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Debauches with Malt Liquors, lufcious thick 
Wines, Idlenefs, and want of Exercife, 
which have foul’d the Glands, and indif- 
pofed the Body. The Univerfe cannot af- 
ford a better Liquor for phlegmatic Confti- 
tutions, and bulky Bodies. Students, who 
have loft Appetite and Digeftion, or con- 
tracted a cacheCtic Habit of Body, may ex- 
pect much Relief from this, and Exercife in 
a clear Ail*. Whenever the Blood abounds 
with too much Sulphur, Mucus, or alkali- 
ous Salts, this is an incomparable Draught 
for ordinary. But in thefe Cafes its Ufe 
muff be laid afide when it hath anfwered 
its End, left it occafion Illneffes of a con- 
trary Nature. 
But altho’ it oblige us with all thefe, and 
feveral other good Services, in a high De- 
gree, yet it is injurious to choleric Tempers, 
end thin, lean Habits 5 for it wears their 
Veffels, fends off the nutritive Parts of their 
Blood by Urine, encreafes the Elafticity of 
their Fibres, promotes their Perfpiration, 
and adds to their Evacuation. It likewife 
encreafes the Rigour and Stiffnefs of old Peo- 
ples Veflels and Solids, and fends off preci- 
pitancy the fined: of their Fluids by Urine. 
It is highly injurious to them who have 
large 
