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diftend the Bowels, and raife Pain. Such 
as have a tickling Cough, find it ordinarily 
encreafed after drinking ; it will be fome 
little Advantage to them to fmoak, feeing 
the Acid and Sulphur of the Tobacco, check 
and blunt thofe acrid Particles which irri- 
tate the bronchial Veffels of the Lungs, and 
fet the Perfon a coughing to fhake off thofe 
(harp Corpufcles. Thefe are fome of thofe 
fpecial Advantages which Drinkers receive 
by fmoaking, and which have gained this 
Herb fuch Repute, and brought it into fuch 
univerfal Ufe. In Indigeftion from Coid- 
nefs, Rawnefs, Weaknefs, or Palling of the 
Stomach, Smcaking helps much, partly 
as it opens the Sluices of the Mouth, en- 
larges the Quantity of Saliva fecerned there, 
diminifhing thereby the glandular Secretion 
of the Stomach ; and partly, as the Salts of 
the Tobacco being fwallowed, they ftimu- 
late and excite the lazy membranous Coats 
of the Stomach to a brifker Action : And 
ladly, as thefe Salts attenuate the fecerned 
Liquor, ftimulate the Glands, and deterge 
them from their fculking ilimy Mucus ; or 
if their excerned Liquor be too ferous and 
thin* this Stimulation contracts their Vef- 
fels, 
