The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-19
CONFEOTTONERY.

ON FUsEI OIL. &C. &c
~ To Professor Mapes:Sir-I beg leave to call your
fusel OIL As you have declined to comply with my
urgent and respectful request addressed to you both
0usn sns public Snd "a
and you have neglected to retract alter amend
plain consider that your public and private character
responsible fer its strict truth and justice verified
by your own professional experience and that only.
have warned you Of the serious effects Of this report
the character of the confectoner throughout these
statea and the immense pecuniary loss that body
they have sustained thereby II they have not nertcd
this infection how can you atone to them for the
tce you have committcd Did you not shield the igno
rant or guilty chemist while you suffered suspicion 70
II not then dealt out profusey to the
scous public BY body Of men far too powerful for
By hs y on The
drawn from your silence is my own
At the time that you made your famous report, were
you not aware that your personal end and .abora
tor in the investigation OF the properties Of the
oxide Of arnye" to whom you turned to get rid
any deeterious property and would have made for me-
and probably for anybody else?
Was the manufacture Of this substance profitable
that your friend and co-aborator could render harm
less proving that fusel oil not poisonous per Sc
but might be made SO by bungling chemist, who
perhaps only fit to clean the crucibcs and the boots Of
Was the manufacture Of this article profitable? Did
my ipjudicous" interference materially interfere with
any project Of any kind whateyers ak, because after
paying $25 for analysing my drops represented to him
that il would be but justice to publish something that
would place the confcctioner before tic public in true
light. He told me must wait until Is had finished his
investigation His investigation, believe, came to a
final close but the confectioner \ still in false posi-
tion
Bat sir the most important question is yet to
called upon you to prove guilty knowledge, or to
proclaim my innocence. Why have you failed to comply
with my just request
years ago, when your character lay under
your friends to rally round you Was | among the
missing ~ .
your professional services Inow call upon you to de-
clare catcgorcay, why my application was treated with
And by virtue OF the subpoena hereunto annexed 1
summon you, J. Mapes, to answer me at the bar of
public opinion for ps grevS%s wTSng you nave done
i54 Greenwich street, New York.
VERBATIM REPORT OF PROFESSOR MAPEs.
Caution to the pubc.--wc have received note from
experiments upon various kinds of confectionery re-
Gently introduced to tho public such az banana jar
gonsste pear and other drops He states his decided
conviction that they injurious to health and adds
Many, f not all Of these drops favored vit the
hydrated oxide Of arnyie known in our phsrmacopias
as fusel OIL combined with nitric acetic citric acid
This poison is produced ia the dstiilafon OF whskcy
from corn and probably the manufacturers Of the
fectionery which it is used well as the consumers,
not aware Of its poisonous properties. have just
made some experiments with myself in the of this
poison and Ar that in the state probably used by the
confectioner, the mere odor Sufficient to cause head
believing Il duty to make these facts public, leave
II to your discretion to take such means as may seem
udicious.
Iremsin, Sir, yours respectfully, JAS. J. MAPES.
sUsra.xA TO rRoy j. = MAPEs
FRUIT DROPS NOT POISONOUS.
The Editor Of the Annual OF Scientific Discovery re-
MARKS concerning the well known conecon called acid
ulated fruit Drops that, though they have been de-
nounced as poisonous by persons, the ground
that fuse oil Ia known to produce deletsrous Effects
there Is in reality foundation for such statsment or
belief and IL the confectionery favored with these
tracts has in any case produced injurious effects IL Is
undoubtedly to be referred to injudcious consump
ton OF IT, and not any inherent deletsrous quality.
See Journal Of Commerce Of the 11th November under
the head Of Medical Matters.
These delicious conectons are now offered for sale by
cause mpcdiment Why they should not be sold let
them now deciAreit.n I. o. H0DGKINs Confeotioner.
iaJ Greenwich street, between Liberty and Cortandt
H. B.--Plan aud fancy candles in great variety