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bor in one of the Wef-India Iflands. A larger quantity’ 
given alone, has fattened horfes and cattle, during the war 
before laft in Hifpaniola, for a period’of feveral months, 
in which the exportation of fugar, and the importation: of 
grain, were prevented by the want of fhips. ~ 
2. The plentiful ufe of fugar in diet, ‘is one of the bef 
preventatives that has ever been difcovered of the difeafes 
which are produced by worms. Nature feems to have im- 
planted a love for this'aliment’ in all children, as if it were 
on purpofe to defend*them from thofe ‘difeafes... T know 
a gentleman in Philadelphia, who early adopted this opi- 
nion, and who by indulsing ‘a large family of children, 
in the ufe of fugar, has preferved them. al! from the di- 
feafes ufually occafioned by worms,” | | 
+3. Sir John Pringle, has remarked that the plague has 
never been’ known im any country where fagar compofes! 
a material part of the diet of the inhabitants: “I think it 
probable that the frequency of malignant’ fevers’ of -all 
kinds has been leffened by this diet, and that its more ceneral 
ufe-would defend that clals of people, who are moft fubje& 
to malignant fevers from being fo often affe&ted by them: 
4. In the numerous and frequent diforders ofthe bréaft,’ 
which oceur in all countries, where the body is expofed to 
a variable temperature of weather, fugar affords the bafis 
of many agreeable remedies. It is ufeful in’ weaknefles,’ 
and acrid defluxions upon other parts'of the body.» Many’ 
fa&ts might’ be ‘adduced ‘in favor of this affertion. | I fhall 
mention only ‘one,’ which from the venerable name of the 
perfon, whofe cafe furnifhed it, cannot fail of command- 
ing attention and credit. Upon my inquiring of Dr. 
Frankhn, at'the requeft of a friend, about a year before. 
he died, whether he had found any relief from the pain of 
the ftone, from the Blackberry.Jam,.of.which he tookJarge 
quantities, he told me that‘he had, but’ that’ he believed 
the medicinal part of the jam, refided'wholly in the fu- 
| “yagi Nels wat cl ' gar, 
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