The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-08
a CHEMIST ON CANDY AND SU-
GAR.

So much has been w-.itten about the
relations Of candy to health and practic-
ularly of diseased teeth, says the Boston
Journal of Chemistry, that it would seem
presr nption to add even word. But
suppos'ng the question cannot be settl-
ed at once, there are some facts about
candy, OF sugar rather, which have not
seen mentioned. As food it is fail
IRE. The chemist tells that some sugar
contains three dement's. The humanpody
observation-disclosures. How canthree
clemens make fourteen2 Dogs fed on
-ugar died in forty days. Their eyes Ill
cerated md came cut. Dogs fed on
nothing lived jrst as long. The system
has natural loathing fo, food contain
ing nothing but sugar. Does it affect
the condition of the organs of the body !?
SIEVE al years ago DR.. S. Weir Mitchell,
Of Philadelphia, proved that he cor'd
produce cataract of beth eyes in half an
hour by simply injecting a tablespoon
full of saturated solution of sugar be-
tween the slvin of frog or Guinea pig.
DIR. B. W. Richardson, of London, has
cor Grmed this, and these results are re-
ceived by the medical profession as sat
isfactory. Now, if teaspoorful of su-
gar solution " III make frog or Guinea
pig totally blind in helf an horr, can
ST 9ar be regarded as an innocent sub
stance for young aud growing persons,
especially when they diet SO largely up
on white -four, chiefly composed of
starch, whose chemical formula is iden-
teal til that of sugar :? According to
DR.. @. B. Agnew, Of New York, out of
1,000 children under Is years of age in
a large school IN vicir'ty, 703 were found
with defective orgsus of vision when ex-
amined " .th the ophtnalmosoope. Have
we right to -rfer that sugar and starch
diet haze anything to do with this large
percentage of deficient eyes?' The ex-
periments quoted shows that sugar does
act promptly, and terribly upon the sub
stance of the crystalline lens of low er
animals. Can we deny the probability
of its action upon the eyes of human be-
ings? Mark we do not say it does thus
act. We simply raise the question. We
wish the State Boe-d of Health would
have it Investigated IS it is a matter
germene to their invaluable depal sment
of Labor.
Now, for candy aud diseased teeth.
I me and phosphol us for the chief min
eral ingredients of the teeth. The or
garic matter q. G. that like sugar)
amounts roughly to about twenty per
cent. of the whole tooth. The mineral
matter and water make the remaining
eighty per cent. Tn other words, su gar
gives the teeth, under the most favor
able construction, twenty per cent. of
its food only, when it is used as an ali
ment. But sugar caunot be used as an
exclusive a';ment as death world ensue
Used occasionally, when the other food
has its moral amount of mineral ingfe-
dents, candy, when pure, probably
does not harm the teeth. But used
frequently, II correction with -four diet
there is no doubt that it W i'll promote
decay of teeth. When organized sub
stances ere 4, they must receive
g" the elemen'r that enter into
their composition. Failing to re-
i've these, their Vitality is impaired
and decay resi- It's. Teeth fed with can
dy do not receive any mineral elements.
No phospho1 is, and no lime ere found
4 candy. but they constitute the man
part of teeth. Hence we see that candy
f1d eth a~e not interchangeable times,
end that candy eaters must not be ST.
prised if their teeth fail