SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM. ORD. LI. Graimina. 793 
What may be the effects of Sugar in this respect in its refined 
state may be difficult to determine; but in its crude state there 
can be no doubt of its affording a considerable share of nourish- 
ment, both as combined in various vegetable matters, and as 
separated by art. Those animals, which wholly feed upon it in 
the Sugar islands, become remarkably corpulent; and the negro 
children, whose diet happens sometimes for a season to be con- 
fined to melasses, are easily distinguished from others by their 
superior bulk;* they are however more disposed to suffer by 
worms, and are likewise less active and healthy. 
Sugar however appears by the experiments of several writers to 
prove deleterious to various kinds of worms, either by immersing 
them in a solution of Sugar, or sprinkling it upon their bodies ;* 
and twenty grains of lump Sugar forced into the stomach of a 
frog, produced immediate torpor and death, which followed in 
the course of an hour:' it also proved fatal to pigeons, and to the 
galline kind, but not to sparrows; and with sheep and dogs it had 
no other effect than that of:a cathartic. 
Sugar may certainly be taken into the stomach in pretty large 
quantities without producing any bad consequences, though proofs 
are not wanting of its mischievous effects, in which, by its at- 
tenuating and dissolving the fluids, and relaxing the solids, 
debility and disease are said to have been produced. Stark ' for 
many days took from four ounces of Sugar to eight, ten, sixteen, 
and even twenty, with bread and water, by which nausea, flatus, 
ulceration in the mouth, with redness and tumefaction of the 
gums, oppression, purging, ee and redness of the right nostril, 3 
* In Asia, Elephants and other animals are fed meee. Sugar. See dirtiest 
ef Evidence on Slave Trade. 
* See Redi obs. de animaleul. vivis in corp. viv. p. 166. sq. 
i Carminati Opusc. Therap. vol. i. p. 1138. 
k Carm. 1. ¢ 
} Vide Clinical & anatomical observations with experiments dietetical & statical. 
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