A treatise on the art of making good and wholesome bread of wheat, oats, rye, barley, and other farinaceous grain. Exhibiting the alimentary properties and chemical constitution of different kinds of bread corn, and of the various substitutes used for bread, in different parts of the world / By Fredrick Accum.

Friedrich Accum

Date:: 1821

Credit: A treatise on the art of making good and wholesome bread of wheat, oats, rye, barley, and other farinaceous grain. Exhibiting the alimentary properties and chemical constitution of different kinds of bread corn, and of the various substitutes used for bread, in different parts of the world / By Fredrick Accum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Mr. Accum, it appears, is one of those very good-natured friends, who is quite resolved not to allow us to be cheated and poisoned as our fathers were before us, and our chil- dren will be after us, with- out cackling to us of our dan- ger, and opening our eyes to abysses of fraud and imposi- tion, of the very existence of hich we had until now the ood fortune to be entirely ig- orant, His book is a perfect death’s head, a memento mori, he perusal of any single chap- ter of which is enough. to throw ny man into the blue devils or a fortnight. Mr. Accum uts us something in mind of am officious blockhead, ‘who, nstead of comforting his dying Tiend, is continually jogging 1im on the elbow with such heering assurances as the fol- i <¢ ] am sorry there is nust kick the bucket soon. Your liver is diseased, your ungs gone, your bowels as i1m- yenetrable as marble, your legs welled like door-posts, your ace as yellow as a guinea, and he doctor just now assured me rou could not live a week.” Mr. Accum’s work is evi- dently written in the same spi- rit of dark and melancholy an- ticipation, which pervades Dr. Robison’s celebrated ‘* Proofs of a Conspiracy, &c. against all the crowned heads of Eu- rope.”’ The conspiracy dis- closed by Mr. Accum is cer- tainly of a still more dreadful | nature, and is even more widely rainified than that which excited so much horror in the worthy. professor, It is a conspiracy of brewers, bakers, grocers, wine-merchants, confectioners, apothecaries, and cooks, against the lives of all and every one of his majesty’s lege subjects. It is easy to see that. Mr. Accum’s nerves are consider ably agitated, that— ** Sad forebodings ‘shake him as he _ writes.” ; ; ; Not only at the festive board is. he haunted by chimeras dire ». of danger—not only does he — tremble over the tureen—and faint over the flesh-pot; but. . and red morocco slippers, heis not secure. An imaginary sexton is continually jogging his elbow as he writes, a death’s head and cross bones rise on

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