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complaining of a want of ruoi; 1 not that the 1' ~r'kn[ 
Mdifturejs dryect up, biu becaufe the natuial .V'.-'ei. » 
by reafon or the contrsftiou of the Glands, are u.-.ni 
ed. 1 have already observed, that we found in this < J 
Man more blood than could have been expedit'd in-fych 
an emaciared Body, and without doubt it bad been larg- 
er, it bis Stomach and Appetite had been as good as old 
Parre’s. The fu’.lnefs of the Veflels, and the frequent 
Rheums and Catfrrhs of old People, evince this necef- 
fary conlequence . of the defends of the Coats of the 
Veflels : Ail which agrees with what the Writers of In~ 
ftituiions fay, that old Men are raiicme partium f olid arum 
fiigidi & fieri, ratione exerementonim frigidt & hwiidi. 
From this retention of the exerementitious parts of the 
Blood, we may expeft all the ill confequences of a viti- 
ated Plethora, and languid motion of the Blood ^ for the 
Fibres of the Arteries being now become hard, inftead of 
afliftirrg, they obftrudt the Heart in circulating the Blood 5 
and the quantity of Anin^al Spirits feparated in the Glands 
of the Brain, rauft hkewife be lefs, not only becaufe of 
the retention of the Exerementitious Humours, but alfo 
becaufe of the clofenefs and firmnefs of the Brain itfdf, 
fo that the Contradfions of the Heart and all the Mufcles 
muff be weak, and confequently the motion of the Blood 
languid-; 
Gelldus tardatfis Seite&it 
Snnguk hebet. 
A due conformation of all the Vital parts is moft cSf- 
iainly rieeeflary fo bring a Man to a full old Age j but 
above all the reft, there are two which to me feern to 
have had the greateft (hare in procuring a Longevity to 
old Parre and Styles, by retarding the ill efFedfs juft now 
mentioned. The fir ft is the Heart, which in both was 
ftrong and fibrous j for that being left alone to labour 
