The family dictionary; or, Houshold companion
Subtitle: containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, &c. Seasoning, making sauces, bills of fare, art of carving, &c. II. Making all sorts of pastry ware, and things made of meal, flower, whether bak'd, boyled, or fried, &c. III. Making of conserves, candies, preserves, confects, lozenges, gellies, creams, pickles, &c. IV. The making all kinds of potable liquors, as ales, meads, metheglin, English wines of cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, &c. Cyder, cyder-royal, usquebaugh, cordial waters. V. The making of all sorts of rare perfumes, sweet balls, pouders, admirable washes, beatifying waters, oils, essences, pomatums. VI. The virtues and uses of the most usual herbs and plants, their roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, used in physick. ... The second edition, corrected and much enlarged. By William Salmon, professor of physick
Contributors: J. H., attributed name
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1833:19
Publisher: printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the corner of Bride-lane, in Fleet-street: and sold by R. Clavel at the Peacock against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet
Published: 1696
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: VII. The preparations of several choice medicines, physical, and chirurgical, as cordial waters, spirits, tinctures, elixirs, essences, syrups; pouders, electuaries, pills, oils, ointments, cerecloths, and emplasters. Fitted for a family use, in curing most diseases incident to men, women, and children
Notes: The first edition title page reads: "By J. H.", apparently a pseudonym for William Salmon, whose name appears on all subsequent editions (cf. Wing; DNB)

With errata and seven final advertisement pages

Copy has some print show-through

Reproduction of the original in the British Library

Wing (2nd ed.) H66aA

DNB (1909 ed.) XVII:698-699

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1988. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1833:19).