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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Catheters, or Hollow Bougies

These are made of the same composition as the ordinary bougies, but a piece of polished metallic wire is introduced into the axis of the silk; or tinfoil is rolled round the wire and the composition applied as before.

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