. . 
Sea fait is a kind of neutral fait, that will not pafs 
off through the pores of the fkin (except perhaps in 
an ammoniacal ftate fome of it may). Its proper 
outlets are by ftool and urine. It appears by expe- 
riments to be very little alterable by the powers 
of the animal oeconomy. If fo, when not duly 
difcharged by thefe paffages, in a courfe of drinking 
fait water, the marine fait muff be greatly accumu- 
lated in the mafs of blood, make it continually more 
and more aferimbnious ; and by the mutual attraction 
of its particles, when fo abundant, run into molecula 
too large to pafs the minuted: veffels, occafion ffag- 
nations ; and by irritating thefe capillaries increafe 
the impetus a tergo^ and often bring on ruptures of 
thofe veffels, extravafations, blotches, fpots ; in a 
word, all the fymptoms of the fcurvy in the higheff 
degree. Indeed it is very well known, that the 
mod: healthy failors cannot long live in drinking mere 
fait water for common drink. 
VoL. LV. 
C 
III. A 
