The Home Medical Library, Volume 5Kenelm Winslow Review of reviews Company, 1907 - Medicine |
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Page 87 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 87 - If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. SEC. 8. That the term
Page 88 - If it contains any added poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient which may render such article injurious to the health of a person consuming it...
Page 87 - If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it ; (3) If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it : (4) If it is an imitation of, or is sold under the name of another article : (5) If it consists wholly or in part, of a diseased, decomposed...
Page 68 - Pending the introduction of the copper treatment of water on a large scale the householder may avail himself of a method for the purification of drinking water by the use of strips of copper foil about...
Page 88 - If it is colored, coated, polished or powdered, whereby damage is concealed, or if it is made to appear better or of greater value than it is. Sixth: If it contains poisonous ingredients...
Page 63 - Place the required number of pounds of copper sulphate in a coarse bag— gunny-sack or some equally loose mesh — and, attaching this to the stern of a rowboat near the surface of the water, row slowly back and forth over the reservoir, on each trip keeping the boat within 10 to 20 feet of the previous path. In this manner about 100 pounds of copper sulphate can...
Page 212 - When they receive the discharge of fixtures on any floor above the first, they must be extended in full calibre at least one foot above the roof coping, and well away from all shafts, windows, chimneys or other ventilating openings. When less than four inches in diameter, they must be enlarged to four inches at a point not less than one foot below the roof surface by an increaser not less than nine (9) inches long.
Page 187 - ... settling of the pipe. Each section must be wetted before applying the cement, and the space between each hub and the small end of the next section must be completely and uniformly filled with the best hydraulic cement. Care must be taken to prevent any cement being forced into the drain to become an obstruction. No tempered-up cement shall be used.
Page 88 - If it be colored, or coated, or polished, or powdered, whereby damage is concealed, or it is made to appear better than it really is, or of greater value.