James Sneed, for receiving adulterating ingredients, 25_l._ and costs.
John Rewell and another, brewers, ditto, verdict 100_l._
John Swain and another, ditto, for using adulterating ingredients, verdict 200_l._
John Ing, brewer, ditto, stayed on defendant's death.
John Hall, ditto, for receiving adulterating ingredients, 5_l._ and costs.
John Webb, retailer, for using adulterating ingredients.
Ralph Fogg and another, brewers, for receiving and using adulterating ingredients.
John Gray, brewer, for using adulterating ingredients, 300_l._ and costs.
Richard Bowman, for using liquid in bladder, supposed to be extract of cocculus, 100_l._
Richard Bowman, brewer, for ditto, 100_l._ and costs.
Septimus Stephens, brewer, for ditto, verdict 50_l._
James Rogers and another, brewer, for ditto, 220_l._ and costs.
George Moore, brewer, for using colouring, 300_l._ and costs.
John Morris, for using adulterating ingredients.
Webb and Ball, for using ginger, Guinea pepper, and brown powder, (name unknown), 1st 100_l._ 2nd 500_l._
Henry Clarke, for using molasses, 150_l._
Kewell and Burrows, for using cocculus india, multum, &c. 100_l._
Allatson and Abraham, for using cocculus india, multum, and porter flavour, 630_l._
Swain and Sewell, for using cocculus india, Guinea-opium, &c. 200_l._
John Ing, for using cocculus india, hard colouring, and honey, _dead_.
John Cowell, for using Spanish-liquorice, and mixing table beer with strong beer, 50_l._
John Mitchell, for using cocculus india, vitriol, and Guinea pepper, _left the country_.
Lloyd and Man, for using extract of cocculus, 25_l._
John Gray, for using ginger, hartshorn shavings, and molasses, 300_l._
Jon Hoffman, for using molasses, Spanish juice, and mixing table with strong beer, 130_l._
Rogers and Boon, for using extract of cocculus, multum, porter flavour, &c. 220_l._
---- Betteley, for using wormwood, coriander seed, and Spanish juice, 200_l._
William Lane, brewer, for using wormwood instead of hops, 5_l._ and costs.
That a minute portion of an unwholesome ingredient, daily taken in beer, cannot fail to be productive of mischief, admits of no doubt; and there is reasons to believe that a small quantity of a narcotic substance (and cocculus indicus is a powerful narcotic[71]), daily taken into the stomach, together with an intoxicating liquor, is highly more efficacious than it would be without the liquor. The effect may be gradual; and a strong constitution, especially if it be assisted with constant and hard labour, may counteract the destructive consequences perhaps for many years; but it never fails to shew its baneful effects at last. Independent of this, it is a well-established fact, that porter drinkers are very liable to apoplexy and palsy, without taking this narcotic poison.