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coarfe $ for tho’ its Salts are not fo naked 
and /harp as to wear the Veffels with their 
Solidity and Number, yet it is too apt to 
turn acrid, and render the Juices fuch 0 
Coarfe Sugar is injurious to phlegmatic and 
bulky Bodies, feeing it encreafes the Oili- 
nefs and Vifcidity of their Juices, over lu- 
bricates and relaxes the Solids, begets many 
and obdinate Obdrudtions, which frequently 
terminate in a Cachexy. The much Salt 
and Lime in line Sugar, excite Third, dry 
the Blood, and. encreafe its Motion 5 there- 
fore fhould it be fparingly ufed in hot, dry 
Weather, hot Countries, and ardent Fevers, 
Several Authors charge the chief Caufe 
of the Prevalency of the Scurvy in the Nor- 
thern Parts of Europe upon it, becaufe the 
Chymids extradt out of it a mod acid, 
/harp, penetrating, and diffolving Spirit, 
Tho’ I am not to anfwer for the Effedts of 
its Excefs, yet this feems a groundlefs, if 
not ill-natured Refledtion ; for we read of 
the Scurvy in Britain , when it was a Ro- 
man Colony ; and we know alfo, that Salt, 
Honey, Salt-petre, Brimdone, &c. afford 
more acid and corrofive Spirits 5 and the 
fird of thefe is far more frequent and gene- 
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