeling of St. Paul, when he saw the necessity of doing something different from what he had been doing, he cried out, “ Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ?” Ask your own tasfes, being governed by conscience, under the foregoing principles; knowing that if a person has to learn a trade or business against his own inclination, it requires double dilligonce to make only half speed, and hardly ever meeting with success. The question to be settled, then, is this : Shall I work the soil: Shall I be a mechanic, teacher, divine, physician, lawyer, merchant, druggist, or grocer, or shall it be some- thing else? "Whenever you make up your mind what it shall be, make it up, also, to be the best one in that line of business. Set your mark high, both iu point of moral purity and literary qualifications. If you choose any of the occupations of trade, you mist save all that it is possible for economy and prudence to do, for your beginning. But if you choose one of the learned professions, vou must work with the same care and prudence until you have MIHCEULANEODS DEPARTMENT. 339 accumulated sufficient to make a fair commencement in your studies ; then prosecute them in all faithfulness as far as the accumulated means will advance you; realizing that this increase of knowledge will give you increased power in obtaining the further means of prosecuting your studies, necessary to qualify you to do one thing only in life. Nearly all of our best men are self-made, and men of one idea, i. e., they have set themselves to be mechanics, physi- cians, lawyers, sculptors, ft. chase's recipes. Those who choose a professional life, wih hardly find a place in the West, equal to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to obtain their literary qualifications. An en- trance fee of Ten Dollars, with Five Dollars 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. [See Frontispiece.] Or, in the words of the Catalogue : “ The University, having been endowed by the General Government, affords education, without money and without price. There is no young man, so poor, that industry, diligence, and persever- ance, will not enable him to get an education here. “ The present condition of the University confirms this view of its character. While the sons of the rich, and of men of more or less property, and, in large proportion, the sons of substantial farmers, mechanics, and merchants, are educated here, there is also a very considerable number of young men dependent entirely upon their own exertions— young men who, accustomed to work on the farm, or in tho mechanic’s shop, have become smitten with the love of knowledge, and are manfully working their way through, to a liberal education, by appropriating a portion of their time to the field or the workshop.” Persons wishing to qualify themselves for teaching in this State, will find the Normal School, Ypsilanti, undoubt- edly preferable. And that none may excuse themselves from an effort be- cause somewhat advanced in life, let me say that Doctor Eberle, who wrote several valuable medical works, did not begin his medical studies until forty-five years of age; and, although I could mention many more, I will only add that I, myself always desired to become a physician, yet circum- stances did not favor nor justify my commencement until 1 was thirty-eight. See the remarks following “ Eye Water.” There is no occupation, however, so free and independent as that of the farmer; and there is none, except parents, capable of using so great an influence, for good or for evil, as that of teacher. All might and ought, to a greater or less extent, be farm- ers; but all cannot be teachers. Then let those whose MISCELLANEOUS DEPAliTMENT. 341 Watsje xW-t&es them to teach, not shrink the responsibility, bat fully qualify for the work; learning also the ways of Truth and Righteousness for themselves; teaching it through the week-school, by action as well as by word, and in the Sabbath-sehool, fail not to take their stand for the right, like our President elect; then when it comes your turn to assist in the government of the State, or Nation, the people will come to your support, as you do to your work— as they have just done to his, (1860) ; feeling, as now, that the government must be safe in the hands of those who God—deal honestly with their fellows; and who, in remem- bering the Sabbath to keep it holy themselves, are not ashamed:—nor forget, to teach the children to love the same God, and reverence His Word. Only think—a Sabbath- School Teacher—a Rail-Splitter—a Boat-man, President of the United States ! Who will hereafter be afraid of common labor; or, lot fadolence longer prevent their activity ? when it is only those who begin with small things, and persevere through life, that reach the final goal of greatness; and, as in this case, are crowned with the greatest honor which man can receive—the confidence of his Nation. Then let Industry take the place of Indolence, beginning to be great, by grappling with the small things of life—be faithful to yourself, and, you may reasonably expect, the end shall, indeed, be great. And although it could not be expected, in a work of this kind, that much could, or would be said, directly, regarding a future life, yet I should be recreant