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I

Mm9RIAL EDITI?f1

HO

Or Practical Knowledge for the People,

Prom the Life-Long Observations of the Author, embracing the Choicest, Most Valnabia

and Entirely New Receipts in Every Department of Medicine, Mechanics, and Household

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Economy; including a Treatise on

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THE DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

IN FACT.

THE BOOK FOR THE MILLION.

With Remarks and Explanations which adapt it to the Every-day Wants of the People,

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Arranged in Departments and most Copiously Indexed.

By a. W. chase, A\. D.,

AiTTHOR OF "dr. chase's seckipts; or information for kverybody." also t>R. chassis

FAMILY PHYSICIAN, FARRIER, BEE KEEPER AND SECOND RECEIPT BOOK."

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"Why Conceal that which Relieves distress."

PUBLISHCD BY

F. B.

DICKERSON CO.

Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Ont.

TO WHOM ALL CORRESPONDCNCE SHOULD BE

ADORESKED.

1897

Publishers' Notice.

WE

desire to place a

of

copy of

every family, and,

if

this

work in the hands

the neighborhood

has

been canvassed and there is no agent through whom it

can be purchased, we will send by mail, free of postage,

faingle

copies to any address on receipt of the regular

subscription price.

We at all times desire agents.

The terms are liberal,

and the agency to sell this work in any field will afford a

good living to any man or woman of intelligence. Agents

will be assigned territory in the order of their application.

For name and address of the publishers, see title page.

CoPYRiQHT,

18&-T, BY A.

COPVRIOHT, 1887, BY

F.

W. Chase.

B.

DiCKERSON.

All Rights Reserved.

DEDICATION.

THIS, MT THIRD AND LAST RECEIPT BOOK,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

To the Twelve Hundred Thousand Families, througliout the

United States and Dominion of Canada,

WHO HAVE PURCHASED

ONE OR BOTH OF MY FORMER BOOKS, AND TO THEIR CHILDREN

WHO HAVE THUS BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THEM, AND

WOULD, THEREFORE,

DESIRE

TO

BENEFIT

THEMSELVES, AND PERPETUATE THE NAME OF THE "OLD DOCTOR,*^

BY HANDING THIS, THE CROWNING WORK OF MY LIFE,

TO THEIR CHILDREN.

A. W. CHASE, M. D.

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.

In presenting this book to the public, we make no apologies.

There never was but one Doctor A. W. Chase.

The immense sale

of his former works is evidence that the public

demand all that

ever came from his prolific and philanthropic pen.

There is no

man now living, and none dead, whose writings have been so

eagerly sought

for,

and no man, whose whole

devoted to the good of others.

left no

life

was so

Through reverses in business, he

pecuniary benefits to his family except the manuscript of

this book, but died with the consciousness that his work had been

appreciated and that he had been a benefactor to mankind.

Chase's name is a household word in millions of homes

this

;

Dr.

we trust

book will make it a familiar name in a million more, and,

although

this, his final

work, is by him dedicated to the people

whom he served so long and well, we, as publishers, think it

befitting to such as

he to inscribe it " The Memorial Edition "

and dedicate it to his children.

THE PUBLISHERS.

THE NURSF, AND PATIENT.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

The reason for the publication of this book is, that having

given over fifty years of my life to the careful observation and

test of Practical Receipes, as given in my first and second books,

i.

e.,

"Dr. Chase's Eeceipts, or Information for Everybody;" and

"Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Bee Keeper, and Second Receipt

Book," by which it has become very natural for me to make notes

of and preserve for future reference, items and receipts discovered

by myself and those seen in the discourses of the Scientific, Medical, Agricultural,

Mechanical and Household Publications of the

day; and observing that as time advanced, every branch of Science

and Art, by continued experience, became more and more perfect,

practical and positive in its development, I continually selected

and preserved the very choicest items until enough was accumulated

And fully believing that it would be apprefor a THIRD BOOK.

ciated by the people who had purchased over twelve hundred

thousand copies of

my former publications, within the

thirty

years they have been before them, I determined to prepare it

before I could willingly and conscientiously lay down

work.

my life

I have, therefore, labored over four years faithfully and

diligently in experimenting, compiling

and arranging

this,

my

third and last book, as I knew it would do good in every home it

entered.

I am now willing and shall forever rest from this char-

acter of labor, that I may partake, a little at least, of the benefits

and pleasures that I have done my best to prepare for others,

feeling more than satisfied that if the people will give the time

and earnestness in using this book that the author has in preparing it, the benefits and pleasures will not only be mutual, but

more lasting than our lives, benefitting even our children's children.

