Commentary: Repairing the candy cane

Chinese Origin of the Words Cane and Sugar Candy in English and of Khand in Hindustani

Cane and Candy are traceable to two Chinese words both pronounced Kan. One word means Cane or pole when Kan finally became cane in English. The other word Kan means sweet. Then there is the Chinese word Dih which means Drops when Kan-Dih became Candy and means Sweet Drops. Sugar crystals would be like sand in size. Candy of the size of drops. While Misri of small stones, the term Kan-Dih entere...

The candy prophylactic: danger, disease, and children's candy around 1916.

By 1916, America had firmly established its international reputation as ‘‘a great candy eating nation’’ (‘‘Brooklyn Leads’’ 1). American candy consumption was by some estimates approaching half a pound per week per person; if that was an average, there were many eating significantly more (‘‘Pure Candy’’). Children, too, in the early decades of the twentieth century were buying and eating candy ...

Candy Medication

Taking candy from the baby.

A 7-month-old girl of average weight and unremarkable medical and family history presented with chronic osmotic diarrhea and failure to thrive. The onset of symptoms appeared shortly after cereals and fruits were introduced into her diet. As part of the investigation of the gastrointestinal symptoms, a biopsy of the small intestine mucosa was sent to the laboratory for biochemical analysis. Upo...

Candy cocaine esophagus.

Reversible thermal injury to the esophagus from drinking boiling-hot liquids has been reported to produce alternating pink and white linear bands that impart a "candy-cane" appearance to the inner esophageal wall. This injury has been associated with chest pain, dysphagia, odynophagia, and abdominal pain. We describe a case of candy-cane esophagus caused by thermal injury from smoking freebase ...