Poison detected, or, Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis : 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.

Author/creator My friend a physician
Other author Markham, Peter, active 1758.
Other author Wilkinson, John, active 18th century.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for Mess. Dodsley [and 4 others], 1757.
Description75 pages
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Variant title Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis
Variant title Poison detected
General noteConjecturally attributed by Higgs to P. Markham, M.D.
General noteSometimes attributed to John Wilkinson.--Cf. Filby, F.A. A history of food adulteration and analysis, 1934.
General noteReproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
General noteGoldsmiths'-Kress no. 09232.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.

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