538 
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fen 
off 
we 
d becomes f 
fs, yet as it is k 
T uniting 
it to 
that the ftrong vitriolic 
of 
wine 
fimilar way 
we may eafily 
the fweetnefs of Sugar may be effected in a fomewhat 
From the known prop 
£*0 
f 
the unctuous part of the food with the 
has been fuppofed 
has been though 
f 
to 
fe 
pu 
or 
mal j 
fatne 
d h 
*s h< 
it 
have thought that a contrary eiTecl would be produced by this quality 
of fug 
an viz. 
by preventing the fep 
of th 
matter irom 
blood, which forms fat 
fubjecl: very elaborately 
F 
5 
Suear und 
Profeffor Murray, who has treated this 
inks that by the fermentation which 
t> 
the ftomach 
ds to 
qualities, 
w 
as 
obfer 
em 
tha 
th 
by the 
d by 
relaxim? 
to fatt 
the 
h 
id which 
body ; ai 
: fapo- 
rather 
d in this opinion he 
has the authority of Boerhaave, who fays if this 
fweet be taken in large quantities it produces emaciation by diffolving 
too much of the animal oil. He is therefore much furprifed, that 
Mr. John Hunter mould lately recommend Sugar and h 
7 
the 
beft reftoratives to thofe fuffering from great debility by a long courfe 
of mercury. 2 Wl 
may b 
th 
fTed 
s 
fined flate may be difficult to d 
of Sugar in this refpecl 
but 
in its 
d 
fi 
there can be no doubt of its affording a confiderable fhare of nourifh- 
ment, both as combined in various vegetable matters, and as feparated 
by 
Thofe animals, which wholly feed upon it in the Sugar ifland 
me remarkably corpu 
d the 
g 
children. w r hofe d 
happens fometimes for a feafon to be confined to melaffes 
lin 
g 
fhed from oth 
by th 
fup 
bulk 
ever more difpofed to fufFer by worm 
and 
thev 
are 
kew 
eafily 
how- 
lefs active 
are 
d healthy 
S 
gar h 
prove 
del 
appears 
to various 
by th 
exp 
of feveral w 
to 
ds of wor 
her by immerfing 
Jpp. Med. 
vol. 
5 
& He fays, " Miror ideo, quod adhuc nuper CI. J. Hunter (Treatife on the 
Venereal difeafe, p. 354.. fq. ) faccharum tanquam optimum reftaurans in hominibus 
diuturno jejunio debilitatis vel mercurii ufu emaciatis propofuerit, &c." L. c. p. 410. 
* In Alia, Elephants 
Evidence on Slave Trade, 
and other animals are fed upon Sug 
See Abridgment of 
them 
