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Seafonings, Cachexes;^ Fluxes, Scorbutical 

 Dropfies, Gripes, or the like, which I have 

 attributed to this Reafon. That by the ex- 

 traordinary Heat the ferment of the Blood 

 being raifed too high, and the Tone of the 

 Stomach relaxed, when the Weather breaks 

 the Blood palls, and like over- fermented 

 Liquors is depauperated, or turns eager and 

 ITiarp, and there's a crude Digeftion, whence 

 the named Diftempers may be fuppofed to 

 enfue. And for confirmation, I have ob- 

 ferved the Carminative Seeds, fuch as warm, 

 and whofe Oil flieaths the acid Humors that 

 ever refult from crude Digeftions. But De- 

 coAions that retain the Tone of the Sto- 

 mach, as I fappofe, by making the little 

 Glands in the Tunicles of the Stomach, 

 fquceze out their Juice, (for what is bitter 

 may be as well ofFenfive to the Stomach, as 

 to the Palate) and then Chalibiates that raife 

 the decayed Ferment, are no bad Praftice; 

 after which, I conceive, Armoniack Spirits 

 might be very beneficial. But their Doftors 

 are fo Learned, that I never met with any 

 of them that underftood what Armoniack 

 Spirits were : Two or three of them one 

 time ran me clear down by confent, that 

 they were Vomitive, and that they never 

 ufed any thing for that purpofe but Crocus 

 Metallorum , which indeed every Houfe 

 keeps and if their Finger, as the Saying is, 

 ake but, they immediatly give three or four 

 Spoonfuls thereof; if this fail, they give 

 him a fecond Dofe, then perhaps Purge them 

 with 15 or 20 Grains of the Rofin of Jalap, 

 afterwards Sweat them with Fenice Treacle, 

 Powder of Snake-Root, or GafcoirPs Powder ; 



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