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the fame Reafons, when the Circulation of 
the Blood is languid from the decreafed 
Tone of the Veflels, a Dram excites their 
Vigour, and caufes a brifker Circulation. 
After a recent Cold, when the Body is de~ 
prefled, and the natural Evacuation of Per- 
foration obftrudted, whereby the Confli- 
tution is loaded, but the Strength dimi- 
niflied, a Dram invigorates the Vibrations 
of the Solids, accelerates the Motion of the 
Fluids, promotes their Attenuation, pre- 
pares them for Secretions, and pafling off 
by the Skin and Kidneys, efpecially if the 
Dram be mixed with warm Gruel and a 
little Honey, it caufes a profufe Sweat, and 
relieves the fmall Veflels and excretory 
Dufls of that fizy Matter which loaded 
them, and ftraiten’d or fhut up their Paf- 
fages. A Dram given in a Decodtion of 
Mallows and Althaea Root, with a little 
Honey, cleanfes the Kidneys, Ureters, and 
Bladder powerfully, forces away Sand, fmall 
Stones, gravelly and flimy Matter with the 
Urine. A moderate Dram ufed in drop- 
fical and cachedtic Cafes, where the Body 
is difpofed to be over-bulky, and in danger 
®£ Leucophlegmatia, or any other general 
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