250 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



The plentiful use of sugar in diet is one 

 of the best preventives that has ever been 

 discovered for the diseases which are pro- 

 duced by worms. 



Nature seems to have implanted a love for 

 this aliment in all children, as if it were on 

 purpose to defend them from those diseases. 

 Dr. Rush knew a gentleman in Philadelphia, 

 who early adopted this opinion, and who, by 

 indulging a large family of children in the use 

 of sugar, has preserved them all from the 

 diseases usually occasioned by worms. 



It was formerly alleged, that the eating 

 of sugar destroys the colour of and spoils the 

 teeth: this proves to be a mistake, for no peo- 

 ple on earth have finer teeth than the negroes 

 in Jamaica. 



Dr. Alston, formerly professor of Botany 

 and Materia Medica at Edinburgh, endea- 

 voured to obviate this vulgar opinion : he 

 had a fine set of teeth, which he ascribed 

 solely to his eating great quantities of sugar. 



It often proves a useful external remedy ? 

 when mixed with the pulp of a roasted orange 

 and applied to putrid or ill disposed ulcers 

 it is found a powerful corrector. 



Sir John Pringle has remarked, that the 

 plague has never been known in any country 



