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FLESH FOODS:
With Methods for their Chemical, Microscopical, and Bacteriological Examination.
A Practical Handbook for Medical Men, Analysts, Inspectors and others.
By C. AINSWORTH MITCHELL, B.A.(Oxon),
Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry; Member of Council, Society of Public Analysts.
With Numerous Tables, Illustrations, and a Coloured Plate.
Contents.—Structure and Chemical Composition of Muscular Fibre.—of Connective Tissue, and Blood.—The Flesh of Different Animals.—The Examination of Flesh.—Methods of Examining Animal Fat.—The Preservation of Flesh.—Composition and Analysis of Sausages.—Proteids of Flesh.—Meat Extracts and Flesh Peptones.—The Cooking of Flesh.—Poisonous Flesh.—The Animal Parasites of Flesh.—The Bacteriological Examination of Flesh.—The Extraction and Separation of Ptomaines.—Index.
*** This work is a complete compendium of the chemistry of animal tissues. It contains directions for the detection of morbid conditions, putrefactive changes, and poisonous or injurious constituents, together with an account of their causes and effects.—Publishers' Note.
"A compilation which will be most useful for the class for whom it is intended."—Athenæum.