Ladies' Indispensable Assistant. : Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife. : Containing more information for the price than any other work upon the subject. Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen, ladies' toilette table, directions for managing canary birds, also, safe directions for the management of children ; instructions for ladies under various circumstances; a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine. : Thus enabling each person to become his and her own physician: to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published; many of these recipes are entirely new and should be in the possession of every person in the land.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nancy Klavans Cookery Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Popular.

Cooking, American.

Home economics.

Etiquette--United States.

Etiquette.

home economics.

Cooking.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Klavans, Nancy (donor)

Physical Description:

[11], 8-72, [1], 8--48, [1], 122-138 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Family Physician

Place of Publication:

New-York : Published at 128 Nassau-Street., 1852.

Contents:

Married Ladies' Indispensable Companion and Family Physician

Medical Properties of Plants

Valuable Recipes

Cookery for the Sick

Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen

Ladies' Toilette Table

Canary Birds

The Lady's Work-Box

Celebrated Chemical Mixture for Washing

Directions for Coloring Garments-&c.

Notes:

Copyright 1851 by E. Hutchinson.

The title page is reproduced on front cover; back cover has reproduction of copyright page..

Local Notes:

Klavans Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Nancy Klavans in 2016.

OCLC:

950900149