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Currants have little Oil, but much Salt 
and Phlegm in them ; they afford a Wine 
that, when it has been bottled two or three 
Months, is of a good Body, delicious Tafte, 
a beautiful ruby Colour, and rich. It is a 
delicious cooling moiftening Drink in Sum- 
mer, and by its Tartnefs its corrugates the 
mufcular ibres of the Stomach, and helps 
Digeftion. Its Salts make it a good Deter- 
gent, (if not over-loaded with Sugar, or ill 
fermented, or drank before it be fin’d) it 
purfes up the relaxed Fibres in very hot 
Weather, and checks too great a Per ip na- 
tion ; or if the excretory Dudls of the Skin 
be fo pall’d, that they cannot expel their 
contained Matter, but its Thicknefs, and 
more vifcid Parts, fur up the Channels, it 
ftimulates the Fibres, cuts and divides the 
grofs Humours, and promotes a flow Per- 
fpiration. It is good to check the Redun- 
dancy of the Bile, by its acid Salts, and by 
its Reftringency it contra&s the Strainers of 
the Liver, and makes the Veffels narrower, 
fo as lefs Bile is feparated and poured into 
the Inteftines, and more of it difcharged 
with the other Humours by the Skin. It 
is good alfo againft an oily Acrimony in the 
Bowels 
