Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6109" xml:space="preserve">THe Sea is clearer when the North-wind bloweth, then when the South-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-01" xlink:href="note-0174-01a" xml:space="preserve">682.</note>
            wind. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6110" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Salt-water hath a little Oylineſs in the Surface
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-02" xlink:href="note-0174-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Different
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              clearneß of the
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              Sea.</note>
            there of, as appeareth in very hot days: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6111" xml:space="preserve">And again, for that the Southern-
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            wind relaxeth the Water ſomewhat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6112" xml:space="preserve">as no Water boyling, is ſo clear as cold
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            Water.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6114" xml:space="preserve">FIre burneth Wood, making it firſt Luminous, then black and brittle, and
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-03" xlink:href="note-0174-03a" xml:space="preserve">683.</note>
            laſtly, broken and incinerate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6115" xml:space="preserve">ſcalding Water doth none of theſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6116" xml:space="preserve">The
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Different
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              Heats of Fire
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              and Boiling
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              Water.</note>
            cauſe is, for that by Fire the Spirit of the Body is firſt refined, and then emit-
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            ted; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6117" xml:space="preserve">where of the refining or attenuation cauſeth the light, and the emiſſion;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6118" xml:space="preserve">firſt the fragility, and after the diſſolution into Aſhes, neither doth any other
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            Body enter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6119" xml:space="preserve">But in Water, the Spirit of the Body is not refined ſo much; </s>
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            and beſides, part of the Water entreth, which doth increaſe the Spirit, and
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            in a degree extinguiſh it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6121" xml:space="preserve">therefore we ſee that hot Water will quench Fire. </s>
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            And again, we ſee that in Bodies wherein the Water doth not much enter,
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            but onely the heat paſſeth, hot Water worketh the effects of Fire: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6123" xml:space="preserve">As in
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            Eggs boiled and roaſted, (into which the Water entreth not at all) there is
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            ſcarce difference to be diſcerned; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6124" xml:space="preserve">but in Fruit and Fleſh, where into the Wa-
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            ter entreth in ſome part, there is much more difference.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6126" xml:space="preserve">THe bottom of a Veſſel of boyling Water (as hath been obſerved) is not
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            very much heated, ſo as men may put their hand under the Veſſel, and
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Qualification
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              of Heat by
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              Moiſturo.</note>
            remove it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6127" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the moiſture of Water, as it quencheth
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            Coals where it entreth, ſo it doth allay heat where it toucheth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6128" xml:space="preserve">And there-
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            fore note well, that moiſture, although it doth not paſs through Bodies with-
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            out Communication of ſome ſubftance (as heat and cold do) yet it worketh
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            manifeſt effects; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6129" xml:space="preserve">not by entrance of the Body, but by qualifying of the heat
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            and cold, as we ſee in this inſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6130" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee likewiſe, that the water of
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            things diſtilled in water, (which they call the Bath) differeth not much from
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            the water of things diſtilled by Fire. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6131" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that Pewter-Diſhes with
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            Water in them will not melt eaſily, but without it they will. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6132" xml:space="preserve">Nay, we ſee
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            more, that Butter or Oyl, which in them ſelves are inflamable, yet by the vir-
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            tue of their moiſture will do the like.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6134" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been noted by the Ancients, that it is dangerous to pick ones Ear
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            whileſt he Yawneth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6135" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in Yawning, the inner Parch-
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              Solitary,
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              tuoching
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              Yawning.</note>
            ment of the Ear
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            is extended by the drawing in of the Spirit and Breath; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6136" xml:space="preserve">for
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            in Yawning and Sighing both, the Spirit is firſt ſtrongly drawn in, and then
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            ſtrongly expelled.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6138" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, that Sneezing doth ceaſe the Hic-
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            cough. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6139" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Motion of the Hiccough is a lifting up of
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Hiccough.</note>
            the Stomach; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6140" xml:space="preserve">which Sneezing doth ſome what depreſs, and divert the moti-
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            on another way. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6141" xml:space="preserve">For firſt, we ſee that the Hiccough cometh of fulneſs of
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            Meat, (eſpecially in Children) which cauſeth an extenſion of the Stomach:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6142" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, it is cauſed by acide Meats or Drinks, which is by the pricking
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            of the Stomach. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6143" xml:space="preserve">And this motion is ceaſed, either by Diverſion, or by Deten-
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            tion of the Spirits: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6144" xml:space="preserve">Diverſion, as in Sneezing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6145" xml:space="preserve">Detention, as we ſee holding
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            of the Breath doth help ſome what to ceaſe the Hiccough, and putting a Man
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            into an earneſt ſtudy doth the like, as is commonly uſed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6146" xml:space="preserve">And Vinegar put to
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            the Noſtrils or Gargarized doth it alſo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6147" xml:space="preserve">ſor that it is Aſtringent, and inhibiteth
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            the motion of the Spirit.</s>
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