The Sword Maker
THE SWORD MAKER BY ROBERT BARR AUTHOR OF "TEKLA" "CARDILLAC" "THE VICTORS" "IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS" ETC. NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
_By Fredrick Accum_,
OPERATIVE CHEMIST, AND MEMBER OF THE PRINCIPAL ACADEMIES AND SOCIETIES
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN EUROPE.
Philadelphia:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY AB'M SMALL
1820.
PREFACE.
This Treatise, as its title expresses, is intended to exhibit easy
methods of detecting the fraudulent adulterations of food, and of other
articles, classed either among the necessaries or luxuries of the table;
and to put the unwary on their guard against the use of such commodities
as are contaminated with substances deleterious to health.
Every person is aware that bread, beer, wine, and other substances
employed in domestic economy, are frequently met with in an adulterated
THE SWORD MAKER BY ROBERT BARR AUTHOR OF "TEKLA" "CARDILLAC" "THE VICTORS" "IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS" ETC. NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS