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 Info | London : Printed for Mess. Dodsley [and 4 others], 1757. |
| Description | 75 pages |
| Supplemental Content | Available to subscribing institutions |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Frightful truths, and alarming to the British metropolis |
| Variant title | Poison detected |
| General note | Conjecturally attributed by Higgs to P. Markham, M.D. |
| General note | Sometimes attributed to John Wilkinson.--Cf. Filby, F.A. A history of food adulteration and analysis, 1934. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. |
| General note | Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 09232. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. |
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