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

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            Sweat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6399" xml:space="preserve">Again, Sweat cometh more plentifully, if the Heat beincreaſed by
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            degrees, then if it be greateſt at firſt, or equal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6400" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the
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            Pores are better opened by a gentle Heat, then by a more violent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6401" xml:space="preserve">and by
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            their opening the Sweat, iſſueth more abundantly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6402" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Phyſicians
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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.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6404" xml:space="preserve">Sweat is ſalt in taſte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6405" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, for that that part of the Nouriſhment
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-01" xlink:href="note-0183-01a" xml:space="preserve">707.</note>
            which is freſh and ſweet, turneth into Blood and Fleſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6406" xml:space="preserve">and the Sweat is
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            onely that part which is ſeparate and excerned. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6407" xml:space="preserve">Blood alſo raw, hath ſome
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            ſaltneſs more then Fleſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6408" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the Aſſimilation into Fleſh, is not without
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            a little and ſubtile excretion from the Blood.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6410" xml:space="preserve">Sweat cometh forth more out of the upper parts of the Body then the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-02" xlink:href="note-0183-02a" xml:space="preserve">708.</note>
            lower. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6411" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is, becauſe thoſe parts are more repleniſhed with Spirits,
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            and the Spirits are they that put forth Sweat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6412" xml:space="preserve">beſides, they are leſs fleſhy,
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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.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6414" xml:space="preserve">Men ſweat more in ſleep then waking, and yet ſleep doth rather ſtay
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-03" xlink:href="note-0183-03a" xml:space="preserve">709.</note>
            other Fluxions, then cauſe them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6415" xml:space="preserve">as Rheums, Looſneß of the Body, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6416" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6417" xml:space="preserve">The
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6418" xml:space="preserve">But when they are collected once within, the Heat becometh
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            more violent and irritate, and thereby expelleth Sweat.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6420" xml:space="preserve">Cold Sweats are (many times) Mortal and near Death, and always ill and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-04" xlink:href="note-0183-04a" xml:space="preserve">710.</note>
            ſuſpected; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6421" xml:space="preserve">as in great Fears, Hypochondriacal Paßions, &</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6423" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for
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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.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6425" xml:space="preserve">In thoſe Diſeaſes which cannot be diſcharged by Sweat, Sweat is ill, and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-05" xlink:href="note-0183-05a" xml:space="preserve">711.</note>
            rather to be ſtayed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6426" xml:space="preserve">as in Diſeaſes of the Lungs, and Fluxes of the Belly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6427" xml:space="preserve">but
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            in thoſe Diſeaſes which are expelled by Sweat, it eaſeth and lightneth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6428" xml:space="preserve">as in
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            Agues, Peſtilences, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6429" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6430" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Sweat in the latter ſort is partly
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            Critical, and ſendeth forth the Matter that offendeth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6431" xml:space="preserve">But in the former,
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            it either proceedeth from the Labor of the Spirits, which ſheweth them
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            oppreſſed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6432" xml:space="preserve">or from Motion of Conſent, when Nature notable to expel the
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            Diſeaſe where it is ſeated, moveth to an Expulſion indifferent over all the
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            Body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6434" xml:space="preserve">THe Nature of the Gloworm is hitherto not well obſerved. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6435" xml:space="preserve">Thus much
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-06" xlink:href="note-0183-06a" xml:space="preserve">712.</note>
            weſee, that they breed chiefly in the hotteſt Moneths of Summer; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6436" xml:space="preserve">and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-07" xlink:href="note-0183-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Gloworm.</note>
            that they breed not in Champaign, but in Bushes and Hedges. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6437" xml:space="preserve">Whereby it may
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6438" xml:space="preserve">And again, that by reaſon of the fineneſs, it doth eaſily ex-
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            hale. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6439" xml:space="preserve">In Italy, and the Hotter Countreys, there is a Flie they call Lucciole,
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            that ſhineth as the Gloworm doth, and it may be is the Flying-Gloworm; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6440" xml:space="preserve">but
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            that Flie is chiefly upon Fens and Marisbes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6441" xml:space="preserve">But yet the two former obſerva-
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            tions hold, for they are not ſeen but in the heat of Summer; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6442" xml:space="preserve">and Sedge, or
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-09" xlink:href="note-0183-09a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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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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              ſions of the
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              Minde make
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              upon the Body.</note>
            other Green of the Fens give as good ſhade as Buſhes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6443" xml:space="preserve">It may be the Gloworms
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            of the Cold Countreys ripen not ſo far as to be winged.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6445" xml:space="preserve">THe Paſſions of the Minde work upon the Body the impreſſions fol-
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            lowing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6446" xml:space="preserve">Fear, cauſeth Paleneß, Trembling, the Standing of the Hair </s>
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