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butick People ought to abflain from it *, as alfo 
hyfterical Women. For it readily ferments, and 
augments the Heat and Effervefcence of the Hu- 
mours, and renders the Symptoms of thofe Difor- 
ders more grievous. 
Externally Sugar is an excellent Vulnerary, re- 
filling Putrefaction, efpecially if diluted with a little 
Brandy. The Turks, fays Etmuller , ufually wafh 
their frefli Wounds every Day with Wine. After 
which they fcatter upon them powdered Sugar ; 
and fo cure themfelves after a neat Method. 
Sugar when diffolved in Brandy is fometimes 
called Oleum Sacchari , and is thus commended to 
promote Expectoration *, and externally applied is 
accounted good to agglutinate Wounds, to cleanfe 
and deterge Ulcers, and to remove Putrefaction. 
Sugar-Candy, or white Sugar, finely powdered 
and blown into the Eyes, refolves an Albugo or Pearl 
of the Cornea. It does the fame if diffolved in the 
diflilled Water of Eyebright, Celadine, or Fennel. 
It likewife deterges Ulcers of the fame Part, and 
h^als them. If it be thrown upon Gledes and the 
Smoke received by the Noffrils, it retrains Deflux- 
ions of the Head. 
There are many Preparations of Sugar, as the 
Saccharum penidium , hordeatum , and Rofatum , &;c. 
In a Word it is an Ingredient in almofl: all com- 
pound Medicines for internal Life, and is therefore 
abfolutely neceffary in the Shops. 
Some draw from it by Diftiilation a Spirit and, 
empyreumatick Oil, but they are hardly ever called 
for in Practice. 
Befides the common Sugar, another Sort is 
brought to us from Canada , a northen Province of 
America , where it is obtained from fome Species of 
the Acer ; the Chief of which is the Acex montanum 
eandidum , C. B. P. 430. Acer major midtis , falfo 
Plat anus } 
