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

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          <pb o="28" file="0306" n="306" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head84" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Spirits that they may remain
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          Youthful, and renew their Vigour.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head85" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10541" xml:space="preserve">THE Spirits are the Maſter-workmen of all effects in the Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10542" xml:space="preserve">This is ma-
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            nifeſt by Conſent, and by infinite inſtances.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10544" xml:space="preserve">If any man could procure that a young man’s Spirit could be conveyed into
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            an old man’s Body, it is not unlikely but this great Wheel of the Spirits might
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            turn about the leſſer Wheel of the Parts, and ſo the courſe of Nature become retro-
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            gade.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10546" xml:space="preserve">In every Conſumption, whether it be by Fire or by Age, the more the Spirit of the
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            Body, or the Heat, preyeth upon the Moiſture, the leſſer is the duration of that thing.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10547" xml:space="preserve">This occurs every where, and is manifeſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10549" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits are to be put into ſuch a temperament and degree of activity, that
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            they ſhould not (as he ſaith) drink and guzzle the juices of the Body, but ſip them
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            onely.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10551" xml:space="preserve">There are two kinds of Flames: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10552" xml:space="preserve">the one eager and weak, which conſumes ſlight
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            ſubſtances but hath little power over the harder; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10553" xml:space="preserve">as the flame of ſtraw, or ſmall Sticks:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10554" xml:space="preserve">the other ſtrong and conſtant, which converts hard and obſtinate ſubſtances; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10555" xml:space="preserve">as the
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            flame of hard wood, and ſuch like.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10557" xml:space="preserve">The eager flames, and yet leſs robuſt, do dry Bodies, and render them exhauſt and
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            ſapleſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10558" xml:space="preserve">but the ſtronger flames do intenerate and melt them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10560" xml:space="preserve">Alſo in Diſſipating Medicines, ſome vapour forth the thin part of the tumors
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            or ſwellings, and theſe harden the tumour; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10561" xml:space="preserve">others potently diſcuſs, and theſe ſof-
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            ten it.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10563" xml:space="preserve">Alſo in Purging and Abſterging Medicines, ſome carry away the fluid humors vio-
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            lently, others draw the more obſtinate and viſcous.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10565" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits ought to be inveſted and armed with ſuch a heat, that they may chuſe ra-
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            ther to ſtir and undermine hard and obſtinate matters, than to diſcharge and carry away
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            the thin and prepared; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10566" xml:space="preserve">for by that means the Body becomes green and ſolid.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10568" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits are ſo to be wrought and tempered, that they may be in Subſtance Denſe, not
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            Rare; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10569" xml:space="preserve">in Heat strong, not Eager; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10570" xml:space="preserve">in Quantity Sufficient for the offices of Life, not Re-
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            dundant or Turgid; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10571" xml:space="preserve">in Motion Appeaſed, not Dancing or Unequal.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10573" xml:space="preserve">That Vapours work powerfully upon the Spirits, it is manifeſt by Sleep, by Drunken-
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            neſs, by Melancholick Paſſions, by letificant Medicines, by Odours, calling the Spirits
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            back again in Swounings and Faintings.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10575" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits are condenſed four ways; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10576" xml:space="preserve">either by putting them to flight, or by refri-
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            gerating and cooling them, or by ſtroaking them, or by quieting them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10577" xml:space="preserve">And firſt of their
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            Condenſation by putting them to flight.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10579" xml:space="preserve">Whatſoever putteth to flight on all parts, driveth the body into his Centre, and ſo
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            Condenſeth.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10581" xml:space="preserve">To the Condenſation of the spirits by flight, the moſt powerful and effectual is Opi-
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            um, and next Opiates, and generally all Sop
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            or
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            iferous things.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10583" xml:space="preserve">The force of Opium to the condenſation of the Spirits is exceeding ſtrong, whenas
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            perhaps three grains thereof will in a ſhort time ſo coagulate the Spirits, that they re
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            turn no more, but are extinguiſhed, and become immoveable.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10585" xml:space="preserve">Opium, and the like, put not the Spirits to flight by their coldneſs, for they
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            have parts manifeſtly hot; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10586" xml:space="preserve">but, on the contrary, cool by their putting the Spirits
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            to flight.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10588" xml:space="preserve">The Flight of the Spirits by Opium and Opiate Medicines is beſt ſeen by applying the
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            ſame outwardly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10589" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirits ſtraight with-draw themſelves, and will return no more,
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            but the part is mortified, and turns to a Gængrene.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10591" xml:space="preserve">Opiates, in grievous pains, as in the Stone, or the cutting off of a Limb, mitigate pains
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            moſt of all, by putting the Spirits to flight.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10593" xml:space="preserve">Opiates obtai
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            n a good effect from a bad cauſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10594" xml:space="preserve">for the Flight of the Spirits is evil but
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            the Condenſation of them through their flight is good.</s>
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