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which exhale from the Settlings of Spirit of Wine, 
Brandies, and other hot Liquors in the Tunica e iil - 
lofa of the Stomach, and other adipofe or fat Mem- 
branes ; within which (as Chymifls obferve) thofe 
Spirits ingender a kind of Camphire ; which, in the 
Night time, in Sleep, by a full Breathing and Refpi- 
ration, are put in a ftronger Motion, and, confe- 
quently, more apt to be fet afire. 
PROOFS. 
FAT is an oily Liquid feparatcd from the Blood by 
the Glands of the Membrana adipofa > and it is of 
an eafily combuflible Nature, as common Experience 
fhews. 
Our Blood is of fuch a Nature ; as alfo our Lymph 
and Bile : All which, when dry’d by Art, flame like 
Spirit of Wine at the Approach of the leaf! Fire, 
and burn away into Afhes. [ Obferv . 171. in the 
Ephemeris a/' G ermany, Anno X.] 
Such a Drying-up of Matters may be caufed in our 
Body by drinking rectified Brandy, and ftrong Wines; 
as Monfieur Litre obferved in the DifTe&ion of a 
Woman 45 Years old, in the Hiftory of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences , 1706. p. 23. Which EfFeffc 
may oftener happen, if the Spirit of Wine has any 
Mixture of Camphire : For that Liquor is but a fub- 
Jimated Oil, whofe fulphureous Particles, being atte- 
nuated by the Fermentation, when feparated from 
fixed and fait Matters, are eafily putin Motion, and, 
.rolling thro’ the Air, become Flame and Fire. 
Beftdes, altho’ the Salts which are in living and 
vegetable Creatures are not naturally inclined to kin- 
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