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

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            thoſe principal Bowels be well diſpoſed, the reſt will commonly follow according to ones
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            wiſh.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11213" xml:space="preserve">And as for thoſe things which, according to the different ſtate of every man’s body
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-01" xlink:href="note-0320-01a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            may be transferred into his Diet and the regiment of his life, he may collect them out
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            of the Books of Phyſicians, which have written of the comforting and preſerving the
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            four Principal Members: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11214" xml:space="preserve">For conſervation of health hath commonly need of no more
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            than ſome ſhort courſes of Phyſick; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11215" xml:space="preserve">but length of life cannot be hoped without an or-
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            derly diet, and a conſtant race of ſoveraign Medicines. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11216" xml:space="preserve">But we will propound ſome few,
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            and thoſe the moſt ſelect and prime directions.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11218" xml:space="preserve">The Stomach (which, as they ſay, is the Maſter of the houſe, and whoſe ſtrength
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            and goodneſs is fundamental to the other concoctions) ought ſo to be guarded and
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            confirmed, that it may be without I
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            ntemperateneſs hot; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11219" xml:space="preserve">next aſtricted or boúnd,
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            not looſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11220" xml:space="preserve">furthermore clean, not ſurcharged with foul Humours, and
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            yet (in regard it is nouriſhed from it ſelf, not from the veins) not altogether
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            empty or hungry: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11221" xml:space="preserve">laſtly, it is to be kept ever in appetite, becauſe appetite ſharpens
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            digeſtion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11223" xml:space="preserve">I wonder much how that ſame Calidum bibere, to drink warm drink, (which was in
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            uſe amongſt the Ancients) is laid down again. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11224" xml:space="preserve">I knew a Phyſician that was very fa
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            mous, who in the beginning of dinner and ſupper, would uſually eat a few ſpoonfulls
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            of very warm broth with much greedineſs, and then would preſently wiſh that it were
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            out again, ſaying, He had no need of the broth, but only of the warmth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11226" xml:space="preserve">I do verily conceive it good, that the firſt draught either of Wine, or Ale, or any
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            other drink, (to which a man is moſt accuſtomed) be taken at ſupper warm.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11228" xml:space="preserve">Wine in which Gold hath been quenched, I conceive, would be very good once in a
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            meal; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11229" xml:space="preserve">not that I believe the Gold conferreth any vertue thereunto, but that I know
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            that the quen ching of all Metals in any kind of liquor doth leave a moſt potent Aſtri-
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            ction: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11230" xml:space="preserve">Now I chuſe Gold, becauſe beſides that Aſtriction which I deſire, it leaveth
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            nothing elſe be
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            hind it of a metalline impreſſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11232" xml:space="preserve">I am of opinion, that the ſops of bread dipped in wine, taken at the midſt of the
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            meal, are better than wine it ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11233" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially if there were infuſed into the wine in
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            which the ſops were dipped Roſemary and Citron-pill, and that with Sugar, that it
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            may not ſlip too faſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11235" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that the uſe of Quinces is good to ſtrengthen the ſtomach; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11236" xml:space="preserve">but we
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            take them to be better if they be uſed in that which they call Quiddeny of Quinces,
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            than in the bodies of the Quinces themſelves, becauſe they lie heavy in the ſtomach.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11237" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe Quiddenies are beſt taken after meals, alone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11238" xml:space="preserve">before meals, dipped in Vi-
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            negar.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11240" xml:space="preserve">Such things as are good for the ſtomach above other Simples are theſe, Roſemary,
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            Elecampane, Maſtick, Wormwood, Sage, Mint.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11242" xml:space="preserve">I allow Pills of Aloes, Maſtick and Saffron in Winter time, taken before dinner;
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            but ſo, as the Aloes be not only oftentimes waſhed in Roſe water, but alſo in Vinegar in
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            which Tragac
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            anth hath been infuſed, and after that be macerated for a few hours in
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            Oil of ſweet Almonds new drawn, before it be made into Pills.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11245" xml:space="preserve">Wine or Ale wherein Wormwood hath been infuſed, with a little Elecampane and
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            yellow Sanders, will do well, taken at times, and that eſpecially in Winter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11247" xml:space="preserve">But in Summer, a draught of White-wine allayed with Strawberry-water, in which
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            Wine Powder of Pearls and of the ſhells of cra-fiſhes exquiſitely beaten and (which
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            may perhaps ſeem ſtrange) a little Chalk have been infuſed, doth excellently refreſh
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            and ſtrengthen the ſtomach.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11249" xml:space="preserve">But generally, all Draughts in the morning (which are but too frequently uſed) of
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            cooling things, as of Juices, Decoctions, Whey, Barly-waters, and the like) are to be
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            avoided, and nothing is to be put into the ſtomach faſting which is purely cold.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11250" xml:space="preserve">Theſe things are better given, if need require, either at five in the afternoon, or elſe an
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            hour after a light breakfaſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11252" xml:space="preserve">Often faſtings are bad for long life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11253" xml:space="preserve">beſides, all thirſt is to be avoided, and the ſto-
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            mach is to be kept clean, but al ways moiſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11255" xml:space="preserve">Oil of Olives new and good, in which a little Methridate hath been diſfolved,
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            anointed upon the back-bone, juſt againſt the mouth of the ſtomach, doth wonderfully
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            comfort the ſtomach.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11257" xml:space="preserve">A ſmall bag filled with locks of Scarlet-wool ſteeped in Red-wine, in which
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