All About Baby.

The Woman’s Department, and the chapter on “All About Baby,” alone contain priceless information for the guidance of the women of the home.  It is like having a good doctor right in the house who is ready and able to answer more than 500 questions of vital interest about Baby.  The book is thoroughly reliable, free from exaggerated statements and written in the plainest language possible so as to make it useful to every member of the home.  The Herb Department gives a brief description of the more common and most useful plants and roots, with the time for gathering them, and the dose and therapeutic indication for their use.  The botanical illustrations are correct and worthy of careful study.

The index.

Mothers’ Remedies is unique in arrangement, and full of detail, but so well indexed that any portion of it, or any disease and remedy, can be readily found, and when found you will have a choice of home remedies ready at hand.  This is one of the features of the book that distinguishes Mothers’ Remedies from the usual home medical books heretofore sold.

This feature of the book cannot be too strongly impressed.  Its value becomes apparent as soon as one consults its pages.  Long chapters of descriptive reading filled with high sounding, technical terms may look very learned because the average reader does not understand it fully.  But it is what one can obtain from a book that is usable that makes it valuable.  In Mothers’ Remedies this idea has been excellently carried out.

The Home Remedies.

If there was any question regarding the success of the book in this homelike arrangement, the utilization of the home remedies, in addition to the strictly medical and drug-store ingredients; it was promptly dispelled when the book was printed and presented to the people interested.  It has proved to be the most wonderful seller on the market—­the most usable and useful book ever offered the non-medical reader; because never before has a medical book contained the hundreds of simple home remedies from mothers.  Because a physician tells you why the remedies are useful—­the reason why the things used are efficacious.

Medical Terms. [xiii]

Frequently one comes across technical terms in the secular papers which, unless understood, obscure the sense of the reading.  There is a dictionary of medical terms as a separate department which adds much to the usefulness of the work; the spelling, pronunciation and definition being concisely given in English.

Other Departments.

There are other departments, such as chapters on Manners and Social Customs, by an expert.  Nursery Hints, Candy Making, Domestic Science, and Miscellaneous departments which interest every member of any average family in health as well as in sickness.  The Candy Department provides many an evening’s enjoyment for the young people.