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‘s ofhoney, in reeds, refembling grains of falt, of a 
** white colour, and brittle, and poffeffing a detergent 
**.and purgative power like to honey; and which 
** being boiled, in the fame manner as honey, is 
*« rendered lefs purgative, without impairing its nu- 
** tritive quality.” 
Paulus Aigineta** fpeaks of fugar, as growing, in 
his time, in Europe, and alfo as brought from 
Arabia Felix; the latter of which he feems to think 
lefs {weet than the fugar produced in Europe, and 
neither injurious to the ftomach nor caufing thirft, 
as the European fugar was apt to do. . 
Achmet, ¢? a writer, who, according to fome, 
lived about the year 830, {peaks familiarly of fugar 
as common in his time. Weds: 
Avicenna,} * the Arab phyfician, {peaks of fugar 
as being a produce of reeds ; but it appears he meant 
the fugar called ‘Tabaxir or Tabbarzet, as he calls it 
by that name. 
Pp Ig. 
* Paul. Aginete Vox Mel. Meas. P. 632. Medic. Art. 
princ, Ed. Henrici Stephani, 1567. 
+ Vide Meurfii Glofs, Grxc. Barb, & Du Cange Glofs; 
ad Script med. & inf. Grecitatis. 
¢ De Zuccaro. Lib. II. Tra& II. 
De Melle. Lib. I]. Tra& I1. 
* A.D. circ. goo. vel fecundum Friend multo pofterior. 
Hift. Medic. 
2 A. D, 830. 3 A. D, 980. natus. 
