( 1 7° ) 
Weather, foggy Air, wet Seafons, or after 
too folid or tenacious Foods. 
But all thefe good Effe&s will not coun- 
terballance the Mifchiefs done by the indik 
creet and immoderate Ufe of Spirits. All 
melancholy Tempers are injured by them ; 
for tho* a fmall Dram rarefies the Blood at 
firft, yet the more thin and fpirituous Parts 
exhale iboner, and carry off fome of the 
fineft Serum with them, whereby the Blood 
becomes thicker, and the Solids more dry 
and iliff. Cholerick Difpofitions have their 
Fibres too much ftimulated by its Ufe, the 
Acrimony of the Blood and its Motion, and 
Agitation, are increafed by it. The repeat- 
ed Ufe of unneceffary Drams in fanguine 
Conftitutions, rarefies the Blood at firft, 
makes it diftend the Vefiels, and fome un- 
prepared Parts rufti into the Canals of co- 
nic Tubes, where they cannot readily pafs ; 
hence Fevers and other Diforders. A too 
free Ufe of them in any Conftitution, puts 
the Humours into a violent Agitation, 
whereby their nutritious Parts are unfit to 
anfwer their Defign, for this great Rarefac- 
tion is often fucceeded by a Thinnefs and 
Watrinefs of the Blood ; hence an ill Plabit 
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