Charles D. Waite recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Waite, Charles D., compiler.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Medicine.

Pharmacy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Recipes.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Alastor Rare Books (East Cowes, England), 2021.

Physical Description:

1 volume (249 pages) ; 18 x 12 cm

Production:

England, 1852.

Summary:

This volume contains over 600 pharmaceutical and household recipes written and compiled by Charles D. Waite in 1852. It is bound in half leather with marbled paper boards and there is significant damage to the covers and binding. There is an index (p. ii-xxv) and several blank pages (p. 188-214, 216-219). Many of these recipes are pharmaceutical in nature, most include pharmaceutical notation, and several are written in Latin. While most of the recipes are medicinal, there are numerous recipes for household products. Examples of recipes in this volume include Godfrey’s cordial (p. 17), eau de Luce (p. 36), digestive pill (p. 37), glister for colic (p. 40), camphorized chloroform for toothache (p. 46), red sealing wax (p. 62), cough mixture (p. 68), mixture for hooping cough (whooping cough) (p. 72), Borill’s balsamic paste (p. 79), powder for child 6 weeks (p. 82), Preston salt bottles (p. 102), harness blacking (p. 116), Burslem sauce (p. 123), for gout (p. 136), for mental disquiet (p. 152), French polish (p. 158), Jockey club scent (p. 160), hemorrhage female (p. 176), and brown hair dye (p. 185).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited as:

Charles D. Waite Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 2232). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1465361807

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