; it in this disease.”*_ What a vain 
: tice !. How trifling, and how 
useless! As in the case of the Flowers of Pea the prac- 
tice was known Cora years ago!!! sea 
No. 469 —Saccnanum OFFICINALE: Sugarcane. 
, Jeff. Coll: No. 627—figure of the plant 
Native of Affica and Lien Asta as well atin indies 
and Arabia Felix; eee spontaneously in America 
hardly true. Is ted in the West Indies and Lou- 
jsiana, &e. Asclepias Syriaca, Zea Mays, yield st, and at 
Kamtschatka, Heracleum spondylium, and “Fucus sacchara- 
Poe Se tue, yi 823, 
-- Margraff obtained from wot root of shies beet, be oz. pure 
ashi gares. caren eon gp garg 
" syTup containing a little sugar. Zobaxir is sugar of bam- 
boo. Urine of diabetic patients yields sugar. 
Sugar, as an article of dict, is well known, isa neutral sa- 
line substance, the acid of which Be or) ; 
to separate by means of the nitrous 
that several other both 
of sugar seem to be an oily and a mucil s 
thou 
n Of these substances oon 
that the selon eile acid bec 
with alcohol, we easily eo 
one hdr 
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| of the « oily 
gh it is not satisfactoril cnhined how S 
