Excerpt from Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts, in All the Useful and Domestic Arts: Constituting a Complete and Practical Library, Relating to Agriculture, Angling, Bees, Bleaching, Book-Keeping, Brewing, Cotton Culture, Crocheting, Carving, Cholera, Cooking, Calico, Printing, Confectionery, Cements, Chemical Receipts, Cosmetics As the object of all study, and the end of all wisdom, is practical utility, so a collee tion of the most approved Receipts, in all the arts of Domestic and Social Life, may be considered as a volume containing nearly the whole of the wisdom of man, worthy of preservation. In truth, the present volume has been compiled under the feeling, that if all other books of Science in the world were destroyed, this single volume would be found to embody the results of the useful experience, observations, and discoveries of mankind during the past ages of the world. Theoretical reasonings and historical details have, of course, been avoided, and the Object Of the compiler has been to economize his space, and come at once to the point. Whatever men do, or desire to do, with the materials with which nature has supplied them, and with the powers which they possess, is here plainly taught and succinctly preserved; whether it regard complicated manufactures, means of curing diseases, simple processes of various kinds, or the economy, happiness, and preservation of life. The best authorities have been resorted to, and innumerable volumes consulted, and wherever different processes Of apparently equal value, for attaining the same end, have been found, they have been introduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.