416pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine ends. Top text block edge starting to tan. Green endpapers. Page margins tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun faded, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage.
Contains hundreds of actual recipes and remedies from the 1880s that give a close-up look at the hardy ways of our pioneering ancestors. Examines how they stayed well without the benefits of antibiotics and other wonders of twentieth century medicine, and how they kept their clothes, their homes, and themselves clean.
