Their rights, and liberty to truth assures.”
Mem.—I have stated at p. 11, on the authority of the author of “The Oracle of Health and Long Life,” that the many sudden deaths that are daily happening in and about the metropolis, are no doubt assignable to the unprincipled and diabolical adulterations of food, spirits, malt liquors, and the other necessaries of life. Since that extract was printed in the pages of “Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked,” I am sorry to say, that I have observed numerous instances of the sudden deaths of persons in apparently perfect health, detailed in the London and country newspapers, and even at the very moment that I am penning this remark, I observe, in the columns of the Herald newspaper, accounts of two persons in the prime of life and in good health, whose deaths happened in a similar way.
[CONTENTS.]
| Page | |
| Introduction | [3] |
| Wines and Spirits, Adulteration of, | [12] |
| ————————— Tests of, | [40] |
| Beer and Ale | [50] |
| Bread and Flour | [68] |
| Meat and Fish | [78] |
| Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and Sugar | [83] |
| Spices | [98] |
| Pickles | [104] |
| Vinegar | [105] |
| Olive Oil | [107] |
| Salt and Mustard | [108] |
| Anchovy Sauce and Mushroom Catsup | [109] |
| Isinglass | [110] |
| Blue and Soap | [111] |
| Candles and Starch | [113] |
| Bees’ Wax | [114] |
| Butter | [115] |
| Cheese, Bacon and Hams | [116] |
| Milk and Cream | [118] |
| Potatoes, Fruit, &c. | [119] |
| Confectionary and Pastry | [122] |
| Perfumery, Cosmetics, Hair Oils, Bear’s Grease, &c. | [126] |
| Medicines, Medical Empiricism, Quacks, and Quackery | [133] |
| Coals | [170] |
| 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 5s. 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.