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too much ; if drank ftrong, it may affedt 
their tender Nerves, which differ fo little 
from a Fluid ; it will pall their Stomach 
and Digeftion. It rnuft alfo either be drank 
without Sngar y or with it; if the firft, it 
both relaxes and rakes their delicate Bodies ; 
if the laft, Sugar , if fine, is a Salt, and may 
dry too much, wear their Veffels, heat and 
caufe Third: ; if coarfe, fuch Quantities 
taken fo often, of an oily Subftance, may 
leave fome Lentor on the Veffels, and caufe 
fome Sizinefs or Toughnefs in the glandu- 
lar Juices efpecially, and leave Obftrudtions ; 
or its Oil may occafion Sharpnefs in the 
Blood, or Lymph. — Nor do I think it ad- 
vifeable for the more grown up, either to 
drink it too often, or in great Quantities at 
a time ; for though it may feem to agree 
well for fome Years, yet it may produce its 
Effedts afterwards, more rivited in the Con- 
ftitution, and harder to be extirpated. Hence 
we often fee the bad Effedts of it in the Fair 
Sex efpecially, who ufe but little Exercife, 
and deny themfelves a frequent Glafs of 
Red Wine, how faint, pale, relaxed, low- 
fpirited, and leucophlegmatic they often are, 
and how many Complaints we hear of Tre- 
mors 
