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and kept till it be fined and cleared, is a 
delicious Liquor, whofe Oil and Salts hew- 
ing attenuated and ground down from their 
grofs Moleeuhz by its inteftine Motion of 
Fermentation, afford much nervous Juice 
and animal Spirits ; its fine terreftrious Parts 
at the fame time help to fupply the Wafte 
of our Bodies fuftained by Labour, Exer- 
cife, Watching, or Faffing ; its grofs Oil 
lubricates the Springs of the Fibres, fupply 
fuch as are dry’d and parch'd, or too much 
contracted, corrugated, or convulfed. It 
fheaths or blunts alfo the Salts of our Blood, 
when they are too fharp, naked, or much * 
or if the Blood be too vifcid, fizy, or grofs, 
the Salts in the depurated Wine incide, at- 
tenuate and feparate its Cohefions, fit it for 
a brifker, fuller, and more equal and uni- 
verfal Circulation, whereby its nutritive 
Principles are feparated and fet at Liberty 
from the grofs and ufelefs Parts wherein it 
was entangled, and helps to expel the ex- 
crementitious Juices ; not only do the Salts 
cut and divide the grofler Parts of the Blood, 
but they add a Stimulus to its containing 
Tubes, whereby they exert and aCt wdth 
greater Force, fwifter Motion and Elafticity, 
which 
