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Solidity and Drinefs of its earthy or faline 
Parts, which add a frefh Momentum to the 
Blood, and incide, break, feparate, and di- 
vide its vifcid Combinations. 3. By carrying 
into the Blood a Sufficiency of Phlegm or 
Water to dilute it, and facilitate the Addon 
of both Veffels and faline Particles. Perry 
is the beft Liquor can be drunk after a Sur- 
feit of Mufhrooms, efpecially if a Dram of 
Brandy be added to it, then it is reckoned a 
better Antidote than either Wine or Honey, 
both which contain a very fine Oil, fubtili- 
zed to a Spirit, which entangles the acid, vola- 
tile, coagulating, and malignant Salts of the 
Mufhrooms, and the delicate efifential Salts of 
the Liquor, penetrate, feparate, attenuate, 
and divide its tenacious fpongy Parts 5 which 
two, viz. the acid and coagulating Salts, and 
the fpongy tough Subfiances, palling together 
with the Chyle into the Blood, and getting 
into the fmall Veffels of the Lungs, fluff and 
diflend them with both a tough, coagulated, 
and malignant Blood, which occafion Suffo- 
cation, Strangulation, and Death 5 hence 
thole Mufhrooms which have the leafl Salt 
and mofl Oil, are the leafl dangerous, for the 
lafl fetters up and entangles the firfl, fo as 
it is not fo volatile, feparabie, and mifchie- 
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