Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked

Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked - Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle

The able and patriotic Editor of the Literary Gazette, No. 156, in the course of his review of Mr. Accums meritorious work on Culinary Poisons, makes the following just and striking remarks: One has laughed at the whimsical description of the cheats in Humphrey Clinker, but it is too serious for a joke to see that, in almost every thing which we eat or drink, we are condemned to swallow swindling, if not poisonthat all the items of metropolitan, and many of country, consumption are deteriorated, deprived of nutritious properties, or rendered obnoxious to humanity, by the vile arts and merciless sophistications of their sellers. So general seems the corruption, and so fatal the tendency, of most of the corrupting4 materials, that we can no longer wonder at the prevalence of painful disorders and the briefness of existence (on an average) in spite of the great increase of medical knowledge, and the amazing improvement in the healing science, which distinguish our era. No skill can prevent the effects of daily poisoning; and no man can prolong his life beyond a short standard, where every meal ought to have its counteracting medicine. Devoted to disease by baker, brewer, grocer, wine-merchant, spirit-dealer, cheesemonger, pastry-cook, confectioner, &c. the physician is called to our assistance; but here again the pernicious system of fraud, as it has given the blow, steps in to defeat the remedy: even the physicians prescription is adulterated! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 52434
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: Jun 29, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English