T 2 8 Hczmajlatks. 
iaimediately poured in, out of a Pot which 
held juft that Qiianticy: The Time that ic 
was running thro’ the fine capillary Arteries 
was meafured by a Pendulum that beat Se- 
conds* 
4. I firft poured in (even Pots full of warm 
Water, the firft of which parted off in fifty 
two Seconds, and the remaining fix, gradual- 
ly in lefs time, to the laft which parted in forty 
fix Seconds. 
y. Then I poured in five Pots of common 
Brandy, or unreftify’d Spirit of Malt, the firft 
of which was 68" in parting, the laft 72". 
6 , Then I poured in a Pot of warm Water 
which was 54" in parting. 
7. Hence we fee that Brandy contrafts the 
fine capillary Arteries of the Guts, and that 
Water foon relaxes them again, by diluting and 
carrying off the fpirituous Part of Brandy, 
which as ic is well known, not only contradls 
the Coats of the Blood-veffels, but alfo thick- 
ens the Blood and Humours, both which Ef- 
fccls contribute to the fudden Heating of the 
^ Blood, by much increafing thereby its Friftion 
in the contraded capillary Vertels ; which 
fudden Heat is alfo further increafed by the 
mere Mixture of Brandy with the Blood as 
Dr. 
