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are hot, it inflames them, and caufes Hemorrhages, 
and always increafes the Effervefcence of the Blood. 
3. The Arabians , and many of the Moderns, at- 
tribute to the Juice of Aloes a Virtue of opening 
the Veins, and drawing forth Blood. But the Greeks 
are quite filent upon this Virtue : On the contrary, 
Diofcorides aferibes to it a Power of flopping an 
Hamoptyfis. However daily Experience teaches us, 
that a long Ufe of Aloes provokes the menflrual 
and hemorrhoidal Fluxes, and expels the Foetus , 
and therefore, when the accuflomed Evacuations, 
either by the uterine or hemorrhoidal Veflfels are 
fupprefTed, all Phyficians preferibe this Drug with 
Succefs to promote them. 
This being granted, the next Queflion is, Whether 
Aloes, which has a Power of opening the inferior 
Blood- VefTels, does in like Manner open the fupe- 
rior, and particularly the VefTels of the Lungs, or 
no ? Diofcorides writes, that Aloes with Water or 
Whey flops the Spitting of Blood •, and Pliny re- 
lates the fame. But Galen, though he allows it an 
aflringent and agglutinating Property, when out- 
wardly applied, yet he no where propofes it to be 
taken inwardly againfl the Spitting of Blood. Among 
the Arabians , Serapio following Diofcorides , defends 
his Opinion : But Mefue makes no Mention of its 
Efficacy that Way. Some of the Moderns, as Mo- 
nardus , &c. have aferibed to Aloes both thefe Vir- 
tues (viz.) of opening the inferior VefTels, and of 
clofing the fuperior *, and indeed in fome Medicines 
we find the like contrary Qualities. Neverthelefs 
the mofl judicious Phyficians, after Fernelius , are 
afraid of giving it in the Vomiting or Spitting of 
Blood ♦, and I think with them, that it is advifeable 
in thefe Cafes to abflain from it, fince we are pro- 
vided with other Medicines lefs dangerous and 
much better. 
