| John Timbs - 1868 - 454 pages
...our food, our drink, and our medicines. It displays the lurking poison in the minute crystallizations which its solutions precipitate. It tells the murderer...to the very sand on which he trod at midnight. The application of the Microscope to the detection of adulteration is comparatively new, and dates chiefly... | |
| World - 1868 - 528 pages
...microscope detects the invisible ingredients which adulterate our food, our drink, and our medicines. It tells the murderer that the blood which stains...appealed to the very sand on which he trod at midnight. Hundreds of adulterations have been discovered, the detection of which was beyond the power of chemistry.... | |
| John Timbs - 1868 - 434 pages
...our food, our drink, and our medicines. It displays the lurking poison in the minute crystallizations which its solutions precipitate. It tells the murderer...pretends to have taken ; and, as a witness against the crimin.1l, it, on one occasion, appealed to the very sand on which he trod at midnight. The application... | |
| World - 1874 - 452 pages
...microscope detects the invisible ingredients which adulterate our food, our drink, and our medicines. It tells the murderer that the blood which stains...appealed to the very sand on which he trod at midnight. Hundreds of adulterations have been discovered, the detection of which was beyond the power of chemistry.... | |
| Young people - 1877 - 696 pages
...microscope detects the invisible ingredients which adulterate our food, our drink, and our medicines. It tells the murderer that the blood which stains...appealed to the very sand on which he trod at midnight. Hundreds of adulterations have been discovered, the detection of which was beyond the power of chemistry.... | |
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