cended : But even then the BaJ/s o£ the Salt particles was 
fourfquare, and not as in common Vinegar, 
When the Jir-Bubbles were moil of themafcended,! 
drank about a third part, of a thimble full of the Vinegar; 
and found it had no iournefs at all in it, but rather a 
bitternefs, and was fo loathfome, that it made me ready 
to vomit. 
I took alfo White Chalk, beaten to pieces, and put it 
in Vinegar^ where it caufed as gre^t a commotion, and 
rifing of Air-Buhbles^ as the Crabs-Eys had done : It 
produced alio, the fame^^^i^r^j' of the Salt, and the fame 
infipidnefs. 
From thefe obfervations, I am confirmed in an opi- 
nion, which I have been of a gteat while 5 that when the 
{harp Itibtile particles of Salt, which are in feverall li- 
quors, come to be in the Stomack, they are there io 
coagulated, and compounded, that very few, or none of 
them, are communicated to the blood, or other parts of 
the body. For if the Salts of Wine,and Vinegar, did not 
change their j%//r^, in the Stomack, I believe they would 
caufein the blood, and other Veffels, an intolerable 
pricking, if not endangerthe life of theparty. Belides, 
if it were not fo, I fliould have met with them,{ome time 
or other, either in the Sweat, Blood, or Urine. Alio 
the Salt particles, which are in Wine, or Vinegar, when 
the weather is moift, are curdled, or go together ^ but 
afterwards, let the weather be what it will, 1 have never 
found them diflblved, or turned into water. And thus 
they are more durable then common Salt, which in 
moift, and cold weather, runs into a liquid form- A- 
gain, if the Salts in the Wine, or Vinegar, were not coa- 
gulated in the Stomack, the Urine, or Excrement of 
thole that drink them, would fmell of them; however, 
I will not fay, that in all Stomacks, there is the like coa- 
gulation i butifinfome, xh.^ Salts are not altered, the 
drinking of Wine, to fuch men is very prejudicial. But 
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