Adulteration of Wine ORFILA, MATHIEU JOSEPH BONAVENTURE. A Popular Treatise on the Remedies to Be Employed in Cases of Poisoning and Apparent Death, Including the Means of Detecting Poisons, of Distinguishing Real from Apparent Death, and of Ascertaining the Adulteration of Wines. Translated from the French, under the Inspection of the Author, by William Price, M.D.

Philadelphia: by Clark & Raser, for Solomon W. Conrad, 1818. Boards show wear and soiling, and the interior is moderately foxed especially to the end papers and the top edges of the pages are stained Orfila (1787-1853) authored the first book on toxicologic forensics; that work was translated and published in Philadelphia in 1817 This work published in 1818 provides information on treating people who were poisoned and a lengthy discussion of additives in wine Shaw & Shoemaker; 45183 170, [10] pp pp. (Inventory #: 460)