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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Theine, or Caffeine

This is an alkaloid principle extracted from tea, coffee, Paraguay tea, &c. It forms in tufts of white silky needles.

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