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DR. CHASE'S
RECIPES INFORMATION FOR EVERBODY DR. CHASE'S RECIPES: OR, Information for Everybody. FORTY 3d THOUSAND.
{sideways illustration of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.} {above caption}Entered according to Act of Congress, A, D., 1863, by A.
W. Chase, M, D., in the Office of the District Court of the U. S. at
Detroit, Mich UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR. In this perspective view, from the North-West, drawn by D. Wood,
Professor of Civil Engineering, we have an accurate representation of the
University Buildings, in 1863. The center one is occupied by the Law
Department and Library; the two on the right, by the Literary, Chapel,
Museum, &c.; the first on the left, is the Laboratory of Applied Chemistry,
and the last, by the Medical Department. The number of Students for the
session of 1862-3, notwithstanding the War, reached 662. An entrance fee of
only $10, with $5 yearly, pays for a full Literary, Law, Medical, or Civil
Engineering Course; the first, requiring four, the two next, two, and the
last, three years. No distinction is made between students, resident in
Michigan, and those from other States or Kingdoms. 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. BY A. W. CHASE, M. D., PRACTICAL THERAPEUTIST. STEREOTYPED CAREFULLY REVISED, ILLUSTRATED, AND MUCH ENLARGED, WITH REMARKS AND FULL EXPLAINATIONS. We Learn to Live, by Living to Learn. Price, Handsomely Bound, only One Dollar. IN CAL. $2,00. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1864. CHANGE IN PRICE. Paper having gone up from 11 to 20 cents per pound, cloth, used for
covers, from 8 to 22 dollars per roll, pasteboard from 80 to 225 dollars
per ton, labor, &c., in proportion, I am compelled to advance the price of the Book, in cloth,
to $1.25--but that those who wish the Book for the sake of its contents,
without regard to the binding, I put some in pamphlet, or paper covers, at
the old price, $1.00. Should any one allow the Work to go by them without purchasing, on
account of the advance, they will entirely lose the opportunity of getting
one at all, for agents cannot go over the ground
a second time. Forty-fifth thousand, eighteenth edition. {left aligned}ANN ARBOR, June 25, 1864. {right aligned}A.W. CHASE, M.D. Having just received the following Certificate, and there being so many
troubled with "enlarged neck," I deem it important to give it a place, even
on this page.
{right aligned}AUTHOR. {right aligned}FORT GRATIOT, Mich., July 13, '64. DR. A. W. CHASE--SIR--I have got one of your Books, and they are well
liked here; can I obtain ten or twelve for sale, and at what price, &c. * *
Before closing this, I think it is my duty to return you our hearty thanks
for the benefit received from the Book. My wife was troubled with "enlarged
neck;" she followed the directions of the Book; and I am happy to inform
you it has made a perfect cure. I have tried a
great many other of the "Recipes" with the same result. I would not be
without the Book for fifty dollars. {centered}Yours truly, {right aligned}JAMES FERGUSON. 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. {at the bottom left corner there is a signature line with these words
written underneath:}TRUAIR, SMITH & MILES, STEREOTYPERS, SYRACUSE, N.Y. PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION. IN bringing a permanent work, or one that is designed so to be, before
the public, it is expected of the Author that he give his reasons for such
publication. If the reasons are founded in truth, the people consequently
seeing its necessity, will appreciate its advantages, and encourage the
Author by quick and extensive purchases, they alone being the judges.
Then: FIRST.--Much of the information contained in "Dr. Chase's Receipes; or
Information for Everybody," has never before been published, and is adapted
to every day use. SECOND.--The Author, after having carried on the Drug and Grocery
business for a number of years, read Medicine, after being thirty-eight
years of age, and graduated as a Physician to qualify himself for the work
he was undertaking; for, having been familiar with some of the Recipes,
adapted to these branches of trade, more than twenty years, he began in
"Fifty-six," seven years ago, to publish them in a Pamphlet of only a few
pages, since which time he has been traveling between New York and Iowa,
selling the work and Prescribing, so that up to this time, "Sixty-three,"
over twenty-three thousand copies have been
sold. His travels have brought him in contact with all classes of
Professional and Business men, Mechanics, Farriers, and Farmers, thus
enabling him to obtain from them, many additional items, always having had
his note book with him, and whenever a
prescription has been given before him, or a remark made, that would have a
practical bearing, it has been noted, and at the first opportunity tested, then if good, written out in plain language expressly for the next edition of this work. In this way this mass of information has been collected, and
ought to take away an objection which some persons have raised: "It is too
much for one man to know!" because they did not realize that the work had
been made up from others as well as the Author's
actual every day experience, instead of from
untried books. Yet from the nature of some of
the Recipes, one has occasionally found its way into some of the earlier
editions, which have needed revision, or to be entirely dropped. This, with
a desire to add to the various Departments, at every edition, has kept us
from having it Stereotyped until the present, tenth edition. But now, all being what we desire; and the size of the work being such
that we cannot add to it without increasing the
price above One Dollar, which we will never do, unless in extra binding, we
have it Stereotyped, and send it out, just what we expect, and are willing
it should remain. THIRD.--Many of the Recipe books published are very large, containing
much useless matter, only to increase the
number, consequently costing too much--this one contains only about eight
hundred recipes, upon only about four hundred different subjects, all of which are valuable in daily, practical life,
and at a very reasonable price--many of them are without arrangement--this
one is arranged in regular Departments, all of a class being together--many
of them are without remark, or explanation--this one is fully explained,
and accompanied with remarks upon the various subjects introduced by the
Recipes under consideration--those remarks, explanations, and suggestions
accompanying the Recipes, are a special feature of this work, making it worth double its cost as a reading book, even if there was not a prescription in
it. FOURTH.--The remarks and explanations are in large type, whilst the prescriptive and descriptive parts are in a little smaller type, which
enables any one to see at a glance just what they wish to find. FIFTH.--It is a well known fact that many unprincipled persons go around
"gulling" the people by selling single Recipes for exorbitant prices. The
Author found a thing, calling himself a man, in Battle Creek, Mich., selling a Washing-Fluid Recipe for two
dollars, which he obtained of some; but if he could not obtain that, he
would take two shillings, or any other sum
between them. A merchant gave a horse for the "White Cement" Recipe. The
late Mr. Andrews, of Detroit, Mich., gave three hundred
dollars for a Recipe, now improved and in this work, to cure a bone
spavin upon a race mare of his. He removed the spavin with it and won the
anticipated wager with her. The Author has, himself, paid from twenty-five
to fifty, and seventy-five cents, and one to two, three five, and eight
dollars for single items, or Recipes, hoping thereby to improve his work;
but often finding that he had much better ideas
already embodied therein. The amount paid for information in this work, and for testing by experiment, together
with traveling expenses, and cuts used in illustrating it,