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

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              <pb o="2" file="0280" n="280" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
            manifeſt Obſervations; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9211" xml:space="preserve">as whether they were born in the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, or
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            Tenth Moneth, alſo, whether by Night or by Day, and in what Moneth of the Year.</s>
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          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9213" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the Length and Shortneſs of Life in Men, according to their Fare,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-01" xlink:href="note-0280-01a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note>
            Diet, Government of their Life, Exerciſes, and the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9214" xml:space="preserve">For as for the Air, in which
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            Men live and make their abode, we account that proper to be inquired of in the above-
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            ſaid Article, touching the places of their Habitation.</s>
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          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9216" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the Length and Shortneſs of Life in Men, according to their Stu-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-02" xlink:href="note-0280-02a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note>
            dies, their ſeveral Courſes of Life, the Affections of the Minde, and divers Accidents befal-
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            ling them.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9218" xml:space="preserve">Inquire apart touching thoſe Medicines which are thought to prolong Life.</s>
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          </p>
          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">10.</note>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9220" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the Signs and Prognosticks of long and ſhort life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9221" xml:space="preserve">not thoſe which
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            betoken Death at hand, (for they belong to an History of Phyſick) but thoſe which are
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            ſeen and may be obſerved even in Health, whether they be Phyſiognomical ſigns, or any
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            other.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9223" xml:space="preserve">Hitherto have been propounded Inquiſitions touching Length and Shortneſs of Life,
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            beſides the Rules of Art, and in a confuſed manner; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9224" xml:space="preserve">now we think to add ſome, which
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            ſhall be more Art-like, and tending to practice, under the name of Intentions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9225" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe
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            Intentions are generally three: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9226" xml:space="preserve">As for the particular Diſtributions of them, we will pro-
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            pound them when we come to the Inquiſition it ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9227" xml:space="preserve">The three general Intentions are,
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            the Forbidding of Waſte and Conſumption, the Perfecting of Reparation, and the Renewing
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            of Oldneſs.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9229" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching thoſe things which conſerve and exempt the Body of Man ſrom
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-05" xlink:href="note-0280-05a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note>
            Arefaction and conſumption, at leaſt which put off and protract the inclination thereunto.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9231" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching thoſe things which pertain to the whole proceſs of Alimentation,
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            (by which the Body of Man is repaired) that it may be good, and with the beſt im-
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            provement.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9233" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching thoſe things which purge out the old Matter, and ſupply with new;
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            </s>
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-07" xlink:href="note-0280-07a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note>
            as alſo which do Intenerate and Moiſten th@ſe parts which are already dried and hardned.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9236" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe it will be hard to know the Ways of Death, unleſs we ſearch out and
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            diſcover the Seat, or Houſe, or rather Den of Death, it will be convenient to make In-
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            quiſition of this thing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9237" xml:space="preserve">yet not of every kinde of Death, but of thoſe Deaths which
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            are cauſed by want and indigence of Nouriſhment, not by violence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9238" xml:space="preserve">for they are thoſe
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            Deaths onely which pertain to a decay of Nature, and meer old Age.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9240" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the Point of Death, and the Porches of Death, leading thereun-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-08" xlink:href="note-0280-08a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note>
            to from all parts, ſo as that Death be cauſed by a decay of Nature, and not by Vio-
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            lence.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9242" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, becauſe it is behoveful to know the Character and Form of Old Age, which
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            will then beſt be done, if you make a Collection of all the Differences, both in the State
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            and Functions of the Body, betwixt Youth and Old Age, that by them you may obſerve
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            what it is that produceth ſuch manifold Effects; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9243" xml:space="preserve">let not this Inquiſition be omitted.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9245" xml:space="preserve">Inquire diligently touching the Differences in the State of the Body and Faculties of
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            the Minde in Youth and Old Age; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9246" xml:space="preserve">and whether there be any that remain the ſame with-
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            out alteration or abatement in Old Age.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head67" xml:space="preserve">Nature Durable, and not Durable.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head68" xml:space="preserve">The History.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9248" xml:space="preserve">MEtals are of that long laſting, that Men cannot trace the beginnings of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-11" xlink:href="note-0280-11a" xml:space="preserve">To the firſt
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              Article.</note>
            them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9249" xml:space="preserve">and when they do decay, they decay through Ruſt, not through per-
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            ſpiration into Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9250" xml:space="preserve">yet Gold decays neither way.</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9252" xml:space="preserve">Quick-ſilver, though it be an humid and fluid Body, and eaſily made
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            volatile by Fire; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9253" xml:space="preserve">yet (as far as we have obſerved) by Age alone, without Fire, it neither
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            waſteth nor gathereth Ruſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9255" xml:space="preserve">Stones, eſpecially the harder ſort of them, and many other Foſſiles, are of long
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-14" xlink:href="note-0280-14a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
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