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 pawnbrokers and madhouse keepers / by an enemy of fraud and villainy ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davidson, G. H. (George Henry)

Knight, C. E.

Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food adulteration and inspection.

Drug adulteration.

Quacks and quackery.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Thomas, Thomas (inscription) (E.F. Smith Collection copy)

Thomas, Bridget (inscription) (E.F. Smith Collection copy)

Thomas, Gwynne(?) (inscription) (E.F. Smith Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, ii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered pages-187 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

[London] : Printed by G.H. Davidson ...; from stereotype plates by C.E. Knight.

Other Title:

Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning

Disease and death in the pot and the bottle

Deadly adulterations and slow poisoning PU

Place of Publication:

London : Published by Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper ..., [1830?]

Notes:

"Copy of Petition presented to the House of Commons, by Mr. Hume, Tuesday, July 6, 1830.": p. [iii].

Dedicated to Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington.

Advertisements on p. [iv] and p. [188].

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Penn Libraries copy has the title "Deadly adulterations and slow poisoning. Five shillings." within an ornamental border, and "Sold at J. Griffiths's Library ... Bath." within a double ruled border, printed on green slips of paper affixed to the front cover.

Penn Libraries copy has a ms. inscription, in ink, which reads "Thomas, Bridget, Gwynne(?), Thomas," of "Penkerrig" (Wales), on the title page.

OCLC:

55563085