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Show The Tat/Jolttgie of the Wit/clot. 1 54. Chap. X X V I, of the Year do much dilordcr the Conflitution of the various Seafons The occafiOnCd "W" Body "W 2,2,31,26,31,; by diFi'erent tempers of the Air, iomctimes Hot, and preor urban, fend): after Cold (as in the Spring and Autumn ) wherein Nature is fur. priled, in a fuddain different alteration of Air; and when the Pores have been enlarged by heat, they are immediately [but up by Cold, and-the fiery and Saline Particles, and Acid fleams of the Blood and Nervous l iquor are iiipprelicd a prohibit; Tmnfpimtione 3, whereupon the various [harp ~Saline Recrements, endued with Fermentative Particles, do make great buisles in the Body, and vex the parts. Violent Labour‘s and Exercifcs, and extravagant Paflion, and an immode- rate indulgence of Venery, as alfo the fuppreilion of the wonted evacuation of Blood by the Noftrils, Hmmorrhoides, or Menf'trua, do highly dif‘. ., ‘ m:r compote [he Viral and Nervous Liquor in thc Vcflels, and enrage the Mot. F" bilick Niarter of a Rheumatilin, by railing the fermentation of various will: Juices, confillififl of Acid, and Saline parts (th: antecedent canib lodged in the \‘efiréls ‘i impelled into the habit of the Body (and fo become the continent caufe of the Difeaie) difquieting the Nervous parts, by giving them iliarp pains. Thus having given a brief Account of the Procatarfiiek Caufes, I will now with Permitlion, attempt to fllew the difi‘erent Influences thefc various kind- Of a ‘R/Jemrmti m. neat union, receiverh a farther Exaltation,and is aflimilated into Vital liquor, whofe more mild parts aiiociated with Nervous Juice, become a good 5th- cm- Niitriciw', which being conveyed by innumerable Pores into the lolid (\hzfilfifl parts, is made one uniform fubfiance with them by Accretion iiiiiiaiijrilh But if upon the reception of highly falted Meat, dried in the Sun, or " H" Smoak, and other Meat hard ofiDigeftion (by realbn the S reculenr parts are dried up, by the Salt and Smoak) a crude Milky Humour is extracted ; riic crud'ty becaule the too iolid Compage of the Aliment is not duly opened by a gtols $333225, i}; Air, a faint heat, and ill Ferments of the Stomach, whereby the Chyle is g‘rzhfg'l‘fl,'5f, not well ineparated from the grofs Saline, Sulphureous, and earthy Elements notdulyortn- oi. the Meat and Drink 3 whereupon the lntefiines, by realou of an impure Cd. PanCrt'atick Liquor, and other ill Ferrnents, do not attenuate the Chyle, which is imported through the Breaft into the Vital Liquor, wherein it is not exalted by a difpirired Blood, affected with grofi Sulphureous and fixed Saline Aromes7 which being tranhnitred into the lnterfiices of the Veil fcls, do highly torture the Membranous and Nervous parts of the Mufcles producinga heumatifin. This Diihafe doth not only proceed From the fixed Saline parts of the Sniffing, Blood, but from a depraved Nervous Liquor, which may be backed by pro- at; figmill polirion and Concoétiou in the Stomach, Blood, and Ne mus Liquor, in the \Q-fltlg and habit ofrhe Body, in reference to Nutrition 3 whence arife Na- bable Realbn ; becaule Perions liable to Rheumatifms, are often afflicted with Eéfiilinii. Nervous difirfilfiions, as gentle rigors (dilpei'ied through the Membranous "W" and Mulcular parts of the Body ) which are a kind of Convuhive Motions, feared in the Nervous and Tendinous Fibres, involuntarily contracted by tural, or Preternatural Fermentations of feveral Liquors, compoiing, or di- fome {harp Humours ly and unkindly primitive callics do produce, by making good or ill Dif- lturbing the quit-t of the Nervous parts. The Blood adhered with a laudable Dil‘pofition, obtainerh a kind of Me"M n a ," diocrity or hate ( as Learned Dr. i; illir hath well obferved ) as being nei" rlrtmcl-r tht'rtoo