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322. Hebe, or, The art of preserving beauty, and correcting deformity: being a complete treatise on the various defects of the human body, with the most approved methods of prevention and cure : and the preservation of health and beauty in general : including an extensive collection of simple yet efficacious cosmetic and medical recipes, for essences, pomatums, and washes for the complexion : liniments for thickening, strengthening, and preserving the hair, and changing its colour : dentrifices for cleaning and whitening the teeth, preserving the gums : sweetening the breath, and curing the tooth-ach : remedies for pimples, freckles, warts, corns, chilblains, and every blemish injurious to beauty

Publication:
London : printed for J. Walker, MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Subject(s):
Beauty Culture
Cosmetics -- therapeutic use
Oral Hygiene -- methods
Skin Care -- methods

326. The compleat housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, potting, collaring, preserving, pickles, cakes, custards, creams, preserves, conserves, syrups, jellies, made wines, cordials, distilling, brewing : with copper plates, curiously engraven, for the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses : and also, bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of three hundred receipts of medicines, consisting of drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, &c. which, after many years of experience, have been proved to be innocent in their application, and most salutary in their use : with directions for marketing

Author(s):
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Publication:
London : Printed for J. Buckland, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W. Johnston, C. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, S. Bladon, W. Nicoll, and C. and R. Ward, 1773
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine

327. The new book of cookery, or, Every woman a perfect cook: containing the greatest variety of approved receipts in all the branches of cookery and confectionary, viz. : boiling, roasting, broiling, frying, stewing, hashing, baking, fricassees, ragouts, made-dishes, soups, sauces, puddings, pies, tarts, cakes, custards, preserving, candying, drying, potting, collarding, English-wines, &c. ... : to which are added, the best instructions for marketing, and sundry modern bills of fare : also directions for clear-starching and improving beauty : likewise a collection of phisical [sic] receipts for families, &c. : the whole calculated to assist the prudent housewife and her servants, in furnishing the cheapest and most elegant set of dishes in the various departments of cookery, and to instruct ladies in many other particulars of great importance too numerous to mention in this title page

Author(s):
Price, Elizabeth, Mrs
Publication:
London : Printed for the authoress, and sold by Alex. Hogg ... and may be had of all other booksellers, [178-?]
Subject(s):
Cooking

330. An enumeration of the principal vegetables, and vegetable productions, that may be substituted, either in part or wholly, in place of wheat and other bread-corn, in times of scarcity: with short notices respecting the best modes of preparing them for use

Author(s):
Author of Some information on the use of Indian corn, author
Publication:
Birmingham : Printed and sold by Thomas Pearson; sold also by R. Baldwin, and L.B. Seeley, Pater-Noster Row, London, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):
Vegetables
Cooking
Triticum
United Kingdom

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