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where aged people have been supported many 

 years by scarcely any thing but sugar. 



" Taken in tea, milk, and beer, it has been 

 found not only sufficient to sustain nature, 

 but has caused lean people to grow fat, and 

 has increased the vigour of their bodies. The 

 late king of Sardinia ate a great quantity of 

 sugar daily. He ate it by itself, without dis- 

 solving it, or mixing it with any thing. It 

 was his chief food. After his death his body 

 was opened, all his viscera were perfectly 

 sound. 



" The great Duke of Beaufort, as he was 

 called, who died about 100 years ago, at the 

 age of seventy, was opened; his viscera were 

 found in the same manner, as perfect as in a 

 person of twenty, and his teeth white and 

 firm. He had for forty years before his death 

 used a pound of sugar daily, in his wine, cho- 

 colate, and sweetmeats. 



" Slare says, his grandfather, M. Malory, was 

 strong and cheerful in his eighty-second year; 

 at which time his hair changed somewhat 

 dark ; his old teeth came out, pushed away 

 by young ones, which continued so to do 

 until he had a new set of teeth complete. 

 He lived easy, and free from pain or sickness, 

 until his hundredth year, when he died. He 