to duty if I did not say a word more upon that subject. It shall be only a word. Be as faithful to God, as I have recommended you So be to yourselves, and all things pertaining to a future, will be equally prosperous, and glorious in its results. GRAMMAR IN RHYME—For the Little Folks. —It is seldom that one sees so much valuable matter as the following lines contain, comprised in so brief a space Every young grammarian, and many older heads, will find U highly commit the “ poem ” to memory; 342 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES for with these lines at the tongue’s end, none n*sd eiwf mistake a part of speech : 1. “Three little words you often see, Are articles—a, an, and the. 2. A Noun’s the name of any thing, As school, or garden, hoop, or swing. S. Adjectives tell the kind of Noun, As great, small, pretty, white, or brown. % 4. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand— Her head, his face, your arm, my hand. 5. Verbs tell of something to he done— To read, count, sing, laugh, jump, or run. 6. How things are done, the adverbs tell, As sbnoly, quickly, ill, wr well. 7. Conjunctions join the words together— As men arul women, wind or weather. 8. The Preposition stands before A Noun, as in, or through a door. 9. The Interjection shows surprise, As oh! how pretty—ah! how wise. The whole are called Nine Parts of Speech, Which reading, writing, speaking, teach. MUSICAL CURIOSITY—Scotch Gf/nuts in Teachtno.—A Highland piper, having a scholar to teach, disdained to crack his brains with the names of semibreves, minims, crotchets and quavers. “ Here, Donald,” said he, “ tak yer pipes, lad, and gie us a blast. So —verra weel blawn, indeed; but what’s a sound, Donald, without sense? Ye maun blaw forever without making a tune o’t, if I dinna tell you how the queer things on the paper maun help you. You see that big fellow wi’ a round,open thee ? (pointing to a semibreve between two lines of a bar). He moves slowly from that line to this, while ye beat ane wi' }rer tist. aud gie us a long blast. If, now, ye put*a leg to him, ye mak’ twa o’ him, and he’ll move twice as fast; and if ye black his face, he'll run four times faster than the fellow wi’the white face; but if, after blacking his face, ye’ll bend bis knee or tie his leg, he’ll hop eight times faster than the white-faced chap 1 showed you first. Now, whene’er ye blaw yer pipes, Donald, remember this—that the tighter those fellows’ legs "are tied, the faster they’ll run, and the quicker they’re sure to dance.” That is, the more legs they have bent up, contrary te nature, the faster goes the music. COLORING DEPARTMENT. REMARKS.—It may be necessary to remark, and I do i- Here, once for all, that every article to be dyed, as well as everything used about dyeing, should be perfectly clean. In the next place, the article to be dyed should be well scoured 1i soap, and then the soap rinsed out. It is also an advau.age to dip the article you wish to dye into warm water, jm t before putting it into the alum or other prepara- tion ; tbi the neglect of this precaution it is nothing uncom- mon to h-»ve the goods or yarn spotted. Soft water should always be used, if possible, and sufficient to cover the goods handsomely. As soon as an article is dyed it should be aired a little, then well rinsed, and afterwards hung up to dry. When dyeing or scouring silk or merino dresses, care should be taken not to wring them, for this has a tendency to wrinkle and break the silk. In putting dresses and shawls out to dry, that have been dyed, they should be hung up by the edge so as to dry evenly. Great confidence may be placed in these coloring recipes, as the author has had them revised by Mr. Storms, of this city, who has been in the business over thirty years. 1. CHROME BLACK—Superior to Any in Use.— For 5 lbs. of goods—blue vitriol 6 ozs.; boil it a few min- utes, then dip the goods | of an hour, airing often; take out the goods, and make a dye with logwood 8 lbs.; boil $ hour; dip \ of an hour and air the goods, and dip % of an hour more. Wash in strong suds. N. B.—This will not impart any of its color in fulling, aor fade by exposure to the sun. 2. BLACK ON WOOL—Fo Mixtures —For 10 lbs. of wool -bi-chromate of potash 4 ozs.; ground argal 3 ozs.; boil together and put in the wool; stir well and let it re- main in the dye 4 hours. Then take out the wool, rinse it slightly in clear water; then make a new dye, into which COLORS ON WOOLEN GOODS. 343 344 hr. chase's recipes. put logwood 3£ lbs. Boil 1 hour and add chamber-lye 1 pt., and let the wool lie in all night. Wash in clear water 3. STEEL MIX—Dark.—Black wool—it may be nat- ural or colored, 10 lbs.—white wool 1J lbs. Mix evenly to- gether and it will be beautiful. 4. SNUFF BROWN—Dark, for Cloth or Wool — For 5 lbs. goods—camwood 1 lb.; boil it 15 minutes, then dip the goods for f hour ; take out the goods, and add to the dye, fustic 2£ lbs.; boil 10 minutes, and dip the goods 3 hour; then add blue vitriol 1 oz.; copperas 4 ozs.; dip again \ hour; if not dark enough, add more copperas. It is dark and permanent. 5. WINE COLOR.—For 5 lbs. goods—camwood 2 lbs.; boil 15 minutes and dip the goods \ hour; boil again and dip £ hour; then darken with blue vitriol 1£ ozs.; if not dark enough, add copperas £ oz. 6. MADDER RED.