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by the acid which it contains, it rather tends to emaciate 
than to fatten the body ; and in this opinion, he observes, 
that he has the authority of Boerhaave, who says, if this 
sweet be taken in large quantities, it produces emaciation 
by dissolving too much of the animal oil. He is therefore 
much surprised that Mr. John Hunter should recommend 
sugar and honey as the best restorative to those st i 
from great debility, by a long course of mercury. It 
certainly, however, nutritious in such cases, in its ae 
state, whatevet it may do in its refined state. Those ani 
mals which wholly feed upon it in the sugar islands, be- 
come remarkably corpulent; and negro children, whose 
diet happens for a season to be confined to molasses, are 
easily distinguished from others by their superior bulk— 
they are however said to be more disposed to suffer by 
worms, and are probably less active and healthy. 
Sugar, however, appears, by the experiments of several 
writers, to prove deleterious to several kinds of worms, 
either by immersing them in a solution of sugar, or sprin- 
kling it upon their bodies ; and 20 grains of | * 
forced into the stomach of afrog, produced immediate tor- 
por, and death, which followed in the course of an hour: 
it also has proved fatal to pigeons, and to the galling kind, 
but not to sparrows; and with sheep and dogs, it had no 
other effect than that of a cathartic. Reed. 
Sugar may certainly be taken into the human stomach, 
in pretty large quantities, without producing any bad con- 
sequences, though proofs are not wanting of its mischiev- 
vous effects, in which, by its attenuating and dissolving the 
fluids, and relaxing the solids, debility and disease have 
been said to be produced. Stark, for many days, took 4 
ounces of sugar, to 8, 10, 16, and even 20, with bread and 
water; by which nausea, but no enience, en- 
No. 470,—Saco. A restorative dietetic. See No. 
alo; : re 
No. 471,—Sa. SAP) num. The gum-resin. 
_ Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 629. 
_. Officinal by the European Colleges. Is the produet of an 
| “unknown Persian plant; is one of the alliaceous fetid gums, 
Dose, gts. x to 588. 
and, like them, antispasmodic. 
