Preservatives and other chemicals in foods: their use and abuse / by Otto Folin.

  • Folin, Otto, 1867-1934.
Date:
1914
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Preservatives and other chemicals in foods: their use and abuse / by Otto Folin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as for example among certain classes of prison inmates. I do not know how many life prisoners or long term prison¬ ers may be available, but there must be an abundance of them. They would make better subjects than students on whom to try out a substance like boric acid. This not because they are prison¬ ers whose fate or health is of compara¬ tively little consequence, but because they represent a body of persons whose mode of life is essentially uniform and whose health record could easily be kept for a long period of years. I am well aware that this suggestion will impress many persons as heartless and brutal, but such an experiment would be a mild and humane one when compared with the unrecorded boric acid experiments which have been made by manufac¬ turers, on all kinds and conditions of people. Prisoners are unfortunate in not being able to render any useful service to society. Probably not a few would be