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of the mouth. 13uc then,if we ftiould fuppofe^that a Diamond were 
ihoufands of times lefs, and were put upon our hand with the prtf- 
fure of one pound weighc, it would then not only caufe finart , but 
doubtlefs, if no bones did hinder, run through the whole hand. 
JufUo, if the fmall grains of Sugar were thoufands of times lefs 
than they are, and rigid withal , then their points would not touch 
imt\y globuls at once, but only one globul, and fo would produce 
no pleafure but pain,for with their ftarp angles they woul4 wound 
the g^cbuls of our Tongue. Bur, Sugar is a body diffoluble in water, 
and that the more readily irf warmth do accompany it. Wherefore 
that fubflance, when put upon the Tongue,is diflToIved by the nioi* 
flure and uannth it meets with there, and unites with the Sorliva of 
the mouth, and fo proves even fmooth and fofr upon the Tongue, 
afFefiing it with pleafure. But SaU^ou the contrary, though it dif- 
folves in wateras to its great parts, yet doth it retain fome rigid 
fmall particles, which by warmth, when they are taken upon the 
Tongue.grow yet more rigid, and are fo fubtile, that they frick the 
:^g'obuls of our Tongue, though not fo ftiiF, that they mund them. 
To this I flialladdmy Obfervaiions aboutM^g/?/;^ ; Thisfub- 
rtance I have found to confift of long fmall pipes, which I have 
feen, when put in water, to unite therewith as Sugar doth, and on 
that account is alfofvveet upon the Tongue. And reprefenting ttiat 
water to my eye as thin as I could, and fufFering it to exhale, ic 
afforded very pretty pipes ; and adding fome more warmth to if, 
thofe Pipes grew fomewhat ftifFer. Seeing this, I imagined,that as 
Ma;^m difTolves in a little warmth , and in water, ( both which is 
found upon our Tongue,) fo in more warmth, which it meets with 
when taken down into our body, it changes into the faid pipes : 
Andj in regard that by the pricking of them there is caufed in the 
globujsof our Bowels an unufual, preternatural and ftronger com- 
motion, the chyle that is there is carried off moreflrongly and 
more fpeedily, taking along with it that matter, which by the im- 
pulfeof the pipes on the bowels is loofen'd. And adding yet fome 
more fire to the pipes of the Mmm ^ they turn'd intoakindof 
Cyrup. This gave me tboughts,thac the faid pipes, not being ftrong, 
did work but foftly upon our Bowels, and that this poffibly was 
thecau(eof iheirkind operation 3 as alfo, that there bdngfome 
bodies, in which there might be inwardly on extraordinary hfat^ 
the Mama might there, inftead of ihooting into pipes, turn 
into 
