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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Gannal's Antiseptic Mixture

nally forms is dissolved. Carbolic acid com- Dissolve 1/2 pound each alum and table salt, municates a blue or violet tinge to the solu- and 1 pound saltpetre, in 1 gallon water. the solu- and 4 pound saltpetre, in 1 gallon water. tion, while genuine creosote gives a green color, afterward turning to brown. pathological specimens. Dissolve 1 part 1658. Réboulet's Antiseptic. For

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