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There seems to be a whale of a difference between sugaring a pill, and a saccharine tablet.
On the one hand, a little sweetness applied to a medicine, the bitter ingredients of which will effect a cure, is a positive way of encouraging and promoting health.
On the other hand, the application of a sweet pill that is saccharine through and through, and which contains no active health bringing ingredient, can only spread disease and ill-health:Think Harry Lime and his wheeze to make Quinine go further.
We all know, that many large successful businesses that operate within our economy contrive to pay no tax whatsoever within our economy and we here hear how wonderful that is and how lowering the top-rate of tax would help regenerate our economy. With so much sweetness around we yet search in vain for the effective ingredient, the medicine, the cure for our ills.
Instead of seeing an improvement in the patient we are yet again advised that another 'bleed' is in order, or that the other leg will have to go.
For certain, we all know that a body without limbs will be in less need of so much blood, so the bleeding and amputations go hand in hand, and yet who is it that stands back to consider whether the patient will ever, when cured, be able to resume his piano, violin or trumpet playing. Never mind whether he will ever be able to care for himself in general terms. Although we are pressed to undergo stomach stapling and much else to reduce the need for sustenance. Although, just how the patient, upon discharge, is to come by the least sustenance is not considered to be the concern of the bleeder or the surgeon.
It strikes me that the professionals, on being presented with the patient, dive in and apply only the treatments, medicines and cures they are trained to use. How reassuring for the owner of an Aston Martin who has only the enthusiasm of the village carter and farrier to call upon.