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Cyclopedia of things worth knowing : or, 25,000 wants supplied, containing a remedy for every ill, a solution for every difficulty, and a method for every emergency of daily life ... / by J.C. Whitehill ; assisted by A. Williams, Herbert Primm, Jos. Adolphus, Theo. Fay ; and a competent corps of experts.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1873 Whitehill
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitehill, James C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home economics.
- Cooking.
- Domestic animals.
- Hygiene.
- First aid in illness and injury.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 544 p. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Miller's Bible and Publishing House, c1873.
- Contents:
- Accidents and emergencies, and how to meet them
- Agricultural
- Assaying
- Baking
- Bee-keeping
- Blacking
- Bleaching
- Brewing
- Bronzing
- Buhl-work
- Candles
- Cements
- Children, Care of
- Confectionery
- Cooking
- Curing and storing
- Dairy
- Dietetics for the sick room
- Distilling
- Domestic animals, and their diseases
- Domestic animals, and their diseases, Homeopathic treatment
- Doses employed in medicine
- Dyeing
- Farm
- Fermentation
- Fish culture
- Fishing
- Floriculture and ornamental gardening
- Furniture cream
- Furniture paste
- Garden
- Gilding
- Glues
- Gums
- Home medical receipts
- Homeopathic
- Household economy
- Household pests
- Household pets
- Hunting
- Hydropathy
- Hygiene
- Infancy, Diseases of
- Infants, Care of
- Inks
- Japanning
- Kalsomining
- Lacquers
- Lutes
- Medical: Diseases and their treatment
- Medical: Diseases of women
- Medical receipts
- Metallurgy
- Miscellaneous
- Mortar
- Mucilage
- Nursery
- Oils
- Orchard
- Ornamental work and arts miscellany
- Paints
- Pastes
- Perfumery
- Pharmacy and pharmaceutical and chemical
- Pickles
- Polishes
- Preserving and canning
- Putty
- Salads
- Sauces
- Scouring
- Sick room
- Soap
- Staining
- Tanning
- Toilet
- Trapping
- Varnishes
- Veneering
- Washing
- Wax
- Whitewashing
- Wood, Dyeing
- Workers in metals.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- OCLC:
- 670433043
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