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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Preventive Lotions

These are washes intended to prevent infection from personal contact with those laboring under contagious diseases. Most of the nostrums of this character are mere weak solutions of chloride of lime, corrosive sublimate, potassa, or acetate or diacetate of lead. (See No. 4830.)

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