Note B — PART I. WINES AND SPIRITS.
Reading edition
The introduction of this deleterious ingredient into wines is to stop the progress of their ascescency, or to recover ropy wines, or to clarify and render transparent spoiled or muddy white wines. As to the deleterious effects and dangerous consequences of this and other adulterations of wines, &c. see The Oracle of Health and Long Life; or, Plain Rules for the Attainment and Preservation of Sound Health and Vigorous Old Age. By Medicus.