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GIRARDIN (J.). Report on the use of bone gelatin in the diet of the poor and the workers. Paris, F. Baudry, 1831. In-8, paperback, printed green cover. Faux-title, title, 67 pp. First edition of this report describing the advantages of the process developed by Joseph d'Arcet (1777-1844), who employed acid and developed the use of steam to extract gelatin from bones, explained in his Recherches sur les substances nutritives que renferent les os (161 pp.). Since Papin's research at the end of the 18th century, people have been trying to facilitate the extraction of gelatin from bones for use as a food substance. The addition of gelatin to food increases its nutritive principles and thus saves money. The author, a professor of chemistry, citing d'Arcet, Puymaurin (see this name in this catalog) presents the great establishments in Paris that use this food material and demonstrates how to apply this method in Rouen. Autograph address from the author: "To my friend Aubert. JG". Some foxing. Partially uncropped, covers soiled, small tears on spine. Vicar, 406.
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GIRARDIN (J.). Report on the use of bone gelatin in the diet of the poor and the workers. Paris, F. Baudry, 1831. In-8, paperback, printed green cover. Faux-title, title, 67 pp. First edition of this report describing the advantages of the process developed by Joseph d'Arcet (1777-1844), who employed acid and developed the use of steam to extract gelatin from bones, explained in his Recherches sur les substances nutritives que renferent les os (161 pp.). Since Papin's research at the end of the 18th century, people have been trying to facilitate the extraction of gelatin from bones for use as a food substance. The addition of gelatin to food increases its nutritive principles and thus saves money. The author, a professor of chemistry, citing d'Arcet, Puymaurin (see this name in this catalog) presents the great establishments in Paris that use this food material and demonstrates how to apply this method in Rouen. Autograph address from the author: "To my friend Aubert. JG". Some foxing. Partially uncropped, covers soiled, small tears on spine. Vicar, 406.
