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The practical housewife

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The practical housewife

Robert Kemp Philp

620 pages~12 hr 21 min read230 chapters$4.99
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A family medical guide sits bound beside the recipes, because Robert Kemp Philp's practical housewife prepared for everything: cookery, household management, and sickroom counsel in one thick volume. Victorian domestic life serviced from a single spine. The whole house, one reference. Keep it where the family can find it.

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230 chapters

  1. 1THE PRACTICAL HOUSEWIFE.
  2. 2THOUGHTS AND MAXIMS ON HOUSEKEEPING.
  3. 3Chapter I.
  4. 4Chapter II.
  5. 5Chapter III.
  6. 6Chapter IV.
  7. 7Chapter V.
  8. 8Chapter VI.
  9. 9Chapter VII.
  10. 10THE FAMILY MEDICAL GUIDE.
  11. 11HOOPING-COUGH.
  12. 12TEETHING.
  13. 13SCARLET FEVER, OR SCARLATINA.
  14. 14THRUSH, OR APHTHÆ.
  15. 15ITCH.
  16. 16ERYSIPELAS.
  17. 17SMALL-POX.
  18. 18MEASLES.

+ 212 more. The full contents open with the book.

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