The Grocer's Companion and Merchant's Hand-Book; Containing a Comprehensive Account of the Growth, Manufacture and Qualities of Every Article Sold by Grocers, Also Tables of Weights and Measures, and Information of a General Nature of Value to Grocers and Coun (Paperback)

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: THE GROCER'S COMPANION. ACID PHOSPHATES. -- The introduction of acid phosphate as a manufactured product into our commercial price-lists is of comparatively recent date, though they long held a place in the Pharma- cceopia as a medicinal remedy. Its present existence as a popular food product, and as a powerful agent in building up and strengthening the human system, is due to the scientific research and business enterprise of Prof. E. N. Horsford of Cambridge, Mass. The intrinsic value of the preparation, and the extraordinary and uniformly beneficial results achieved by its use, have deservedly gained for it a permanent and firm place in the regular market quotations. Being comparatively unknown, as regards its chemical combinations, to the general public, a brief description of its composition, properties and influence on the system may not be uninteresting. Phosphatic salts, in one form or another, are always present in healthy animal organizations -- as phosphate of lime in the bones, phosphates of potassa and soda and iron in the cerebral, nervous and muscular systems, and as phosphoric acid in the cellular structure of the stomach; so that when there is an absence or deficiency of these phosphatic acids in the human body, sickness and disease inevitably results. In such a case, therefore, the individual can only be restored to health by the instant and constant supply of these phosphates in adequate and suitable proportion to the condition of the person. ADULTERATIONS. -- It has always been the fashion to blame the Retail Dealer for all the iniquities of adulteration, regardless of the fact that, in many cases, the grower, the merchant, or some one of the many intermediate parties having an interest in the product, are much more frequently the guilty parties...