— To each lb. of goods—alum 5 ozs.; red, or cream of tartar 1 oz.; put in the goods and bring your kettle to a boil for J hour; then air them and boil £ hour longer; then empty your kettle and fill with clean water, put in bran 1 peck; make it milk warm and let it stand until the bran rises, then skim off the bran and put in madder $ lb.; put in your goods and heat slowly until it boils and is done. Wash in strong suds. 7. GREEN—On Wool or Silk, with Oak Bark.— Make a strong yellow dye of yellow oak and hickory bark, in equal quantities. Add the extract of indigo, or chemic, (which see,) 1 table-spoon at a time, until you get the shade of color desired. Or : 8. GREEN—With Fustic.—For each lb. of goods— fustic 1 lb.; with alum 3$ ozs. Steep until the strength is out, and soak the goods therein until a good yellow is ob- tained ; then remove the chips, and add extract of indigo or chemic, 1 table-spoon at a time, until the color suits. 9. BLUE—Quick Process.—For 2 lbs. of goods,—alum 5 ozs.; cream of tartar 3 ozs.; boil the goods in this for 1 hour; then throw the goods into warm water, which has more or less of the extract of indigo in it, according to the depth of color desired, and boil again until it suits, adding more of the blue if needed. It is quick and permanent COLORING DEPARTMENT. 345 <0. STOCKING YARN, OR WOOL TO COLOR— Between a Blue and Purple.—For 5 lbs. of wool bi- chromate ol potash 1 oz.; alum 2 ozs.; dissolve them and bring the water to a boil, putting in the wool and boiling 1 hour; then throw away the dye and make another dye with logwood chips 1 lb., or extract of logwood 2£ ozs., and boi) 1 hour. This also works very prettily on silk. N B.—Whenever you make a dye with logwood chips eitner boil the chips 1 hour and pour off the dye, or tie u the chips in a bag and boil with the wool or other goods or take 2\ ozs. of the extract in place of 1 lb. of the chipi is less trouble and generally the better plan. In the abov recipe the more logwood that is used the darker will be th shade 11. oCARLET, WITH COCHINEAL—For Yarn or Olotb.—For 1 lb. of goods—cream of tartar £ oz.; coch- ineal, well pulverized, £ oz.; muriate of tin 21 ozs.; then boil up the dye and enter the goods; work them briskly for 10 or It? minutes, after which boil 11 hours, stirring the goods slowly while boiling, wash in clear water and dry in the shade. 12. PINK.—For 3 lbs. of goods—alum 3 ozs., boil and dip the goods 1 hour; then add, to the dye, cream of tar- tar 4 ozs. , cochineal, well pulverized, 1 oz.; boil well and dip the goods while boiling, until the color suits. 13. ORANGE.—For 5 lbs. goods—muriate of tin 6 table-spoons; argal 4 ozs.; boil and dip 1 hour ; then add, to the dye, fustic 21 lbs.; boil 10 minutes, and dip 1 hour, and add, again, to the dye, madder 1 tea-cup; dip again 1 hour. N. B.—Cochineal in place of madder makes a much brighter color, which should be added in small quantities until pleased. About 2 ozs. 14. LAC RED.—For 5 lbs. goods—argal 10 ozs.; boil a few minutes; then mix fine ground lac 1 lb. with muriate ol tin 11 lbs., and let them stand 2 or 3 hours; then add halt oi the lac to the argal dye, and dip $ hour; then add the balance of the >*\c and dip again 1 hour; keep the dye at a boiling heat, il the last half hour, when the dye may be cooled off. 346 DU. chase’s recipeb. 15. PURPLE.—For 5 lbs. goods—cream of tartai 4 ozs ; alum 6 ozs.; cochineal, well pulverized, 2 ozs.; muri- ate of tin $ tea-cup. Boil the cream of tartar, alum and tin, 15 minutes; then put in the cochineal and boil 5 min- utes ; dip the goods 2 hours; then make a new dye with alum 4 ozs.; Brazil wood 6 ozs.; logwood 14 ozs.; muriate of tin 1 tea-cup, with a little ckernic; work again until [ leased. 16. SILVER DRAB—Light.—For 5 lbs. goods—alum 1 small tea-spoon, and logwood about the same amount; boil well together, then dip the goods 1 hour; if not dark enough, add in equal quantities alum and logwood, until suited. 17. SLATE, ON WOOLEN OR COTTON—With Beach Bark.—Boil the bark in an iron kettle, skim out the chips after it has boiled sufficiently, and then add cop- peras to set the dye. If you wish it very dark add more copperas. This is excellent for stockings. 18. EXTRACT OF INDIGO OR CHEMIC—To Make.—For good chemic or extract of indigo, take oil of vitriol $ lb., and stir into it indigo, finely ground, 2 ozs., continuing the stirring at first for i hour; now cover over, and stir 3 or4 times daily for 2 or 3 days; then put in a crumb of saleratus and stir it up, and if it foams, put in more and stir, and add as long as it foams; the saleratus neutralizes any excess of acid ; then put into a glass vessel and cork up tight. It improves by standing. Druggists keep this prepared. 19. WOOL—To Cleanse.