Sleep Story 197 – A Treatise on Adulterations of Food And Culinary Poisons
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The Ingenuity of the Modern Manufacture
The same systems of adulteration extend to articles used in various trades and manufactures. Soap used in housekeeping is frequently adulterated with a considerable portion of fine white clay brought from saint stephen's in cornwall. In the manufacture of printing paper, a large quantity of plaster of paris added to the paper staff to increase the weight of the manufactured article. The salvage of cloth is often dyed with a permanent color and artfully stitched to the edge of cloth dyed with a fugitive dye. Frauds committed in the tanning of skins and in the manufacture of cutlery and jewelry exceted belief that all unprincipled modern manufacturers seem to be sparing their time
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