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WORKS BY A. WYNTER BLYTH, M.R.C.S., F.C.S., 



BrriBter-at-Law, Public Analyst for the County of Devon, and Medical Officer of Health for 



St. Marylebone. 



FOODS: 



THEIR COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS. 



In Demy 8vo, with Elaborate Tables, Diagrams, and Plates. Handsome 

 Cloth. FOURTH EDITION. Price 21s. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. 



History of Adulteration Legislation, Past and Present Apparatus 

 useful to the Food- Analyst "Ash" Sugar Confectionery Honey 

 Treacle Jams and Preserved Fruits Starches Wheaten-Flour Bread 

 Oats Barley Rye Rice Maize Millet Potato Peas Chinese 

 Peas Lentils Beans MILK Cream Butter Oleo-Margarine 

 Butterine Cheese Lard Tea Coffee Cocoa and Chocolate Alcohol 

 Brandy Rum Whisky Gin Arrack Liqueurs Absinthe Principles 

 of Fermentation Yeast Beer Wine Vinegar Lemon and Lime 

 Juice Mustard Pepper Sweet and Bitter Almond Annatto Olive 

 Oil WATER Standard Solutions and Reagents. Appendix: Text of 

 English and American Adulteration Acts. 



PRESS NOTICES OF THE FOURTH EDITION. 



"Simply INDISPENSABLE in the Analyst's laboratory." The Lancet. 



"THE STANDARD WORK on the subject. . . . Every chapter and every page give* 

 abundant proof of the strict revision to which the work has been subjected. . . . The 

 section on MILK is, we believe, the most exhaustive study of the subject extant. . . . An 

 INDISPENSABLE MANUAL for Analysts and Medical Officers of Health." Public Health. 



"Anew edition of Mr. Wynter Blyth's Standard work, ENRICHED WITH ALL THB RECBHW 

 DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS, will be accepted as a boon." Chemical News. 



POISONS: 



THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION. 



THIRD EDITION. In Large 8vo, Cloth, with Tables and Illustration*. 

 Price 21s. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. 



I. Historical Introduction. II. Classification Statistics Connection 

 between Toxic Action and Chemical Composition Life Tests General 

 Method of Procedure The Spectroscope Examination of Blood and Blood 

 Stains. Ill, Poisonous Gases. IV. Acids and Alkalies. V. More 

 or less Volatile Poisonous Substances. VI. Alkaloids and Poisonov* 

 Vegetable Principles. VII. Poisons derived from Living or Dead Animal 

 Substances. VIII. The Oxalic Acid Group. IX. Inorganic Poisons. 

 Appendix : Treatment, by Antidotes or otherwise, of Cases of Poisoning. 



14 Undoubtedly THB MOST COMPLETE WOKE on Toxicology in our language." The Analyst (on 

 the Third Edition). 



" As a PRACTICAL GOIDB, we know NO BETTER work." The Lancet (on the Third Edition). 

 % In the THIRD EDITION, Enlarged and partly Re-written, NEW ANALYTICAL METHODS have 

 been introduced, and the CADAVERIC ALKALOIDS, or PTOMAINES, bodies playing so great a part In 

 Food-poiaoning and in the Manifestations of Disease, have received special attention. 



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