BY A PRACTICAL CHEMIST,
And Member of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.

BUFFALO:

STEAM PRESS OF JEWETT, THOMAS & CO.

1850.

PREFACE.

In presenting this little work to the public, it may not be improper to state, that the author has for many years been engaged in the practice of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and has therefore been enabled to render it a valuable "Vade-Mecum " to every class of individuals. It has been his aim throughout the work to convey useful and practical information in plain language, avoiding professional terms.

The subject of Farriery, though concise, is quite comprehensive, and cannot fail to be useful to the farmer; and his wife will find in the article on Dyeing, more correct, extensive, and practical information than has ever been published in a cheap form on that subject. The experiments in Chemistry not requiring apparatus, will afford amusement to the young and curious. Domestic Economy, Cook

ery, and Medicine are treated on at great length, and must prove invaluable to every family. The recipes for Perfumery will enable the young and gay to treat their olfactories with an odoriferous luxury at a very small expense. The information on the subject of Confectionary, though brief, may be relied on as correct. Under the head of Miscellany, which was added after the main body of the work was in type, much will be found that more properly belongs under appropriate heads, as confectionary, &c., &c.

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The extremely low price at which the "Vade-Mecum " is afforded, renders its pages accessable alike to the rich and the poor.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1849, by George W. Merchant, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, in the Northern District of New York.