Constitution, that while the Fluids are continually wasting and running off the faster, for the Motion of the whole Individual, the other part of the Constitution, the Solids, the Fibres should by the same Means reap some Advantages proper, and in some measure sufficient to Balance the Consequences of such a _Dispendium_. All this receives certain weight from the Argument which is so Naturally suggested to us, by the familiar and daily Observations, which every one cannot but make on the Health of the Poorer sort of People, especially their immunity from this Distemper. That it is matter of wonder that the Spasms, the Tremors, the Shiverings, the Watchings, and all the very numerous Plagues of an Hysterick Person, should not be able to rouze People into a Quest of Health, upon Measures suitable to the Causes of things; that such Painful experience should not animate ’em, into a Resolution to exchange the Pains of a sedentary, for the Indolence at least, not to say, the Pleasures of an Active Life. I am confident no one could forbear making these Inferences, and reducing ’em to practice, who has been any considerable time infested with this Distemper, were it not for the present Comfort and false Hope, which are conceiv’d from some Palliative Remedies, in too much use in this Case; I mean Vinous Spirits, and Compositions Distill’d upon ’em, which because in the beginning of this Distemper, they are found to be comfortable and really useful, entice People to have recourse to the use of ’em, oftner than they ought to do, and in time seduce ’em so much by that Delusive flash of Ease, which they give in the first Moments of their Drinking, that they cannot have a due Regard to the Evil Consequences of such a Practice; these Liquors prove a meet Charm, they creep into the Understanding, and teach People to impose upon themselves, and fansie Excuses for the use of ’em, till they come to be so blinded as to think that Health it self, is scarce an equivalent for the Pleasures which must be deny’d, in the Abstinence from ’em. They who have brought themselves to such a Custom, are not unlike some of our Debtors, who after they have been some time in a Prison, and learn’d the way, of living an Idle Life upon other Folks Cost, tho’ under Confinement, they lose all sense of Liberty, and never desire to subsist again, upon the severe Conditions of Industry and Labour; and so those who have learn’d to sip of this Spirituous _Lethe_, quite forget the value of Health and Strength; they can drown their Vapours, blunt their Pains, and rub on without great danger a good while, and therefore as for brisk Exercise, the Cold Bath, and the like, they desire to be excus’d; there’s too much Danger in the Practice, there’s a _Lyon in the Way_; and thus a sickly complaining Life they lead, because they will not take Courage, to use the Just endeavours after a real State of Health. These I take to be some of the Reasons, why this