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Hatred of Food, with Shiverings over the 
Body, hot, fetid, greafy, white Stools, ill 
Savour, and Drinefs of the Mouth, the 
Skin exceeding dry, and little Urine, &c . 
an all thofe Symptoms Butter-milk chaL 
lenges the Preference, becaufe it contains 
much Acid, which is oppofite to both the 
alcaline and oily Acrimony, In Fevers at- 
tended with great Thirft, Heat, Anxiety, 
'Toffings, Purples, Inflammations, Erupti- 
ons, &c. it is very allowable, but the Clear 
of a Poflet of it and new Milk, is ftill bet- 
ter ; for this cools, dilates, and moiftens 
the Blood, and the Acidity checks the great 
Rarefaction of the Juices, and relaxes the 
Veflels. 
But Butter-milk is highly injurious in the 
following Symptoms, which difcover the 
Reign of an Acidity in the Blood, viz. 
where the Mouth, Breath, and Tafte, fmell 
fourifh ; where there is a moderate Thirft, 
great Hunger, and quick Digeftion, a Long- 
ing after earthy Things and Abforbents, the 
Face and Body pale and cold, the Gums, 
Lips, and Jaws, white, pale whitifh. Out- 
breaks on the Skin, the Guts grip’d, and 
the Skin pale and cold at the fame time ; 
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