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the before mentioned, fuppofed caufes of la- 

 teral germens, arifing moftly from a dif- 

 tempered Plethora of Sap ^ I defift here from 

 further fpeculations thereupon, but all which 

 paft, I hope have been very allowably urged, 

 and in the main have the favour not to be 

 thought immaterially 5 being however not 

 unaware with what difcreet coldnefs, be~ 

 caufe of the modern deteftion of many fal- 

 lacious opinions formerly current in phyjical 

 cafes, that all knowing gentlemen give into 

 conjedlures of this kind., 



Yet to fupport fome of the foregoing, I 

 know not how any fuch would be able to 

 gainfay the man, who fhould make an ex- 

 curlion fo far into the regions of fancy and 

 the wilds of reafon, as to maintain, that— 

 nature without the immediate influence of 

 folar heat by a proper commixture of hete- 

 rogeneous particles, drawn from the earth by 

 the roots of an Oak, as falts — ^fulphur-— 

 oil — acids and other bodies for which Che^ 

 mijls never found a name ; by a reciprocal 

 opponency to each other, may at times raife 

 a heat in the body of an Oak, and thereby 

 caufe an ebullition in it's fluids equal to the 

 greateft warmth of the fun. The heat of 



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