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Michigan Dept of Health, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books Annual-Report-Volume-2~~Michigan-Dept-of-Health General Books LLC Purchase of this book inclu… Mehr…

Michigan Dept of Health, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books Annual-Report-Volume-2~~Michigan-Dept-of-Health General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [REPORT OH SPECIAL INVESTIGATION CONCIBNISe IMPURITIES 1 ADULTERATIONS INTRLE SYRPS. R. ?. KEIDZIE, M. D., Member of the Board. TA BLE SYRUPS. BY R. ?. KEDZIE. Many weeks ago a can of syrup was placed in my hands by Prof. Beal, which had the following history: A family by the name of Doty, of Hudson, Mich., purchased some syrup of a grocer in that village. The members of the family ate freely of the syrup, and were all made very sick by its use. They became alarmed and sent a can of the syrup to the Agricultural College for analysis, supposing it to contain poison. Other families in the vicinity became so alarmed by the singular sickness in the Doty family that they returned their syrup to the grocer. The grocer had purchased the syrup from a very respectable wholesale dealer in Toledo, Ohio, who claimed to have bought it from the manufacturer for pure cane syrup. The syrup was of a light yellowish-brown color, and looked like a very respectable syrup. It bad a decidedly acid reaction with blue litmus paper, turned black when sulphide of ammonium was added to it, and gave a heavy precipitate with oxalate of ammonia. On analysis I found that the body of the syrup was made of starch sugar (glucose) instead of cane sugar. The amount of foreign impurities will be given in the results of examination, being No. 9 in that series. The free sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), the sulphate of iron (copperas) and sulpho-saccharate of lime were probably the cause of the sickness in the Doty family. The results of the analysis of this syrup induced me to examine a number of table syrups to ascertain whether similar adulterations exist in other varieties of table syrups. Dr. Letheby in his admirable work " On Food," states that the Anglo-Saxon population of ...<