[67] See the Parliamentary Minutes, p. 94.
[68] Mr. Barclay has not specified the relative proportions of brown stout and of bottling beer which are introduced at such an augmentation of expense.
[69] Mr. Child, in his Treatise on Brewing, p. 23 directs, to make new beer older, use oil of vitriol.
[70] Copied from the Minutes of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed for examining the price and quality of beer, p. 29, 36.
[71] The deleterious effect of Cocculus Indicus (the fruit of the memispermum cocculus) is owing to a peculiar bitter principle contained in it; which, when swallowed in minute quantities, intoxicates and acts as poison. It may be obtained from cocculus indicus berries in a detached state:—chemists call it picrotoxin, from πικρός, bitter; and τοξικόν poison.
[72] See Minutes of the House of Commons, p. 28, 36.
[73] Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co.—Truman, Hanbury and Co.—Reid and Co.—Whitbread and Co.—Combe, Delafield, and Co.—Henry Meux, and Co.—Calvert and Co.—Goodwin and Co.—Elliot and Co.—Taylor and Co.—Cox, and Camble and Co.
See the Minutes, before quoted, p. 32.
[74] Ibid. p. 58.
[75] A partner in the brewery of Messrs. Whitbread and Co.