The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-02-25
DELErERIOUS DIET.
More Food Adulterants.

ht paper Oh Public Health Association
" ia Cities" by Geo. 4. Angel, OF 30
I. ton. He said: 80, Sos
This is free country. In Franc
| was assured that 10 medicine coul
lie be in Paris which had not been al
r. proved by board composed Z
d some o. the best chemists {
j. Paris. No physician could practiC
a no had not been examined and al
proved by a board" composed o
some of the best physicians of Par;t
h. Deadly poisons could not be sold b
t. persons OF good character license,
!, by the police authorities 10 sell them
|, Perhaps no stronger evidence of tn
" comparative freedom in this countr
can be adduced than that millions o
! dollars worth of quack medicines
which no respectable physician woult
M escribe, are widely sold that mos
d. II. erous poisons can be bought a
! hun; lr, DIS OF places in any Of on
large eit, es without restriction. Blu
there arr, OILY few of the evidence
that may be easily addnced TO show
tho perfect f,ec,lom which prevails il
this country.
WE FEED ON LEAD. ARSENIC, SULPHUR
&c ACID AND COPPER.
Take the adulteratiol. 'f foods, fol
instance. One of the n, o t eminent
chemists of Massacliusetls tells me
that almost every class OF a.Ticies
now sold in this country for .'oo'd Is
more or less adElterated, ana III II
many OF these authorizations are e.x-
tremely poisonous. For instance
pepper it aduiterated with red lead,
curry powder with red lead, vinegar
with sulphuric acid, arsenic and cor
rosive sublimate. Ii is stated in the
Scientific american that probably
half the vinegar. now sold in our
cities is rank poison. One of our Bos.
ton chemists analysed twelve packages
OF pickles, put up by twelve different
wholesale dealers, aud found copper
in ten of them. Another chemist
analysed sixteen packages of pickles,
and found copper in all of them.
Many of our flavoring oils, syrupsj el-
lies aud preserved fruits contain poi
sons. The aulterations OF tea are too
numerous 10 mention. Coffee is not
only adulterated, but a patent has
been taken out for moulding chicory
into the form of coffee berries, and 7
haf n1 To lAI
and perhaps favored with an essence,
TO represent coffee Cocoa and choc-
olate are adultercd witll'varlous min
eral substances.
SAND, STONE CLAY CHALK AND BONE
DUST IN FLoUE.
Several mills in New England, and
probably many elsewhere, are now
engaged in grinding white stone into
powder for purposes of adulleralion.
AT some Of these mills they grind
three grades-soda grade, sugar grade
and flour grade. | am told that thou
sands OF tons of il have been ground
in one town of Massachusetts. 1t
sells for about halfa cent per pound.
Flour has been adu,icrated in Eng
land, and probably here. with plaster
OF Paris, bone dust, sand, clay, chalk
and other articles, am told that
large quantities Of damaged and I'M
wholesome grain are ground in with
-four, particularly The kind called
Graham -four.
TYPHoIDAL MILK, DISEASED MEAT AND
EGGS.
In 1874 medical commission" of
FIVE physicians. appointed by the
Board of Health" OF Boston, report
ed that over million and q half gal.
Ions of water was sold as milk in that
city in that year, for which nearly
S5OO,000 in money was paid. They
state further that this water is likely
10 be taken from impure streams and
barnyard wells, and SO TO produce ty-
phoid fever and other infectious dis
eases in those who drink 1t. In one
instance thirty-four cases OF typhoid
laver were produced in twenty diff
ferent families by drinking milk mix
ed with water, taken from well
standing near cesspool. II is hot
water alone that is mixed with milk.
thousand of gallons and probably
hundreds of thousands. are sold in
our cities which have passed through
large tins or watts in which it has been
mixed with various substances.
Large quantities of the meats Of
animals more or less diseased are sold
in our markets. Cows in the neigh
borhood of our large cities, are fed
upon material which produce a large
How OF nnwhOlesome milk. Poultry
are fed upon material which produce
nnwholesoms eggs. Meats and
fish are made unwhoiesome, FIRE.
quently poisonous. by careless and
cruel methods of killing.
CREosoTE, COPPER, ALUM AND SUM-
DRIES IN THE LIQUoRs-DRUes
bogus. al 6f3 n
Now take wines and liquors. A
California chemist recently analysed
many samples of whisky purchased
at differ ent places In San Francisco.
He found them adulteralei with ere
osoie, sails of copper, alum, and other
injurious Substances He states il In |
his published report as his opinion
that there is hardly any pure whisky
sold in that city. A gentleman re-
Gently purchased from q prominent
iirn task of pure sherry wine for
his sick wife His wife grew worse.
lie had tho wine analysed and found