Dr. Chase's recipes; or, Information for everybody: : an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes, for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoe makers, harness makers, painters, jewelers, blacksmiths, tinners, gunsmiths, farriers, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovaters, farmers, and families generally, to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities: all arranged in their appropriate departments. /

Includes index.Light brown cloth binding, with title and illustrations blocked in blind on front cover; gilt spine title.Some recipes include wine or liquor as ingredients.Includes household hints.Includes publisher's advertisements.Advertisements throughout text.Frontispiece drawn and signed by Prof. D. Wood, Professor of Civil Engineering; signed by engraver J.W. Orr, N.Y.Earlier editions published under title: Information for everybody."Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1863, by A.W. Chase, M.D., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Michigan, at Detroit"--Title page verso."Price, Handsomely Bound, only One Dollar. In cal. $2,00."--Title page."Forty 3d thousand."--Half-title.Later variant with edition in the "Change in Price" statement on verso of title page: Forty-fifth thousand, eighteenth edition. Ann Arbor, June 25, 1864". This statement is followed by an "Enlarged neck" comment by the author and subsequent endorsement of Dr. Chase's treatment by James Ferguson; this comment is dated: Fort Gratiot, Mich., July 13, '64.Mode of access: Internet."1772" stamped at top of page v.GRAD Acquisition number stamped at foot of page v: 209625.Rebound in library binding. Imperfect: pages 129-190 lacking