The family treasury : or, fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing The Farrier's Guide; or, the Horse Dissected: Being the most accurate, and satisfactory Account of the Diseases incident to that noble Beast, ever yet publish'd; with their Signs, Symptoms, Prognosticks and Cures in all Cases. A certain cure for the Glanders, without trepanning; a never-failing cure for the Grease; and another for broken winded Horses: wrote by way of Dialogue. The best Directions for breaking a Colt, and managing a Race-Horse. Certain Method to prevent Chimneys from smoking. The valuable and useful Fire-Ball, managing Bees, Singing Birds, breeding, dieting, and matching Game-Cocks with a Secret for feeding a Cock four Days before fighting, by which ninety Battles have been won out of a hundred. Miscellaneous Articles consisting of the choisest Secrets of the Royal Society, in washing, staining, painting on glass, gilding, dyeing, cleaning, &c. &c. with the Gardiner's Legacy, containing all Directions necessary for Fruit, Flower, and Kitching-Garden. Certain Methods of destroying Buggs, Rats, Mice, &c. with the true way of making up the most valuable Family Medicines never before communicated to the public. Compiled after thirty years experience, by P. Montague, gent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montague, Peregrine, author.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Family pocket-book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc--Early works to 1800.

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.

Horses--Diseases--Early works to 1800.

Horses.

Horses--Diseases.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,5-148 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed for J. Fisher, Bookseller at the Bible in Little-Ship-Street, MDCCLXIII. [1763]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

First issued in London, [1760?], with title: 'The family pocket-book'.

With five final contents leaves.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N1485.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.