CTIONERY, _and method of detecting it_ 224

POISONOUS CATSUP, _and method of detecting it_ 227

POISONOUS CUSTARDS 231

POISONOUS ANCHOVY SAUCE, _and method of detecting it_ 234

ADULTERATION OF LOZENGES, _and method of detecting them_ 236

POISONOUS OLIVE OIL, _and method of detecting it_ 239

ADULTERATION OF MUSTARD 241

ADULTERATION OF LEMON ACID, _and method of detecting it_ 243

POISONOUS MUSHROOMS 246

_Mushroom catsup_ 250

POISONOUS SODA WATER, _and method of detecting it_ 251

FOOD POISONED BY COPPER VESSELS, _and method of detecting it_ 252

FOOD POISONED BY LEADEN VESSELS, _and method of detecting it_ 257

INDEX 261

A

TREATISE

ON

ADULTERATIONS OF FOOD,

AND

CULINARY POISONS.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

Of all the frauds practised by mercenary dealers, there is none more
reprehensible, and at the same time more prevalent, than the
sophistication of the various articles of food.

This unprincipled and nefarious practice, increasing in degree as it has
been found difficult of detection, is now applied to almost every
commodity which can be classed among either the necessaries or the
luxuries of life, and is carried on to a most alarming extent in every
part of the United Kingdom.

It has been pursued by men, who, from the magnitude and apparent
respectability of their concerns, would be the least obnoxious to public
suspicion; and their successful example has called forth, from among the
retail dealers, a multitude of competitors in the same iniquitous
course.

To such perfection of ingenuity has this system of adulterating food
arrived, that spurious articles of various kinds are every where to be
found, made up so skilfully as to baffle the discrimination of the most
experienced judges.

Among the number of substances used in domestic economy which are now
very generally found sophisticated, may be distinguished--tea, coffee,
bread, beer, wine, spiritous liquors, salad oil, pepper, vinegar,
mustard, cream, and other articles of subsistence.

Indeed, it would b