74 DR RUTTAN ON BREADS. 



The unauimous verdict of the foregoing experiments is, that alum powders 

 introduce into a form of food of universal use agents which are detrimental to the 

 functional activity of the digestive ferments. They must, therefore, be prejudicial to 

 health, and the only safe course is to carefully avoid them. Whether they are suffi- 

 ciently injurious to be excluded from the market is a question that the interpreters 

 of the law alone can decide. 



