1882 Cooking Recipes and Household Receipts + Patent Medicines

Description: Ransom's Family Receipt Book 1882 "It Contains Many Cooking , Coloring , Painting , and Miscellaneous Receipts - a Calendar , Interest and other Rules - and Many Facts Worth Knowing." Published by D. Ransom, Son & Co. Buffalo, N. Y. 1882 Sewn paper wraps. 3 3/4" x 6 1/8" 32 pages plus the covers. 1882 annual almanac booklet promoting the medicines of Ransom, Son & Co. With " new recipes each year ". Recipes ( cooking , household , medicinal , dyeing , etc. ), plus pages advertising patent medicines , including: Trask's Magnetic Ointment ( for " inflammation of the lungs , affections of the liver , rheumatism , cancers , tumors , white swellings , ulceation of the bone , croup , brain inflammation , scarlet fever " etc. etc. ) Ransom’s Hive Syrup and Tolu ( for " The Midnight Horror - Croup !" plus Whooping Cough , Bronchitis , Asthma , etc.), King of the Blood (" Cures All Humors ", including " cancers , scrofula , consumption , venereal taint , mineral poisons , dropsy , female weakness , chronic diseases , rheumatism " etc., etc. ) Dr. Miller's Universal Magnetic Balm ( for " cholera , Neuralgia , Dysentery , Colic , Bowel complaonts " etc. ) Prof. Anderson's Dermador ( " Good for Man and Beast " , " inflammation of all kinds , diptheria , wounds , burns , swelling of the glands , sprains , frost bites , piles , bee stings , sores , galls , founder , sore teats , mange , horse distemper " etc., etc. ) ------- " Our Receipts - The following receipts , except for those for Painting and Dyeing , are entirely new. They are carefully selected from the best contributions of persons skilled in each department and have been thoroughly tested." " Our Medicines - All the formulas of the preparations mentioned in this pamphlet are the result of prolonged and careful investigations, conducted by professional and scientific men, some of whom were physicians regularly graduated from the first Medical Universities of the United States ." Kitchen recipes for Soups , vegetable entrees , pies , desserts , breads , cakes , " fancy dishes " ( pickles , souffle , cider jelly , " Goosebery Fool ", fruit preserves , marbles cream candy , rock work , tipsy charlotte , apple water , porteree , calves foot jelly , etc., etc. ) Household recipes for cleaning , keeping apples and potatoes , keeping meats in hot weather , removing pimples , " removing taint from meat or poultry ", preserving herbs , keeping lemons , making paint for an old house , milk paint for barns , red wash for bricks , house painting , white wash , oil varnish , dyeing silks woolen goods and cotton ( various colors ), etc. Advertisement on the rear for George A. Nason , West Roxbury ( Massachusetts ), Drugs , Medicines , Perfumery , Druggist Sundries , Physician Prescriptions ----------- Doctor David Louis Ransom was an American physician and manufacturer of a variety of patent medicines. He was born on January 29, 1817 at Hamilton , Madison County, New York. He began his medical practice in Buffalo, New York in 1846 , producing " Dr. D. Ransom's King of the Blood ", which he claimed would cure cancers and cancerous tumors " without the surgeon's knife ," ( as well as scrofula and consumption ). He also sold Dr. A. Trask's Magnetic Ointment for croup, sore throat, diphtheria and rheumatism. Other magnetic balms and Indian balm pills followed. He died December 12, 1872 at the age of 55 years at Buffalo, Erie County, New York , and Ransom's son took over the family business. ----------- Condition. Wear to the covers, however both are still present and still attached. Aging of the paper. Loss of paper at the upper-inside corner. Otherwise good. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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Location: Coventry, Rhode Island

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