Eldridge, Tho (Thomas).
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A book of rarities: or, Cabinet of curiosities unlock'd , By the key of experience. Containing near an hundred useful and diverting amusements, with a new mthod of making artificial gardens; Italian shades; moving pictures; use of optick insruments; to make ornaments in immitation of China; to make a new invented machine, by which a common hour-glass shows the hour of the day; to make quills hard as steel; invisible writing; to make a Hortus Siccus; to keep kidney beans green all the year; to take the true picture of any herb a new treatise on making English wines, and many other rarities never before made publick, with curious copper print of the author, Tho. Eldridge, F.C.N.
Eldridge, Tho (Thomas).Date: 1743- E-books
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Incomparable varieties: or, A Cabinet of secrets unlock'd, by the key of experience . The second edition, with large additions. Containing, the true recipes of many excellent preparations, never before made publick. 1. Cordial stomach drops. 2. Pilule asthmaticæ. 3. A drink for the small pox 4. a conserve for a looseness 5. an excellent vomit. 6. The grand cure for the itch. 7. Sir William Reads stiptick 8. Pulvis dentrificus. 9. The fryars vulnerary ball. 10. An excellent balsam. 11. A miraculous plister. 12. Cephalick snuff, for pains in the head. 13 pulvis fulminans; or thunduring powder. 14 Gordon's new invented phosphorus. 15. University ink for records.
Eldridge, Tho (Thomas).Date: 1740