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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Poultice for a Fester

Boil when spread, are usually surrounded with a bread in lees of strong beer; apply the poul- margin of resin plaster, to cause them to tice in the general manner. This has saved many a limb from amputation.

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