Cookbook owners often pasted newspaper clippings to the inside covers and blank pages of their books. These clippings frequently include recipes or practical tips for food preparation and hygiene. This one for ptomaine poison was pasted inside an 1882 edition of How to Feed the Sick by Charles Gatchell, M.D. along with several other clippings: Acetylene Cooking, Beer Diet for Anthrax, Cleansing the Oyster, Sickroom Hints (1916), Hygienic Scorecard (1916), and Food Hints (1917).
