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the Tubes of fome Parts of their infarting 
Load. 
In choleric Diforders, from acrimony, 
pricking, paining, and tearing the nervous 
Threads, Rum offers fairer for Relief than 
Brandy, becaufe it is more oily, fmooth, 
and foftening. It is alfo more fuitable to 
old Age, becaufe, at the fame time it fti- 
mulates, it alfo lubricates and dilates the 
Veffels, whereby they keep longer open and 
paffable, the Straitening fhutting up, and 
Coalefcence of which, is the only Caufe 
of old Age and natural Death. 
In recent great Colds, without a Fever, 
Rum is more lerviceable than Brandy, pro- 
vokes both Perfpiration and Urine more 
powerfully, as it {healths the Salts, makes 
their Stimulus lefs fenfible, and contrads 
the Veffels lefs ; nay, its Sulphur fmooths 
and dilates them more. 
When the Perfon is very hot and thirfly, 
a Dram of Rum is much better to drink 
than Brandy, before Water, Small Beer, or 
Milk j for this keeps the Veffels more pli- 
able, dilated, and lax, maintains a freer 
Courfe for the Fluids to pafs without Lett 
or Stoppage. For the Mifchiefs done by 
Water, or fuch fmall Liquors, in this Cafe, 
is 
