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my blood, or giving my head any disturbance, 

 if I drink a larger portion than ordinary. I 

 allow about two ounces of sugar to a pint of 

 wine ; and dare assert that this proportion 

 will take off the heating of wine in a good 

 measure ; and after one has some time used 

 himself to add sugar to his wine, he will be 

 pleased with the taste, and feel the comfort- 

 able and cordial virtue of this composition. 

 Let those that are thin, and apt to have hot 

 hands, and heated brains, upon drinking, and 

 cannot abstain, or be excused from drinking, 

 take notice of this counsel, and try it for some 

 time, and they will be pleased with the deli- 

 cious taste and salubrious effects of this sac- 

 charine addition." 



" In the West Indies," says Dr. Moseley, 

 " the negro children, from crude vegetable 

 diet, are much afflicted with worms. In crop 

 time, when the canes are ripe, these children 

 are always sucking them. Give a negro infant 

 a piece of sugar-cane to suck, and the impo- 

 verished milk of his mother is tasteless to 

 him. This salubrious luxury soon changes 

 his appearance : worms are discharged ; his 

 enlarged belly and joints diminish ; his ema- 

 ciated limbs increase ; and if canes were 

 always ripe, he would never be diseased. I 



