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is being drunk cold, they fuddenly contract 
the Veflels fo as the Liquids cannot pafs, 
their fineft and thinned: Parts are difcharged 
through the Interfaces, or forced along the 
Tubes, whilft the more grofs are obftrudfed, 
fixed, and wedged in ; hence Obftrudtions, 
Stagnations, Inflammations, Ulcerations, or 
I Mortifications, or Schirrus’s, and carcino- 
matous Tumours of fome Fifcera of the 
Lower Belly. 
But for thefe Reafons phlegmatic and 
corpulent People muft ftill allow Brandy 
the Preference, becaufe it flimulates more, 
and raifes a greater Contraction ; for if a- 
bounds more with Salts, and its Oil is more 
fubtile, exifts in fmaller Particles in the Li- 
quor, and their Veflels and Fibres are fo 
foaked in infipid Humidities, and relaxed 
with Oil, that they want no Lubrication, 
nor the Salts in their Blood any Abforbent. 
Cachectic, hydropic, lethargic, and paralytic 
Perfons, muft alfo chufe Brandy on the fame 
Account ; and fo muft thofe who have 
I fur’d-up Veflels and foul Glands (which 
raife fcrophulous Knots, oedematous Swel- 
lings, whether fixed or fhifting) for the 
Spirits of Brandy being more fine and fub- 
tile, they rarefy the Blood, and ftimulate 
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