Poison detected, or, Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis : in a treatise on bread, and the abuses practised in making that food as occasioning the decrease and degeneracy of the people, destroying infants, and producing innumerable diseases : shewing also, the virtues of good bread, and the manner of making it : to which is added, a charge to the confederacy of bakers, corn-dealers, farmers, and millers, concerning short weight, adulterations, and artificial scarcities, with easy methods to prevent all such abuses / by my friend, a physician.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

My friend a physician.

Contributor:

Markham, Peter, active 1758.

Wilkinson, John, 18th century.

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bread.

Bread industry--Corrupt practices--Great Britain.

Bread industry.

Bakeries--Great Britain.

Bakeries.

Food adulteration and inspection--Great Britain.

Food adulteration and inspection.

Bread industry--Corrupt practices.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis

Poison detected

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Mess. Dodsley [and 4 others], 1757.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Conjecturally attributed by Higgs to P. Markham, M.D.

Sometimes attributed to John Wilkinson.--Cf. Filby, F.A. A history of food adulteration and analysis, 1934.

Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 09232.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65354776

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.