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CANE SUGAR RELIEVES HEART DISEASE 



The issue of the British Medical Journal of September 21st contains a most inter- 

 esting article on the treatment of a certain form of heart disease by sugar. It is 

 interesting, not merely from a pathological, but also from a commercial and scientific 

 point of view. The treatment of heart disease with cane sugar was first brought before 

 the notice of the medical profession generally by the author, Dr. Arthur Goulston, in 

 a short article published by him in the British Medical Journal in March, 1911, and 

 the fact that the injection of cane sugar had a beneficial effect on certain forms of 

 heart disease was established by him in his thesis for the degree of M.D. read at 

 Cambridge in May of this year. Now, Dr. Goulston says that numerous other medical 

 men have tried the treatment, and in a large number of cases the improvement in the 

 state of the heart has been permanent. It may be established, therefore, that although 

 the sugar treatment is no panacea for disease of the heart, it is "a valuable addition 

 to the therapeutic armament against failing irregular hearts." But perhaps to the West 

 Indies the most important point on the subject which Dr. Goulston brings forward is 

 the fact which has been practically proved that the treatment must be by cane sugar, 

 and not by beet. He cites two cases which came directly under his own observation 

 where the patients' condition rapidly improved when cane sugar was substituted for 

 beet sugar. He says in his report : 



"I naturally ask myself. Why is this? I venture to suggest that there is 'something' 

 in cane sugar (West Indian) which is not present in beet sugar. What is it? Is it 

 of the nature of a co-enzyme or activator, or what? 



"Now, I believe I am right in saying that up to the present time sugar, regarded from 

 the purely chemical point of view, is sugar whatever its source may be, so I do not get 

 much help from the chemists; but, in spite of this, I ventured to bring my idea to the 

 notice of three of the leaders in the chemical and physiological world to have given 

 me much help in the past, and they all agree that, although they do not know of anything 

 of the kind, it is not inherently impossible that there may be a factor in cane sugar (West 

 Indian) which is not present in beet sugar. 



"Before closing this part of my paper I should like to mention a curious fact in con- 

 nection with the feeding of bees which is interesting in this connection. Practical bee- 

 keepers tell me that it is well known that the syrup used for feeding bees in winter 

 must be made with West Indian sugar, for if it is made with beet sugar the bees de- 

 teriorate, and many contract disease and die. Here, again, it would seem that there 

 is something in the West Indian cane sugar which has a beneficial effect on the bees, 

 but which is not present in beet sugar." — JVest India Circular. 



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