A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

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1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fo great an Advance in our prefent Age from the immoderate Ufe of Sugar. Mr. Ray (Hiji. Riant. p. 1279.) Saccha- rum ft largius fumatur capitis dolorem ex- citat, quia difficulter, & quidem melle diffi- cilius concoquitur. If Sugar be eaten too plentifully, ’twill caule an Head-ach, becaule it is of difficult Digeftion, and truly more difficult than Ho¬ ney is. In Lufitanid Tabes Epidemic a fall a eft; till enim plus Sacchari confumunt, quant quavis alia Gens, prater Anglos. In Tor- tugal the Confumption is become the general Difeafe of the Country; and one reafon is thought to be, becaufe they devour fuch vaft Quantities of Sugar, as no other People doth, except perhaps the Englijh. See what is produced out of Sylvius (l. 1. c 34.) Elett. Tell. And out of Garencius. Hauft. ad Catarrh, in Tharmac. Extempor. I have heard that a certain Phyfician ol noted Ingenuity, long Experience, and good Reputation, hath written lomething in praife of Sugar. But I live in the Country, and never faw his Book, and can fay nothing a- bout it; inftead of it, perhaps you will give me leave to give my own Senie. 1. Sugar is a very heavy, flimey thing, as may be perceived if it be held in the Mouth for fome time ; and therefore clogs the Sto¬ mach
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