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Beys, and -bladder, and to cleanse those parts from purulent matter. It eases pains of 

 ' ie intestin i , - iftenS the focces, and prepares ihem-for expulsion ; it cleanses wounds 

 an ( punctures in tlie body ; also lilms in the eyes. It removes pains in ulcers and tu- 

 nu irs. 1/ concocthi x, the tlux of Humours; or if they have no tendency to suppuration, 

 by disp rsing them." 



Baptista Porta, another early writer, says " Sugar, extracted from canes, is not 

 odH" mcnrruplible ii> itself, but preserves all other things from corruption; sprinkled- 

 iipt>n wburjds it keeps them from mortifying. I have seen very large wounds cured 

 only with* sugar*. Therefore, sugar should he constantly used by those who wish to 

 prolong life; because.it will not sufferthe humours, nor the looa, in the body to pu~ 

 trifw" 



Pomet says ^"Rie white and red sugar-candy are better for rheum 1 ?, coughs, colds,. 

 catarrhs, asthmas, wheezings, than common sugar ; because, being harder, they take, 

 longer time to melt in the mouth, and keep the throat and stomach moister than sugar 

 does-. Put into the eyes, in fine powder, it takes away their dimness, and heals them, 

 being blood-shot ; it cleanses old sores, being strewed gently on them." 



Hermann says " It should not be used in large quantities by the melancholic, hypo 

 cb - IriaCal, and hysterical,, nor by people in fevers, on accotuit of its proneness to 

 ascescenee: 



' : With fat broth and sal'gent, it is used in glystcrs for children ; and it is also given 

 to them, newly born, to relax the bowels, with oil of sweet almonds- 



" Taken with oil of sweet almonds, it is a remedy for pains in the bowels " 



Boerhaave observes of^sugar that it never generates phlegm, but, on the contrary,, 

 dissolves it. Neitherrdoes it increase the bile, or is converted into it ; but opens, at- 

 tenuates, and divides it. At the same time, by'dissolving the oleaginous (.articles in 

 the body, it may induce leanness; and by too much attenuation, produce debility, and 

 too gi it lexity.": 



1)7. Frederick Slare, fir speaking of sugar, says, " I" will set .down an experiment I* 

 had from a friend : He was a little lean man, who used to drink much wine in company 

 of strong df inkers-; 1 asked him how he was able to bear it. He, told me that he re- 

 ceived much damage in his health, and was apt to be fuddled, before he uses! to dis- 

 solve sugar in his u in.- ; from that time he was never sick nor inllamed, nor fuddled, 

 with wine. He usually drank.red wine. I made use of sugar myself in red wine, and 

 found the like goo. I effect ; that it prevents heating my blood, or giving my head any 

 disturbance, it 1 drink a larger portion than ordinary. 1 allow about two ounces 

 of su^ar to a pint of wine ; and dare assert that this proportion will take off the. 

 heating quality of wine in a good measure ; and, after one has some time used himself 

 to add sugar to his wine, he will be pleased with the taste, and feel the comfortable and 

 eordial Virtue of this composition. Let those that are thin and apt to have hot hands, 

 and heated brains, upon drinking wine, and .can not abstain,. or be excused, from drink- 

 ing, take notice ol this counsel, and try it for some time; and they will be pleased with, 

 the delicious taste, and salubrious effects, of this saccharine addition." 



" In the West-Indies," says Dr. Moseley, " the negro children, from crude v^ge 

 table diet, are much afflicted with worms. In crop tune, when the canes are ripe, 



Dd 2: these- 



* The method of treating -fresh wounds among the Turks, is. first to wash them with wine, anil iln n sprinkle. 

 powdered sugar upon them. The celebrated M. BH;oste cured ob.-'J!:ate ulcers with sugar dissolved in a 

 strong dec- ctiori of walnut leaves. This I have found, says Dr. Moseley, to be an excellent application. Su 

 gar, Jxed with the pulp of roasted oranges, ami applied to putrid or ili-tlisposcd ulcers, pious a powerful 

 pprrector, . 



