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of the relaxed Capillaries, and thence into 
the fecretory and excretory Dutts, its fluider 
Parts will prefently fly off • the groffer re- 
maining, and depofiting a flimy Lentor on 
the Sides of the Capillaries, and the Ori- 
fices of the Glands, and more complicate 
Arteries, and producing Fevers intermittent, 
and remittent. If the Air be very hot and 
moift, a liberal Ufe of this Liquor will 
quickly difpofe the Body for malignant and 
putrid Fevers, from the Diflipation of the 
Blood’s Serum through the Skin, and the 
Retention of the thicker and more vilcid, 
which is unfit for a regular Circulation, 
If the Air be hot and dry in Summer, and 
Spring, ardent Fevers and Inflammations 
will be likely to overtake the Drinker. 
Now feeing fuch are the Effects of hot 
Weather on human Bodies, how much 
worfe muft the Cafe be, when we. take in- 
to our Stomachs large Quantities of a Li- 
quor, one Part whereof is very fpirituous, 
and another very vifcid ; the firfl: of which 
w T ill foon exhale from the Body, becaufe 
of the Finenefs of its Parts, the Laxnefs of 
the Pores, and Patency of the Veflfels, and 
leave the other Part behind, to taint the 
whole Mafs of Blood , diipofe it to greater 
Combi- 
