Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked / Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle

Transcriber’s Note
The original begins with a 22 page catalogue of “PRACTICAL BOOKS ON Sporting Subjects”. This has been moved to the end.
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.
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 catalogue of frauds and enormities exhibited in the following pages will, no doubt, excite the abhorrence and indignation of every honest heart. Its author is, however, convinced that he will find that he has undertaken a very unthankful office—that his book will be the dread and abhorrence of wicked and unprincipled dealers and impostors of all kinds; and himself exposed to their utmost rancour and bitterest maledictions. But the die is cast: he has discharged a public duty, and sincerely hopes that the Public may be benefited by his disclosures.