1812. For this reason, it is they who should be called the false spirituous fluids, those containing nothing living, but only quite hard, gluey, and subtle material elements, which get into the purer blood, contrary to order. So they are sublimated, subtle poisons, rather than animate spirit or purer blood. Their effect is that wherever they go, they attach themselves to other parts and bring coldness on them, causing sluggishness to the nerves, and to each and every part, such as the brains together with their tissues and cavities. Then they also bring on sluggishness of the body, atrophy, interior blockages, which break out in very many serious diseases, for they are the inward causes of them.