Secrets of wise men, chemists and great physicians
illustrated: comprising an unusual collection of money-making, money-saving, and health-giving prescriptions, receipts, formulas, processes and trade secrets
It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry.
The jealous care with which special information in trade and manufacture is guarded frequently renders it a monumental task to procure a single receipt or formula. Some idea, then, may be formed of the vast amount of labour and expense necessary to compile a work of this character. Books of recipes are quite numerous, but to the average person, the good they contain is too often buried beneath a mass of wordy rubbish.
In the preparation of this work, the object has been to present all the best as well as the latest practi¬ cal receipts, prescriptions, and trade secrets. Over a quarter of a million pages of patent-office reports, encyclopedias, trade journals, receipt books, and other special publications have been carefully scrutinized.
To the knowledge obtained from them, we include the original matter procured from tradesmen, chemists, and the published works and private practice of some of the most eminent physicians both in this country and Europe, a greater portion of which has never before appeared in print; all of which has been carefully tested were any doubt existed. It will be found that few if any, misleading directions have been given.
The prescriptions have been reproduced, after careful thought, in the form in which they were originally written. In having them filled patronize only honest and capable druggists. In testing the recipes follow the directions with rigid care, and practice on a small quantity of the article until you get it right. Realizing that perfection in anything has never been attained, we believe that the work contains more really practical information for use by the masses in everyday life than any similar publication.
SOME OF CONTENTS
A Cheap Charcoal Stove 48
Approximate Measures 116
Baking Powders 13
Bay Rum, Best 40
Blood Purifier, Dr. Hamilton’s 120
Blood Purifying Tea 121
Breath Solution 34
Butter Color 125
Care of Teeth, Mouth, and Breath 32
Cascara Cordial 120
Catarrh Remedy, Electric 121
Catarrh Snuff 122
Catarrh Salve 122
Cements and Glue 24
Armenian Glue 24
Glutina Cement 24
Iron Cement 25
Metal, Glass, and Stone Cement 25
Cement, Rubber 123
Chapped Hands, etc., Lotion for 39
Chilblains, Treatment of 42, 43
Cider, Artificial 15
Cleaning Preparations 7
Lightning Grease Renovator 7
Glove-Cleaning Compound 7
Cleaning Tarnished Silverware 8
Cleaning Carpets 8
Universal Stain-Removing Table 9
Cleaning Soiled Wall-paper 12
Cleaning Marble and Tombstones 13
Cleaning Powder for Show-windows, etc. 13
Cologne, Hoyt’s German 41
Common Names of Chemical Substances 117
Copying Paper, Magic 6
Copying Pad, Gelatine 1
Corn and Wart Salve 42
Corn-Killer, German 42
Essential Oils, To Extract 17
Face Lotion, Calamine 39
Fire Extinguishers 4
Fire Hand Grenades 4
Fire Extinguishing Compounds 5
Fire-proofing Compounds 123, 124
Flavoring Extracts 16
Foliotypes 2
Freckles, To Remove 36, 38
Freezing Mixtures 69–71
Furniture Varnish 13
Furniture Polish 14
Gold and Silver Imitations 32
Hair Tonic 41
Hair Grower, Pomade 41
Hair Oil, Cream 14
Hamlin’s Wizard Oil 119
Hektograph 1
Hog Cholera Cure 125
Honey, Artificial 14
How to Make an Incubator 43–48
Ice House and Refrigerator 64
Ice Houses, Cheap 66
Ice Chest, Cheap 69
Ice Without an Ice House 69
Inks 20
Black Inks 20, 21
Red Ink 21
Violet Ink 21
Blue Ink 21
Green Ink 21
Copying Ink 21
Indestructible Ink 22
Hektograph Ink 22
White Ink 22
Rubber Stamp Ink 22
Ribbon Ink 22
Marking Ink 22
Indelible Ink 22
Gold and Silver Ink 124
Ink for Writing on Metals 23
Ink Powders 23
Disappearing Ink 23
Invisible Inks 23
Ink Erasing Fluid 24
Kidney and Liver Cure, Warner’s Safe 121
Lemonade Syrup, Artificial 15
Liniments 119
Wonder Liniment 119
Liquid Lightning Liniment 119
Rarey’s Horse Liniment 125
Lip Salve 39
Liver Regulator 120
Manicure Powder 40
Manicure Salve 40
Maple Syrup, Artificial 14
Maple Sugar, Artificial 14
Mead, Genuine New Orleans 15
Medical Department
Prescriptions of eminent physicians, arranged and revised by F. V. Luse, M.D., Chicago, Ill. — Diseases arranged alphabetically. Authorities quoted: Agnew, Atthill, Bartholow, Basham, Beasley, Bibron, Browne, Brown-Séquard, Chapman, Da Costa, Dewees, Ellis, Fenner, Gerhard, Getchell, Gross, Guy, Hartshorne, Hazard, Hebra, Keyes, Leibreich, Luse, Mackenzie, Milton, Mitchell, Pancoast, Porcher, Ricord, Ringer
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