Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Home Remedies and Recipes

by Jane Eastoe

Providing hints, tips, recipes, and historical background, this book explains how many traditional remedies are still in use and how to make them at home Here is the story of consumer medicine--how drugstore healthcare emerged in just 50 years and how consumers still rely on hundreds of formulations and products that can trace their origins back to the 19th century. Sun cream; treatments for insomnia, dandruff, or warts; perfumes; and soaps are all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862058903
• ISBN13: 9781862058903
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 8.9"