Symptoms attend, the MorbifidkFrtméüt to be-Acrid and Volaille,
fuch perhaps as Spi^ôS'-Nitèrfbf th@& "©MrcÆvé; •Ba«*-
clés fmartly Irritating thé NerVoüs Fibres , and Whirling them
into twilling Motionsand at the fame time Coagulating the
tymfba , fometimes thé Patient is Mólefted with Wakefülnêfs,
and Convulfive motions, fometimes a deep and heavy Cckna,
or becomes Paralitick, or Apbple&ick ; the Animal Spirits this
entangled in a Vifcid lympha , cannot - be feperated from the
Nerves, which now deprived of their wonted Pabulum, thePer-
fon becomes Pallid, like the Image of Death.
But againft thefe Affermions, there yet remains one Powerful
Argument, and urged Vehemently by Perfons*-of no common
Fame ; ( Viz; ' ) That nor Acid cou^d ever yet be produced'from
the Mafs of Blood by any Art yetkrtó&n; to Vindicate which
the Learned Boyle is very often quoted, who eoù d never by any
Experiment whatever effeét it.
But to that I thus reply,
That all the Experiments try’d by that Eminent Philofopher,
were1 only on the Grufnotts part of the Blood, as 1 remember,
not in the Lympha, but in the Mafly Red Body-óf the Blood, the
Saline Particles are lo involv’d with others of a different kind,
that they are not diftinguilhable by the tail, and fight, nor can
they bb feparated by any Art of Fire, but only by their,^proper
Emunöories, (Viz.) The Lymphatick Veffel9, and Glandules of
the Body, as is evident in vety many ihftances ; for pray tell me
whoever yet cou’d fèparaté one Particle of Bile or Urine from
the Blood ? Of what Perfon will deny fuch Liquors are therein
contain’d? Befides, it paffes for an undoubted Truth, às De-
monftrable, that the Lymphatick Veffels are only Compagei of
fmall Arteries, and confequently whatever is contain’d in them,
firft paffed through the Arteries ; this granted it is beyond di-
fpute, the Lympha fometimes affords an Acid ; the truth of this
is confirmed by the Learned Nuck, who by many repeated Experiments
knew how to difeover an Acid in the Aqueous Humor of
the Eye, which by a peculiar Lymphatick Veffel is feparated
from the Artery ; for this Humour is only brought thither by the
wmlitd the Cariatide Artery; I’ll aiine^oBie, Argument mote,
that if no: Acid be contain’d fa the Blood bow comes it, I befeeeh
you, that iit Carloh§f©r ViDutenfiUicers, the SilvdMProbe becomes
inflantly o f a Livid Colour, which ean only be effeéfodby
an Acid notati Alkàiious Meriftruum ?,-■ ®r< what caufes the Spittle
of many? Confumptive Perfons to be like a folution of Alome?
That Argument will not abidie the le ft, fet forth by a lateScri-
bier ari affigning the caufes of Diftempers to. Alkalies not Acids,
but like his; New Light to Sutgery vanifhes like a Wandering
Star. In the Qautw Stm&y fays hé f d > Chalky, matter u deposited
m the fôinlsiiç Reins y mid Bladdery fermmdng xpitb any
Acidyëfo iemfsqumdy .of .an' Alkdims Néure , fyèeftre ibefe
Diftempers arifes htBr frm Adkalm than Adds. We allow it
to be true indeed , that tbofe Bodies «Kiây be reputed Alkalies;
for from them Voidtik Alkalies may be prepared, but whoever
deny’d Alkalies to be contained in the Blood I f Or what then?
Does this prove the confequences, that they produce Diftempers ?
no more if I miftake not than the frothy Spittle o f Epileptick
Perfons demonftrates the caufes of their Convulfions, prt;heQcre
of Mineral Waters difclofes their Principles, We allege then that
in thofe Diftempers the Blood having acquir’d a Saline, Acid,
Auftere, or Acrid Temper, and in that cafe commixing with
the Alkalies of the Blood, become like a certain Magiftery
or an Adiaphorous Salt, by which 'feculent matter the Capillary
Veffels and Membranes become difteudêd, and contracted by its
Acrimony, hence in the parts affeétedarife thofe Inflammations,
and pungent pains, I the like Cretaceous fubftances may if I mi*
ftake not, be obferved by a mixture of Spirit of Niter, and Oil of
Vitriol, with the Serüm of Blood, yet this is not to be fuppofed
to be produced from Alkalies, but by Acids United with them ;
daily practice il lu tirâtes thé truth of this. It is very well known
Lime Water, Millepedes, Mineral Waters, a Milk dirt, and
othér Medicines of an Alkaline' Nature, Which infringe Acids,
are prefer’-d : In thfe-Cure of thefe Difeafes, whichfpccefs epu’d
never enfue if théirCaufes were Alkalious, more might be added
but thefe may fuffice. Let fuch Perfons who Pride only in a
gingle