An essay on culinary poisons : containing cautions relative to the use of laurel-leaves, hemlock, mushrooms, copper-vessels, earthen jars, &c. with observations on the adulteration of bread and flour, and the nature and properties of water.

  • Robertson, J. (Joseph), 1726-1802.
Date:
1781
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Credit: An essay on culinary poisons : containing cautions relative to the use of laurel-leaves, hemlock, mushrooms, copper-vessels, earthen jars, &c. with observations on the adulteration of bread and flour, and the nature and properties of water. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    i may be done by drinking a quantity of a lixivium made by a folution of fait of tartar in water : for this fait, uniting with the corrofive cryftalline fait, will, after fome degree of efFervefcence, kill it, as the chemifts fpeak by which means, being difengaged from ^ the mineral globules, it will be rendered of no effed*. The SOLUTION or SALT of LEAD. Lead is a metal eafily corroded, efpecially by the warm fteams of acids, fuch as vinegar, cydery lemon-juice, rhenifli wine, &c. And this folution, or fait of lead, is a flow and infidious, though certain poifon. The glazing of all our common brown pottery ware, is either lead or lead ore. If black, it is lead ore, with a fmall proportion of manganele, which is a fpecies of iron ore. If yellow, the glazing is lead ore, and appears yellowilh by having fome pipe or white clay ♦ M«ad on Poifons, ElTay iv.