26o BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHEMISTRY. 



AccuM, Frederick (Christian). [Cont'd.] 



Description of the Process of manufacturing Coal Gas, etc., with eleva- 

 tions, sections and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus 

 now employed at the Gas Works in London. London, 1819. 8vo, 

 111. 



Second edition, 1820. 8vo. 7 plates. 

 Manual of a Course of Lectures on E.xperimental Chemistry and on 

 Mineralogy. With an account of the action of chemical tests. 

 London, 1810. i2mo. 

 Practical (A) Essay on the Analysis of Minerals. London, 1804. 8vo. 

 Practical (A) Essay on Chemical Reagents or Tests. Illustrated by a 

 series of experiments. London, 18 16. 8vo. Also Philadelphia, 

 1817. 



Practical Treatise on the use and application of chemical 

 tests, and concise directions for analyzing, illustrated by 

 experiments. Second edition, with plates, enlarged. 

 London, 1818. i2mo. 111. 

 Another edition : Improved and brought down to the present 

 state of chemical science by J. Maugham. London, 

 1828. i2mo. 

 Traite pratique sur I'usage et le mode d'application des re- 

 actifs chimiques, traduit par Riffault. Paris, 18 19. 

 Plates. 

 Trattato pratico per I'uso ed applicazione de' reagenti 

 chimici, traduzione fatta sulla seconda edizione Inglese, 

 con aumentazioni di G. Pozzi. Milano, 1819. 2 vols, 

 in I. 111. 

 System (A) of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry. London, 1803. 

 2 vols, 8vo. 



Second edition, London, 1807. Also * Philadelphia, 1808. 

 2 vols., 8vo. 

 * Treatise (A) on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. Exhibit- 

 ing the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous 

 liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, ir^ustard, pepper, 

 cheese, olive oil, pickles and other articles employed in domestic 

 economy, and methods of detecting them. London, 1820. pp. 

 xvi-372, i2mo. yi/j'f? Philadelphia, 1820. i2mo. 



This early work on adulteration of food attracted much attention when 

 issued. From the representation of a skull and cross bones on the 

 cover, and the legend, " There is death in the pot, 11 Kings, C. 4, v, 

 40," the book was popularly called " Death in the Pot." 



Von der Verfcilschung der Nahrungsmittel und von den 

 Kiichengiften, oder von den betrugerischen Verfiil- 



