Lectures on the adulteration of food and culinary poisons, the detection of poisons in general, and of adulterations in sundry chemical preparations, &c. used in medicine and the arts, with the means of discovering them : and rules for determining the purity of substances : delivered in the United States Military Academy / by James Cutbush.

  • Cutbush, James, 1788-1823.
Date:
1823
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    PREFACE. The following lectures, as. will be seen from the Table of Contents, embrace a variety of subjects of immediate interest, not on]y with respect to sundry preparations used in medicine and the arts, culina- ry articles, &c. but also a collection of facts on adul- terations, and the mineral, as well as the, so called, culinary poisons. Containing a general view of these subjects, it was suggested, that their publication would be useful: at the instance of the senior class, to whom they were delivered, they were, therefore, put to press. A few remarks concerning the work itself may be premised : On some occasions I found it necessary to give a comparative view of the most remarkable, and dis- tinguishing chemical properties of bodies, so that the means of detection might be more readily shown, and the presence, or absence of particular substan- ces more correctly determined. As to the arrangement, we have endeavoured to treat of the substances with some system. Thus, the adulteration of articles, used principally for do- mestic purposes; the deleterious nature of some