—Make a liquid of water 3 parts and urine I part; heat it as hot as you can bear the hand in it; then put in the wool, a little at a time, so as not to have it crowd ; let it remain in for 15 minutes ; take it out over a basket to drain ; then rinse in running water, and spread it out to dry ; thus proceed in the same liquor; when if .gets reduced fill it up, in the same proportions, keeping it at hand heat,-all the time not using any soap. 20. DARK COLORS—To Extract and Insert Light. —This recipe is calculated for carpet rags. In the first place let the rags be washed clean—the black or brown rags can be colored red, or purple, at the option of the dyer; to der cent., and makes all above that amount usurious. California and Minnesota allow any rate agreed upon to be collected. The interest which the State allows to be collected on notes drawn, u with use,” not specifying the rate, is called legal, and that which some States allow to be contracted for, above the legal rate is lawful; but when a larger rate is taken, or agreed upon, it is called usurious, and subjects the person agreeing for it, or receiving it, to the penalties, or forfeitures, as given in the foregoing explanations. Any Agent, or other person, who may know of any changes in their States from these rules, will confer a on the Author by communicating the same. EXPLANATIONS OF THE INTEREST TABLES. EXAMPLE: f>esired to obtain the interest on $1,111 00, for 1 year, 4 months, and 27 days, at 6 per cent. Turning to the tables you will see that the time is given in the left-hand column, the amounts on which you desire to find the interest are given at the heads of the various right-hand columns, the sum sought is found at the meeting of the lines to the right oftthe time, and down from the amount, as follows: The interest on $1,000,1 year, at 6 per cent, $60,00 “ “ . “ 100,« “ « “ « 6,00 u « u 10 iMd away tumors. Diuretic.. That which increases the amount of urine. Diluted. .Reduced with water, as dilute alcohol, naif alcohol and half water. Digitalis. .Fox-glove, a narcotic. Dorsal. .Having reference to the back. Douche. .A dash, or stream upon any part. Drachm. .Sixty grains, a tea-spoonful, or a tea-spoon of Dulcamara. .The bitter-sweet, or woody nightshade. Dyspepsia.. Difficult digestion. Dysphonia. .Difficulty in speaking. Dysuria. .Difficult or painful urination. Eau. .Water. Eau de Cologne.. Cologne water. Ebulition. .To boil. Eclectic. .To choose. Eclectic Physician.. One who professes to be liberal aa views, independent of party, and who fi f the mouth. Fascicular. .A bundle, in bundles. Feces. .That which passes by stool Febrile. .Having reference to fevers. Febrifuge. .Medicines to drive away fever, producing per- spiration. Felon. .A deep abscess of the finger, involving the bone, be- cause under the periosteum, the membrane which covers the bone. Femur. .The thigh bone. Femoral.. Relating to the thigh. Ferment. .To oxidize, to effervesce, to work, as emptyings, beer, wine, cider, &e. Fermentation. .To sour, to decompose, both heat and moist lire being necessary to keep it up. Ferri Limatura. .Iron-filings, very valuable in female de- bility, and for males of a weak habit of body. Ferrum.. Iron. Fever. .That which “Old School Physicians” call a disea.se, whilst another class (the Thomsonians) say it is an effort of nature to throw off disease; but Eclectics take it as an indication that the circu- lating medium is not regular, and go to work at once to equalize the circulation, by the use of diaphoretics, combined with tonics and deter- gents, which soon sets all to-rights; for fever and perspiration cannot long exist together. fUlter. .To strain through paper made for that purpose Fibre.. A very small, thread-like substance of animal oi vegetable matter. Fibula. .The smallest bone of the leg below the knee. Fistula.. An ulcer. Flaccid. .Flabby, soft, relaxed. Flabby.. Loose and soft to the touch. Flatus. .To inflate the stomach or bowels with gas. 369 Fluoric Acid. .A fluid obtained from the fluor spar cat with sulphuric acid. Flatulence.. Gas in the stomach. Flooding. .Uterine hemorrhage. Fluor. .An increased discharge, to flow Fluor Spar. .Fluoride of calcium. Fluor Albus.. White flow, leucorrhea, whites, &c. Flux.. To flow, diarrhea. Friction.. Rubbing with the dry hand, or dry coarse cloth. Fumigate.. To smoke a room, or any article needing to be cleansed. Fundament. . The anus. Formula. .Medical prescription. Fulminating Powder.. An explosive preparation, used in fireworks. Function. .The particular action of an organ, as the function of the stomach, liver, lungs, heart, &c. Fungus.. Spongy flesh in wounds, proud-flesh, a soft cancer, which bleeds upon touching its broken surface Fusion. .To fuse, to melt. Furor.. Very violent delirium, not accompanied by fever. Galbanum.. A resinous gum, from a genus of plants. Genus. .Family of plants, a group, all of a class, or nature. Gall. .Bile. Gall Bladder.. A bag which receives the gall, or bile, through ducts, from the liver, delivering it to the stomach, in health, through the duct called communis choledochus. Gall Stones.. Hard biliary concretions found in the gall bladder, and sometimes causing death, from not being able to pass through the ductus com- munis. Galla.. The gall-nut, an excrescence found upon the oak. Gallic Acid. .An acid from the nut-gall. Galipot. .A glazed jar, used for putting up gummy extracts. Galvanic.. Having reference to galvanism. Gamboge.. A drastic purgative, unless combined with aro- matics. Gangrene. .Partial death of a part, often ending in entire mortification of the part, and sometimes of the whole body. 3L0SSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 370 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. Ganglion.. A knot, or lump