Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-09

ereo'ents after it is roasted and ground, and
.nese ingredients are not generally poisonous,
though some of them are very DISCUS ting. The
most common adulteratiug agent is chickory,
which, though regarded in America as whole
some' is not so regarded by some foreign ply
sicians. Professor Beer, the celebrated occulist
Oh vienna, forbids the use of it TO his patients,
considering it to be the cause of amaurotic blind
ness Neshing is more indicative of the bare
laced frseas perpetrated by grocers than the
manner in which they go out of the way to puff
the most abominable trash. Indeed in all their
advertisements the more they say to prove the
genuineness Of their articles, the greater is the
probability that it is oil counterfeit .The worst
kinds Of adulterated coffee are to be found in
that which is sold in canistsrs, for, notwith-
standing the vaaae Of The canister, it s sold at
the same price as that in papers, The articles
used for adulterating coffee are roasted wheat,
ground acorns, roasted carrots, roasted beans,
roasted parsnips, nangel wurtzel, lupine seed,
burnt sugar, red earth, roasted horse chestnnts,
and, above and beyond all, baked horses and
buHeck's huers The last are baked for this very
purpose by the liver bakers, then ground into
powder, and sold to the low priced coffee shop
Keepers. 1t gives high color to coffee, and il
generally mixed with chikory In regard to
coffee, however, the consumer has the means oi
protection in his own hands If he will buy the
roasted berry and grind it himself he may be
sure of having the genuine article.
With respect to milk the Reviewer sta tes that
without any doubt the London milk pail goes as
often to the pump as to the cow. To bring the
diluted liquid up to delicate cream color, it is
common to swing round ball of annatto in the
can. Other careful observers have detected in
it flour, starch and molasses All medical men
know that children are often violently disordered
BY their morning or evening portion, an effect
which could not come from the mere admixture
of water.
Further he remarks that sugar Is adulterated
with sand, If brown, and if white with coagu-
lated albumen Of bullock's blood; chocolate or
cocoa with red ferruginous earth, as well as with
-four, &c. Weight is added to butter by water
and salt in excessive quantities, and lard, when
cheap. finds its way to the butter tub. Marina
lade is adulterated to lsrge extent with tur-
nips and carrots to say nothing of apples; and
in twelve, out of fourteen specimens analysed,
copper was detected, and sometimes in large and
deleterious quantities. Verdigris is used directly
in greening preserves as we'll as pickles. Ha,
tho notable housewife ever wondered to herself
how it is that the pickles of the shops are of ,
so much more inviting color than her own' I,
is now proved beyond doubt that this complex
/ ion is given them by the use of copper. intro
troduccd for the sole purposs Of making them o
lively green. Let the housewife, after this
rest satisfied that the home made article, if les
inviting in color, is at least more wholesome.
The danger arising from this virulent poison il
our food would not be so great, if it were con
fined to pickles, which are sparingly used b,
most people; but it is also used to color almos
all kinds of preserves, aud fruits for winter pie
and tarts are bloomed with death. This remarl
applies 10 the green preserves, as the red fruit
are colored with more harmless substances. Th
painting of confectionery is bad enough but i
issuper6cia|, whereas the coloring of preserves
fruit is infused into their whole substance t.
such degree as to render them extremely dan
gerous. Our only safety depends upon buyin
such as are Of an uninvitng hue. Sugar con
dictionary articles contain among their highl
injurious ingredients, Prussian blue, Antwer
blue, gamboge and ultra marine, and among it
deadly poisons, the three chrome yellows, re
lead, white lead ,vernilion, Brunswick green an
arsenitc of copper. The wonder is that, consid
ering we set such poison traps for children
more enticing and quite as deadly as those use
to bane rats, that the greater number OF young
sters that partake Of them are not at once de
spatched and probably many violent attacks Q
disease might be traced to these sources. Di
Letherby informs us that no less than sevent
cases of poisoning have been traced to thl
source within three years"
If we could possibly eliminate from the mas
of human difease all that is occasoned by tn
constant use of drugged food and drinks, W
should find that it amounted to q very consit
erable per centage, and that one Of the bel
friends to the doctor is the adulterator, next ir
deed to the patent medicine veuder. We sha
not follow the reviewer in his remarks upon wi
ter, because the impurities Of this liquid al
accidental, and never introduced for swindlin
purposes, and we shall leave also what he say
about the adulteration Of wines and spirits an
other fermented liquors because the pnblic
well acquainted with them, and we'll knows th
the names of the wines and cordials are but
list of poisons in more than one sense.--Count'
Journal
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