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time remember, that it is obferved by Phy. 
ficians, as an Indication that the Fever abates, 
when the Urine depofites a redifli Brick co- 
loured Sediment, that is, a Tartar 5 have we 
not reafon to fufpeft that this Tartar, while it 
was in an elaftic State in the Blood, greatly 
contributed to its feverifli Heat ; which Heat 
therefore abates in proportion as thefe adlive 
Principles are fubdued and reduced to a fixed 
State, fit to be carried ofF by Urine or other 
Evacuations. 
41. The right healthy State of the Blood 
muft confift in a due Equilibrium between 
thefe adive Principles, fo as not to have them 
too much dcpreffed and fixed on the one hand, 
which might tend to an acid Acrimony, nor 
too much raifed and exalted on the other 
hand, which makes it tend to an alkaline A- 
crimony. When we confider therefore by 
what an innumerable Combination of Caufes 
this Equilibrium is liable to be difturbed, we 
cannot wonder that our Health is fo often 
interrupted, and the Period of Life moft un- 
certain as to its Duration. It is wonderful that 
the fixt organical Parts of our Bodies, which 
are of a mofl: curious and delicate Texture^ 
(hoiild hold it out fo long,, without being dif- 
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