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Is there not being fully feparated and divi- 
ded, but wrapt up and bound together in a 
foft, lubricating, tenacious Subftance, like a 
grofs Oil, whofe Particles are hooked into 
one another. This thick Matter is attenu- 
ated, and ground down afterwards by the 
inteftine Motion and Attrition of the Parts 
one againft another In the Adtion of the 
Fermentation, and is much of it changed 
into volatile Spirits. What remained of the 
Malt after its Fufion in boiling Water, was 
only a Caput mortuum , or an infipid, earthy, 
chaffy Hufk, out of which all the Spirit 
was extracted in the Wort in Form of an 
Oil ; and all the Salts, with fome of its fub- 
tileft earthy Parts, and the Dregs which fall 
to the Bottom of the Cafk after the Ale is 
tunn’d and ripe, are only the groffer Parts 
of the crufty Scurf robbed of the fined: Spi- 
rits, and confift chiefly of Earth, fixed Salt* 
Phlegm \ in which a brifk Spirit is entang- 
led. 
Hop is the third Thing in the Compofi- 
tion. It is an admirable Bitter, and flrength- 
ens the Stomach, helps it to throw off im- 
moderate Dofes of Ale. It is a great Pro- 
voker of Urine, not only by its fubtilizing 
the 
