Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Burns and Scalds

Every family 5524. Nature of Rheumatism. Rheushould have a preparation of flaxseed oil, matism is a diseased condition of the fibrous chalk, and vinegar, about the consistency of and muscular tissues, chiefly affecting the thick paint, constantly on hand for burns and larger joints; the heart and diaphragm are scalds. A noted retired physician states that also liable to be affected by it. It is a prohe has used it in hospital and private practice for the past forty years, and believes that no application can compare with it, as regards relief of pain and curative results.

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