Secrets worth knowing : a complete hand-book of useful information : giving full and explicit directions for the manufacture of patent medicines, hair oils, restoratives and hair dyes, tooth powders and tooth washes, remedies for toothache, filling for decayed teeth, perfumery, flavoring extracts and essences, plain and fancy soaps, toilet articles, embracing all the popular cosmetics, etc., inks of all kinds, including printers' ink and the various kinds of writing fluids, remedies against vermin, popular beverages for families, fairs, and pic-nics, tables for compounding and administering medicines with about 500 receipts for the manufacture of valuable articles of every-day use, which can be readily disposed of at a good profit and many other things, making a collection of over 2,000 receipts invaluable for manufacturers, storekeepers, peddlers, druggists, and families generally ; also, number of valuable receipts for housekeepers, alone worth the price of the book, and wonderful chemical discoveries for the manufacture of artificial gold, silver, and diamonds.
Published: (1863)
