PART I.--INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DETECTION OF MINERAL POISONS IN VEGETABLE OR ANIMAL MIXTURES.--Copper, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury, Iron, Barytes, Lime, Alumina, Potash, Soda, Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid, Muriatic Acid. PART II.--INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF ARTICLES SUPPOSED TO BE ADULTERATED.--Alcohol, Ale, Anchovy Sauce, Arrow-Root, Beer, Brandy, Bread, Calomel, Carmine, Cayenne Pepper, Cheese, Chocolate, Chrome Yellow, Cinnamon, Cloves, Cochineal, Coffee, Confectionery, Crabs' Eyes, Cream, Cream of Tartar, Epsom Salts, Flour, Gin, Gum Arabic, Spirits of Hartshorn, Honey, Hops, Ipecacuanha, Isinglass, Ketchup, Lakes, Leeches, Lemon Acid, Litharge, Magnesia, Milk, Mushrooms, Mustard, Olive Oil, Parsley, Pepper, Peruvian Bark, Pickles, Porter, Red Oxide of Mercury, Rhubarb, Sal Ammoniac, Salt, Saltpetre, Soap, Soluble Tartar, Spanish Liquorice, Spirits, Sugar, Sulphur, Tamarinds, Tapioca, Tartaric Acid, Tartar Emetic, Tea, Ultramarine, Verdigris, Vermilion, Vinegar, Volatile Oils, Wax, White Lead, Wine, Water,(including directions for testing the purity of all descriptions of Rain, River, or Spring Water.) PART III.--INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE TESTS EMPLOYED IN DOMESTIC CHEMISTRY AND FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS CHEMICAL OPERATIONS; WITH DESCRIPTION OF THE GLASSES AND APPARATUS PROPER TO BE EMPLOYED. ⁂ The work is written in a popular manner, and intended for the use of Families, Publicans, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Oilmen, Manufacturers, Apothecaries, Physicians, Coroners, and Jurymen.--_Price Three Shillings._ THE PERFUMER’S ORACLE. The object of this work is to present a comprehensive and practical account of the Preparation of PERFUMES and COSMETICS, according to the newest, most successful, and most economical processes. It will be adapted either for Professional Persons, or for Ladies who may wish to amuse themselves with this elegant branch of experimental science.--_Price Three Shillings._ [Illustration: _Pl. 2._ _Published by Bumpus & Griffin London, 1831._] [Illustration: _Pl. 3._ _Published by Bumpus & Griffin London, 1831._] [Illustration: _Pl. 4._ _Published by Bumpus & Griffin London, 1831._] TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.