obliged to tranfmkthe extended humours in a fliorter 
time, but this is not our cafe here, but rcferrs to the next. 
I here choore to explain the affeBions ofche blood by the 
folution (bi Sal Armoniac\x.\\n ('aswefdid^ in oUr Expert" 
merit) afFedled the Blood of thofe Perfons that long touched 
it, with a fenfible and troublefom degree of r^?/^!'. For 
the Mafs ofSfe<?^inay bevery apt to degenerate into fuch 
Conor etiom as do xc{\ic\i xti^'C!^\tSal Armonta^\\ and this 
will feera more probable if we confider x\Mhumane andc- 
blood naturally abounds with Vrinous Salts ^ and do 
preternaturally degenerate into Acrimonious and Pungent 
juices ^ which may be much promoted by a too Hberalufe 
of high feafon'd ov faked Meat, -dndfour Liquors. For 
this we find by Experience that fucli an acid as Spirit of Salt 
mixing with anZ/'m&2^/, will be converted into SalArmo-^ 
('which has now loft much of its Volatile Nuuvg) 
This we may plainly difcern by its//?«><?^/?/^ into a -f^^^m 
thacrefembles F^^/A^rj", whichisproper to iS^/ Armoniack^ 
Tiiat the blood does abound with various forts of cW-f 'tis 
not to be doubted, and that it hasfiicha iS^Z^ as fome call 
Salfum^ vi\\\c\i\% Sea-falt, I lately exhibited at the I^yal 
Society, and laftly that Sal Armdnmc^has its principal de- 
pendance on great quantities of Volatile Salt (fuch as the 
blood isftored with) and on this mentioned iS^/^, 'tis very 
well known. So that having prefuppoftd fueh Concretions 
as thefe to have their exijience 'mtht bloody wemqftcpn- 
fider how they come toa<a. That there, may be fome 
antecedeHtznd othev Concomitant Caufes of Hjpemal FaJJi- 
ms, I do not deny v I oAly or princrpally confider the 
caufe of tliQCold affeBions. ;0 err 
Tis very probable that the G/Wj- do fa{Fer^great<?^- 
flruHions^ which are antecedent to this Paroxyfm : lamth^ 
rather inclined to this opinion, by reafon of fo great a 
Tbirfi our Patients are apt to complain of before and in 
thef^^: by which obJlruBions the ufual Secretions of the 
Lympha are hindred as well from watering the the Noutb 
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