Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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Sweat. </
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degrees, then if it be greateſt at firſt, or equal. </
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Pores are better opened by a gentle Heat, then by a more violent; </
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their opening the Sweat, iſſueth more abundantly. </
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may do well, when they provoke Sweat in Bed by Bottles, with a Decoction
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of Sudorifick Herbs in Hot Water, to make two degrees of Heat in the Bottles,
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and to lay in the Bed the leſs-heated firſt, and after half an hour the more-
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heated.</
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which is freſh and ſweet, turneth into Blood and Fleſh; </
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onely that part which is ſeparate and excerned. </
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ſaltneſs more then Fleſh; </
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a little and ſubtile excretion from the Blood.</
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lower. </
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and the Spirits are they that put forth Sweat; </
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and Sweat iſſueth (chiefly) out of the parts that are leſs fleſhy and more dry,
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as the Forehead and Breſt.</
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other Fluxions, then cauſe them; </
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cauſe is, for that in Sleep the Heat and Spirits do naturally move inwards,
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and there reſt. </
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more violent and irritate, and thereby expelleth Sweat.</
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ſuſpected; </
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that Cold Sweats come by a relaxation or forſaking of the Spirits, whereby the
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Moiſture of the Body, which Heat did keep firm in the parts, ſevereth and
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iſſueth out.</
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rather to be ſtayed; </
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in thoſe Diſeaſes which are expelled by Sweat, it eaſeth and lightneth; </
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Agues, Peſtilences, &</
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Critical, and ſendeth forth the Matter that offendeth: </
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it either proceedeth from the Labor of the Spirits, which ſheweth them
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oppreſſed; </
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Diſeaſe where it is ſeated, moveth to an Expulſion indifferent over all the
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Body.</
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weſee, that they breed chiefly in the hotteſt Moneths of Summer; </
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Solitary,
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Gloworm.</
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that they breed not in Champaign, but in Bushes and Hedges. </
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be conceived, that the Spirit of them is very fine, and not to be refined but
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by Summer heats. </
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hale. </
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that ſhineth as the Gloworm doth, and it may be is the Flying-Gloworm; </
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that Flie is chiefly upon Fens and Marisbes. </
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tions hold, for they are not ſeen but in the heat of Summer; </
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in Conſort,
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touching the
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Impreßions
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which the Paſ-
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Minde make
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other Green of the Fens give as good ſhade as Buſhes. </
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of the Cold Countreys ripen not ſo far as to be winged.</
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lowing. </
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