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ble them in hardly any Degree to ad as Stimuli, 
farther at lead than ordinary Detergents. And thus 
we find Aloes, the chief of this Tribe, to go farther 
into the Habit, and be longer e'er it operates, when 
managed in a fpirituous Mendruum, as in the Tintt- 
ura Sacra, the Rad. Turpethi ; And Colocjnth like wife, 
with all of the vegetable Kind, that will yield 
to a fpirituous Liquor, are to be carried by that 
means into the farthed fcenes of Animal Adion, and 
there prove efficacious Medicines in Cafes, that with 
other management, they would never be able to 
reach: And on this Foot it undoubtedly mud have 
been, that we frequently meet with, in pradicai Wrk 
ters, many of this fort mention’d, as Alterants ; the 
Colocynth particularly by Helmont , for all Medicines 
which operated in the farthed PafTages they com- 
monly included under that general Appellation. 
But the mod efficacious Purges, and thofe which, 
require the mod Skill are from the mineral King- 
dom; thefe abound in folidity beyond any other Ma- 
terials, and therefore whereloever they are brought 
into Adion, excel in quantity of impulfe: Many 
of thefe therefore want not only the utmod Commi- 
nution to carry them into the farther Scenes of O- 
peration, but alio fome redraint to their Afperities, 
and Motions, to fit them for many Intentions. Thus 
Sublimate is not only to be much fweeten’d, that is, 
fmooth’d in its Points, to make it a fafe Purge 
in the larger Veflels; but if it is intended to go far- 
ther than the Blood, and thofe Glands, which in 
that Circuit, they are mod apt to be lodged upon, 
when it Salivates, it mud be rendred not only very 
fine, but covered with fuch Subdances, as weaken its 
Points, and make it drain into the lad Subdivifions 
of the Conditution. To this purpofe, the common 
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