The domestic chemist: comprising instructions for the detection of adulteration in numerous articles employed in domestic economy, medicine, and the arts. To which are subjoined the art of detecting poisons in food and organic mixtures; and a popular introduction to the principles of chemical analysis / Illustrated by engravings on wood.

Date:
1831
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Credit: The domestic chemist: comprising instructions for the detection of adulteration in numerous articles employed in domestic economy, medicine, and the arts. To which are subjoined the art of detecting poisons in food and organic mixtures; and a popular introduction to the principles of chemical analysis / Illustrated by engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mixtures which are suspected to consist of poisons accompanied by food or physic. The poisons, herein treated of, are not only such as are commonly employed with intent to com- mit murder or suicide, but such also as win their way into food by the more ordinary pro- cess of accident. The experiments which are given for the detection of these poisons are simple and of easy performance. The inform- ation they afford will be found useful to phy- sicians, coroners, jurymen, and all persons who are liable to be called upon to inquire juridi- cally into the causes of sudden deaths. The Second Part contains instructions for examining the purity of the drugs, aliments, and chemicals, which are of common use in domestic economy, medicine, and the arts. It is notorious that most of the articles which come from the druggist, the grocer, the pub- lican, and the oilman, are liable to occasional adulteration ; and the object of this division of the DomEstic CuEmMIsT, is to describe the experiments by which the detection of such adulterations can be effected with most ease, certainty, and economy. The Third Part comprehends numerous prac-