H^7najlatks. i2g 
Dv. Boerhaave Element a ChemU^ VolA,^^ 
^66 obfervcd, tha: on the mixing of cold Wa- 
ter and Spirit of Wine, they immediately ac- 
quired eight Degrees of Heat, fo as to make 
the Mercury in Fahrenheifs Thermometer rii^ 
from forty four to fifty two Degrees ; and 
fometimes in a like Mixture it has rifen to fifty 
three Degrees, which Heat foon ceafed, a$ 
does alfo that fudden glowing Heat which ic 
gives the Blood. Hence it is that the unhap- 
py habitual Drinkers of Brandy and other di- 
llilled fpirituous Liquors, do fo infatiably from 
time to time third to drink of that deadly 
Liquor, which by often heating the Blood and 
contrading the Blood-veffels, does by degrees 
reduce them to fuch a cold, relaxed and lan- 
guid State, as mod impetiioufly drives them 
to feek for their Relief in that Liquor, which 
they too well know both by their own Expe- 
rience, as well as by the daily Dedrufiion of 
Thoufands, to be fo very baneful and deadly^ 
as to become by the great Abufe of them the 
mod cpidemicaLand dedruftive Plague that 
ever befel Mankind. 
5 >. When cold pump Water which was 
fourteen Degrees above the freezing Point, 
was poured on the Guts, and Come of it ac 
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