The _saliva_ often is an over abundant secretion in weak persons; which is owing to a relaxation of the salivary organs. Now if the patients spit out continually this saliva, thence result two evils; the one, that they exhaust themselves by this evacuation; the other, that this humor, so necessary to the work of digestion, which without it operates but imperfectly, fails, and thereby renders it laborious and defective. I have already sufficiently explained myself on the dangers of a bad digestion, not to need here much insistence on those incident to an evacuation, on which the digestion so essentially depends. For this reason it is that Mr. LEWIS forbids smoaking to his patients. Smoaking, among its other inconveniences, disposes to an abundant salivation, by the irritation it produces on the glands which furnish this secretion. Might not the inhalation from one person to another, which I have precedently mentioned, be here recalled to mind as one of the means of cure? CAPIVACCIO had judged it of use to the person under his care, that should lie between the two nurses that suckled him; and it is very probable that the inhalation of their atmosphere contributed perhaps as much as their milk to restore his strength. ELIDÆUS, cotemporary with CAPIVACCIO, and preceptor to FORRESTUS, who has preserved to us this observation[114], advised a young man, who was in a _marasmus_, to asses milk, and to have his nurse lie in the same bed with him, who was a woman extremely healthy, and in the flower of her age: this advice had the greatest success; nor was the compliance with it discontinued till the patient owned he could no longer resist the inclination grown upon him, to make an illicit use of the strength that was returned to him. A remedy, on the foot of this utility by inhalation might be preserved, and yet the danger be prevented by not mixing the sexes. _The PASSIONS._