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which not only adds to the Bailance of the 
Solids againft the Fluids, but to the better 
Mixture of the Blood, and prevents that 
Attraction of its grolfer Parts, which it al- 
ways difcovers in a flow Circulation ; and 
to all thefe Advantages of the Earth, Oil, 
and Salts, the Phlegm adds its Affiftance, 
being a Vehicle to carry them into the 
Blood, and promote their Ufefulnefs there. 
Elder Wine fuits the thin, lean, he&ic, 
hyp’d, aged, corpulent, cacheCtic belt:, ef- 
pecially in Winter, cold Weather, or tem- 
terate Air 3 it is lefs agreeable to the Cho- 
leric, efpecially in very hot Weather, left it 
encreafe the Quantity of Bile, and procure 
Gripes or bilious Cholicks. 
But let us conlider it a little in a medici- 
nal Light, and that only as it is a Drinka- 
ble ; becaufe fhould I confider the fundry 
Preparations afforded by the Elder-Tree, 
both for internal and external Intentions, I 
Ihould wander from my Purpofe, and enter 
a large Field. This Juice abounding with 
fixed Salt, is admirably fitted to cleanfe and 
pafs off by the renal Glands, which gives 
them a Stimulus , encreafes the Motion of 
the Blood in them, and at the fame time 
L 3 accom- 
