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fometimes to the new Quality they 

 acquire in their PafTage by aflbci- 

 ating themfelves with the bloud or 

 other fluids of the body 5 or to the 

 expulfion of fome calorific or frigo- 

 rific Corpufcles, or to the Difpofiti- 

 on they give the part on which they 

 operate, to be more or lefs perme- 

 ated aoA agitated than before by 

 fome fubtile ethereal matter , or o- 

 ther Efficients of Heat or Cold. 

 Some of thefe Conje&ures about the 

 Relative Nature of Potentially cold 

 bodies 3 may be either confirmed or 

 illuftrated by fuch Inftances as thefe 5 

 that Spirit of Wine being inwardly 

 taken is potentially very hot, and 

 yet being outwardly applied to 

 fome Burns and fome hot Tumours 

 does notably abate the Heat of the 

 inflamed parts, though the fame Spi- 

 rit applied even outwardly to a 

 tender eye will caufe a great and 

 dolorous agitation in it. And Cam- 

 phire, which in the Dofe of lefs than 

 a half or perhaps a quarter of a 

 Scruple, has been obferved to dif- 



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