| A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man and Beast Contributor(s): Fisher, M. F. K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1593760299 ISBN-13: 9781593760298 Publisher: Counterpoint LLC OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: First published in 1961, this charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers is interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes from Fisher's life in California, Provence, Mexico and Switzerland. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Alternative Therapies - Health & Fitness | Herbal Medications |
| Dewey: 615.321 |
| LCCN: 2003025208 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.74" W x 7.68" (0.42 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A charming collection of traditional remedies and folk medicines which have been prepared from Shakespeare's time to the present. First published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersperces them with autobiographical anecdotes from M. F. K. Fisher's life in California, Provence, Mexico, and Switzerland. These engaging recipes, a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge deal with commonplace ailments--sore throats, cures for cats, aging skin, fevers, PMS and hangovers. Ingredients of these extraordinary receipts are transformed into cures and preventatives told in the inimitable style of this master of the finely observed life. |