Book

Leather bound book containing handwritten pharmaceutical
recipes. Some of the notable recipes include perfumes; cold cream; coral tooth powder; depilatory powder; sulphurior ink; oil soap; acetate of opium; venice turpentine; a cough mixture; tooth paste; laxative pills; corn salve; sweet almond soap; rose geranium hair tonic; nitrate of lead or DeBoynes Disinfecting Fluid; toothache drops; an injection for gonorrhea; Buruell's Dinner Pills; Bristol's Worm Red, "a safe and effectual remedy for worms;" Currie Powder, Bristol's Saponaceous Chlorine Dentrifice; Bristol's Concocted Fluid Extract of Senna; Syr of Sanguin'ia; Cerate Cantharad's; Bristol's Balsam of Hoarhound; Bristol's Eye Water; Bristol's Sarsaparilla; Bristol's Mixture for Cholera; Bed Bug Exterminator; Huffs Linament; Horse Powders; Moore's Essence of Life; indelible ink; aromatic vinegar; popular horse medicines; Bristol's Capillarium; Lockwood's Tonic Mixture; red ink; charcoal tooth powder; liquid glue; liquid hair dye; rat poison; baking powder; fly paper; flavored cream syrups; and Dr. Scovil's Cough Syrup. Many of the recipe titles and page numbers are written in decorative scripts, and doodles of a woman, and a pair of feet appear in margins. A partial index is included at the end. The cover has two braid-shaped borders, one at the edge, the other around a box in the center. The years 1847, 1850, and 1859 appear among the recipes.