Cocoa : its growth and culture, manufacture, and modes of preparation for the table accompanied by easy methods of analysis, whereby its purity may be ascertained / by Charles Hewett.

  • Hewett, Charles.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Cocoa : its growth and culture, manufacture, and modes of preparation for the table accompanied by easy methods of analysis, whereby its purity may be ascertained / by Charles Hewett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    found only in works which, from the nature of their contents, are fitted only for the medical student. This little work, also, may help to supply a want of employment frequently and generally complained of by young ladies during the last few years they spend under the parental roof. Domestic chemistry, whether followed as a study or as an amusement, possesses numerous charms, and offers to its followers much both of use and pleasure. Its pleasures are obvious; and its uses are to be found in the fact, that, if the articles of diet were to be analysed by some simple process, not only would a large amount of expense in the family be saved, and a greater amount of health secured, but the experience would be gained by which a genuine article could be distinguished from a spurious and adulterated one, and thus a great and powerful check be introduced against dishonest dealing, which always calculates upon the ignorance of the consumer. We offer this, then, as the pioneer of a plan (which we would fain hope will be followed by others), the object of which shall be the spread of truly philosophical prin- ciples in their adaptation to common life, and the aim of which shall be to raise the science of alimentation above the mere gratification of appetite, by teaching
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