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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[ 3° ] throw it out, till they can give a fubftantial Reafon why they do fo,-and why they pre¬ fer Sugar. I can point out to them confiderabie Au¬ thors, who look upon Honey as a thing very far excelling Sugar, even in point of Whol- fomnefs. Monfet exprefleth his Senfe with fomething of Paflion (Inferior. Theatr. p.30.) Nefcio quo ratioms moment0 Neoterki Saccharum Me III furrogarunt; nam fane fi mel bonum in procinttu fit, & debitd praparatione non car eat, me, citb oculum effoderet Sac- charo, terreftri, arundineo, & nimium fie- culento; Me lie nec Vfu, nec Origine, nec ullo modo, cum coelejli hdc lacryma compa- rando. And then a good while after, at the end of his Chapter, concludes with this En¬ comium ; 'Donum certe cceiejle eji, & homt- nibus utiliffmim. I apprehend not for what doughty Reafon our Novel Men have took up the Whimfey of fubftituting Sugar for Honey. If we have that which is good in its kind, and well pre¬ pared, it may eafily put out of Countenance and Credit that lame terreftrial, arundineous, foul and feculent thing called Sugar, which inuft, by no manner of means, come in com¬ petition either for Ufe or Origiue, or any thing elle, with our celeftia! Tear. It is truly an heavenly Prefeat, molt uleful to Man. In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30354134_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
