Food and Its Adulterations: Comprising the Reports of the Analytical Sanitary Commission of "The Lancet" for the Years 1851 to 1854 Inclusive, Revised and Extended: Being Records of the Results of Some Thousands of Original Microscopical and Chemical Analyses of the Solids and Fluids Consumed by All Classes of the Public ...

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 659 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 358 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits;' and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Sayfa 383 - And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled
Sayfa 359 - an Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled an Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extrajudicial Oaths and Affidavits...
Sayfa 598 - The expense of snuff, snuff-boxes, and handkerchiefs, will be the subject of a second essay, in which it will appear that this luxury encroaches as much on the income of the snuff-taker as it does on his time, and that by proper application of the time and money thus lost to the public, a fund might be constituted for the discharge of the national debt...
Sayfa 270 - It may be in the recollection of some of our readers, that at the inquest held by Mr. Wakley on the bodies of some of the poor children who fell victims in the pest-house...
Sayfa 466 - ... from it. Granite is an igneous rock composed of three minerals, quartz, mica and feldspar. Quartz is the most abundant of all minerals, and in one form or another comprises fully 25 per cent, of the crust or hard surface of the earth. It is composed of two elements, silicon and oxygen, united in the proportions of one part of the former to two of the latter, the chemical formula being SiO2.
Sayfa 626 - ... notorious memory, fell upon the idea of brewing beer from various drugs, without any malt and hops. This chemist did not turn brewer himself; but he struck out the more profitable trade of teaching his mystery to the brewers for a handsome fee. From that time forwards, written directions, and receipt-books for using the chemical preparations to be substituted for malt and hops, were respectively sold ; and many adepts soon afterwards appeared everywhere, to instruct brewers in the nefarious practice...
Sayfa 10 - That in the remaining ,/f/feen samples, the adulteration consisted of chicory, and either roasted corn, beans, or potatoes. 7th. That in many instances the quantity of coffee present was very small ; while in others, it formed not more than one-fifth, fourth, third, half, and so on of the whole article.
Sayfa 214 - ... rom the consideration of the visible variations of structure as we see them in grain and figure, it is convenient to pass to two other natural properties, colour and odour. The colour of the same kind of timber varies a good deal according to whether it is freshly felled or sawn, or whether it has been exposed for some time to the action of the air. The surface of wood so exposed generally undergoes a slight oxidation, which ultimately gives the timber a faded or greyish tinge; in any case, both...
Sayfa 295 - ... a demand for green teas at Canton which could not be supplied by the arrivals from the provinces. The Americans, however, were obliged to sail with cargoes of green teas within the favourable season ; they were determined to have these teas ; and the Chinese were determined they should be supplied. Certain rumours being afloat concerning the manufacture of green tea from old black leaves, the writer of this became curious to ascertain the truth, and with some difficulty persuaded a Hong merchant...

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