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punctures in the body; also films in the 

 eyes. It removes pains in ulcers and tu- 

 mours, by concocting the flux of humours ; 

 or, if they have no tendency to suppuration, 

 by dispersing them." 



Baptista Porta, another early writer, says, 

 " Sugar, extracted from canes, is not only 

 incorruptible in itself, but preserves all other 

 things from corruption ; sprinkled upon 

 wounds, it keeps them from mortifying. I 

 have seen very large wounds cured only with 

 sugar. Therefore sugar should be con- 

 stantly used by those who wish to prolong 

 life; because it will not, suffer the humours, 

 nor the food in the body to putrefy." 



Pomet says, " The white and red sugar- 

 candy are better for rheums, coughs, colds, 

 catarrhs, asthmas, and wheezings, than com- 

 mon sugar; because, being harder, they take 

 longer time to melt in the mouth, and keep 

 the throat and stomach moister than sugar 

 does. Put into the eyes, in fine powder, it 

 takes away their dimness, and heals them, 

 being bloodshot ; it cleans old sores, being- 

 strewed gently on them." 



Herman says, " It should not be used in 

 large quantities by the melancholic, hypo- 



