The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-10-16
POiSONS IN FOOD.
Lurking Dangers Bred by Ignorance
CareIessness and Dishonesty.

casses Of animals that have died from
some disease. The flesh OF such ami
mails is known as cease" meat; the fat
looks like wet parchment and the
meat smells like a corpse. Meat from
animals having tuberculosis will trans
nit the disease if u~ndercookcd. The
flesh of animals that have suffered
from torture o. prisation frequently
contains n~oxious matter which causes
a rash. like eczema. to appear on the
hands Of persons who handle it. OF
course such meat would prove highly
injurious if eaten.
Cattle, sheep and swine are often
killed when they have p~ieuro-pncu-
monia, brayy and hog cholera, and
their carcasses are sod for eating.
Diseases which cause sup~puration affect
Deat more injnriousiy than those which
do not. Boo veal is the meat Of A cali
under four weeks old. but most OF the
bob veal sold in New York is from a
few hours to three days old, lmma-
turc meat is unhealthy because it con-
tains no nourishing elements and be-
cause it is extremely indi-cstible. in
deed, the stomach of a small child can
not cope with it. and in the struggle
the child is someti mes killed.
Children and delicate persons are
those most seriously affected by un-
wholesome food and drink. Candy il
adulterated with terra alba, kao.in.
starch. Underground marble dust and
pulverized asbestos. Candy has been
seized in New York colored with
chrome yellow. Brunswick green, red
lead. Paris green, a~rsenical anilyne,
burnt lumber. Venetian red, vermill-
ion l%bisulphuret of mercury, and
prussian blue.
For Havors artificial essences are
often made by distilling certain chemi-
cal salts with alcohol and sulphur;c
acid. A very fragrant one is said TO be
made by treatment of rotten cheese
with su!phuric acid and bichromate Of
potash. Rock and rye drops have
been made of sugar and tusel oil, the
latter causing headache, stupor and
dizziness.
The acme Of the art Of adulteration
is reached in fruit %jellies. Currant
jelly sold until \ year ago by nearly
every grocer was made of dried apples,
glucose, water, a~rscnical fuchsine. tar
taric acid and glue, all boiled, strained
and kept from spelling in hot weather
by salicyllc acid. Most Of the fruit iel-
lies sold to-day are = fraud on the con
sumcr and are made principally Of glu-
cose, water, dried apples, color flavor
and gclatinc.
Canned goods are perfectly healthy.
unless partly decomposcd when canned
or allowed to become so after opening.
IN which case a rank poison is devel-
oped. When the ends of cans bulge.
the gases Of decomposition are within.
If cans are made OF template. they
will contribute poisonous lead to the
contents. Whether vegetables and
fruits colored with copper are poison
Gus, there is disagreement. Many ply
sicians say yes, but Prot, GaIlipe and
NJ. Pasteur and some other eminent
authorities say no.
Damaged coffee beans are treated
with chromate of lead. Prus>ian blue.
soapStone. burnt lumber and other
chemicals to restore the original ap-
pearancc. Some painted coffee was
found to have one-tftieth of a grain of
copper arsenitc in a quantity needed
to make a cup of the beverage. MeNi-
can and other cheap cotices are so
treated as to make them resemble Java
Teas are adultcrated with colored
spent leaves and willow leaves. Black
teas are ''paintcd,' commonly. with
black lead; green teas are nearly all
with Prussian blue, tumer!c
and soapStone.
Mustard is reduced with terra alba
md wheat -four and then colored with
or a poisonous coal-tar color
.al'el Marsh's yellow. Fermirrlli has
,een colored with chromate Of lead in
of with eggs or saffron. Bread
5 whitened with alum. and musty flour
las been swcctened and preserved with
ulphatc of copper. German bakers
lsc an egg powder made of our old
ricnd chrome yellow. Gclatine is put
n olcomargarlne to make it absorb
nore water. In short, says DR.. Ed
on. every beverage we drink and
early every food we eat is liable to be