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ordered or wearing out ; but the Wonder is 
greatly heightened, when we confider for 
how many Y ears Continuance, the nice healthy 
Ballance of Power, between the adive Prin- 
ciples of the Blood is maintained, notwith- 
ftanding the many rude Shocks it meets with, 
either from unkindly Food, or inclement Sea- 
fons, and above all from Intemperance. 
4z. When the morbid Blood is fo grofs or 
vifeid as not eafily to pals the finer capillary 
Veffels, it being thereby greatly retarded in 
its Motion, caufes the cold Fit which ufually 
preceeds a Fever or Ague. And as warm Li- 
quors, fuch as Urine, are obferved to 
turn from clear to turbid and to depofite Sedi- 
ment as they cool, and when warmed again 
to reforb that Sediment and become clear 5 
fo *cis probable that as the Blood grows cool 
on the firfl: coming on of the Fit, that Cool- 
nefs may be greatly increafed, by the then 
more chick turbid State of the Blood 5 its Mo- 
tion being thereby proporcionably retarded • 
But when after fome time the retarded Blood, 
which is at this time,, for want of a free Paf-' 
fage, probably accumulated in the Arteries, 
fo as to be at length forcibly impelled thro- 
the capillary Veffels, then by the greater Fric- 
tion 
