Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked: Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle — John Shaqi
Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked: Disease and Death in the Pot and BottleAnonymous
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Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked: Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle
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Drug adulteration; Food adulteration and inspection
Colours, Hats, Broad Cloths, Laces,
Kerseymeres, Linens, Cambrics, Silks, Jewellery,
Stationery, &c. 176
Conclusion 181
Appendix 183
——— Gin, “Comfort” or “Blue Ruin” ib.
——— Fish ib.
——— Tea 184
——— Some more Morning Water and Sir Reverence
Doctors 186
——— Noodle Medical Book-wrights 187
——— The Frauds and Mal-practices of Pawnbrokers
and Madhouse Keepers 187
DEADLY ADULTERATION AND SLOW POISONING UNMASKED; with Tests
for Ascertaining and Detecting the Fraudulent and Deleterious
Adulterations, and the good and bad qualities of Wines, Spirits, Beer,
Bread, Flour, Tea, Sugar, Spices, Cheesemongery, Pastry, Confectionary,
Medicines, &c. &c. Price 5_s._ bound in cloth.
_Critical Opinions of the Work._
“We are always happy to meet with such true-hearted reformers as the
enemies to fraud and villany. Detesting the impositions of every
form and variety to which the simple inhabitants of this metropolis
are daily made victims, our author in a tone of ardent indignation,
and disdaining to mince his expressions at a crisis so full of
peril, denounces in forcible language the scandalous practices of
adulteration, from which no material of food or luxury seems to be
exempted. The style, however, is occasionally diversified, and no
sooner have we been roused into a sympathetic feeling of anger with
the author against this set of impostors, than we are called on
to unite with him in a hearty laugh at the ridiculous plight into
which, by a humourous and amusing term of expression, he puts another
community of base adulterators. We have not met, lately, with a volume
of this compass, which contains more useful information and amusing
matter than the present one.”—_Monthly Review_ for Nov. 1830.
“We honestly recommend this eventful volume.”—_New Monthly Magazine_,
Jan. 1831.
“To go over all the subjects which this admirable volume embraces,
would fill many pages of our work; we must, therefore, refer our
readers to the work itself; and we shall be greatly astonished,
if, after having perused it, they do not thank us for the
advice.”—_Monthly Gazette of Health_, for Oct. 1830.
“This is a volume of intense and surpassing interest; its use and
excellence should be known to every person who values health and life;
it should form an appendage to every family library.”
“This interesting book is evidently the production of a man of
considerable talents.”—_Lancet_, Jan. 1831.
“This is a work of great public utility, and in author, whose honesty
and public spirit have placed him in the foremost rank of benefactors
to the public welfare, is richly entitled to the gratitude of the
community.”
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