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" Of all the marvellous products o£ the Coal-tav 

 industiy/' said Sir H. Roscoe, " the most remarkable is 

 " perhaps the production of a sweet principle surpassing 

 " sugar in its sweetness 220 times. This substance is 

 " not a sugar, it contains carbon, hydrogen, sulphur, 

 " oxygen and nitrogen. 



" Its formula is : 



I SO,} 



^' aud its chemical name is Benzoyl Sidjihoiiic iiiiide 



" or, for common use saccharine. Saccharine pos- 



" sesses a far sweeter taste than cane-sugar, and has 



" a faint and delicate flavour of bitter almonds. It is 



" said to possess also considerable antiseptic properties. 



" On this accouut, and because of its great sweetness, 



" it is possible that it may be useful in producing fruit 



" preserves or jams, consisting almost of pure fruit 



" alone, the small percentage of saccharine necessary for 



" sweetning these preserves being probably sufficient to 



" prevent mouldiness. Saccharine has been proved by 



" Stutzer, of Bonn, to be quite uninjurious, v/hen admi- 



" nistered in considerable doses to dogs, the equivalent 



" as regard sweetness in sugar administered being 



" comparable to over a pound of sugar each day. Stutzer 



" foimd, moreover, that saccharine docs not nourish as 



" sugar does, but that it passes off in the urine unchan- 



" ged. It is proposed than to use it for many medical 



" purposes, where canesugar is excluded from the diet 



" of certain patients, as in the cases of dlahctes nielli' 



