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^Fiifl, Fi'om the fienty of it, which Sandonus aflcrts to be fuch, 
that five parts of eight of the aliments which we take in, pafs oft' 
.this way, as his ftatick Experiment evinces. 
The Plenty of k he endeavours to prove by the confideration 
that all our primary Liquors are defigned chiefly for Nutrition, and 
confequently fincc our bulk is large, and our daily expences great, 
we need a great quantity of it : Now fbi the difcharge of what has 
done |liis Office, PerlpiratiQii feems the fitteft way, fince we are 
nouriflied to the very furface of our Bodies, and thtt by conftant 
TraSs from within. " 
His fecond Argument is from thtJUtdity of this Perfpiration, and . 
the Inconveniences proceeding from a flop of it. 
The Utility, he lays, confifts in the prefervation of Health, and 
the reftitution of it when wanting. Though he appeals for this 
again to San&or'ms^ yet he oflers befidcs, feveral deduflions to 
prove it. On thecontrary^ he thinks 'tis obvious, tliat a check of it 
BKift be prejudicial 
Here he endeavours to anfwer an objeftion raifed againfi: the 
quantity of it, which iSm%r/7/i- affigns, from Experience (particu- 
larly Sir John F/oyer's) as fuppofmg that San^onus would be un- 
derftood only of his own Climate J/j/y, or fuch like. But thinks 
that, be the quantity greater or lefs^' 'tis fufficiently great to fhew 
we 'p^rfpireconfiderably. 
He confiders *alfo another fuggeftion, viz. That the Blood may 
be prefumed immediately t© fupply the matter ol it. Then he goes 
about to fnew more particularly, wherein the |?r^y^m///W of Health, 
iind the Cure of Difeafes ( at leaft thofe, which are general, confifts. 
The former he takes principally to be efteSled by the removal of 
thofe Impediments, which ,would hinder Nature in her regular 
working. The latter by difgharging this , way the matter, both con - 
tinent, and antecedent of them already formei, fince fooner or later 
there is little of ic but what moves to the clrcamference. 
Of the lubjeft, wherein the matter of theft refides, he gives a ftoit 
.Scheme. 
But btcaufe it may be objected, that all the Difeafes touched at^ 
whichlye deepeft,cannot be carried oiTby Perfpiratioii.;he ta inks that 
even theie owing their original to fome taulc in Perfpiration, this 
Qiigjit'cobe conlidered, rho raoie remotely, 'as part of the can fc", 
and fb being promoted,, may carry off fome of che Marter. But noc - 
dengning to difcourfe of all Diieafes particularly, he choofes to 
'^%n -;e them under that old diftinSion of Acinic and Chronica!^ and 
iyppofes accoriiiig to the vulgar 'opinion, that the' former may 
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