The compleat housewife or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And also bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, a Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Thing, of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c particularly Mrs. Stevens's Medicines for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Person was disordered, and the salt Water fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith. not in any of the former Impressions - Smith, Eliza d. ca. 1732 (printed for H. Pemberton, at the Golden-Buck, against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-Street, 1746)
English Short Title Catalog, T55050
Price from imprint: Price Five Shillings
Reproduction of original from British Library