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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1913, 8 December 1874, Page 3

At the sitting of the Select Committee of the House of Commons oil the Adulteration Act, 1872, und r the presidency of Mr C. S. Read, Dr. Cameron, Professor of Medicine in the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, and analyst for the city of Dublin, in the course of a long examination, said he had examined large quantities of whisky, both that manufactured iu Ireland and sent from Glasgow, and had found it unadulterated, although the prevalent idea was that it was aduli crated with bluestone, oil of viti il, or copperas A great de il of whisky was sold immediately after being made, and it then contained amylic alcohol, which was worse than any adulteration. It was so fiery that it bore a, large dilution of water. When people drank the new whisky containing the fusil oil, the effects were maddening; and he would suggest that whisky should n. t be allowed out of the bonded stores in Dulliu until it was at least one year old. It was his deliberate opinion that new whisky, instead of adulterated whisky, did the harm; and again he said it shcultl not be allowed to be sold under the age of one year.—The chairman: I ask you again, are you of opinion it is the newness of the spirits rather than the adulteration that is the objectionable feature ?—Dr Cameron: This is my deliberate opinion, having lmd gi eat experience in the examination of spirits both in Ireland and Scotland, and it is moat dcaira le that the sale of no * whisky should be o mtcollc { However, whon you give the \ oo r er classes mellow old whisky they don't lit? it, as tiny say that it has not a "bito." (Laughter.)