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mind, becaufe the fumes of the wine, with 

 which their body is filled, fucceflively excite 

 their imagination. It is known by experience, 

 that fober perfons, and thofe efpecially who 

 drink water, fleep quietly, their fieep being nei- 

 ther too flight nor too heavy. It appears, from 

 the fecond chapter of the Life of Apollonius^ 

 written by Philojiratus^ that at Athens thofe who 

 were afBided with bad dreams applied to the 

 priells of the falfe deities, in order to be rid of 

 them ; they ordered them to abflain from wine 

 for three or four days -, this cleared their imagi- 

 nation, and produced a cure, \yhich they attri- 

 buted to their gods. 



If, after taking too much food, you are hea- 

 vy, and your members fatigued, fo that too 

 great an abundance of nutritive juice occafions 

 a plenitude in the whole body, and makes yoq 

 tired •, I believe that, in imitation of tht hdicmSy 

 fweating is an infallible remedy, when the natu- 

 ral heat is affifled. with an exterior one; this re- 

 medy is infallible, provided it be applied at the 

 firfl appearance of the diftemper ; the Europeans^ 

 in order, to perfpire well, get between two blan- 

 kets, and rem.ain there covered up, the face 

 rxcepted •, they do not get up till they have 



fweated 



