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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![U]lh Sumjile. —Purchased in Clare-market. Sugar earthy, scarcely at all crystalline; contains fragments of cane ; ' hundreds of acuri, some alive; sporules of fungus; starch granules; al- bumen; grape-sugar; grit. lAth Samples. — Purchased in Blackmoor-street, Clare-markct. Sn'ar coarsely crystalline, evidently consisting of two different kinds inter- mixed; not much cane; a few ucari; sporules of fungus; grape-sugar; albumen. 13</i 6\i/«/>/c.—Purchased in Drury Lane. Su<^ar earthy, dark ; contains pieces of cane ; a coiisiderahle number of acari; ova of same; sporules of fungus ; starch granules ; grape-sugar; albumen. mil —Purchased in Drury-lane. Sugar earthy, light-coloured; contains much cane; sporules of fungus; grape-sugar; albumen ; and sivuntis ivith acari. nth Sample. — Purchased in Drury-lane. Sugar earthy, dark-coloured, evidently consisting of two different sugars intermixed ; contains fragments of cane ; a great many acari; sporules of fungus; grit; albumen; grape-sugar. mh Sample.— Purchased in Drury-lane. Sugar earthy, dark-coloured, moist, staining the paper greatly; contains fragments of cane; sporules of fungus; grape-sugar; albumen; and swarms with acari. \9th Sample. — Purchased in Drury-lane. Sugar earthy; contains fragments of cane; aw imviense number of acari; numerous ova of same; sporules of fungus ; starch granules a few ; woody fibre ; grit; albumen ; grape-sugar. '10th Sample. — Purchased in Drurj'-lane. Sugar very earthy, dark; adulterated with much potato flour, containing hundreds of acari; sporules of fungus; fragments of cane; grape-sugar; albumen ; grit. ^\st Sam])le. — Purchased in Holborn. Sugar rather earthy, light-coloured; contains fragments of cane ; hundreds of acari; sporules of fungus ; grit; grape-sugar; albumen. 22?id Sample.—Purchased in New Church-street, Edgeware-road. Sugar earthy, dark ; contains much cane ; hundreds of acari; ova of same ; sporules of fungus ; a few starch granules; one or two pieces of woody fibre ; grit; albumen ; grape-sugar. 23rd Sample. — Purchased in Edgeware-road. Sugar rather earthy, intermixed with a few small and shining crystals; swarming ivith acari; contains sporules of fungus ; albumen; grape-sugar; but not much cane. 24//i Sample. — Purchased in Edgeware-road. Sugar coarse-grained, crystalline; contains fragments of cane; a consi- derable number of acari; sporules and thallus of fungus; grape-sugar; albumen. 25th Sample.—Purchased in Edgeware-road. Sugarralher earthy, consisting of a mixture of two different kinds apparently, and containing fragments of cane ; hundreds of acari; sporules of fungus ; albumen ; grape-sugar. 2Gth Sample. — Purchased in Edgeware-road. Sugar light-coloured, rather crystalline, containing fragments of cane; a considerable number of acari; sporules of fungus; a few starch granules ; albumen ; grape-sugar. 27th Sample. — Purchased in Goodge-street, Tottenham-court-road. Sugar light-coloured, crystalline, crystals small; paper a little stained ; con- tains fragments of cane; a considerable number of acari, some alive; sporules and much thallus of fungus ; a great many starch granules, those of West India arrow-root; grit; albumen; grape-sugar. 28<A Sample.—Purchased in 13road-street, Bloomsbury. i Sugar somewhat crystalline, crystals small; swarming roith acari; contains sporules of fungus ; fragments of cane ; a few starch granules ; one or two pieces of woody-fibre ; albumen; grape-sugar; grit.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20385419_0087.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
