Essay on the Liverpool spa' water / [Thomas Houlston].

  • Thomas Houlston
Date:
1773
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Credit: Essay on the Liverpool spa' water / [Thomas Houlston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V dangers attending it, anxi the various modes by which, it may cafually gain admittance into the body 5 fome of which are as follows. I. In wines or cyder, with which lead is too frequently combined (particularly with the poor¬ er, weak, acid, kinds) either intentionally and fraudulently^ cafually and unnoticed, or unfkilfuU ly. It has long been a pradlice with the makers or dealers in wdne, when they find it poor, and difpolcd to turn four, to add to it fome Ceruile, Litharge, fugar of Lead, or other preparation of that metal ; a pradlice, of which the noxious effedls were fo notorious, that it was prohibited in France and Germany fince the year 14S7, under pain of death. Yet, notwithflanding people are well apprized of the poifonous qua¬ lities communicated to the wine by this mixture, it is not uncommon to find thefmail, w^ak, white wines (as Lifbon, Rhenifh, Mofelle, French’ white) thus adulterated. It were well, if the Cyder-makers or venders were wholly free from this imputation. Certain it is, that cyder is of- > ten found adulterated with lead or its calces, which at once takes off any acidity it may have acquired, gives it a rich lufeious tafte, checks its fermenting, and improves its colour. Thefe effeds'haveoften given rife to the intentional and fraudulent mixture. But befides this, the fame poifon