, 1870-06-25
INTERESTING TO FRUIT CAM
NERS,
Vegetable Acids and Mineral PoI-
sons sA

An EAstafn paper says:
Our attention has been called to this subject.
(poison from tin cans) bv note Of inquiry
from . lady in Brooklyn, Miss Julia Coleman
who has achieved considerable popularity ~
temperance lecturer, and has made the SUBJ
iects Of food and nutrition = favorite study
The queries she propounds are, We think, Of
sufficient Importance to merit public atten-
ton, which, once aroused to the subject, will
not, We trust, be content until positive An
swer is obtained to the query which forms tho
heading Of the present article
Tin has long been justly regarded a. one Of
tho metals from the ordinary uses Of which
mankind have nothing 70 fear. But the pres
ent age is characterized by its Fictitious ius-
itatinns. That which goes by the name Of
tinfoil is mostly an Alloy OF tin and lead, and
it is charged that many Of the caps usea for
glass fruit jar are made Of zinc instead Of
tin. It IL well known also that lead Is used IN
soldering cans, and that this metal Is attacted
BY ce1tain organic acids, which are conta,ned
in fruits. The tin Of commerce is BY no
means pure, and houAkeepeEB viii vouch that
the tin cans are often attacked BY these acids.
tents. Ii the case Of the impurities in the tin
used to coat the iron Of the tin plates Of com-
raerce, when the caEs arc thus attacked. it
may well be doubted whether tbs cnmulated
effects Of metallic poisoning do not sometimes
result from this cause-
Our correspondent writes as follows:
" So far as the evidence Of the senses goes
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~ .us sne 5asals, - un5 NJ Eooa "osn 49,.
a e.s.a y; t!.as ".to - ~. 80
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not know. but 30 much hzs been sud Of tha
effects Of matsli- poisoning. even IN small
though long continued doses, that We would
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many medical authorities dl4agree with him
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