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can challenge the Preference of a Milk Diet 
and good Air (except Viper Wine or Broth) 
as it is a Food ready digefted, fit for Nou- 
rifhment, fuffers the VeiTels to play eafily, 
receives little Force in them to grind it 
down, but only what is neceffary to move 
it flowly on ; and, in its Courfe, as it gently 
glides along, it takes off the Stimulus of the 
Fibres, lubricates, moiflens, and repairs 
their wafte, reftores the Confiftence of a 
too fluid Blood, fills the Tubes with frefli 
lymphatic, arterial, and nervous Juice, 
ready ftrained off, made and elaborated 
by the healthy ftrong Vefiels of another 
Animal. As it is endued with balfamick 
Qualities, or much Oil intimately mixed 
with its Salt, Phlegm, and Earth, it ex- 
pands, fills, and fupplies plentifully, the 
fmall Tubes of the Body, augments the 
Chyle, increafes the Semen, and excites Ve- 
nery better than Wine or Spices, which ai£l 
only by Stimulation, and raife Nature above 
itfelf ; but Milk, by diftending the fperma- 
tick Veffels, encreafing and laying in a large 
Stock of good-conditioned Sperm ; hence 
fuch as live chiefly on Vegetables, Eggs, 
Milk, Shell-fifh, &c. are far more difpofed 
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