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into the Arteries and Nerves, and unbend- 
ing the Spring of the rigid Solids, or bracing 
the loofened Fibres. Contractions or Si- 
new-growing require only Relaxation to 
foften and render the Fibres more flexible, 
and the Veflels more dilatable. Palfles re- 
quire the attenuating and wafting of that 
Redundance of vifcid nervous Juice, which 
foaks and relaxes the Nerves, and deprives 
them of ACtion and Senfation ; and bracing 
up the relaxed Fibres. How Bathing at- 
tenuates the Juices, I have £hewn before ^ 
as alfo how it waftes them by Perfpiration, 
and thereby enables the nervous Filaments 
to reaflume their natural Elafticity, whilft: 
both Steel and Sulphur, in the Water, acft 
the part of Reftringents. Whatever adds 
to the Quantity, Motion, and Momentum 
of the Blood, and at the fame time deter- 
mines it for the uterine Veflels, may be 
called an Erpmenagogic ; and alfo what- 
ever takes off the Stiffnefs and Indilatability 
of thefe Veflels, and makes them infufcep- 
tible of a greater Accumulation and Load of 
Blood. On the contrary, whatever correCts 
the Acrimony of the Blood, leffens the 
Quantity of other animal Juices, invigorates 
the Fibres and Veflels, or gives the Blood a 
free 
