4i8 i Treatise on 
fuppofing it, as being fatter, to be more efficacious 
iii Diforders of Lungs. 
Thecryftalline Sugar-candy is made thus. Some 
of the pureft Sugar is dilfolved in a fmall Quantity 
of Water, and boiled to a thick Syrup. This is 
put into an earthen Pot, wherein are ftuck fome 
Splinters of Wood downwards and crofs-wife like a 
Kind of Lattice-work. The Pot is fet upon a Plank 
in a warm Place, and there left for fifteen or twenty 
Days. Then the Syrup which is not candied is 
poured off, and all the Fatnefs remaining is wafhed 
out with hot Water. Afterwards the Veffel is fet 
in a warm Place for the Cryftals to dry, and being 
broken the Day following, the Sticks are found 
loaden with Sugar-candy fliining like Cryftal ; which 
is feparated from the Wood and Sides of the Veffel, 
to which it adheres, and being well dried is put by 
for Ufe. 
After the fame Manner is prepared the brown 
Sugar-candy from Mufcovade or Caffonade. 
Sac char um rubrum. Off. commonly called brown 
Sugar , is of a reddifh Colour or brown, fomewhat 
fattiffi, and made by boiling the Syrups which 
remain after the refining of Caffonade. It is fel- 
dom ufed in the Shops, unlefs for Clyfters. 
In a chymical Ana'iyfis , two Pounds of the whiteft 
Sugar yielded one Ounce and thirty-fix Grains 
of limpid Phlegm, void of Smell and Tafte ; 
twelve Ounces' and fix Drachms of Liquor, 
both acid and urinous, which at firft was limpid, 
afterward reddifh and empyreumatick ; fix Drachms 
of thin reddifh Oil ; two Ounces, three Drachms 
and forty-four Grains of thicker Oil. The black 
Refiduum in the Retort weighed eight Ounces, one 
Drachm and fixty- three Grains : Which, being 
calcined in a reverberatory Fire for fifteen Hours, 
left one Ounce, one Drachm and ten Grains of brown 
Alhes. 