As to the reliability of the information given in this volume,

the unprecedentedly large sales of my two former works will

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

viU

It is only necessary to say that the longer one labors in

a practice or profession, or in the mechanical arts, the more

testify.

mature is his mind and judgment and the better qualified he is to

carry on his work. This being universally conceded, it need only

be said, then, that one who has lived nearly seventy years, doing

all the good possible to his fellow creatures, as I have done, if

judged by the above evidence, would certainly make his last the

crowning effort of his life, and that it shall be so found I feel

This work is the result of nearly thirty years practice

and experience since the publication of my first book, and is not

a " revised edition " of the former ones, but is made up wholly of

new matter and new discoveries. I, therefore, believe that it will

prove of infinite value to its purchasers, and although they may

have both the former ones in their possession, they cannot, if

they value my first and second book, afford to be without this,

my third and last one. My mature years, numbering nearly

three score and ten, will not allow me to ever undertake that

assured.

great labor which, in this case, covers a period of nearly five

years.

A

Eeceipt Book, not being calculated for general reading, can

very properly be set in closer type than an ordinary book, and

as it

is

my aim to give the greatest possible amount of informa-

tion for the

money invested, I have instructed the type-setters

to use the smallest type that can, with ease,

be read

;

yet the

following will serve to illustrate the fact that even a receipt

book is, by some, read to a considerable extent

As I was once

traveling through Illinois, a gentleman, just before

we reached

the crossing of the Mississippi at Burlington, approached me, and

said, "Isn't this Dr.

(referring to

Chase, the author of Chase's Eeceipt Book?"

my first) to which I replied, " Yes, sir," when he

remarked " I thought I recognized you from the frontispiece in

your book ;" and added, " We read it more than the Bible," etc.

To which I remonstrated and begged to suggest that he instruct

his family from that time forward to read the Bible most, inasmuch as eternity was of infinitely more importance than this life.

His name I have forgotten, but I take the liberty of giving the

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AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

ix

name and address of a lady in Wisconsin, whose letter I received

while preparing this last work, presuming she will take no offense,

as I give her name and letter only to prove to the public in what

esteem my former books are held by those who have them.

following

is

from Mrs. 0, N. Alden, and dated

at

The

Neenah,

Wisconsin

Dr. a. W. chase,

Dear Sir:

It is not the author or compiler of every book

who

himself so permeates the contents that the reader feels in the author a personal acquaintance, but when I am consulting Dr. Chase's Books, it seems

as though I was personally consulting him, and that he is a friend, he makes

what is therein so individual.

But, by so doing, he exposes himself to, per* * * *

haps, annoyance, as in this instance, by being personally addressed,

The writer closes by relating her own condition of health,

and making inquiry as to the character of goods made by another

gentleman.

I mention these circumstances among hundreds of

my former

books what those who do have them think of them, hoping thus

to convince the million that my third and last book shall, at least,

be equally valuable. I have, however, done my best to produce a

others only to illustrate to those having neither of

work in every respect superior to my former ones, and with the

aid of thirty years' experience since my first book was published,

during which time many new theories have come into vogue and

many valuable discoveries have been made, I am confident that

I have succeeded, and can only hope that my former works have

opened the door to this, my Crowning Life Work, and that it will

be a welcome visitor at every home, where either or both the first

and second books have found their way and prove to be worth

many times more than the sum paid for it,

THE AUTHOR,

Just two months after completing this work, and writing the foregoing

preface, the

"Old Doctor" passed away and his spirit took its flight to God

who gave it.

PUBLISHERS.

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Dr. Alviit "Wood Chase, physician, and author of the

celebrated Dr. Chase's Eeceipt Book, was born in

Cayuga

He was a son of Benjamin

When

a native of the State of Massachusetts.

County, New York, in 1817.

Chase,

Alvin was eleven years of age his parents located near

Buffalo, N. Y.,

where he grew to manhood, receiving a

very limited education, in a log school-house.

for

knowledge was so

peculiar

far

to

strong,

coupled with an ambition

naturally energetic

his

outstripped

his

more

His desire

disposition,

that he

dilatory companions of

humble institute of learning.

that

When seventeen years old

he left New York and found employment on the Maumee

Eiver, in

study.

In

the meantime devoting his spare

18-10

moments

to

he located at Dresden, Ohio, where in

the spring of 1841 he married Martha Shutts, daughter

Henry and Martha Shutts, natives of New York.

To

this noble and gifted wife, and mother of his children, may

be justly attributed much of the success that followed

the doctor during his long and eventful career.

From

of

the days of his

boyhood he entertained a wish to study

medicine, and awaited with impatience the time

might become a member of the

fraternity.

when he

After many

^

^he

wanderings

where, to

to

Ann Arbor,

in

settled

his intense delight, he

his studies

prosecute

Mich., in 1856,

was enabled vigorously

in

what was

to

be his future

in

the