The New York Receipt Book

(New York: D.B. Dewey, 1882) Pictorial wraps, 16mo, 32pp. Features a calendar for 1883 and recipe pages alternating with ads and testimonials, including one from P. T. Barnum. Beautiful cover graphics and small illustrations throughout. Threaded through the top of spine, else VG+ with light rubbing, small stray watermark to inner cover only. Typical of the range of claims for patent medicine, but also notes product uses distinguished by nationalities.

3 in OCLC, which offers the catalog note: "Booklet of cookery hints and recipes primarily advertising Castoria, invented by Dr. Samuel Pitcher, containing senna, pumpkin seed, mint, aniseed, oil of wormwood, bicarbonate of soda, sugar and wintergreen, but "no mineral, morphine or other narcotic property". It helped the digestion, cured constipation, colic, flatulency, diarrhoea, worms, convulsions and fevers. Also Centaur Liniment, which cured rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, tic douloureux, mumps, burns, sore nipples, boils, bites, scurvy, nervous headache, opium dizziness (p.17) and sprains and Wei de Meyer's Catarrh Cure."