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of maple swvar wit's an equal quantify of Indian corn, dried am! powdered, in its rrfiiky 

 I . . This mixture is packed in little baskets, which are frequently wetted in t*&- 

 vel'ii ;, withoui injuri>ig-the,$agai'. A few spoonfuls of if-, mixed' with half a pint oF 

 s;;n raterj affoi I them a- pleasant and strengthening meal. From the degrees of 

 stre urishment winch are conveyed into animal bodies, by a small bulk of 



sugar, it, might probably be &iven to horses with great advantage, when they are used 

 in ' ices ur under circumstances which make it difficult or expensive to supptfrt tnetu 

 with more buiky'or weighty aliment. A pound -of sugar, with grass or hay, has sup- 

 ported'tne ti h and spirits yf an horse during a whole days labour in one of the 

 West- India isian.i-,, A larger quantity given alone bus fattened horses and cattle, dur- 

 ing tlie war before last, in Hispaniola, for a period of several months, in which the 

 exportation of sugars and the importation f grain, were prevented lv, tiie want of ships. 



' : rhe plentiful use-'of sugar in diet is one of the best preventatives that has ever 

 been discovered of the disc uses which are produced by worms. Nature seems to have 

 imp! irted a. lov6 for this aliment in all children, as if it were on purpose I i I end 

 them from those. diseases. Dr. Rn li knew a gentleman in Philadelphia, who early 

 adopted this opinion, .and who, by indulging a- large family of children in the use ol 

 sir;:'/-, has preserved them all from the diseases usually occasioned by worms. 



iir Job n Riingle has remarked, that the plague has never been known in any 

 coantrv wl ere sugar composes a material part of the diet of th in sal - Dr. Rush 



Ihinl sit probable that the frequency -of malignant fevers of all kin Is h ; I en e ened 

 by this diet, and that its-more general use would defend that t i s of people who are 

 most ubject to malignant fevers from being so often affected by th .1 



" In th numerous and frequent disorders of the breast, which occur in all countries 

 where the body is exposed to a variable temperature of the weather, sugar affords the 

 basis of many agreeable remedies. L is useful in weaknesses, and acrid defhixiona 

 u!) mi other parts of the body. Many facts might be adduced in favour jf this assertion. 

 Dr Rush mentions unlj one, which, iron the \ e name of the person whose 



case furnished it, cann it fail .of commanding att< nti >n an I credit Upon my enquiring 

 ofDr Franklin, at the request of a friend '(says oui resp author} about a year 



before he died, whether he had fb@wcl any relief from 'the pain of the stone from the 

 blackberry jam, ofwbicl he took large quantitii , he told me had, but that he be- 

 lieved the medicinal partof the jam resid I holly in the sugar; and, as a reason for 

 thinking so, he added, that lie often foun I n same reli 1 b) ti ' in ; about half a pint 

 of a syrup, prepared b; boiling a little brown sugar in water, just before he went to 

 bed, that he did from" a dose of opium. K has been supposed by some of the early 

 physiciansof our. country, that the sugar obtained rom the maple tree is more medi- 

 cinal than that obtained from the VI st India sugar-cane ; b.ut this opinion I believe is 

 without foundation. It is prefi cable in i ls qualities to the West-India sugar only from 

 its superior cleanlines >. 



It has been said that sugar injures the teeth ; but this opinion now has so few advo- 

 cates that it eoes not deserve a eri ms refut ition " 



\ icjelus-Sal s thai "Sugar, used in a proper manner, nourishes the body, ge^ 

 nerates good blatod, cherishes the spirits, makes peoph prolific, strengthens children 

 in t . Bvomb ; and this is not astonishing because it contains similar virtue to the very 

 sw.' 't wines. 



" It is serviceable also in complaints of the throat and lungs; hoarseness and'difficulty 

 of breaming, arising from an acrid defluxion } for .ulcerations of Uie lungs, chest, kui- 



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