Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Adulteration, Analytical Chemistry, Medical Practitioners, Electricity, Crime

    Responds to a report of the Lancet's Analytical Sanitary Commission, which states that several different types of jam are adulterated with copper. Adds that the '"little glass [jam] jar" which was analysed [...] has proved quite a jar of electricity' since it sends a shock 'to our nervous system'.