Fixed, nor too Volatil: And the parts of the Blood may be faid i" Chap. X X V I. to be too fixed, when the Moments of Sulphur, Salt, and Earth, are {0 firmlv unirtd in a cloth bond of mixtion, that they cannot ealily be parted; as when i iquors are not well Concofied, by natural heat, and due Fctments, And again , the unnatural Contractions of Nerves , proceed from a diihllecled Nervous Liquor, of which this Conjecture may be made, becaufe thefe Convulfive Motions, were attended with the excretion of Urine, as falt as Vinegar, an Argument that part of the Acid Particles aiiieéiing the Nerves, were difcharged by Urine, which were firft fecerned in the Glands, and aftertvard imparted by the Veins, or Lymphatducis to the Mains of Blood, Spirit in Dillillitrion 5 but when the Saline aiiociated with Spirituous Atomes carried by the Dem-odour Trunk of the Aorta and Emulgent Artery, into the Glands of the Kidney, where it is fevered from the Blood, and tranfinitted by the Urinary Dué‘rs and Papillary Caruncles, terminating into the Pel- are rendred ‘r'olaril, they are lbmewhar freed from the {trier combination vis, the entrance into the Urcters, by which it is conveyed into the Bladder, nut and ; arth: As it is evident in the Difiillarion of Wine, after it is made line by parting with its groiis and earthy Lees, fallen to the bot- and (0 out of the Body by the Urethra. tom oti the Cask ; whereupon our of Wine feccrned from its Faces, the Spi- rituous and Volatil parts will eafily ai‘cend, and a Spirit of Wine may be readily extrac'icd its produtftion from vitiated Nervous I iquor, difalfeéting the fenlible parts : "pie Uf'at Becaufe in the beginning of Rheumatifins, Patients are often troubled with R mnat‘m' Dulnefs, and pains of their Heads, attended with SleepinclE, which may The Liquors (expatiating thcmfelies in the body of Animals, and epr‘ cially in a Humane Body) may have lome analogy in their Fermentation come from a depraved Animal Liquor, difafl‘eéting the Coats of the Brain ; thnce upon good grounds, we may be induced to believe, that a Rheu- r \vrth rhole 0% Vegetables, whereupon the Liquors of our Bodies, are endued with a moderate Fixation, when hrit the Chyle is duly elaborated in the .‘romach, by the help of good Air, Meats of ealie Concoétion, and proper l-‘crments or Serous and Nervous l iquor, diPtilling,y out of the Arteries and niatifin is not wholly derived From a difordered Mafs of Blood, but alfo Ntrus ( interred into the inward Tunicle of the Stomach ) into the Cavity exafperaring the Membranes, Nervous and Tendinous Fibres of the MulEles, or the Venti'irlc, whereby the well digclied Chylc being fecerned by a kind or Prtcipitation from the grofs "ahne, and Sulphureous, and earthy Faces, is tranhnitrcdthrough the Inteitines, wherein it is farther Concoéied by the Pancreatick Juice, and Arterial and Nervous Liquor, by which the Chyle being rendred more attenuated, is carried through the Thorax by whence enfueth a high difcompofiire, and torture of the Senfible parts: 30 that the igredients of a Rheumatifin, may be truly judged the Fermentativc part of the Nervous and Vital Liquor. as out of \\ ine made of unripe Grapes, it is diliiculr to evtrac‘t a Salt and ‘ proper Lac'iea' into the Subclavian Veins, where it cfpoufing the Blood in 3 near Furthermore it may be conjectured, That this Difeafe may partly borrow 2:130???" from a Nervous Juice impra'gnated with Saline Particles, brought to a Fluor, thereby rendred Acid 3 whereupon the fixed faline parts of the Vital curring into a confmderacy with the Animal Liquor, do raife brisk Fetmentations, As to the Prognoi'ticks of this Difeafe, it is rarely attended with fatal Symptoms; and after the great florms of dilquiet and pain are allayed, a ARM" Cahn enlueth: and therefore a Rheumatifin is not in it (elf liable to great 33:433.: danger |