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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To Relieve Corns

Take a lemon, cut off a small piece, then nick it so as to let in the toe with the corn, tie this on at night, so that it cannot move, and in the morning you will find that, with a blunt knife, you may remove a considerable portion of the

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