A treatise on sugar : with miscellaneous medical observations.
- Benjamin Moseley
- Date:
- 1800
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on sugar : with miscellaneous medical observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![Theophrastus mentions another fort of reed or cane, growing in marlhy places in Egypt, with fweet roots. Speaking of the different properties of the different parts of plants, he fays,— —KoL^otTis^ svAiyuTflcaTov mXot^ov tou toiq fAscjiv* eyii (A£V yoL^ rivoi yXvKvJrjjoi mi £t:i 70)V OLH^o^Vy stci ’urocv]oov. Ezsivog Js <5'/« 7YIV e^^o(pioiv otTtt^Xog yz zm 'urMiov zaji mi yT^vkvc* E)(^ov(71 ^z mi oti ^i^ou 7r)v yT^vxvInjoi ou av ^rj^xv^uaiv. Avx^Yi^avhi(70ii ^z ovK- zjiy 70 yx^ ^y)^oy, cut zMi[aov, out’ zfyyTioy '-‘h “ As in the reed that grows in moift places in Egypt; the extreme parts of which are alfo fweet, though in a fmall degree. But for the greater part, it is tender and fweet, on account of the copious nourifhment diffufed through it. Even the roots are fweet until they are dry; then they iofe their fweetnefs, and are not proper for food, and are not favoury.” WhetherTHEOPHRASTuSjWho was a Lefbian, had ever feen this reed in Egypt with fweet roots, or whether he had the account of it from others, 'or whether fuch a reed really * De Caufis Plant, lib. VI. c. i6. ed, Heinsii. B 4 exifts,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24925123_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
