, 1881-03-27
some Facts Regarding an lmpor.
tant Subject. =
pnof. Piper in Strong Opposition
:: to Prof EaineS.
rhe Statements Of the Latter Gentle
man Refuted by Facts.
n, Williams Agrees with Prof PiperA
Man Who inquiries.
PROF. rlPEls's OPINION.
~, +.A t.,fitnr nf 7He f.J.jr11o T,t{yn,rs

rnsh Medical College.
N that lecture Prof. Haines says: 9Th,
.nnsreutly popular idea that this article i
saeterious and even poisonous is pure fal
l.ry, Glucose itself is composed of hydro
cpn. oxygen, and carbon,-just what cane
snga. is composed of, though iu slightly dit
fcrent quantities. Chemists that claimed tina
<n'uburic acid in free state had been founc
n II did not know their business. Sulphatt
IF lime was perfectly harmless The body
aemanded glucose, and the chemical acids 0;
The stomach made glucose in large Quantitie:
ram bread, fruits, aud almost every variety
flood"
Now, l 90 not mean to insinuate, nor have
The right to suppose, that Prof. Haines was
pctuated by any other than honest motives In
he delivery Of the lecture under discussion:
neither, on the other nand, have we light to
tonelude that those who have taken the op-
nsis side Of the question are influenced by
" other than desire to get at the truth III the
natter. The question is
ONE OF GRAVE IMPORT, =
to tho public, as this substance, artificial
glucose. IS getting, into extensive use as an
picious fact of the fraudulent manner of its
inroducuon, mostly under false names,
shslI coniine myself mainly to the question
whether it is yet proven, as says Prof.
aaInss TO t.s BE- very valuable and nutritious
In the first place, how far has the Professor
himself shown this statement to be true?
Prof. Mariner tells us (see Congressional
report, No. l99, House Of Representatives,
Feb. i, 1osN: II have examined several
sirups made essentially entirely Of glucose
md found in them chlorides of tin, calcium,
s-nu mn in nn3niitiRC which
made them very poisonous"
Prof. Charles B. Fletcher, chemical lect-
uret to Boston University, and State As
Ryer OF Massachusetts, states that lie has
recently analysed three samples Of the best
solid glucose, and two samples of the slrnps,
grades 4 and 8, and in every sample found
Iee su}phuric acid. In one sample OF best
glucose he found thirty grains of oil of vitrlol
{suiphuric acid) to one pound of glucose. In
j sample Of best strip he found nearly as
much. (See above Congressional report.)
Prof Kedzie, of the Michigan University,
grains Of oil Of vitroil and III grains Of lime
10 the gallon, and In another, which had
caused serious sickness in whole family,
ftyenty-two grains OF oil OF yitriol twenty
eight grains Of copperas, and 363 grains Of
lme to the gallon. ilbld.1
DI. 7. .. Williams states that IN various
samples at glucose sugar and Sirups he has
found quantities Of free sulphuric acid
Nbid.)
4 Philadelphia grocer states that :. sugars
are sold 50 full of acid that when barrel is
eRsaed f}x:a it would almost suffocate you"
4 confectioner in this city says he has had
q batch Of candy spoiled from the action of
the sulphpric acid in the sugar on the vessels
In which 1t was melted.
And yet Prot. Uaines in his lecture tells
rs that chesnits who claim that sulphnric
acid il free state has been found i'll glu-
cose do not know their business. Suppose
these gentlemen thus accused OF Ignorance
should reply to the Professor that not one Of
bis propositions which I haye quoted are
such, and that therefore he was hardly war
ranted in coming to a conclusion in regard to
their chemical knowledge from such data,
md that they should return the same charge
as to his own knowledge Of the profession.
Would they not be warranted IN doing so?
Further, we are told that glucose is conf
posed of precisely the same elements,
hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, as cane
Eugar, '' though in slightly different quan1i-
tes" and the Inference is that they are
therefore alike
WHOLESOME ARTICLES OF FOOD.
The Professor is sometimes called as q
Witness in a court Of justice in poison cases:
poisoning from strychnine, and that hes should
ind several grains OF the drug i'll the stonl-
ach under examination. He IS asked, "Was
death produced in this case by the white
powders found in the stomach?'' He re-
Plies "Certainly not This substance is
carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen. and oxygen.
1hese aIe precisely the same elements which
constitute the substance, gluten, which
foes TO make up large proportion OF the
bread we eat" 1t will be seen that both
substances are composed Of precisely the
quantities" 4" and, inas1nuch as gluten is thus
largely used for food, and known to be
wholesome, and that strychnine Is made up
q precisely the same substances, it must be
therefore, alike wholesome, and could not |
"a; eave caused death in this case. Further, the
precisely alike chemically, each made up of !
ssaroon, ten parts, hydrogen, sixteen. The
nfst three are comparatively harmless sub
stances, the last, oil Of sayln, is an active |
20ls0a. The works On medical jurlspru- |
stance i IS cIassed s IL IN a the books @ as AN an %
ntant poisou.' Now, suppose this
substance to have been just discovered, !
saa Ine chemist, after having aScertalned its |
chemical constitution to be precisely the |
Fame Fam as tolu, etc, should pronounce it harm
claims IN Tsgard W1as to znoSn ws lis S Sus
ness? But this is precisely what chem
lss hare done in relation to this substance,
artificial glucose. 1t is in composition like
eaae-sugar, only varying slightly in the
ploportlon OF its elements; it is, therefore,
as nutritious article Of food"
= IS precisely in composition like natural
s s.sacose manufactured by 1.-The chemical
sqasot the stomach, therefore it must be
S9o!esolne food.
y 1t Is BY no me...,s proven that sulphate Of
u4le te1 Is wholesome or even harmless when
Sasga ISaAea INTO the stomach. On the contrary,
ssatxe sst tells us f. Practical Hygiene" p. 42)
~ su1iphates of lime and magnesia cause di-
Islhea." Parent Duchatelet {" Hygiene Pub
.Qas. i. p. 236) says he noticed the con-
YAM excess Of patients furnished by the
,.nson ,nson Of St Lazare, in consequence Of di-
'.,l 1iaea caused by the water, which contained
Y ssplpaate of lime. On page 80 Parke says
~ ~ there can be but little doubt that cal
sa aam sulphate is injurious to many persons"
~ ~ mat the coGxistence Of organic matter
s.s 'aa calcium sulphate is hurtful. And this is
,s .as, whether the sulphate exists in the sub
5on ~ ~
IL IS stated that in cholera times single
;;.aagat ;.aa nf water, containing sulphate Of
1ua Will frequently
BRING on AN ATTACK
u u Ne dreaded disease; There are certainly
s9 sme facts here which should make us pause
ssole ssaa we take the bare assertion Of Pro-
tut Tul Of physical science to the contrary.
t,.s,o W HERMAN physicians, Drs. NesIer that
,asa' ,a,'1' have recently been making expert
s'ras asass as to the effects of glucose upon them