Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families . te diarrhoea.(Pereira.) Pur., Sfc. The ground chicory of the shops,like ground coffee, is almost universally adul-terated. Pigments are added to it to colourit, and various vegetable substances to lessenits value. The following articles have beenreported to hav
Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families . te diarrhoea.(Pereira.) Pur., Sfc. The ground chicory of the shops,like ground coffee, is almost universally adul-terated. Pigments are added to it to colourit, and various vegetable substances to lessenits value. The following articles have beenreported to have been detected in roastedchicory, or to have been known to be used toadulterate it:—Venetian red, reddle, and redclay; roasted acorns, beans, carrots, damageddog-biscuits, damaged bread, damaged wheat,horse-chestnuts, mangel wurzel, parsnips, peas,rye, and sugar; coffee flights (coffee husks),coffina (roasted lupins), Hambro powder(roasted peas coloured with reddle), and themarc of coffee; exhausted bark (from the tanyards), logwood dust, mahogany dust, &c. Ithas also been asserted that the scorched liversof bullocks, horses, and dogs have been ap-plied to the same purpose j but of this thereis not sufficient evidence. The only way toavoid being thus cheated or poisoned is to buythe chicory whole, and to grind it at Microscopic appcarauce of chicory root. Roasted chicory is highly absorbent of mois-ture, and should, therefore, be always kept inclose vessels (bottles or canisters), the sameas coffee. If the lumps become tough or soft,or the powder cakes together, it is unfit foruse; hut in some cases it may be recovered, byexposing it on a plate in an oven until it againbecomes perfectly dry or brittle. Tests.—1. Powdered chicory thrown onwater turns it reddish-brown and rapidlysinks, leaving light impurities either floatingor diffused through the liquid.—2. The colddecoction tested with tincture, or solution ofiodine, gives a brown colour; if it turnspurple, blue,
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