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to the Axis, carries along with it what fhould 
be laterally fecerned. Hence a Paucity of Animal 
Spirits in Short-neck’d People, who by this Make 
are liable to Apoplexies, Palfies, Coma’s, Lethargies, 
a Liftleffnefs, Inadivity, and Drowfinefs, efpecially 
after Meals, when the frelh Chyle has got Admiflion, 
to abforb a Part of the already few remaining Spirits, 
which muft be recruited in Sleep. 
Again in hot Climates, a continual YVafte or Dif- 
fipation of the Spirits by Heat, makes the Inhabi- 
tants generally lazy and unadive : In fuch the re- 
cent Chyle., the grodeft circulating Fluid of the 
whole Body, will quickly abforb the few remaining 
Spirits, and difpofe them to deep after every Meal : 
Except when the Cool of the Evening checks Per- 
fpiration and the Evaporation 'of thofe Spirits, which 
were recruited by Sleep in the Day-time, and there- 
fore remain plentiful enough to fupport their Aftivi- 
ty after Supper, when the Budnefs of the Meaner, 
and Diverfions of the richer Sort begin; which, in 
colder Climates, is the Cafe after Breakfaft and 
Dinner. 
For a farther Confirmation of this, Brandy, and 
the Spirits of fermented Liquors, are known to pro- 
duce a droufy Stupidity in fuch as drink them to any 
Pitch, and an habitual Dulnefs in habitual Drinkers 
of them ; and, when drank to Excefs, throw the 
Drunken into a kind of lethargic Sleep for fometime. 
Yet the Quantity taken down, fufficient to produce 
thefe Effeds, is never fo much as to load or diftend 
the Stomachy fo as to opprefs the Aorta Defcendens , 
or to hinder the Circulation downwards ; and 
.therefore cannot be fuppofed to produce Sleep or 
Sleepi- 
