Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked; or, Disease and Death — In the Pot and the Bottle
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.
“The Workshop of the Distillery [and of the Wine and Spirit Compounder] is the Elaboratory of Disease and of Premature Death.”—Manual for Invalids.
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.