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city of the Blood, and procuring Sleep; imagining 
alfo, that, by the fame Toothing Quality, the Juices 
themfelves might, not improbably, be rendered more 
mild and innocent when impregnated with the Medi- 
-cine. And fuch a Medicine I judged Musk to be, 
-on account of its known, and almoft inftantaneous, 
Effeds on Perfons of a lax Habit ; whofe Nerves are 
fo fuddenly flacken’d, and the Motion of their Blood 
fo diminifhed by the lead Smell of it, that many of 
them faint away : Befides, its Odour is fo exceedingly 
fubtile, as to penetrate thro' the clofeft Subfiances ; 
and may therefore be fuppofed eafily to pervade the 
minuteft Veffels of the human Body, and to diffufe 
its foftening balfamic Virtue thro’ all the Juices 
thereof. 
The Arrack feemed alfo a very proper Vehicle for 
•the M.usk; not only as they make together a very 
agreeable Bitter, but alfo becaufe inflammable Spirits 
relift Putrefadion, and alfo, in fome meafure, coagu- 
late animal Juices, which are not already corrupted * 
by which Effeds the too much rarefied Blood is con- 
denfed, and hindered from putrefying further; while 
the bad Juices, being fepar-ated from the found, ate 
plentifully thrown off by the Pafiages, which the 
Musk has relaxed, and opened for them. The native 
Cinnabar feem’d to be fumcientiy recommended by its 
known Ufes in Phyfic,-againft Acrimony, Obftrudions, 
and Convulfions : But of the Vermilion I can only 
fay, That tho' it be a Preparation of the former, 
yet, as the Tonquinefe feem to think its Virtue dif- 
ferent, it were to be wifhed, that we knew their 
Method of preparing it, in- which they certainly 
‘.excel. 
