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tv'atchfulnefs and promotes flatulence and indigeflhn^ 

 inftead of relieving them, as is generally believed: 

 that it debilitates the nerves^ and occafions tremblings. 

 On this occafion he thinks it worth enquiry, whe- 

 ther it may not contribute to thofe fudden deaths 

 which are frequent at Stockholm about the winter 

 folftice, as they have been obferved to happen to 

 fuch as were inordinate drinkers of this liquor : 

 that it is mtiaphrodifiac^ he fays, is generally al- 

 lowed \ and he illuftrates and confirms this qua- 

 lity by a pleafant tale from Olearius^^ Travels : 

 that it weakens the fight \ is noxious to melancholic^ 

 hypochondriacal and hyfterical people : that it pro- 

 .motes hemorrhages of all kinds ; and that a free 

 indulgence in the ufe of this liquor cannot be fafe, 

 except to the corpulent. 



Confidered as a medicine, from its heating qua- 

 lity it is forbidden in fevers. From its fliimulating 

 and drying quality, allowed by all phyficians, is 

 deduced its ufefulnefs in corpulency^ and in the 

 ieucorrh^a. It has been confidered as an antheU 

 minthic \ but its ill effedls on the tender habits of 

 children, more than balance any good ones in that 

 way. In foporofe affeQions^ in phlegmatic and cor- 

 pulent habits, our author allows its ufe ; and from 

 its known effedl in promoting hemorrhages, it 

 muft be confidered as an emmenagogue. That 

 head-achs are frequently relieved by Coffee, is con* 

 firme;d by daily experience ; and our author relates 

 that LiNN^us himfelf found it fingularly ufeful in 

 taking off a cardialgia^ with which he was affedted 

 at the time he Was phyfician to the fleet, in 1740 ; 

 pd which he attributed to the effluvia of the hof- 



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