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1900 English beer poisoning, the Glossary

In 1900, more than 6,000 people in England were poisoned by arsenic-tainted beer, with more than 70 of the affected dying as a result.^[1]

Alcoholic polyneuropathy

Alcoholic polyneuropathy is a neurological disorder in which peripheral nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously.

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Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and the atomic number 33.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Damages

At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury.

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Ernest Septimus Reynolds

Ernest Septimus Reynolds FRCP (7 April 1861 – 22 May 1926) was emeritus professor of clinical medicine at the University of Manchester.

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Food safety

Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.

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Gainsford Bruce

Sir Gainsford Bruce (1834 – 24 February 1912) was a British politician and judge.

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Garston, Liverpool

Garston is a district of Liverpool, England.

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Glucose

Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.

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Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Hydrolysis

Hydrolysis is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds.

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Inverted sugar syrup, also called invert syrup, invert sugar, simple syrup, sugar syrup, sugar water, bar syrup, syrup USP, or sucrose inversion, is a syrup mixture of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose, that is made by hydrolytic saccharification of the disaccharide sucrose.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Laporte plc

Laporte plc was a leading British chemicals business that operated from 1888 to 2000.

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1875

This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1875.

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Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast.

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Malt

Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air, a process known as "malting".

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Malting

Malting is the process of steeping, germinating and drying grain to convert it into malt.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Midlands

The Midlands is the central part of England, bordered by Wales, Northern England, Southern England and the North Sea.

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Morinaga Milk arsenic poisoning incident

The Morinaga Milk arsenic poisoning incident occurred in 1955 in Japan and is believed to have resulted in the deaths of over 100 infants. 1900 English beer poisoning and Morinaga Milk arsenic poisoning incident are Mass poisoning.

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North West England

North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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Petroleum coke

Petroleum coke, abbreviated coke, pet coke or petcoke, is a final carbon-rich solid material that derives from oil refining, and is one type of the group of fuels referred to as cokes.

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Pyrite

The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide).

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Royal commission

A royal commission is a major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a defined issue in some monarchies.

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Sale of Goods Act 1893

The Sale of Goods Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to regulate contracts in which goods are sold and bought and to define the rights and duties of the parties (where not expressly defined in the agreement), while specifically preserving the relevance of ordinary contractual principles.

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Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_English_beer_poisoning

1900 English beer poisoning, the Glossary

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See also

1900 disasters in the United Kingdom

1900 health disasters

1900 in England

1901 in England

1902 disasters in the United Kingdom

1902 health disasters

1902 in England

Arsenic

Beer in the United Kingdom

Food safety in the United Kingdom

Health disasters in England

References