The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-01-19
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1 he following Is a statement Of the salvaQes do
reed by the Court since the wear 1881
EFFECTS OF SUGAR IN DIET

The author states that he had made seventeen ex
perlments on dogs and ascertained that in some ca
ses the sugar tended to fatten the animal. and in
Others turned to bile. In the first case there was,
in general, tendency constipation and in the
other, the bowes relaxed
Inc auhor observes that milk, as well as sugar
mas tendency oil iattening creating bile accord
ing TO the different systems of persons who use il
eAeusNely or make The principal article of food,
and that where bile is thus created darrbo, cranes
which cause wasting Of the solids
mere is nothing new, perhaps, in the general in
formation communicated by the author as TO the eff
iecs oil sugar, but the value of his experiments con-
siss IN their having been made under circumstances
,a'olaoie 10 the eucidation OF the question: sq to
The degree to which this article may be used in diet
with due regard for health. Few of our own snecas
nave ever made sugar exclusively their diet and we
nave had comparatively but uncertain evidences as
TO ITS effects The OILY person to our knowledge who
lved Tor any great length Of time on sugar alone was
bolivar This great man had, by fatigue and priya-
uons so injured the tone of his stomach that he was
unable at times 10 take any other food than sugar
winch, IN his case, was easy of digestion We have
heard stated by hls personal friends that in some of
ms last campaigns, he would live for weeks together
upon sugar alone a solid, with cure water as Ii
quidj but probably 10 nine hundred and ninety cases
out OF thousand this diet would have soon brought
the person adopting II to the grave for although the
nutritive powers OF sugar well known inasmuch
as saccharine matter forms Of the bases of our
sustenance, yet it is equally true that with MANY
the excessive use of sugar brings on indigestion IN
ITS worst forms Where the digestion is feeble, ex-
cess OF nuirmen instead Of being abso bed genera J.
ly IN the system turns 10 bile, and causes debility and
wasting TO high degree.
Nj. {. Chossat states that there are other sub.
stances, and milk particularly, which, In some cases
turn To fat and this not always Of healthy kind and
m others TO bile, attended with diarrbe IL would
be well If some OF the medical profession in this
country would bear tins important fact in mind A
mix regimen IS very favorite one with French
physicians, even IN cases Of confirmed dyspepsia,
without reference TO the functional powers Of the
stomach of the patient They imagine that they
have accomplished every thing when they have re-
placed heavy and nhammatory diet by milk and
do not reflect that there are.many stomachs which
will not digest milk. The result but too frequently
is either an unhealthy obesity, wasting Of the
system by too great relaxation of the bowels. NJ C..
Chossats experiments therefore, are valuable if
they serve to create, in the minds of medical men a
conviction that before they indulge so freely in their
prescriptions of milk and sucree necessary to
ascertain whether this regimen be appropriate to The
case which they have TO treat Chossai