Specification of Francis Plowden
Subtitle: preserving animal and other substances
Publisher: Great Seal Patent Office
Published: 1855
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Putrefaction; Meat; Food Preservation
Description: Patent for preserving meat  "without acid, salt, or drying" rendering it "fit for consumption, both at sea and on land, for an extraordinary length of time" by staying the effects of putrefaction by removing "atmospheric air" through a coating of "dried essence or extract of meat".
Notes: At head of title: A.D. 1807. No. 3051.

Cover title.

"Francis Plowden, of Essex Street, near the Temple, London".