Sleep Story 197 – A Treatise on Adulterations of Food And Culinary Poisons
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The Importance of a Chemical Weapon
The practice of sophisticating the necessaries of life being reduced to systematic regularity is ranked, by public opinion, among other mercantile pursuits. It is not only regarded with less disgust than formerly, but is almost generally esteemed as a justifiable way to health. The man who robs a fellow subject of a few shillings on the highway is sentenced to death, while he who distributes a slow poison to the whole community escapes unpunished. In many other trades, a similar mode of proceeding prevails. Potatoes are soaked in water to augment their weight. There are wholesale manufacturing chemists whose sole business is to crystallize a lumb in such a form as will
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