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and encourages Inflammations. To the 
more laborious and drudging Part of Man- 
kind, it is juft nothing at all ; for it fends 
oft the nutritious Juices which fhould repair 
their Wafte, and wears their Fibres and 
Veflels. 
As I have given Rum and Arrack a fe- 
parate Article, it is needlefs here to be te^ 
dious in diicourfing on their Punch. It is 
enough, to add briefly, that as thefe Liquors, 
are of a ftronger Body, and more oily and 
balfamick Nature than Brandy ; fo they are 
better (if not made too acid with Lemon) 
for gouty, aged, and bilious People ; for 
Arrack, containing much fine fmall Oil, it 
lubricates and dilates the PafTages and Vef~ 
iels, makes way for the Matter of gouty 
and arthritick Pains to pafs off* through the 
Veflels. The Water, Sugar, Rum, or Ar- 
rack, do all join to leflen or take off the 
perpetual Stimulus of biliousJPerfons Fibres, 
to fheath the Acrimony of their Blood and 
Juices, to keep the Veflels more extended, 
and fo preferve the elaftick Solids from tri- 
umphing over the too much attenuated and 
diffolved Fluids. Rum, or Arrack Punch, 
makes a noble Diuretic, cleanfes the Glands, 
excretory Dudts, and Pelvis of the Kidneys, 
from 