on tendons, ligaments, ot nerves. Gaseous. .Having the nature of gas. Gastric.. Of, or belonging to the stomach. Gastric Juice. .Secretion-of the stomach. Gastritis.. Inflammation of the stomach. Gastrodynia. .Pain in the stomach, sometimes with spawn of the 6tomach. Gelatine. .Isinglass. Gelatinous. .Like jelly. Genitals. .Belonging to generation, the sexual organs. Gentian. .An European root, possessing tonic properties. Genu. .The knee. Genuflexion. .Bending the knee, kneeling. Germ. .The vital principle, or life-spark. Gestation. .To be pregnant. Gland. .Secreting organs having ducts emptying into cavi- ties, which often become obstructed, causing them to enlarge ; hence, the enlargement of the thyroid gland in the neck, causing bronchocele. Gians.. A gland. Gleet.. Chronic gonorrhea. Globules.. Small round particles,thaving special reference to particles of the red part of the blood. Glossa . The tongue ; a smooth tongue. Gloss. .To give a lustre; to comment; to write or make ex. planations. Glossarist. .A writer of glosses or comments. Glossary.. An explanation of words. Glossarial. .Containing explanations. Glossitis.. Inflammation of the tongue. Glottis. .The opening into the wind-pipe, at the root of the tongue, larynx, covered by the epiglottis. Gluten. .Coagulable lymph, white of an egg, a principle in wheat and other vegetables. Glutton. .One who eats excessively. Gonorrhea.. An infectious discharge from the genital or- gans. Gout. .Painful inflammation of the joints of the toes, or of the fingers. Granule. .A small particle of healthy matter, not pua GLOSSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 371 Gi anulation.. Healing up of an ulcer or wound with healthy matter. Gravel.. Crystaline particles in the urine. Green-Sickness. .Chlorosis, debility requiring iron. Griping.. Grinding pain in the stomach, or bowels. Gutta.. One drop, drops. Gutta Percha. .Dried juice of a genus of trees Isonandrs gutta. Guttural. .Relating to the throat. Gymnasium.. A place for sportive exercise, which is very valuable to those who cannot or will not take exercise for the sake of dollars and cents. Gypsum. .Sulphate of lime, more commonly called plaster of Paris, because first introduced from that place. Habit. .Good or bad habit, constitutionally, or prejudicially predisposed to do some particular thing; medi- cally, as consumptive habit, rheumatic habit, &o, Uema. .Blood, prefixed to other words. Hematemesis. . Hemorrhage from the stomach Hematuria.. Hemorrhage from the bladder Hemoptysis.. Hemorrhage from the lungs. Hemorrhoids.. Piles, bleeding piles. Henbane.. Hyoscyamus. Hereditary. . Disease from parents. Hernia. .Rupture, which permits a part of the bowel to pro* trude. Herpes.. Disease of the skin. Hiera Picra.. A medicine containing aloes. Humerus.. The single bone of the upper arm. Humeral. .Pertaining to the arm. Humors. .The fluids of the body, excluding the blood. Hydragogues. .Medicines which produce watery discharges used in dropsy, as elaterium. Hydi argyrum.. Metalic mercury, quicksilver, Doctors’ name for calomel. Hydrocyanic Acid. .Prussic acid, nothing more poisonous. Hydrofluoric Acid.. Same as fluoric acid. Hygea. .'Health. Hygiene. .Pxeseiving health by diet and other precautions. 372 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES Hypo.. Signifies low, a low state of health, more annoying to the sufferers than to their friends, who are constantly boring them about it; called hysterics in women, (from hysteria, the womb or uterus,) but blues only, when it gets hold of men; they come from the same cause, general debility • takes a strong remedy, iron, as medicine, Hypoglottis. .Under the tongue. Hysteria. .The uterus, (womb,) also disease, depending up- on, or caused by uterine irregularities Ilysteritis. .Inflammation af the uterus. Ichor.. An acrid,biting, watery discharge from ulcers, often corroding, eating the surface. Icterus. .Jaundice, a bilious disease, which shows itself by yellowness of the eyes and skin. Icterus Albus.. Chlorosis, whites, &c. Ignition. .To catch on fire, from Ignis, fire. Ileus. .Cholic in the small intestines. Iliac. .Situated near the flank. Iliac Region. .Sides of the abdomen between th.o ribs and the thighs. Imbecile. .One of weak mind, imbecility. Imbibe. .To absorb, to drink. Imbricate. .To over-lap, as tiles on a house Immerse. .To plunge under water. Immobile. .Immovable, as stiff joints. Imperforate. .Without a natural opening. Impervious. .Closed against water. Impetigo.. Tetter. Imponderable. .Not having weight, light or electricity. Impoverished. .Exhausted vitality. Impotence. .Sterility, not being able to produce Impregnation. .The act of producing. hcision. .To cut. Incombustible. .Incapability of being burned. Incompatibles. .Medicines which ought not to be mixed, oa given together. Incontinence. .Not being able to hold the natural excre- tions. Incorporate. .To mix medicines together. Incubation. .To hatch eggs, slow development of disease Indication. .That which shows what ought to be done GLOSBARIAL DEPARTMENT 373 Indigenous.. Peculiarity of a country, or of a small sectiea of country, applied to disease, plants, &c. Indigestion.. Dyspepsia. Indolent.. Slow in progress, applied to ulcers and tumors, which are slow and with but