come visit, always too early, most frequently before we are throughly recover'd of our last. And thus by continual succession of fitts, we are never from under its dominion: like an animal ty'd in a string, we are never at perfect liberty. But I apprehend, these oyls effectually kill the present material cause of the fitt, so as to suffer no part to return into the blood, unalter'd and capable to associate again or do any harm. For after those salts have been thus bridled by the oyls, the utmost they can do upon return into the blood, is to carry the sabulous matter along with them, the recrement of gout and gravel, and evacuate it by urine. And this makes the urine so extravagantly thick. And 'tis surprizing to see the odd appearance of it during the unction, and for a long while after recovery: to see the quantity of clouds in it immediately upon making, the scum at top afterwards and sediment at bottom, very thick. No doubt but the oyly particles that have enter'd the body and wrought the cure, may be part of it, and brings along with it whatever was noxious to the constitution, otherwise it may pass off by sweat or insensible transpiration. For the oyls blunting these salts is but an imitation; of nature's art in making a saponaceous mixture, which is the matter of sweat.
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