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Mouth, communicate an agreeable Stimulus 
to the other Nerves, it will be ferviceable 
in Swoonings or Syncopes. In tickling 
Coughs, Rheums, and Catarrhs, from a 
faline Serum tickling either the Veflels in 
the Upper-end of the Wind-pipe, or the 
bronchial Veflels and Glands, fmoaking 
Tobacco both entangles thofe Particles in 
its Sulphur, and enlarges the Drains of the' 
Mouth, whereby thefe other Veflels are 
eafed, and the Salts difcharged with the Sa- 
liva. In time of Peftilence, or any other con- 
tagious or epidemic Diflemper, Smoaking 
is profitable, both as the Pungency of the 
Smoak accelerates the Blood’s Motion, and 
prevents the Alteration of our Mafs of Blood, 
by the Attraction of the contagious Effluvia 
drawn in with our Breath, and fwallowed with 
our Spittle, but elpecially as its much Sul- 
phur embarrafles and (heaths thofe Effluvia ; 
hence all theTobacconiils Houfes and Shops 
in Londo 7 i barred the Entrance of the fpread- 
ing Contagion in 1665 and 66; even the 
Fumes of the Tobacco, by ftirring it up 
and handling it, had deftroyed the Venom 
of the malignant Effluvia, before they were 
fucked in with the Peoples Breath : But the 
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