little or no pain. fa duration.. Hardening of any part of tfio system by dis- ease. Infectious. .Communicable disease, from one to another. Infirmary.. Where medicines are distributed gratuitously to the poor ; but more recently some physicians have got to calling their offices infirmaries. (nflanimation. .Attended with heat, redness, swelling, ten- derness, and often with throbbing. Inflatus..To distend, to blow up with wind, or to fill up with gas, as the stomach, bowels, &c. Influenza. .A disease affecting the nostrils, throat, &c., of a catarrhal nature. Infusion. .Medicines prepared by steeping in water, not to boil. Inquinal. .In the groin. Ingredient.. One article of a compound mixture. Inhalation. .To dra-w in the breath. Injection. .Any preparation to be introduced by the rectum Inorganic. .Matter not having organs, all alike, as metals. Insanity.. Derangement of the mind. Insertion.. The attachment of muscles and tendons to the bones, which they move by contraction. Inspiration. .The act of drawing in the breath. Inspissation.. To thicken by boiling, to make what is called the concentrated extracts, desiccation. Instinct.. An involuntary action, as closing the eyelids, breathing, &c., natural perception ot animals. Integument. .A covering, the skin. Inter. .A prefix denoting between. Intercostal. .Between the ribs. Intermission.. Time between paroxysms of fever, or other disease. Intermittent Fever.. Fever which comes on at regular peri- ods, between which periods there is little, and sometimes no fever, an interval. Internal. .Upon the inside. Interosseous. .Between the bones, 374 DR. CHASE’S RECIDES. Interval. .The period between the paroxysms cf periodical diseases, as ague, &c. Intestines. .The contents of the abdomen. Intestinal Canal.. Embracing the duodenum (the first di vision below the stomach,) the jejunum, (the the second division of the small intestines,) the ileum, (the third and longest portion of the small intestines,) the securn, (the first portion of the large intestine,) the colon, (the large in- testine,) and the rectum, (the lower trap-door.) Intolerance.. In medicine, applied to the eye, as intolerance of light; to the stomach, as intolerance of food. Inversio Uteri.. Inversion of the uterus. . Inversion. .To turn the inside out. Irreducible.. Applied to hernia, and to joints which have been put out and cannot be put back to their place. Ischuria. .Not being able to pass the urine. Issue.. Sore made as a counter-irritant, to draw irritatio* from a diseased part. Itch. .Psora, scabies, a catching eruption of the skin. It is. .An addition to a word denoting inflammation, as pleu ritis, pleurisy, &o. Ivory Black. .Animal charcoal. Jaundice. .A disease caused by the inactivity of the liver or ducts leading from it. Jelly. .Gelatine in a fluid state, as applied to medicine. Jesuits Bark. .First name ef Peruvian bark, from its having been discovered by Jesuit missionaries. Juglar. .Applied to veins of the throat. Jujube.. An East India fruit, something like a plum, RCei in coughs, but of doubtful reputation. Kali.. Potash. Kelp.. Ashes of sea-weed. Knot. .Surgeons tie their knot hv passing the thread through the loop, which prevents slipping. Labia. .Lips. Labia Pudendi. .Lips, or sides of the vulva. Labial. .Of, or belonging to the lips. Labor. .Child-birth, parturition. GLOSSARIAL DEPARTS!ENT. 375 Laboratory.. A place of chemical experiments, or opera- tions, see Frontispiece. Lancinating. .Sharp, piercing, as lancinating pain. Laryngeal. .Of the larynx. Larynx.. The upper part of the throat. Laryngitis.. Inflammation of the throat. Latent. .Hidden, as latent heat, see the remarks connected vrith steam boiler explosion. Lassitude. .Weakness, a feeling of stupor. Laxative.. A very gentle cathartic. Leptandrin..Powder made from the leptaudria rirginica, blackroot, Culvers physic. Ijeucorrhea.. Fluor albus, whites, chlorosis, &c. Levigate. .To reduce to a very fine powder. Ligature.. A thread, to ligate, to tie with a ligature Located. .Fixed, seated u-pon some organ. Lingua.. The tongue. Linguist.. A speaker, fluency, one who understands differ- ent languages. Liniment. .A fluid preparation to be applied by friction. Lithontriptic. .A medicine reported to dissolve gravel, or stone in the bladder. Lithotomy.. The operation of cutting, to take out stone of the bladder. Liver. .The largest gland, and largest organ of the body. Livid. .A dark colored spot on the surface. Loins. .Lower part of the back. Lotion.. A preparation to wash a sore. Lubricate. .To soften with oil, or to moisten with a fluid. The internal organs are covered with a mem- brane which throws out a lubricating fluid, en- abling them to move easily upon each other. Lute. .A paste with which to close chemical retorts, the ca- sein, curd of milk, is used for that purpose. Lymph. .A thin colorless fluid carried in small vein-like vessels called lymphatics. Macerate. .To steep, soften by soaking. Mai. .Bad, mal practice, bad practice, not according to sci- ence. Malformation. .Irregular, unnatural formation. Malaria. .Bad gases, causing disease, supposed to arise from decaying vegetable matter. 