AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



The reason for the publication of this book is, that having 

 given over fifty years of my life to the careful observation and 

 test of Practical Receipes, as given in my first and second books, 

 t. d, "Dr. Chase's Receipts, or Information for Everybody;" and 

 "Dr. Chase's Famil}^ Physician, Bee Keeper, and Second Receipt 

 Book," by which it has become very natural for me to make notes 

 of and preserve for future reference, items and receipts discovered 

 by myself and those seen in the discourses of the Scientific, Med- 

 ical, Agricultural, Mechanical and Household Publications of the 

 day; and observing that as time advanced, every branch of Science 

 and Art, by continued experience, became more and more perfect, 

 practical and positive in its development, I continually selected 

 and preserved the very choicest items until enough was accumulated 

 for a THIRD BOOK. And fully believing that it would be appre- 

 ciated by the people who had purchased over twelve hundred 

 thousand copies of my former publications, within the thirty 

 years they have been before them, I determined to prepare it 

 before I fcould willingly and conscientiously lay down my life 

 work. I have, therefore, labored over four years faithfully and 

 diligently in experimenting, compiling and arranging this, my 

 third and last book, as I knew it would do good in every home it 

 entered I am now willing and shall forever rest from this char- 

 acter of labor, that I may partake, a little at least, of the benefits 

 and pleasures that I have done my best to prepare for others, 

 feeling more than satisfied that if the people will give the time 

 and earnestness in using this book that the author has in prepar- 

 ing it, the benefits and pleasures will not only be mutual, but 

 more lasting than our lives, benefitting even our children's chil- 

 dren. 



As to the reliability of the information given In this volume? 

 the unprecedentedly large sales of my two former works will 



