Sugar is the essential salt of the sugar cane, and a natural soap which will mix with or unite oil and water. Hence it helps digestion, cleanses the lungs, promotes urine, and is good in a hoarseness and coughs.

coughs. It never generates phlegm, but is good in a scurvy and all putrid diseases, the leprosy, and bloody flux. It is no enemy to the teeth as has been commonly supposed, nor breeds an acid till after fermentation. Mixt with brandy, it heals wounds, cleanses ulcers, and prevents putrefaction.