( i86 ) 
( Hcema Staticks , p. 128, 129.) That Bran- 
dy contrails the Coats of the Blood Vejjels , 
and thickens the Blood and Humours , both 
which Effects contribute to the fudden Heat - 
ing oj the Blood , by much encreafmg there- 
by its Friction in the contracted capillary 
Vejfels ; which fudden Heat is alfo further 
encreafed by the mere Mixture of Brandy 
with the Blood, which glowing Heat foon 
ceafes. Hence it is the unhappy habitual 
Drinkers of Brandy , and other diftilled Jpi- 
rituous Liquors y do fo infat i ably y from time 
to timCy thirfi to drink of that deadly Li- 
quory whichy by often heating the Bloody and 
contracting the Blood Vejfehy does by Degrees 
reduce them to fuch a coldy relaxedy and lan- 
guid Statey as mojl impetuoufy drives them 
to feek their Relief in that Liquor , which 
they too well know , both by their own Expe- 
rience y as well as by the daily Def ruCtion of 
thoufandsy to be fo very baneful and deadly,^ 
as to become by the great Abufe of them y the 
mof epidemical and defruCtive Plague that 
ever befel Mankind . Whatever Service a 
feafonable moderate Dram may be of, when 
taken as a Medicine, yet this, beyond all 
peradventure, is and will be the Refult of an 
habitual Ufe, or Abufe of thofe Spirits, 
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