Food and its adulterations : comprising the reports of the Analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public ... / by Arthur Hill Hassall.

Arthur Hill Hassall

Date:: 1855

Credit: Food and its adulterations : comprising the reports of the Analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public ... / by Arthur Hill Hassall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$0-3 ; earthi) phosphates, 2-2; alkaline sulphates, 2 0 ; oxide of iron and alumina, 3'8 ; and silica, 5-4 grains. 2rd Sample. —Vm-chdi^eA of J. Roberts, 126. Whitechapel-road. Vegetable tissue all tobacco ; ash, dull brown, intermixed with yellow, amountinf? to 30 40 per cent., 30 8 of which consisted of chloride of sodium, 7-0; alkaline carbonates, 0'4; earthy carbonates, 5-8; alkaline phosphates, I'O; earthy phosphates, 1-8; alkaline sulphates, 0-8; oxide of iron and alumina, ]'2 ; chromate of lead, 4*4; and silica, 8'4 gi'ains. 4th Sample. ~VuYc\iHv.eA of G. F. Chance, 163. Fenchurch-street. No vegetable tissue other than tobacco ; ash, dark yellowish-brown, amounting to 20-18 per cent., 18*6 of which was composed of chloride of sodium, 4 2 ; alkaline carboiiates, 2'1 ; earthy carbonates, 3'8 ; alkaline phosphates, 0*9 ; earthy phosphates, 20 ; alkaline stdphates, ]*2; oxide of iron and alumina, 14; chromate of lead, 1*2 ; and silica, 1'8 grains. 5th 5aHip/e.—Purchased of T. Ryder, 28. Chiswell-street, St. Luke's. Vegetable tissue entirely tobacco ; ash, dull reddish-brown, amounting to 28-02 per cent., 26-8 of which was composed of chloride of sodium, 60 ; earthy carbonates, 5'0; alkaline phosphates, ]6; earthy phosphates, 3'4 ; alkaline sulphates, 3'0 ; oxide of iron and alumina, 1'8; chromate of lead, 3-2 ; and silica, 28 grains. 6th Sample. — Purchased of S. Phillips, \74. High Holborn. Vegetable tissue all tobacco ; ash dark-reddish brown intermixed with yellow- ish brown, amounting to 3354 per cent., 32'6 of which consisted of chloride of sodium, 2'0; alkaline cai'bonates, 2'9; earthy cai'bonates, 34; alkaline phosphates, Tl ; earthy phosphates, 2*6 ; alkaline sulphates, 5*4 ; oxide of iron and alumina, 2'0; bichromate of potash, 6'2 ; and silica, 50 grains. 1th Sample. — Purchased of P. Proctor, 197. Bishopsgate-street Without. Vegetable tissue entirely tobacco; ash, blackish-brown, fused into a mass, amounting to 2652 per cent., 266 of which consisted of chloride of sodium, 7'0 ; alkaline carbonates, 2'\ ; earthy carbonates, 5'6 ; alkaline phosphates, 5'5 ; earthy phosphates, 20; alkaline sulphates, 1 2 ; oxide of iron and alumina, IH; and silica, 1-4 grains. Scented Scotch. 8th Sample. — Purchased of M. Pinheiro, 143. Whitechapel-road. Vegetable tissue entirely tobacco ; ash, dull yellowish-brown, amounting to 22-60 per cent., 2rO of which was composed of chloride of sodiwn, 1'4; alkaline carbonates, 08 ; earthy carbonates, 5'4 ; alkaline phosphates, 0-4 ; earthy phosphates, 2*7 ; alkaline sulphates, 2*2 ; oxide of iron and alumina, 08 ; bichromate of potash, 3'9 ; and silica, 14 grains. Qlh Sample. — Purchased of M. & E. Cannon, 4. Whitechapel-road. No vegetable tissue other than tobacco; ash, deep rusty brown, amounting to •26 24 per cent., of which 238 was composed of chloride of sodium, 5'6 ; earthy carbonates, 2'&; alkaline jjhosphates, 66; earthy phosphates, I'S; alkaline sulphates, I'O ; chromate of lead, 2-8 ; and silica, 3 2 grains. Wei.sh Snufps. \Oth Sample.—Purchased of R. Bready, 43. Cannon-street-road. Commercial- road. Vegetable tissue all tobacco ; ash, blackish-gray, partly fused, amounting to 28-66 per cent., of which 22-8 was composed of chloride of sodium, .5*6 ; alkaline carbonates, Q 2 ; earthy carbonates, 5'2; alkaline phosphates, r8; earthy phosphates, 3'6 ; alkaline sulphates, I'O ; and silica 0 0 grains. Wth Sample. — Purchased of J. Glinister, 29. Park-place, Mile-end-road. Vegetable tissue all tobacco'; ash, blackish-grey, amounting to 20*00 per cent., 1800 of which was composed of chloride of sodium, 0'6; alkaline carbonates, 3'4 ; earthy carbonates, 5'4; alkaline phosphates, 46 ; earthy phosphates, 2'4 ; alkaline sulphates, 0'8 ; and silica, 0'8 grains. 12th Sample. — Purchased of J. Roberts, 126. Whitechapel-road. Vegetable tissue entirely tobacco; ash, dark grey, amounting to 18-26 per cent., of which 15-8 was composed of chloride of sodium, I'O ; alkaline car- p r 4$

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