( 20 ) 
mixed with this groffer crude Fluid the Chyle, and 
therefore will be diminilhed by it 5 and being thus in- 
tangled, will be more difficultly fecreted, andinlefs 
Quantity: Hence that Paucity of Spirits, which will 
difpofe tofleep in the manner above-defcribed, in fpeak- 
ing of a Paucity of Spirits after Labour or Exer* 
cife. 
Ill, How far ftrong fermented vegetable Juices or 
Liquors, and their diftili’d Spirits drank to any Pitch 
of Excefs, do bring on Sleep, or fome Degrees of it, 
has already been fa id. 
The diftilled Spirits of fermented Liquors, are 
known to leffen all the Secretions and Excretions, and 
therefore are of ufe in Diarrheas, in exceffive and 
colliquative Sweatings ; and I have known French 
Brandy, taken incautioully, to have put a Stop to a 
Sweat procur’d by Sudorifics. In habitual Drinkers 
of them, they gradually leffen the Secretion of the 
Bile, and infenfible Perfpiration, and thereby bring 
them at laft into the Jaundice and Dropfy. 
Spirituous Liquors, and particularly French Brandy 
in the mod remarkable Manner, being mixed with the 
Blood as it flows from a Vein into a Porringer, unites 
the ferous with the globular red Part of the Blood, 
to fuch a Degree, as that no Serum feparates from it 
in many Hours, and in fome not at all ; an Experi- 
ment which may be eafily made ; which {hews in what 
manner it hinders the Secretions in the Body, thefe • 
being all of them of the ferous Kind: Hence that 
great Impurity of the Blood arifing from a Reflraint 
of the Secretions in fuch People ■, and alfo that Paucity 
of Spirits, the general Caufe of Sleep and Dulnefs, 
very different from the Alacrity and Vivacity of the 
Temperate, and even of Water-drinkers. 
That- 
