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them in a folution of Sugar, or fprinkling it upon their bodies ; h and 
twenty grains of lump Sugar forced into the ftomach of a frog, pro- 
duced immediate torpor and 
fl n hour :' it alfo proved fat 
death, which followed 
to 
P*g 
d to the 
but not to fparrows ; and with fheep and dogs it had 
than that of a cath; 
the courfe of 
gallinse kind, 
o other effect 
Sug 
may 
inly b 
take 
into the ftomach in 
pretty 
quantities without producing any bad confequences, though proofs 
g 
effe&s, in which, by 
t> 
are 
wanting of its mifch 
d difTolving the fluids, and relaxing the folids, debility and difeaie 
faid to have been produced. Stark 1 for many days took from 
, and even twenty, with 
ulceration in the mouth. 
four ounces of Sugar to eight, ten, fi 
bread and w 
which naufe 
fl 
with rednefs and tumefadion of the gums, oppreffion, purging, pain, 
and rednefs of the right noftril, bleeding at the nofe, and livid ftreaks. 
the right fcapula, were produced. We are alfo told that a boy 
was much affe&ed by acidity of the ftomach, in a ftiort time 
jgar: foon afterwards he was 
who 
greedily ate a large quantity of lump S 
ill, and the next morning found dead in his bed 
d oth 
Up 
marks of a diffolved ftate 
m 
What degree of credit ought to be 
ment of 
readers 
taken 
examining his body, red fpo 
of the blood were difcovered 
given to thefe and other cafes of the like kind, we leave to the jud 
but that the liberal ufe of Sugar to many 
ftomachs has greatly impaired the digeftive powers, and laid a foun 
dation for various complaints, is highly probable. At the fame time 
we mull: admit, that feveral indulge largely in this article, if not with 
advantage, at lead with impunity. 
medicine, Sugar cannot be confidered to poiTefs much power. 
/ 
A 
s 
Dr. Cullen chiles it with th 
fap 
ed 
nd Bergius ftates it to be 
nutnens 
I 
[ 
relaxans, pectoralis, vulneraria, 
fep 
ploved 
it h 
alfo 
flections both fugar and honey are frequently 
been advantage 
llv u 
fed in calculous com 
i v 
nd from its known power in preferving animal and veg 
k See Redi obf. de anhnalcuL vivis in corp. viv. p. 166. fq 
'armincti Qpufc. Therap. vol. u 
P 
a 
arm. 
V 
IS 
/. c. 
"perlments dietetical & ' Jlati 
, p. 129. 
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