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Poison detected, or, Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis [microform] : in a tre...

Poison detected, or, Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis [microform] : in a tre...

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Poison detected, or, Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis [microform] : in a treatise on bread, and the abuses practised in making that food as occasioning the decrease and degeneracy of the people, destroying infants, and producing innumerable diseases : shewing also, the virtues of good bread, and the manner of making it : to which is added, a charge to the confederacy of bakers, corn-dealers, farmers, and millers, concerning short weight, adulterations, and artificial scarcities, with easy methods to prevent all such abuses / by my friend, a physician.

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Poison detected, or, Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis [microform] : in a treatise on bread, and the abuses practised in making that food as occasioning the decrease and degeneracy of the people, destroying infants, and producing innumerable diseases : shewing also, the virtues of good bread, and the manner of making it : to which is added, a charge to the confederacy of bakers, corn-dealers, farmers, and millers, concerning short weight, adulterations, and artificial scarcities, with easy methods to prevent all such abuses / by my friend, a physician.

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Publisher

London : Printed for Mess. Dodsley [and 4 others], 1757.

Date

1757.

Call Numbers

T/RAV/FM4/2

Record Identifier

74VvMXjwy3Eb

MMS ID

991007197389702626

Language

English

Physical Description

Physical content

75 p.

Publication information

Publisher

London : Printed for Mess. Dodsley [and 4 others], 1757.

Analytical title

Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis.

Poison detected.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1757.

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Available online via The Making of the Modern World.

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microform

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Full title

Poison detected, or, Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis [microform] : in a treatise on bread, and the abuses practised in making that food as occasioning the decrease and degeneracy of the people, destroying infants, and producing innumerable diseases : shewing also, the virtues of good bread, and the manner of making it : to...

Variant title

Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis.

Poison detected.

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Notes

General note

Conjecturally attributed by Higgs to P. Markham, M.D.

Sometimes attributed to John Wilkinson.--Cf. Filby, F.A. A history of food adulteration and analysis, 1934.

Citation / References Note

Higgs, H. Bibl. of economics 1427.

Reproduction note

Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, [1974]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 9232).

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T/RAV/FM4/2

Record Identifier

74VvMXjwy3Eb

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MMS ID

991007197389702626