Dr. Chase's New Receipt Book

By A. W. Chase

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Dr. Chase's New Receipt Book is a household medical guide and recipe book by Alvin Wood Chase, the Michigan physician and publisher whose books of practical remedies were among the best-selling works of nineteenth-century North America. An expanded sequel to his famous Dr. Chase's Recipes, it collects hundreds of home remedies, medical advice, cooking recipes and practical formulas for farmers, mechanics and households, offering a vivid picture of everyday life and medicine before antibiotics, now available as a digitized facsimile.

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• Margaret Atwood: “For some of those stranger things, the curious might explore Dr. Chase’s New Receipt Book. (You can get a facsimile, though mine was inherited. If you are writing an historical novel, recommended.)”