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mours, which adhere to and obftrudt the 
Veffels. The firfl of thefe makes them ex- 
cellent in fharp troublefome tickling Coughs, 
arifing from too great a Serofity and Salt- 
nefs of the Blood, becaufe they fheath up 
and blunt its Acrimony, make it thicker, 
of a more equal Temper, and give it an 
adhelive Quality, whereby it is more nou- 
rifhing, foft, and balfamick, and affords a 
foft, oily Lit us, to the naked or abraded 
Veffels, induces a more indolent and pacific 
State to them, their Stimulus being check’d 
or remov'd : For the fame Reafon are they 
no lefs fuitable to fcorbutic Habits, where 
there is much Acrimony in the Blood dis- 
covered by great Itching, cuticular Erup- 
tions and Erofions, Tetters, Erifipelas, &c. 
becaufe they, by fheathing the Salts, remove 
the Stimulus of the Veffels, prevent their 
Abrafion and Confumption, therefore are 
they defervedly reckoned among the Sweet- 
ners of the Blood, and fuited to lean, thin, 
hedtic, fcorbutic Bodies. The Rife of a 
Cough from the Saltnefs, Sharpnefs, and 
Serofity of the Blood, is eafily known from 
the conflant uneafy Tickling of the Throat, 
from the Thinnefs of the Spitting •, it is 
alfo 
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