Transcriber’s Note The original begins with a 22 page catalogue of “PRACTICAL BOOKS ON Sporting Subjects”. This has been moved to the end. DEADLY ADULTERATION AND SLOW POISONING UNMASKED; OR, Disease and Death IN THE POT AND THE BOTTLE; IN WHICH THE BLOOD-EMPOISONING AND LIFE-DESTROYING ADULTERATIONS OF WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, BREAD, FLOUR, TEA, SUGAR, SPICES, CHEESEMONGERY, PASTRY, CONFECTIONARY MEDICINES, &c. &c. &c. ARE LAID OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, WITH TESTS OR METHODS FOR ASCERTAINING AND DETECTING THE FRAUDULENT AND DELETERIOUS ADULTERATIONS AND THE GOOD AND BAD QUALITIES _OF THOSE ARTICLES_: With an Exposé of Medical Empiricism and Imposture, Quacks and Quackery, Regular and Irregular, Legitimate and Illegitimate: and The Frauds and Mal-practices of Pawnbrokers and Madhouse-keepers. NEW EDITION. BY AN ENEMY TO FRAUD AND VILLANY. “The Workshop of the Distillery [and of the Wine and Spirit Compounder] is the Elaboratory of Disease and of Premature Death.”—_Manual for Invalids._ Devoted to disease by baker, butcher, grocer, wine-merchant, spirit-dealer, cheesemonger, pastry-cook, and confectioner; the physician is called to our assistance; but here again the pernicious system of fraud, as it has given the blow, steps in to defeat the remedy; the unprincipled dealers in drugs and medicines exert the most diabolical ingenuity in sophisticating the most potent and necessary drugs, (viz. peruvian bark, rhubarb, ipecacuanha, magnesia, calomel, castor-oil, spirits of hartshorn, and almost every other medical commodity in general demand;) and chemical preparations used in pharmacy. _Literary Gazette._ LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, GILBERT AND PIPER, PATERNOSTER ROW. LONDON: MARCHANT, PRINTER, INGRAM-COURT. THE AUTHOR’S ADDRESS TO THE READER.