Volume 1 — THE FOLLOWING WORKS, INTENDED TO FORM PART OF THE POLYTECHNIC LIBRARY, Are nearly ready for Publication. THE DOMESTIC CHEMIST; Comprising Instructions for THE DETECTION OF ADULTERATIONS In numerous Articles employed in DOMESTIC ECONOMY & THE ARTS. To which is prefixed, THE ART OF DETECTING POISONS IN FOOD AND ORGANIC MIXTURES.

Contents.

PART I.—Instructions for the Detection of Mineral Poisons in Vegetable or Animal Mixtures.—Copper, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury, Iron, Barytes, Lime, Alumina, Potash, Soda, Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid, Muriatic Acid.

PART II.—Instructions for the Examination of Articles supposed to be Adulterated.—Alcohol, Ale, Anchovy Sauce, Arrow-Root, Beer, Brandy, Bread, Calomel, Carmine, Cayenne Pepper, Cheese, Chocolate, Chrome Yellow, Cinnamon, Cloves, Cochineal, Coffee, Confectionery, Crabs’ Eyes, Cream, Cream of Tartar, Epsom Salts, Flour, Gin, Gum Arabic, Spirits of Hartshorn, Honey, Hops, Ipecacuanha, Isinglass, Ketchup, Lakes, Leeches, Lemon Acid, Litharge, Magnesia, Milk, Mushrooms, Mustard, Olive Oil, Parsley, Pepper, Peruvian Bark, Pickles, Porter, Red Oxide of Mercury, Rhubarb, Sal Ammoniac, Salt, Saltpetre, Soap, Soluble Tartar, Spanish Liquorice, Spirits, Sugar, Sulphur, Tamarinds, Tapioca, Tartaric Acid, Tartar Emetic, Tea, Ultramarine, Verdigris, Vermilion, Vinegar, Volatile Oils, Wax, White Lead, Wine, Water,(including directions for testing the purity of all descriptions of Rain, River, or Spring Water.)

PART III.—Instructions for the Preparation of the Tests employed in Domestic Chemistry and for the Performance of various Chemical Operations; with Description of the Glasses and Apparatus proper to be employed.

⁂ The work is written in a popular manner, and intended for the use of Families, Publicans, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Oilmen, Manufacturers, Apothecaries, Physicians, Coroners, and Jurymen.—Price Three Shillings.