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Ransom's family receipt book, 1885

1885

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Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
RANSOM'S FAMILY RECEIPT BOOK, 188S. Otar Receipts* The following Cooking Receipts, except those designed expressly for inva¬ lids, have not appeared in any previous book. They are carefully selected jfrom the best contributions cf persons skilled in each department, and have (been thoroughly tested. The Painting and Dyeing Receipts, some of the [Miscellaneous Receipts, the Receipts for Invalids, and the Rules, are so con¬ stantly useful that they are standard, and we continue them from year to year. We shall continue to issue our book with new receipts every year. Sew or bind them together, and you will need no other receipt book. Qack 3? 11 tii tiers for last three years will be sent on receipt of cent* in postage stamps. See index on third cover page. t Our4 Medicines. All the formulas of our medicines are the result of careful investigations and experiments conducted by professional and scientific men, some of whom were physicians regularly graduated from the first medical universities of the United States. To prove onr faith In the getinlneneso of an our claims and the qualities of our Medicines, we make the following propositions : 1st. For every certificate of cure published by us, which is not a genuine copy of, or extract from, a letter , voluntarily written us by the person whose signature is attached , we will forfeit the sum of One TllOU- gatld Dollars, to be paid to any public hospital mutually agreed upon. Heretofore we have usually inserted in our Receipt Book many of such cer¬ tificates, but deeming it desirable this year to explain more at length the nature of certain diseases and action of the proper medicines, we have inserted but very few for want of space. Many certificates will be found in pamphlets around bottles, and also in back numbers of the Receipt Book. When mak¬ ing inquiries by letter of the writers of these certificates, always inclose a two- cent postage stamp, and this will doubtless insure a reply. We would here respectfully ask all those who have experienced great benefit from our medicines to state to us the facts, thus through us giving hope to other sufferers. 2d. Upon a proper request, when vie can be assured- of the good faith of the inquirer, by personal reference or application , we will furnish a correct list, showing the names of all ingredients of our medicines. Neither of the above offers, we believe, was ever made by the proprietor of any other Family Medicine in the world. D. RANSOM, SOM & CO., Proprietors, BUFFALO, M. V. W B tOO I & ><*€> £2' *2; I r ■nwirwiwu . . Inflammatory Diseases. MAGNETIC DR. TRASK was engaged for twenty years in a course of experu&gjits upon the medical properties and power of vegetables, separate and combidfed. At the age of seventy years he succeeded in presenting to the world, as the result of his experiments, a combination of vegetable extracts, the power of which, in removing diseases, is unequalled in the annals of medicine. Certain it is that the remarkable and unprecedented success which has attended its application in the cure of diseases stamps it at once as the greatest discovery of the age, and calls for a trial and close investigation of its orooerties.