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Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: . . . existed in the confectionery of London, different articles, variously colored, were purchased from several shops in that city, and subjected to analysis. Of ten specimens of red-colored comfits, sold for eating, six contained mineral poisons, viz. , red lead, vermilion, and chromate of lead; all these specimens, with one exception, were only colored externally; of seven specimens of yellow comfits, six contained deleterious substances, viz. , gamboge, oxide of lead, and Naples yellow; several were stained throughout; one specimen of green comfits contained copper and lime. Those toys of sugar apparently intended for ornament, but frequently eaten, mostly contained poisonous ingredients. The papers were next examined, especially those used for enveloping the sugar drops termed kisses or secrets; without exception, the reds were colored with a preparation of mercury, (vermilion, ) the yellows with chromate of lead, and many of the greens with the carbonate of copper, (verdigris. ) I cannot be accused of exaggeration, remarks the English investigator, when I assert that thousands of children are thus daily dosed with metallic and vegetable poisons; in minute quantities, it is true; but in quantities dependent, for this amount, on the caprice of a workman, or the uncertainty of a machine, and sufficient, in the minutest degree, to produce their peculiar insidious effects if taken habitually from day to day. Neither are these effects merely lingering; for not long since, an acute case of poisoning, arising from the use of confectionery colored with a deleterious preparation, occurred in the children of a highly respectable family in Southwark; and on analysis, the articles consumed were found to contain red lead. On. . . This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.com.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... existed in the confectionery of London, different articles, variously colored, were purchased from several shops in that city, and subjected to analysis. Of ten specimens of red-colored comfits, sold for eating, six contained mineral poisons, viz., red lead, vermilion, and chromate of lead; all these specimens, with one exception, were only colored externally; of seven specimens of yellow comfits, six contained deleterious substances, viz., gamboge, oxide of lead, and Naples yellow; several were stained throughout; one specimen of green comfits contained copper and lime. Those toys of sugar apparently intended for ornament, but frequently eaten, mostly contained poisonous ingredients. The papers were next examined, especially those used for enveloping the sugar drops termed " kisses or secrets;" without exception, the reds were colored with a preparation of mercury, (vermilion,) the yellows with chromate of lead, and many of the greens with the carbonate of copper, (verdigris.) "I cannot be accused of exaggeration," remarks the English investigator, "when I assert that thousands of children are thus daily dosed with metallic and vegetable poisons; in minute quantities, it is true; but in quantities dependent, for this amount, on the caprice of a workman, or the uncertainty of a machine, and sufficient, in the minutest degree, to produce their peculiar insidious effects if taken habitually from day to day. Neither are these effects merely lingering; for not long since, an acute case of poisoning, arising from the use of confectionery colored with a deleterious preparation, occurred in the children of a highly respectable family in Southwark; and on analysis, the articles consumed were found to contain red... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2012-10-12, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... existed in the confectionery of London, different articles, variously colored, were purchased from several shops in that city, and subjected to analysis. Of ten specimens of red-colored comfits, sold for eating, six contained mineral poisons, viz., red lead, vermilion, and chromate of lead; all these specimens, with one exception, were only colored externally; of seven specimens of yellow comfits, six contained deleterious substances, viz., gamboge, oxide of lead, and Naples yellow; several were stained throughout; one specimen of green comfits contained copper and lime. Those toys of sugar apparently intended for ornament, but frequently eaten, mostly contained poisonous ingredients. The papers were next examined, especially those used for enveloping the sugar drops termed " kisses or secrets;" without exception, the reds were colored with a preparation of mercury, (vermilion,) the yellows with chromate of lead, and many of the greens with the carbonate of copper, (verdigris.) "I cannot be accused of exaggeration," remarks the English investigator, "when I assert that thousands of children are thus daily dosed with metallic and vegetable poisons; in minute quantities, it is true; but in quantities dependent, for this amount, on the caprice of a workman, or the uncertainty of a machine, and sufficient, in the minutest degree, to produce their peculiar insidious effects if taken habitually from day to day. Neither are these effects merely lingering; for not long since, an acute case of poisoning, arising from the use of confectionery colored with a deleterious preparation, occurred in the children of a highly respectable family in Southwark; and on analysis, the articles consumed were found to contain red... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2012-10-12, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... existed in the confectionery of London, different articles, variously colored, were purchased from several shops in that city, and subjected to analysis. Of ten specimens of red-colored comfits, sold for eating, six contained mineral poisons, viz., red lead, vermilion, and chromate of lead; all these specimens, with one exception, were only colored externally; of seven specimens of yellow comfits, six contained deleterious substances, viz., gamboge, oxide of lead, and Naples yellow; several were stained throughout; one specimen of green comfits contained copper and lime. Those toys of sugar apparently intended for ornament, but frequently eaten, mostly contained poisonous ingredients. The papers were next examined, especially those used for enveloping the sugar drops termed " kisses or secrets;" without exception, the reds were colored with a preparation of mercury, (vermilion,) the yellows with chromate of lead, and many of the greens with the carbonate of copper, (verdigris.) "I cannot be accused of exaggeration," remarks the English investigator, "when I assert that thousands of children are thus daily dosed with metallic and vegetable poisons; in minute quantities, it is true; but in quantities dependent, for this amount, on the caprice of a workman, or the uncertainty of a machine, and sufficient, in the minutest degree, to produce their peculiar insidious effects if taken habitually from day to day. Neither are these effects merely lingering; for not long since, an acute case of poisoning, arising from the use of confectionery colored with a deleterious preparation, occurred in the children of a highly respectable family in Southwark; and on analysis, the articles consumed were found to contain red... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2012-10-12, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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