Dr. Chase's Old-Time Home Remedies

Dr. Chase's Old-Time Home Remedies
Author: Alvin Wood Chase
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 966
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1945186615

A Classic Collection of Original Medical Remedies and Household Recipes Written by traveling physician Dr. Alvin Wood Chase, this reprint of Dr. Chase’s Recipe Book and Household Physician, on Practical Knowledge for the People, features a well of practical information on dozens of topics and subjects, including: Home remedies for illnesses and injuries Nursing and midwifery Food Household maintenance Beekeeping Medical terminology and diseases And many more! The book provides an in-depth look into more than eight hundred wildly varied and fascinating “recipes” which helped, and can still help, people with everyday health concerns and various household chores. It also gives readers a unique look at what life was like more than 130 years ago.

Old-Time Home Remedies

Old-Time Home Remedies
Author: Ken Tate
Publisher: Annie's
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781882138302

From asafetida bags which warded off social contact as much as disease, to teas, tinctures and potions, we had them all back in the Good Old Days, along with those mysterious healers who could stop bleeding and make warts disappear. You'll be amazed at the home remedies brought to mind by these recollections of a time when the medicine show still made stops in small towns and the country doctor was paid in chickens and geese.

Home Medicine

Home Medicine
Author: J. K. Crellin
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780773511972

John Crellin assesses popular home remedies from amulets to Zam-Buk ointment, revealing traditional - often ingenious - ways of coping with common health problems. Home Medicine is both a comprehensive reference to folk cures and self-treatment and a social history of pharmaceutical practices and products in Newfoundland.

Old-time New England

Old-time New England
Author: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1915
Genre: Historic buildings
ISBN: