The book has some recipes and a 1883 calendar but is mostly advertisements for patent medicines such as: Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the lungs, Mott’s Vegetable Liver Pills, Scovill’s Blood and Liver Syrup, Durno’s Catarrah Snuff, Watson’s Neuralgia King, Dr. Townsley’s Indian Vegetable Toothache Anodyne, Henry’s Carbolic Salve, Edey’s Carbolic Troghes, Denton’s Balsam, Kellinger’s Infallible Liniment, Dr. Barber’s Red Horse Powder, Oxygenated Bitters, Hall’s Essence of Jamaica Ginger, Dr. Baker’s Pain Panacea, and Dr. Roger’s Vegetable Worm Syrup