376 DR. chase’s RECIPES Malignant.. A pestilential, and generally dangerous dia ease, as the Cholera of 1882. Mamma. .The female breast, which is composed of glands that secrete the milk, upon the principle that the liver secretes bile; each organ for its spe- cific purpose; but secreting organs, or glands are the more liable to get obstructed, thus pro- ducing disease. Mastication.. The act of chewing. Masturbation. .Excitement, by the hand, of the genital or- gans. The most injurious, health-destroying, soul-debasing, of all evils introduced into the world; because llo frequent repetition draw* very heavily upon the nervous system, prostra- ting the energies, destroying the memory, to- gether with the lifi-principle, as well as the principles of molality which ought to govern every human being, between himself and his Cieator. Maturity. .To become ripe, to arrive at adult age, beyond further growth. Materia. .Matter, healthy substance. Materia Medica. .The science of medicine, and medical combinations. Maturation. .Formation of pus, unluvuthy matter. Matrix.. The womb. Meconium.. The first passages after birth. Medical. .Relating to meuioine. Medicated. .Having medicine in its preparation. Membrane.. A thin lining, or coveting, skin-like, as the peritoneum, which lines the cavity of the bow- els and covers the intestines; and the perios- teum, membrane, which covens the bones, &c Medicament. .A remedy ; hence, medicauentum, the Welch remedy for every disease. Medicinal. .Having medical properties. Medullary. .Like marrow, brain-like. Mel. .Honey. Menstruation. .Monthly flow. Mentha Piperita.. Peppermint, Median. .The middle. OLOSSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 377 Mellifluous. .Flowing with honey, sweetness, delHjious; akin to lucious, juicy mellowness. Menorrhagia. .Excessive flooding. Micturition. .To urinate, to pass the urine. Midwifery. .Art of assisting at child-birth. Minim. .About one drop, one-sixtieth of a fluid drachm Minimum. .The smallest, the smallest dose, the opposite of maximum. Modus Operandi. .The way in which medicines act, appli- cable also to any action, the way of doing it. Morbid. .Unhealthy. Morbus. .A disease", hence, cholera morbus, disease of the bowels. Mordant. .That which fastens the colors in dyeing, as alum, cream of tartar, argal, vitriols, tin, liquor, &c. Mucus.. Animal mucilage. Mucus Membrane.. See remarks under the head of “ Inflam- mation,” in the body of the work. Mucilage. .A watery solution of gum, or elm bark, &c. Mwiatic.. Having reference to sea salt. Muriatic Acid. .Marine acid, often called hydrochloric acid, Muscle.. A bundle of fibers. Muscular. .Having reference to the muscles, strong built. Myrrh.. A resinous gum. Narcotic. .Stupefying medicines, producing sleep. Mares.. The nostrils. Nasal. .Of the nose. Nausea. .Sickness of the stomach, may increase until vom- iting takes place, or it may not. Nauseant. .That which produces nausea. Navel. .Center of the abdomen. Necros. .Death. Necrosis.. Death of a bone. Nephros.. The kidney. Nephritis.. Inflammation of the kidney or kidneys. Nervous.. Easily excited. Nervine.. That which will allay, or soothe nervous excite ment. Neuralgia.. Pain in nerves. Nitre.. Saltpeter. Nocturnal. .Occurring in the night. 378 DR. CHASES RECIPES. Nitrate... Nitric acid combined with alkalies or alkaline salts. Normal. .In a natural and health condition. Nostrum.. A medical preparation. Nothus.. Spurious, illegitimate, a bastard. Nudus. .Nude, without clothing. Nutrition. .Nourishment. Nutritious. .Nourishing. Obesity.. Corpulence, excess of fat, or flesh. Obstetrics.. The science of midwifery. Ochre.. An ore ot iron. * Ocidus. .The eye. Oculist. . An eye-doctor. Oleaginous.. An oily substance. Omentum. .The caul, peritoneal covering of the intestines. Opacity.. To obstruct light. Opaque. .Not transparent, inability to sec t'mough it. Oj>thalmos. .The eye. Opthalmia. .Disease of the eye, inflammation of the eye. Opiate. .An anodyne. Organ.. A part 'of the body, which has a ecr<*Ai. vru/* to perform, called the function of ergans, ch* stomach, lungs, womb, &o. Organic. .Bodies made up of organs. Organism. .Vital organization. Organized. . Furnished with life. Orgasm. .The closing excitement of sexual cnanectioft Origin. .The point of commencement. Orifice.. An opening. Os Tince. .Mouth of the womb, or uterus. Osseous. .A bony substance. Ossification.. To become bone; from ost, or osteo, * hon* or like a bone. Ostalgia.. Pain in a bone. Osteoma. .Tumor, like bone. Ostitis.. Inflammation of a bone or bonas. Otic.. Haring reference to the ear. Otitis. .Inflammation of the ear. Otorrhea.. Discharge from the ear. Ova. .An egg, made up of little eggs tfLOSSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 379 Ovaria. .Testes; most generally applied to the female; fe- male testes, two egg-shaped bodies, (made up of little particles, or eggs,) having an attach- ment to the uterus in the broad ligaments, which support that organ, having tubes, or ducts, opening from them into the uterus, called Fallopian tubes, from the man’s name who first gave a description of them. One of these particles is thrown off at each menstrual flow. Oviparous. .Birds, or any animals that produce their young from eggs, or by eggs. Ovum. .An egg. Oxalic Acid.. An acid found in sorrel, very poisonous. Oxide. .A combination of oxygen with a metal, or fluid, as