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Grounds, the employing of the Poor, and 
the Provifion of dry Conftitutions with a 
Liquor fuitable to their Condition. 
4. Hence we know the Reafon why 
Ale, or unhopped Malt Liquors, are fo 
very prejudicial to a flow Circulation, where 
the Body is cold, weak, tumid, foft, and 
fluggifh ; the Mind weak and fearful ; the 
Pulfe fmall and flow ; the Colour pale or 
white ; the Veins fmall and fcarce apparent; 
all from a Watrinefs and Phlegmaticknefs of 
the Humours, and a Laxity and Flaccidity 
of the Fluids : Where the great Veflels are 
fmall and weak, their lateral Veflels large 
and lax; the projedtile Force of the Heart 
fmall, the Pulfe in the Capillaries of the 
Brain languid ; therefore the arterial Pul- 
fations drive forward the Liquor in the 
Nerves faintly; the Heart is but poorly 
fupplied with Spirits ; its Fibres and Muf. 
cles are loofe, and adt but flowly and weak- 
ly : A ferous Bile, and fmall in Quantity, 
is fecerned in the Liver, for want of a brilk 
Motion of the Blood in the Vena porta . In 
fuch Perfons, the much and frequent Ufe 
of Ale foftens, relaxes, and weakens the 
folid Parts more, obftrudts the Mouths of 
the fmallefl Veflels, fouls the Glands, furs 
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