The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-19
The following is a statement Of the dyaess
creed by The Court sine the wear 1881
EFFECTS OF SUGAR IN DIET.

The author states that he had made seventeen q,
perments on dogs, and ascertained that in some ca
ses the sugar tended 10 fatten the animal and in
others turned 10 bile In the first case there wa,
in general, tendency to constipation and in M.
other, the bowe's were relaxed.
The au'hor observes that milk, as well as sugar
has tendency OF fattening or creating bile accorl
ing to the different systems of persons who use %
eAeiusveiy or make 1t The principal article Of fool
and that where bile is thus created diarrha ersuc
which cause wasting of the solids
mere is nothing new, perhaps, In the general Ia.
formation communicated by the author as TO the rt
fects OF sugar, bu, the value of his experiments con
siss 10 Their having been made under crcumstsnce.
favorable to the calculation OF the question ne D.
the degree to which this article NAV be used IN l,t
WIN due regard Tor health. Few OF our own snec,.
nave ever made sugar exclusively their diet and "a 3D.
nave had comparatively but unce rtain evidences .
10 ITS effects The only person TO our KNOWLEDGE VITO
lved Tor any great length Of time on sugar alone We
bohVar' Tins great man had by fatigue and pri,7
uons, 50 injured the tone Of his stomach that ne
unable al tunes TO take any other food than sugar
~hich, IN ms case was easy Of digestion We have
heard stated by ms personal friends. that in some Of
ms last campaigns, he would live for weeks togethrr
upon sugar alone as solid, with pure water ,s d.
qudi but probably in nine hundred and nine,v cas,.
out oil thousand this diI would have soon brouyOl
The person adopting II TO the grave for although tLc
nutritive powers Of sugar are well known ina.mucb
as saccbarne matter forms Of the bases Of our
sus'c"s"ce' Det ~ equally true that, with manN
the excessive use Of sugar brings on indigestion m
ITS worst forms. Where the digestion is feeble, eS.
cess OF nutr'ment, instead Of beng abso bed gener,
iy N The system, turns TO bile and causes debIlt,
wasting TO high degree.
NJ .. Chossat states that there are other sub.
stances and milk particularly, which, In some case.
turn 10 lat, and tins not always Of healthy kind ID
m Others to- bile, attended with disrrhoe IL would
be well II some OF the medical profession in NJ.
country would bear this important fact in mind \
mi'k regimen is a very favorte one with Frcu.'
physicians, even IN cases Of confrm,d dyspep,i,
without reference to the functional powers of tie
stomach OF The patient. They imagine that the,
have accomplished every thing when they have r..
placed heavy and infammalory diet by milk. and
do not reflect that there are many stomachs vhiri
VIII not digest milk. The result but too frequent,
IS either an unhealthy obesity, or wasting of OLD,
systemic too great relaxation Of the bowels NJ,
Chossats experiments, therefore, are valuable D..
'hey serve 10 create in the minds Of medical men d.
CONVICTION That before they indulge 80 freely IN th,
prescriptions OF milk and ucree II is neces.ar, t
ascertain whether this regimen he appropriate 10 lhr
case which they have TO treat Chos,ai