oxygen combining with vinegar-fluid, forms vinegar, oxygen combining with iron, formg oxide of iron, rust of iron, kc. Oxygen. .One of the elements of the air, an acidifying (souring) principle, and an element (a partiol t or part) of water. I Oxyniel.. A preparation of vinegar and honey, from mell honey. Ozena. .Feted ulcer of the nose, or fetid discharge from the nose. Pabulum. .Food; aliment. Pad. .A cushion. Palliative. .To afford relief, only. Palpitation. . Unhealthy, or unnatural beating of the heart. Pan.. As a prefix, means all. Panacea. .Remedy for all diseases, consequently (speaking ironically) any patent medicine. Paralysis. .Loss of motion, numbpalsy. Panus.. Labor; the young when brought forth. Parturition. .Child-birth. Paroxysm. .A fit of disease occurring at certain periods. Periodical. .Occurring at a certain time. Petal. .A flour leaf, as rose leaves, &c. Phthisis..A wasting, consumption. Pathos.. A disease. Pathology. .The do'trine of disease. 380 DR. CHASE’S RBCIPES. pectoral. .Pertaining to the breast. Pedilunum. .A foot-bath. Pendulous. .To hang down Penis. .The male organ of generation. Pepsins A peculiar substance in the stomach, which aids dl gestion. Peptic. .Digestive; hence, dyspeptic, not digesting. Percolation. .To run, or draw through some substance, straining. Premonitory. .To give a previous notice, as premonitory symp toms. Pen. .Around, a covering. Pericardium. .Around the heart, sac containing the heart. Pericarditis. .Inflammation of the pericardium. Perrin. .A testicle, male organs, corresponding with testes, in females, with this difference, however, that with males they are upon the outside, whilst with females they are upon the inside of the body. Perineum. .That part between the anus and organs of generation or genitals. Perineal. .Relating to the region of the perineum. Period.. A certain time. Periodicity. .Returning at a certain time. Periosteum. .The membrane which covers all bones. Perspective View. .As it appears to the eye at a certain distance Perturbation. .To disturb. Perversion. .An unhealthy change; to change from its proper or natural course. Pessary. .That which will support, or hold up the womb, in pro- lapsus ; see our remarks on “ Female Debility.” Phagedenic. .An eating and fast-spreading ulcer. Pharmacy. .The art of combining and preparing medicines. Phlegm. .Mucus from the bronchial tubes, and throat. Phlogistic. .Tendency to inflammation. Phosphonis. .An inflammable and luminous substance, prepared from urine and bones. Phosphate. .Phosphoric acid in combination with as phosphate of iron, phosphate of lime, &c. Piles. .Tumors at, or in the anus; sometimes protruding; often attended with hemorrhage, then called hemorrhoids. Piperine. .A preparation from black pepper, considered valuable in ague. clacenta. .After-birth, which has a connection to the womb, and to the child, during pregnancy; but i3 naturally thrown off by the violent contractions of the womb, at this period, there being no further use for it. Oh. the wisdom of our Creator, how glorious to contem- plate! Everything adapted to the necessities of the case Plethora..Over fullness; if healthy, causing obesity, corpo lance. Pleuritis. .Inflammation of the pleura, pleurisy Pneumon. .The lungs. GLOSSARIAL DEPART.* ljn f. 381 Pleura. .The serous membrane covering the lungs, and folded upon the sides. Pneumonia. .Inflammation of the lungs. Podophyllin. .A powder made from the podophyllum peltatum, mandrake root. Pomum. .The apple; hence, pomace, mashed apple. Potassium. .The basis of potash. Potus. .A drink ; hence, potion, a medicated drink. Predisposition.. A tendency to a certain disease. 1 \egnancy. .Being with child. Prognosis. .The art of guessing how a disease will terminate. Pi-viapsus. .A falling Prouipsus Ant. .Falling of the anus. Probipsus Uteri. .Falling of the uterus. Proset'ation. .Without strength. Prussiate. .A compound with prussic acid. Prussic Add. .Hydrocyanic acid; one of, or the most virulent poison in existence. Psora. .The itch. Pubes. .The prominence at the lower front part of the tody. Puberty. .Full growth; an adult; perfection. l\ibic. .Having reference to the region of the pubes. Pudendum. .The female organs of generation. Puer. .A boy, or child. Puerpera. .A woman who has just brought forth a child; hence, puerperal fever, fever at, or soon after child-birth. Pulmo. .A lung. „ m Pulmonitis. .Inflammation of the lung ®r lungs. Pulmonary. .Relating to the lungs, as pulmonary balsam, pul- monic wafers, &c. Pulvis. .A powder; hence, pulverize, to make fine. All these words show how heavily we have drawn upon other languages, for our owTn, consequently, the necessity of studying the Latin and Greek, to properly under- stand ours. Pupil. .The dark circle in the eye. Purgative. .A gentle cathartic. Pus. .Unhealthy matter. Pustule. .A slight elevation, having pus. Putrefaction. .To decompose, by fermentation. Putrid.. Rotton; decomposed. Pyroligneous Acid. .Anacid obtained from wood; the essence of smoke; if a little of it is put into a barrel with meat in the brine, it smokes it without trouble. I think gill to the barrel sufficient, perhaps a little less will do. It is obtained by inserting an old gun-barrel or other iron tube into a coal-pit, near the bottom, wTli