A N" 



ESSAY 



O N 



CULINARY POISONS. 



CONTAINING 



CAUTIONS 



RELATIVE TO THE 



USE of LAUREL-LEAVES, 



liEMLOCK, MUSHROOMS, COPPER -VESSELS, 

 EARTHEN JARS, &c. 



WITH 



Obfervations on the Adultiration of Bread 



and Flour, 



And the Nature and Properties of Water.. 



Undc fames homini vetitorum tanta clborum ? 

 Audetis vefci, genus 6 mortale ? quod, oro, 

 Ne facitc j ct monitis animos advertitc noilris. 



Ovid. Met. xv. 13-S. 



LONDON. 



Plin.tyd for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, near Serjeants 

 Inn, Fleet-Street. 



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