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Cough, and a difficult Expedoration of a 
Vifcid comes on. And when this Cyder ar- 
rives at its Maturity, it is by no means a 
nouriffiing Liquor for the mechanic and 
hard Labourer, becaufe it confifts of ffiarp 
tartarous Parts, which, together with the 
Adion of the Mufcles, attenuate and expel 
the finer and more nutritious Parts of the 
Blood too fpeedily. For the fame Reafon 
it ffiould be refrained in a Strangury, and 
its Ufe forbidden when the elevating Paf- 
fions have fixed their Symptoms on us, fuch 
as Tremblings, too great Ferfpiration and 
Evacuation by Urine 3 then it increafes the 
Contradion of the Nerves 3 but if lower’d 
with Water, its an admirable Liquor in 
this Cafe, becaufe weak Nerves foon fall 
back and languifh after the Fit of Pafiion is 
over 3 and any vifcid Draught is apt to pall 
them, and generate Obftrudions in the weak 
Tubes 3 but the Tartar and ftiptic Tafte of 
the Liquor, gives them a Pungency, and 
preferves their Tone and Vigour. Very thin 
and meagre Habits ffiould not indulge the 
free and frequent Ufe of it, becaufe its folid 
Parts abrade the Vefifels, contrad their Fi- 
bres more, and fo keep or make them leaner 
ftill. Such as are in an Atrophy ffiould 
abfiain 
