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

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[61.] The Operation upon the Juices of the Body. 4. The Hiſtory.
[62.] The Operation upon the Bowels for their Extruſion of Aliment. 5. The Hiſtory.
[63.] The Operation upon the Outward Parts for their Attraction of Aliment. 6. The Hiſtory.
[64.] The Operation upon the Aliment it ſelf for the Inſinuation thereof. 7. The Hiſtory.
[65.] The Operation upon the laſt Act of Aſsimilation. 8.
[66.] The Operation upon the Inteneration of that which begins to be Arefied, or the Malaciſſation of the Body. 9.
[67.] The Hiſtory.
[68.] The Operation upon the Purging away of old Juice, and Sup-plying of new Juice; or of Renovation by Turns. 10. The Hiſtory.
[69.] The Porches of Death.
[70.] The Hiſtory.
[71.] The Differences of Youth and Old Age.
[72.] Moveable Canons of the Duration of Life and Form of Death. Canon I.
[73.] The Explication.
[74.] Canon II.
[75.] The Explication.
[76.] Canon III.
[77.] The Explication.
[78.] Canon IV.
[79.] The Explication.
[80.] Canon V.
[81.] The Explication.
[82.] Canon VI.
[83.] The Explication.
[84.] Canon VII.
[85.] The Explication.
[86.] Canon VIII.
[87.] The Explicætion.
[88.] Canon IX.
[89.] The Explication.
[90.] Canon X.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11177" xml:space="preserve">To the Irroration of the body, roaſted meats or baked meats are more effectual than
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-01" xlink:href="note-0319-01a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note>
            boiled meats, and all preparation of meat with water is inconvenient: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11178" xml:space="preserve">beſides, Oil is
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            more plentifully extracted out of drie bodies than out of moiſt bodies.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11180" xml:space="preserve">Generally, to the Irroration of the body much uſe of ſweet things is profitable, as of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-02" xlink:href="note-0319-02a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note>
            Sugar, Honey, ſweet Almonds, Pine-Apples, Piſtachio’s, Dates, Raiſins of the Sun, Corans,
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            Figs, and the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11181" xml:space="preserve">Contrarily, all ſour, and very ſalt, and very biting things are oppo-
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            ſite to the generation of Roſcid Juice.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11183" xml:space="preserve">Neither would we be thought to favaur the Manichees, or their diet, though we com-
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            mend the frequent uſe of all kinds of Seeds, Kernels, and Roots, in Meats or Sauces,
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            conſidering all Bread (and Bread is that which maketh the Meat firm) is made either
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            of Seeds or Roots.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11185" xml:space="preserve">But there is nothing makes ſo much to the Irroration of the body, as the quality of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-04" xlink:href="note-0319-04a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note>
            the Drink, which is the convoy of the Meat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11186" xml:space="preserve">therefore let there be in uſe ſuch Drinks as
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            without all acrimony or ſowrneſs are notwithſtanding ſubtil: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11187" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are thoſe Wines
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            which are (as the old woman ſaid in Plautus) vetuſtate edentula, toothleſs with age,
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            and Ale of the ſame kind.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11189" xml:space="preserve">Mead (as we ſuppoſe) would not be ill if it were ſtrong and old: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11190" xml:space="preserve">but becauſe
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            all Honey hath in it ſome ſharp parts, (as appears by that ſharp water which the Chy-
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            mists extract out of it, which will diſſolve metals) it were better to take the ſame por-
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            tion of Sugar, not lightly infuſed in it, but ſo incorporated as Honey uſeth to be in Mead,
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            and to keep it to the age of a year, or at leaſt ſix months, whereby the Water may loſe
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            the crudity, and the Sugar acquire ſubtilty.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11192" xml:space="preserve">Now ancientneſs in Wine or Beer hath this in it, that it ingenders ſubtilty in the
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            parts of the Liquor, and acrimony in the Spirits, where of the firſt is profitable, and the
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            ſecond hurtful. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11193" xml:space="preserve">Now to rectifie this evil commixture, let there be put into the veſſel,
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            before the Wine be ſeparated from the Muſt, Swines-fleſh or Deers-fleſh well boiled,
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            that the Spirits of the Wine may have whereupon to ruminate and feed, and ſo lay aſide
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            their mordacity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11195" xml:space="preserve">In like manner, if Ale ſhould be made not only with the grains of Wheat, Barly,
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            Oates, Peaſe, and the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11196" xml:space="preserve">but alſo ſhould admit a part (ſuppoſe a third part to theſe
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            grains) of ſome fat roots, ſuch as are Potado-roots, Pith of Artichokes, Burre-roots,
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            or ſome other ſweet and eſculent roots; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11197" xml:space="preserve">we ſuppoſe it would be a more uſeful drink
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            for long life than Ale made of grains onely.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11199" xml:space="preserve">Alſo ſuch things as have very thin parts, yet notwithſtanding are without all acri-
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            mony or mordacity, are ve
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            ry good Sallets: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11200" xml:space="preserve">which vertue we find to be in ſome few
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            of the Flowers; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11201" xml:space="preserve">namely, Flowers of Ivy, which infuſed in Vinegar are pleaſant even
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            to the taſte; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11202" xml:space="preserve">Marigold leaves, which are uſed in Broths; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11203" xml:space="preserve">and Flowers of Betony. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11204" xml:space="preserve">And
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            touching the operation upon the Juices of the Body thus much.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head92" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Bowels for their Extruſion
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          of Aliment. 5.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head93" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11206" xml:space="preserve">WHat thoſe things are which comfort the Principal Bowels, whichare the foun-
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            tains of Concoctions, namely, the Stomack, Liver, Heart and Brain, to
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            perform their functions well, (whereby Aliment is diſtributed into the parts,
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            Spirits are diſperſed, and the Reparation of the whole body is accompliſhed) may be
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            derived from Phyſitians, and from their Preſcripts and Advices.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11208" xml:space="preserve">Touching the Spleen, Gall, Kidneys, Meſenteries, Guts and Lungs, we ſpeak not, for
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            theſe are members miniſtring to the principal; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11209" xml:space="preserve">and whereas ſpeech is made touching
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            health, they require ſometime a moſt ſpecial conſideration, becauſe each of theſe
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            have their diſeaſes, which unleſs they be cured, will have influence upon the Prin-
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            cipal Members. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11210" xml:space="preserve">But as touching the prolongation of life, and reparation by ali-
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            ments, and retardation of the incoction of old age; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11211" xml:space="preserve">if the Concoctions </s>
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