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attractive Parts. Therefore as they feem fo 
agreeable to fuch Mens Conftitutions, Na- 
ture has provided them with Wines the 
weaker and lower Sorts whereof are chiefly 
ufed by the Vulgar ; but the People of For- 
tune and Figure, drink the ftrong-bodied 
Wines, which is the Occafion of their great 
Liablenefs to the Gout, Stone, Rheuma- 
tifm, and inflammatory Fevers. But Eng- 
lijhmen enjoying a cooler, and more tem- 
perate Climate, their Conflitutions are more 
robuft, and they can digeft a ftronger- 
bodied Liquor than Wine. 
2. Thofe Countries which have Plenty 
of Wine, are chiefly obliged to vegetable 
Food for their Suftenance ; which Sort of 
Aliment is not only poorer, but generally 
of more tenacious Parts, as leguminous 
Fruits, cooling Roots and Herbs, &c. 
Therefore it requires a Liquor of more 
eafily feparable Parts, and that has in it a 
Mixture of Tartar, which may help to 
break the Cohefions of thefe tenacious 
Viands, by the Solidity of its Parts, and 
add a Momentum to the Blood ; and by its 
agreeable Aufterity, give a gentle Stimu- 
lancy to the Solids, that they may put forth 
a greater Force, and a£t more vigoroufly in 
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