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regard to Recruit and Nourifhment, A6lion and ReR^ 
the Spring and Summer are as one Day, and the Winter 
as one Night; and their Blood and Humours feem 
to be fitted by God and Nature, not only to bear, but 
even to require fuch long Periods of Reft and Adion. 
And probably there is as little Parity between the 
Crafts and Conftitution of the Blood and Humours of 
a healthy Perfon, and of thofe in foporous and cata- 
leptick Difeafes, who are reported to have flept for 
Weeks or Months without Food of any kind: And 
therefore, I fay, where the Crafts and Conftftence of 
the Blood and Spirits are nearly the fame, that is, 
teris parihusy he who feeds, and is nouriftied raoft,^ 
will ileep longeft, Sf e contra. 
The Pofition here advanced is farther confirmed by 
the Inefficacy of the Opiats given, they being capable 
of entering into the Blood through the Pores of the 
Stomach in Contad with them ; by which quick Paf- 
fage they have been obferved to procure Reft foon after 
they have been applied outwardly, or taken down 
into the Stomachy as in this Cafe they may juftly 
be fuppofed to have done : Though, for the Reafons^ 
above-mentioned, neither they nor any thing elfe 
could pafs by \he La^ealsi But as the Aliments could 
not pafs that Way, viz. by the Pores of the Stomachy 
nor by the La^eals into the Bloody there could be 
no Recruit nor Nourilhment : And therefore the Opiats,, 
though they did enter into the Blood by the Pores 
of the Stomach in Contad with them, could not 
procure Reft. Thus it would feem probable, that 
Opiats do produce their Effed by detaining the Chyle 
crude longer than ufual in the Mafs of Bloody and 
thereby lengthening Sleep beyond the ufual Time ^ 
and 
