Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning, 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 the 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 pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers / By an enemy of fraud and villainy.

Date:
[1829?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning, 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 the 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 pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers / By an enemy of fraud and villainy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEADLY ADULTERATION AND SLOW POISONING; on, DISEASE AND DEATH In tf)c Dot anti tfje Dottle; IN WHICH THE BLOOD-EMPOISONING AND LIFE-DESTROYING ADULTERATIONS OF WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, BREAD, FLOOR, TEA, SUGAR, SPICES, CHEESEMOXGERY PASTRY, CONFECTIONARY, MEDICINES, &c. &c. Sic. 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 Expos6 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. BY AN ENEMY OF FRAUD AND VILLANY. «< The Workshop of the Distillery [and of the Wine and Spirit Compounder] is the Elaoo- ratory of Disease and of Premature Death.”—Manual for Invalids. Devoted to disease by baker, butcher, grocer, wine-merchant, spirit-dealer, cheese- monger, pastry-cook, and confectioner; the physician is called to our assistance; but here again the pernicious system of fraud, as it has given ttie blow, steps in to defeat the re- medy ;—the unprincipled dealers in drugs and medicines exert the most diabolical inge- nuity in sophisticating the most potent and necessary drugs, (viz. peruvian bark, rhubarb, ipecacuanha, magnesia, calomel, castor-oil, spirits of hartshorn, and allnost every other medical commodity in general demand;) and chemical preparations used in pharmacy. Literary Gazelle. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, GILBERT AND PIPER, 23, Paternoster Row. £vs'S