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13. A dictionary of diet: being a practical treatise on all pabulary and nutritive substances, solid and fluid with their compounds, used as food; including the observations of eminent philosophers, physicians, gastronomers, and other industrious inquirers into the true science of eating, drinking and preserving health, through the medium of well regulated and easily digestible food, founded on the known specific properties of all kinds of human ailment : with the means of prevention and cure of the diseases resulting from a deranged condition of the organs of digestion, etc., etc.

Creator:
Forsyth, J. S.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
John Churchill,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

46. American dressmaking step by step: containing complete, concise, up-to-date, and comprehensible instruction in sewing, dressmaking, and tailoring : prepared to meet the needs of the home and professional dressmaker and pupils of this branch of domestic science in our schools, colleges, and universities

Creator:
Coates, Lydia Trattles.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Pictorial Review Co.,
Publication Place:
New York
Format:
Book

58. An encyclopaedia of domestic economy: comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping: as, the construction of domestic edifices, with the modes of warming, ventilating, and lighting them; a description of the various articles of furniture, with the nature of their materials; duties of servants; a general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food, and the methods of preserving and preparing them by cooking; making bread; the chemical nature and the preparation of all kinds of fermented liquors used as beverage; materials employed in dress and the toilette; business of the laundry; description of the various wheel-carriages; preservation of health; domestic medicine, &c,&c.

Creator:
Webster, Thomas, 1773-1844.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

100. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons: exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy : and methods of detecting them

Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book