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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10701" xml:space="preserve">Nitre is given with good ſucceſs in burning Agues, and Peſtilential Fevers, to miti-
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            gate and bridle their pernicious heats.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10703" xml:space="preserve">It is manifeſt, that Nitre in Gun-powder doth mightily abhor the Flame, from
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            whence is cauſed that horrible Crack and puffing.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10705" xml:space="preserve">Nitre is found to be, as it were, the Spirit of the Earth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10706" xml:space="preserve">for this is moſt cer-
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            tain, that any Earth, though pure and unmixt with Nitrous matter, if it be ſo laid up
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            and covered, that it be free from the Sun-beams, and putteth forth no Vegetable,
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            will gather Nitre, even in good abundance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10707" xml:space="preserve">By which it is clear, that the Spirit of
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            Nitre is not onely inferiour to the Spirit of living Creatures, but alſo to the Spirit
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            of Vegetables.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10709" xml:space="preserve">Cattle which drink of Nitrous water do manifeſtly grow fat, which is a ſign of the
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            cold in Nitre.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10711" xml:space="preserve">The manuring of the Soil is chiefly by Nitrous ſubſtances; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10712" xml:space="preserve">for all Dung is Nitrous,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-05" xlink:href="note-0309-05a" xml:space="preserve">50.</note>
            and this is a ſign of the Spirit in Nitre.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10714" xml:space="preserve">From hence it appears, that the Spirits of Man may be cooled and condenſed
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            by the Spirit of Nitre, and be made more crude, and leſs eager. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10715" xml:space="preserve">And therefore,
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            as ſtrong Wines, and Spices, and the like, do burn the Spirits, and ſhorten life;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10716" xml:space="preserve">ſo on the contrary ſide, Nitre doth compoſe and repreſs them, and furthereth to
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            life.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10718" xml:space="preserve">Nitre may be uſed with meat, mixed with our Salt, to the tenth part of the Salt;
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            in Broths taken in the morning, for three grains to ten, alſo in Beer: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10720" xml:space="preserve">but howſoever
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            it be uſed, with moderation, it is of prime force to long life.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10722" xml:space="preserve">As Opium holds the preheminence in condenſing the Spirits, by putting them to
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            flight, and hath withal his Subordinates, leſs potent, but more ſafe, which may be
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            taken both in greater quantity, and in more frequent uſe, of which we have for-
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            merly ſpoken: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10723" xml:space="preserve">ſo alſo Nitre, which condenſeth the Spirits by cold, and by a kind of
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            Freſcour, (as wenow a-days ſpeak) hath alſo his Subordinates.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10725" xml:space="preserve">Subordinates to Nitre are all thoſe things which yield an Odour ſomewhat Ear-
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            thy, like the ſmell of Earth, pure and good, newly digged or turned up; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10726" xml:space="preserve">of this ſort
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            the chief are, Borage, Bugloſs, Langue de Bœuf, Burnet, Strawberry leaves and
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            Strawberries, Frambois or Raſpis, raw Cucumers, raw Pearmains, Vine-leaves, and Buds;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10727" xml:space="preserve">alſo Violets.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10729" xml:space="preserve">The next in order are thoſe which have a certain ft
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            eſhneſs of ſmell, but ſomewhat
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            more inclined to heat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10730" xml:space="preserve">yet not altogether void of that vertue of refreſhing by cool-
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            neſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10731" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as are Balm, green Citrons, green Orenges, Roſe-water diſtilled, roasted Wardens;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10732" xml:space="preserve">alſo the Damask, Red, and Musk Roſes.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10734" xml:space="preserve">This is to be noted, that Subordinates to Nitre do commonly confer more to
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            this Intenſion, Raw, then having paſſed the Fire, becauſe that the Spirit of Cooling
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            is diſſipated by the Fire; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10735" xml:space="preserve">therefore they are beſt taken, either infuſed in ſome liquor,
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            or raw.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10737" xml:space="preserve">As the condenſation of the Spirits by Subordinates to Opium is, in ſome ſort, per-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-12" xlink:href="note-0309-12a" xml:space="preserve">57.</note>
            formed by Odours, ſo alſo that which is by Subordinates to Nitre; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10738" xml:space="preserve">therefore the ſmell
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            of new and pure Earth, taken either by following the Plough, or by digging, or by
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            weeding, excellently refreſheth the Spirits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10739" xml:space="preserve">Alſo the Leaves of Trees in Woods, or
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            Hedges, falling towards the middle of Autumn, yield a good refreſhing to the Spi-
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            rits, but none ſo good as Strawberry-leaves dying. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10740" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe the ſmell of Violets, or
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            Wall-flowers, or Bean-flowers, or Sweet-briar, or Hony-ſuckles, taken as they grow, in
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            paſſing by them onely, is of the ſame nature.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10742" xml:space="preserve">Nay, and we know a certain great w
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            ord who lived long, that had every morning
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            immediately after ſleep, a Clod of freſh Earth laid in a fair Napkin under his Noſe, that
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            he might take the ſmell thereof.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10744" xml:space="preserve">There is no doubt, but the cooling and tempering of the blood by cool things, ſuch
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            as are Endive, Succory, Liver wort, Purſlain, and the like, do alſo by conſequent
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            cool the Spirits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10745" xml:space="preserve">but this is about, whereas vaponrs cool immediately.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10747" xml:space="preserve">And as touching the condenſing of the Spirits by Cold, thus much: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10748" xml:space="preserve">The third way
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            of condenſing the Spirits, we ſaid to be by that which we call ſtroaking the Spirits:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10749" xml:space="preserve">The fourth, by quieting the alacrity and unrulineſs of them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10751" xml:space="preserve">Such things ſtroke the Spirits as are pleaſing and friendly to them, yet they al-
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            lure them not to go abroad; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10752" xml:space="preserve">but rather prevail, that the Spirits contented, as it </s>
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