The compleat housewife or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And also bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, a Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Thing, of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c particularly Mrs. Stevens's Medicines for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Person was disordered, and the salt Water fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith. not in any of the former Impressions

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Smith, Eliza
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for H. Pemberton, at the Golden-Buck, against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-Street 1746, M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]
Edition:	The thirteenth edition, with very large additions
Subjects:	Cookery, English / Early Works To 1800 Medicine, Popular / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0328400300?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa